{"id":69749,"date":"2016-03-28T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=69749"},"modified":"2016-03-28T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:43:25","slug":"bpac-to-host-childrens-book-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/03\/bpac-to-host-childrens-book-author\/","title":{"rendered":"BPAC to host children&#8217;s book author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Award-winning children&#8217;s book author Chuck Galey will present his Illustrator As Storyteller workshop\u00a0April 8 at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. at the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The event will run in conjunction with the production of\u00a0Junie B&#8217;s Essential Survival Guide on the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reservations are required to attend the free workshop. To reserve a spot,\u00a0email Joannah Taylor, BPAC Arts Education coordinator, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jtaylor@deltastate.edu\"><span class=\"s2\">jtaylor@deltastate.edu<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Galey, a Greenwood, Mississippi native, has been working in children&#8217;s book publishing for 22 years. He will discuss visual storytelling from a child&#8217;s point of view. Some of\u00a0the books he has illustrated include &#8220;Jazz Cats,&#8221; &#8220;Rock&#8217;N&#8217;Roll Dogs,&#8221; &#8220;Jay And The Bounty of Books,&#8221; and &#8220;A Special Visitor Comes To Possum Ridge.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His workshop will cover character development, drawing the main character, storyboarding and executing the finished art for publication. He will also show samples of the creative process from a few of the 15 picture books he has illustrated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Galey&#8217;s original illustrations for his books will be on display April 4-15 in the BPAC atrium. The exhibit hours are 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The workshop and exhibit are sponsored by the Bologna Performing Arts Center, The Delta Arts Alliance and the Mississippi Arts Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Visit Galey&#8217;s website for more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckgaley.com\">www.chuckgaley.com<\/a>, or c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ontact Taylor at<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"mailto:jtaylor@deltastate.edu\">jtaylor@deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning children&#8217;s book author Chuck Galey will present his Illustrator As Storyteller workshop\u00a0April 8 at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. at the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The event will run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":69751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-69749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bologna-performing-arts-center","tag-bpac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69755,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69749\/revisions\/69755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}