With Annie Atkins

Thursday 5th December 2024
St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom

In-person time (GMT):
Doors/ Bar Open: 18:15pm
Talk Starts: 19:00pm
Talk Ends: 20:30pm
In-person tickets: £9.00, £12.00, £14.00

Please Note: Ticket sales end at 4pm on the day of the talk. If available, tickets purchased in-person on the door will cost £16 per person. Please do call or email us to check if an event has any tickets left as you may not be admitted if we have sold out.

Online time (GMT): 19:00pm-20:30pm
Online tickets: £6.00, £8.00

Please Note: Ticket sales end at 4pm on the day of the talk. You will be emailed the Zoom link for the talk at 6pm on the day of the talk. We will also send the link to all in-person ticket holders in case they are unable to attend and would like to join virtually. 


Book tickets HERE

Join Annie Atkins, renowned graphic artist for films such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and Indiana Jones, as she launches her first children’s book Letters from the North Pole. Written by Atkins and illustrated by Fia Tobing, this Christmas picture book features pull-out props from Santa’s workshop designed using the same principles that Annie uses in her film work: everything has to be ready for its close-up. Annie will talk the audience through her process in designing these pieces and writing in character, with comparisons to her work in the film industry and some behind-the-scenes footage.

Annie Atkins is best known for her work as a graphic artist in the film industry, having designed for many Oscar-nominated-and-winning movies, such as Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, and French Dispatch, as well as Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and West Side Story, and classic children’s films such as the latest Chicken Run and Indiana Jones movies. Her first book, Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps (Phaidon 2020), prompted Jeff Goldblum to write that “Annie makes the unreal seem hyperreal, and the real more supremely alive and utterly magical”. Her next book, Letters from the North Pole, is a children’s picture book and will be published by Magic Cat in October 2024.

Our letterpress workshop will be open from 6–7pm before the talk, where you will be able to print a keepsake created specially for the event.

Copies of Letters from the North Pole will be available to purchase at the event, or you can pre-order your copy HERE

Please note: If you have any access requirements, please contact [email protected] ahead of the event.