These pieces were created live a Liverpool Markets VE Day celebrations, a bit of visual storytelling, where I drew soldiers, singers and shoppers for this special event.

Working live outdoors attracted quite a few onlookers, keen to see the work as it was being made. I've developed the ability to chat as I work from doing speed portraits, and the Liverpool crowd did like a bit of banter. I tried to capture as much as possible in the time available, and the sunshine was a bonus.

Visual Storytelling. Creating Live art for events.

For this job, I was hired by Liverpool City Council. As with all live art projects, they got to keep the work that was made as well as photographed, cleaned-up versions of the art. I'm also open to revisions, for when a client wants to turn a piece of work into a poster or use it for additional marketing.

Visual storytelling has a few different names and is also known as;

• Graphic recording
• Live scribing
• Sketch noting
• Visual summary
• Infographics
• Visual minutes
• live art

Do you have an event you need turning into art? I've worked at conferences, workshops and speaking events around the UK. Get in touch here.

After much preparation, Manchester's Pecha Kucha (number 39) blasted off with some wonderful chaos. Nine speakers took to the stage at Cultplex, all very experienced speakers, some with a lot of improv experience, some not so much, as was planned.

Talks are usually written and planned, but on this occasion, the speaker wouldn't know the content of the slide deck, or the subject they were going to speak on until they arrived on the stage.

Working with Kyle Soo to make this happen, we'd been chatting about if for over a year. He has an amazing team who have helped him bring great Pecha Kucha events to Manchester, and this was no different. Cultplex, the indie cinema in the Green Quarter was a perfect venue too. (amazing pizza).

I'd had far too long to procrastinate over the ins and outs of how to keep it fresh for a whole night, which in the end didn't need overthinking. I also delivered my talk in song.

Thanks to Kyle, his team and the amazing speakers who took part.

Eve Holt
Hannah Cox
Simi Abidakun
Short Supply
Rob Stuart Hudson
Kate McCabe
Max Cross 

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