Come and join our 2021 Superpowers party where we'll be creating superheroes with live artists to better understand what we are capable of as humans and how we can use our new "powers" for good.
What a roller-coaster of a year, huh? This pesky pandemic turned our worlds upside down and we learnt do things we never thought we could. Our parents became teachers (or tried their best, anyway!), we celebrated our friends' birthday parties online, we got to know every single corner of our local park, and we ate a LOT of banana bread. It wasn't easy, but we developed a ton of new skills, some might call them superpowers, that will help us as we move forward and take on the next challenge this crazy world throws at us.
This 45-minute session is aimed at children between 6 and 11 years old and their adults, although all ages are welcome. We'll be joined by our session facilitator, the illustrator Duncan Beedie, as well as other guests to be confirmed. Participants will need a device to log onto the zoom event, paper and pens and a ton of energy! You'll come away with your very own superhero creation, some new friends, and a newfound confidence to face 2021 head on, equipped with your brand new superpowers toolkit. And, as with all parties, we'll end with a superhero disco where you can throw your best shapes on the zoom dancefloor.
Meet our session host
Duncan Beedie is a children’s author and illustrator from Bristol. He's been obsessed with drawing ever since he could hold a felt tip in his clammy little fist, and has fond memories of sprawling out on his parents’ living room carpet for hours on end, filling sketchbooks with his doodles. His debut picture book The Bear Who Stared (Templar) was nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017. Since then he has gone on to write and illustrate titles for Templar Books, Little Tiger, Quarto, Pearson, and even a picture book for eco-friendly nappy and baby wipe brand Pura. When not busy drawing kung-fu kicking llamas, heavy metal badgers, or starey bears, he can be found walking his dog Ivor around a muddy park or losing heavily to his daughter at various videogames.
More about this event
This event is part of the LSE Festival: Shaping the Post-COVID World running from Monday 1 to Saturday 6 March 2021, with a series of events exploring the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis and how social science research can shape it.
This event is hosted by LSE Generate (@LSEGenerate), who support LSE students and alumni to build socially responsible businesses, in the UK and beyond.
Twitter hashtags for this event: #LSEFestival #LSECOVID19