Hedberg Writer-in-Residence: Eugen Bacon in conversation
Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart, 7000 Born in Tanzania and based in Melbourne, Eugen Bacon is…
Little J and Big Cuz: The Stormy Night (afterschool event)
Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS 7000
Join Little J, Big Cuz and their friends for all kinds of adventures as they discover culture, community and country!
Uncle Mick and Nanna are shelter-building experts. Little J wants to try it too! But what happens when a goanna gets too comfy? Or a stormy night begins to brew? Let’s build!
Little J and Big Cuz is the first contemporary indigenous kids cartoon in Australia. Tony Thorne has spent the last six years as its key creative. The show has a production team that is coordinated nationally and is made for NITV but also airs on ABC KIDS. The show is voiced not only in English, but also a number of Indigenous languages, including an episode in palawa kani! It has become one of the highest rating shows on ABC KIDS, winning a number of national awards including a Logie in 2018, and two Atoms in 2017 and 2022 for Best Children’s TV.
Tony’s endearing character design and vivid sense of place for Little J and Big Cuz is the culmination of his rich and diverse experience as an animation director, illustrator, visual artist and comic book illustrator. Tony is trawlwoollway from the north east of Tasmania. He spent over a decade working in CG animation on films like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, District 9 and Happy Feet II.
Adam Thompson is an Aboriginal (pakana) writer from Tasmania, who writes contemporary short fiction. His debut collection Born Into This was shortlisted for the USQ Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection and the 2021 Age Book of the Year Award. In 2022, Born Into This won the international Story Prize: Spotlight Award.
Adam and Tony will be at Fullers to chat about how they wrote and illustrated the picture book version of The Stormy Night. Nala Mansell, who voices Little J in the palawa versions of the TV shows, will read the story aloud for all, and kids will then join in an illustration lesson with Tony!
Join Adam, Tony and Nala at the Afterword Café for the special afterschool event.
You can purchase tickets below for individuals or families.
All proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
