Join us for an evening with writers and artists Emily and Alice Haworth-Booth, Christopher Rainbow and William Goldsmith, chaired by Clementine Cecil.
Emily and Alice Haworth-Booth are co-authors of Protest! How People Have Come Together to Change the World (Pavilion 2021); Christopher Rainbow and William Goldsmith are co-authors of Russia 2018, A World Cup Journal (Sputnikat Press, 2022). Using graphic novels and books they document, process and protest in difficult times.
Protest! is an illustrated history of protest from ancient Egypt to Extinction Rebellion, looking at different tools of protest from sleep to art to theatre to walk outs. It is an inspiring and empowering perspective on protests throughout the ages, from the tiny to the very huge, from the successful to the not-so-much. The book shows how protest has always been woven into the fabric of our lives – an important and hopeful message.
Sisters Emily and Alice will talk about how they created the book collaboratively, what they discovered about protest, and how they use it as a teaching tool.
Russia 2018 documents Russia's last positive international event and contains an afterword from Armenia, reflecting on the events of the past year and how football remains a unifying and quantifiable thing as the world as we know it becomes fragmented by war.
Christopher and William will talk about what inspired them to create the journal, documenting everyday life in Russia, and how it’s often the small human stories that shed the most light.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
William Goldsmith is an illustrator, artist and writer based in London. His books include Russia 2018: A World Cup Journal, a collaboration with Christopher Rainbow, the graphic novels Vignettes of Ystov and The Bind, and the children’s middle grade series Mark Anchovy. Between 2017–2021 William taught on the BA Illustration programme at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow.
Emily Haworth-Booth is a writer and illustrator from London whose children’s books, The King Who Banned the Dark and The Last Tree have been translated into multiple languages and shortlisted for several awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her most recent publication, Protest! How People Have Come Together to Change the World, was co-authored with her sister, Alice. Emily teaches courses on graphic novels and drawing dystopias and utopias at the Royal Drawing School. She is currently a judge for the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children's Fiction.
Alice Haworth-Booth is a writer and graphic designer living in London. She is the co-author of Protest!, a non fiction history of protest movements for children, and her short stories have won awards including the Brick Lane Short Story Prize and the Aurora Prize for Fiction. She has been designing for campaign and community groups for over fifteen years.
Christopher Rainbow is an artist and illustrator who resided in Moscow from 2010–2022, where he taught BA Illustration students. Since 2016, he has produced comics and zines through his risograph printing house, Sputnikat, to date publishing 24 books by Russian and international artists.
Clementine Cecil is a writer and campaigner. She was Director of Pushkin House from 2016–2020, Director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage from 2012–2016 and co-founder of the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society in 2004. She also likes drawing graphic novels and contributed toThe Lockdown Lowdown – Women and Covid, A Gendered Pandemic, published by Distant Connections.