THE founder of the UK’s largest youth drama event is the host for the next PENfro Book Festival talk.
In his illustrated talk, ‘From SuperTed to Shakespeare’, Chris Grace, will outline the growth of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, which takes place each autumn and now involves more than 35,000 children performing in 130 theatres all over the country.
He will use animated film and school cameos to illustrate a rollercoaster of a 35-year journey that began with the wonderful flying bear, SuperTed.
Chris’s broadcasting career started at HTV in 1969. Then as a co-founder of S4C in 1982, he kickstarted the Welsh animation industry with SuperTed and Fireman Sam.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 opened up a unique Welsh relationship with Russian animators .
Animated films of Shakespeare, the Mabinogi, Opera, The Bible , and The Canterbury Tales resulted in two Oscar nominations, and multiple BAFTA and Emmy winners.
He has a BAFTA special award and MBE for services to animation.
The talk will take place on Thursday, July 9 at 8pm. Tickets for this ‘An Evening With…’ event are just £5. To see more info and book go to: http://penfrobookfestival.org.uk
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