BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
BBC Arts are running a year long celebration of literature, which includes a list of 100 novels which have had an impact over the last 300 years.
In partnership with Libraries Connected, Arts Council England and BBC Arts, we are delivering an exciting programme of talks, workshops and activities to tie in with this celebration of books and storytelling.
Use your creativity to bring stories to life in our two day Games Jam or try your hand at writing your own fan fiction. There are lots of ways families can get involved over the Easter holidays too.
Find out more here
Here's the full programme of activities and our highlights - we hope you can join us!
Cards or Die
Ann Jones runs Cards or Die Board Gaming. Passionate about bringing people together with board games, Ann brings and teaches board games at weddings, festivals, parties, corporate events and training. She creates bespoke board games for training. As part of her work in proofreading and editing services she created The Board Games Tool Kit.
1. 1 April - Adventure: Co-operative Games
2. 8 April - Life, Death and other worlds: Solo games and voting
3. 15 April - Crime and Conflict: Programming, asymmetry and silence
4. 22 April - Rule Breakers: Creating a world with components
All workshops run 6.30-8.00pm. You can attend all four or just pop into one. If you attend all four, you'll be armed with all the information you need to create your very own game. All you need is a pen, paper and your curiosity!
Book your free ticket here
|
Easter Activity Launch
Families! Check out our mini Games Jam this Easter...
Join our Librarians as they introduce you to our weird and wonderful circus posters and and find out how you can get involved in our Easter activities.
These include a very special Draw A Long with artist Fabric Lenny where you can learn to create and animate circus characters and hear all about our Lego Club featuring Alice in Wonderland.
7 April at 2.00pm. Book your free ticket here
|
Writer's Masterclass with Ali Harper: Fan Fiction
Join Ali Harper, Leeds' own feminist crime fiction writer, for a two hour evening class to learn how to write stories featuring your favourite characters.
Create new stories while remaining true to the essence of the characters you are writing about.
Using the BBC's list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World we will look to create a Barbary Lane (Tales of The City) of our own imagining - bringing together characters from a wide range of different fictional backgrounds.
15 April at 6.00pm. Book your free ticket here
|
Rosie Summers in Narnia
Watch live as VR artist Rosie Summers brings art to life and we step through the wardrobe into a virtual Narnia.
Using Tilt Brush and mixed reality technology, Rosie will paint a stunning landscape celebrating 'The Chronicles of Narnia' by C. S. Lewis, one of the BBC 100 Novels.
Experience this iconic and much loved story as you never have before.
Rosie Summers has undertaken VR art performances with notable organisations such as the BBC, Google, National Football Museum and British Library. Rosie is a Yorkshire-based 3D animator and Virtual Reality artist who brings characters and worlds to life at high speed through her work.
24 April at 6.00pm Book your free ticket here
|
Games Jam
Join us for a two day jam introducing the joys of storytelling and reading by creating games inspired by the BBC’s 100 Novels.
Combine technology, books and creativity and bring stories and characters to life through games!
We are asking you to create video games, board games, escape games or card games in response to 4 themes from the 100 Novels list. The only constraints are the time frame, theme and your imagination.
How does it work?
Form teams of up to 6 people or work alone, start in advance or on the day. This jam is aimed at ages 16 and above.
Whether you are a designer, historian, developer, artist, writer or fancy a challenge, battle against the clock to develop your game. At the end of two days you'll submit your game to a panel who will decide which team has created the game most likely to inspire new readers.
Thanks to Libraries Connected, Arts Council England and BBC Arts, we are able to offer a £150 prize to the winner and two prizes of £50 to the runners up.
The Themes
We will make content from our collections available in advance of the Games Jam across four of the BBC Novels themes:
- Adventure
- Life, Death and other worlds
- Rule Breakers
- Crime and Conflict
The Jam will take place on 24th and 25th April online. Games will be submitted by 3pm on Sunday 25 April. Judges will pick the winner and runners up by 5pm on the same date.
Free tickets available to book here from Monday 29 March
|
|
