Past Activities
19/10/2022 - 23/10/2022
Germany, Frankfurt
The Every Story Matters finale was at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022. We presented our project’s results and conclusions, showcased our authors & illustrators, and presented their stories made during our talent development programme.
1/02/2020- 23/10/2022
Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia & Germany
This programme guides six talented writers and illustrators from six different European countries to produce inclusive stories for children. Each participant was matched to a mentor, who is an experienced author or illustrator. During the programme, the participants followed workshops and online masterclasses to deepen their knowledge of inclusive storytelling.
23/05/2022 - 28/05/2022
Croatia, Zagreb
The promotion of manuscripts created by participants of the Talent development program will be promoted at Zagreb Book Festival 2022. All of the participants and mentors will talked about their experiences working in the program and read or showed parts of their work.
B2B meeting at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2022
Tuesday 22nd of March 2022, 10h-13h
Bologna, Italy
A networking session for international publishers interested in the exchange of quality books for children and young adults with an emphasis on inclusion. The event offered a first-hand acquaintance with the new stories developed by the six participating artists from our Talent Development Programme.
Presentation of inclusion platform at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2021
Thursday 21st of October 2021
Germany, Frankfurt
Launch of an interactive platform offering book professionals a platform text and specific tools to work on inclusion.
B2B meeting at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2021
Thursday 21st of October 2021, 10h-12h
Germany, Frankfurt
A networking session for international publishers interested in the exchange of quality books for children and young adults with an emphasis on inclusion.
Library Workshops
2020 - 2021
Portugal
In 2020 & 2021, Every Story Matters organised 15 workshops for librarians and teachers. In various libraries in Portugal, we focused on bibliodiversity. How can reading mediators offer a plurality of voices to their readers? What limitations do they face?
B2B meeting Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2021
Tuesday 22nd of June
and Wednesday 23rd of June 2021
Online
Due to the ongoing corona pandemic, the planned networking event by Every Story Matters at the Bologna Book Fair 2021 could not take place in live form.
Instead, we replaced them with two fascinating online lectures with experts who will tell you more about different aspects of diversity and inclusion, how to understand these concepts and how modern technology can help us put them into practice.
Zagreb Book Festival
24 - 28 May 2021
Croatia, Zagreb/Online
The festival was featured a number of interesting panel discussions and events powered by Every Story Matters.
School Workshops
March to November 2020
Berlin, Germany
5 workshops in digital storytelling trained around 50 children and young adults.
Each student created a short story on paper, combining drawing, collage, text writing, and multimedia content using the augmented reality technique. The workshop gave the students a basic understanding of digital narratives, storytelling, and the importance of inclusion.
Opening conference
Tuesday 19th of November 2019
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Lisbon, Portugal.
