Header image by Fionn McCabe
Intimate stories told with big pictures.
Read To Me is Live
Read To Me at Darling Square Library, featuring art by Pat Grant
Read To Me is an artist-run project that puts the illustrated story in front of an audience. We celebrate the art of Australian graphic storytellers by presenting their work to live audiences.
From a library to a theatre, to a scout hall to the stage of a dive bar, Read To Me can turn any venue into intimate places where audiences genuinely feel they are being ‘read to’ one-on-one.
From left to right: Read To Me at Knox Street Bar, Darling Square Library, Ashfield Library & Yogyakarta Biennale.
Read To Me is Visual
Image by Meg O’shea
Australia’s community of graphic storytellers create compelling, unique and diverse images in different visual styles.
Read To Me takes this unique visual language and puts it where it should be, on stage, front and centre and big for all to see.
From left to right: images by Ilana Bodenstein, Tayla Colley, Safdar Ahmed & Greg Sindel
Read To Me is Storytelling
Image by Fionn McCabe
From autobiography to science fiction, from political cartoons to gag comics, from bromance to courtroom dramas, Read To Me sidesteps genre divides and lets the storytelling speak for itself.
From left to right: Kim Siew reading at Knox Street Bar, Sarah Firth, Elleri Harris and Georgina Chadderton reading at Ubud Writers Festival, Isaac Wilcox and Fionn McCabe at Darling Square Library and Jin Lau at Knox Street Bar
Our Community
‘Ugly Portraits’ of every Read To Me storyteller (so far) by Fionn McCabe
A place for community, our events are a place of celebration, a love of the art form of graphic storytelling through positive shared experiences.
A Read To Me event brings together established and emerging storytellers, the lineup reflecting our community with a range of ages, genders, cultural backgrounds, visual styles, genres, and forms of storytelling.
Read To Me at City of Sydney’s Late Night Library event series, Darling Square library
Our PERFORMANCE Partners
Our performance partners include Knox Street Bar, the Comic Arts Workshop, the Perth Comics Arts Festival, the Ubud Writers Festival, The Yogyakarta Biennale, Ashfield Library, City of Sydney, Wollongong Writers Festival, Dulwich Hill P&C (Support your P&C!), Fairfield City Council, Otherwolds zine fair, Indian media arts festival Eye Myth and FBI radio.
Catch the archive of the live streamed events for Knox Street bar at Knox.live and listen to our stories on Fbi radio’s All The Best and Or It Didn’t Happen.