{"id":1070,"date":"2011-01-16T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2011-01-16T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T22:30:49","slug":"yo-ellen-events-in-philadelphia-my-home-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/yo-ellen-events-in-philadelphia-my-home-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo! Ellen Events in Philadelphia, My Home Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Public Library invited me to be a part of their citywide reading program<\/a> in February, after they selected Absolutely True Diary<\/a> as one of their featured books. Excited! I’ll be doing a talk<\/a> and a couple of workshops<\/a>, including at my old high school, Masterman. (What will the teachers look like now? Do I have to call them by their first names? Mrs. Brown, my 7th grade English teacher, emailed me – who knew her name is Mitzi?)<\/p>\n

Comics: The Extraordinary Power of Words and Pictures<\/a><\/strong>
\nPresentation by Ellen Forney
\nThursday, February 3, 1:00PM
\nUniv. of the Arts, CBS Auditorium
\nPhiladelphia PA<\/p>\n

Comics are enjoying a new respect as a compelling literary medium. Join Ellen Forney, creator of the art in this year’s One Book selection The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, as she enthuses about their quirky appeal in a presentation about both her solo projects and her work with the novel.<\/p>\n

Comics Studio with Ellen Forney<\/a><\/strong>
\nSaturday, February 5, 2:00PM
\nCentral Library
\nPhiladelphia PA<\/p>\n

Cartoonist Ellen Forney, a Philadelphia native and the mind behind the clever artwork in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, will teach participants how to develop their own comic art. Please call 215-567-7710 to reserve a space.<\/p>\n

14 y.o. Philly girl. Feathered hair!
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The Philadelphia Public Library invited me to be a part of their citywide reading program in February, after they selected Absolutely True Diary as one of their featured books. Excited! I’ll be doing a talk and a couple of workshops, including at my old high school, Masterman. (What will the teachers look like now? Do … Continue reading “Yo! Ellen Events in Philadelphia, My Home Town”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}