Graphic novelist Karrie Fransman and digital wizard Jonathan Plackett lead an interactive gender swapped stories workshop.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the workshop. Please note due to the interactive nature of this event it is not available as a recording.

To create their new book, Gender Swapped Fairy Tales, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman and digital wizard Jonathan Plackett used the classic Lang’s Fairy Books as their source material, gender swapping the stories using a computer algorithm. By turning ‘he’ to ‘she’ and ‘mother’ to ‘father’, the result illuminates the gender binaries inherent in our language, the roles we adopt and the stories we’ve been telling our children for generations.

Join the authors for an interactive Gender Swapped Stories workshop and a deep dive into The London Library collection. Discover the secrets behind the Lang's Fairy Books (1889 and 1913) and the other wife-and-husband team who created them. Learn how Plackett created the gender-swapping algorithm, have a go at finding texts to gender swap yourself and try your hand at drawing your own swapped literary characters.

Suitable for families, adults and children aged 8-108.

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Karrie Fransman’s comics that have been published in The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, New Statesman and by The Arts Council. Her graphic novels are The House That Groaned and the award-winning Death of the Artist. She has been commissioned to create projects for The British Red Cross, Southbank Centre, Manchester Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. karriefransman.com.

Jonathan Plackett is a Creative Developer with fifteen years' experience engaging mass audiences with his creative websites and apps, working with brands such as Orange, Nike, Three and Innocent. He created Face Juggler, the world’s first automatic face swap app with over 6 million downloads, made a music video with OK GO that let fans become part of the video, and created DrawAndFoldOver, a social drawing game for the Campaign for Drawing, with half a million drawings made.