Adapting for Accessibility - a Masterclass with Sophie Rickard
Adapting for Accessibility: Bringing Difficult Texts to New Audiences - a masterclass with Sophie Rickard
Saturday 7th January at 10.30am to 3.30pm approx
Tickets are £65 and include a two course lunch with hot drink. Click here to buy.
Join Sophie Rickard for a day of active and discursive exercises designed to support writers, academics, theologians and teachers. Participants will explore ways to interpret important texts in a way that gives them new life. Including theory about accessibility and a chance to try out the new practical techniques you’ve learned.
Sophie is one half of the Rickard Sisters, the creative force behind graphic adaptations of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (2020), Mann’s Best Friend (2017) and No Surrender (2022). Sophie’s spent her whole career teaching adults about accessible ways into complicated ideas.
Sophie Rickard says that her life’s work is ‘a commitment to freedom and social justice’, and she’s spent her life in pursuit of just that. From her early career involvement with human rights and legislation to her relatively new career as one half of the creative force that is the Rickard Sisters, Sophie works to bring ethical, moral, and philosophical questions to the widest possible audience.
The Rickard Sisters have adapted Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists into a sparkling, arresting graphic novel that repackages the original’s passionate call for equality into a new, thought-provoking form. Their other works include a graphic adaptation of Constance Maud’s suffrage classic No Surrender.
Tickets are £65 and include a two course lunch with hot drink. Click here to buy.
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