all proceeds go to Bramfield Village Green
Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)
Suitable for ages 5+
charity. comedy. family. live music. opera. play. poetry. storytelling.
An Evening with Charlie Mackesy
Join us for an evening with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse creator Charlie Mackesy as he shares his journey of bringing his beloved characters to life. Enjoy a screening of the BAFTA and Oscar-winning animated short film adaption of Charlie’s book, followed by a Q&A and live drawing with the author.
All proceeds from this event will go to Bramfield Village Green, a charitable initiative close to Charlie’s heart as a local to Suffolk.
About Charlie Mackesy
British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His award-winning work has featured in books, private collections, galleries and public spaces around the world.
Photo Credit: Charlie Gray
His internationally bestselling book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, was published in October 2019 and holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Chart across all formats as well as being the longest running Sunday Times Non-Fiction Number One of all time. A number one New York Times best-seller, it is one of eight books since 2013 that has remained on the number one New York Times Bestseller and on the New York Times Advice, Misc. Best Seller list. Charlie’s beloved book is the first ever book to be awarded both the Waterstones Book of the Year and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year (2019) and has been translated into over 40 different languages and dialects.
Charlie's words and illustrations have brought comfort to many and have been shared online around the world as well as on t-shirts for Comic Relief, magazine covers, street lamp posts, school classrooms, cafés, women's safe houses, prisons, hospital wards and as NHS hospital computer screensavers. Charlie worked with Richard Curtis on the set of Love Actually to create a set of drawings to be auctioned for Comic Relief, and with Nelson Mandela on a lithograph project, The Unity Series. Charlie's paintings have been exhibited widely, most recently in Sotheby's in London. His bronzes can be found in public spaces in London, including Highgate Cemetery and the Brompton Road. Away from art, Charlie co-runs Mama Buci, a honey social enterprise in Zambia that helps families of low and no income become beekeepers. He lives between Brixton and Suffolk with his dog Barney.
About Bramfield Village Green
Bramfield Village Hall (Charity number 304710) is raising funds to create a new village green in the heart of this East Suffolk Village. The current ‘village green’ is a tiny patch of grass hemmed in between three roads. Many years ago, village residents were permitted to hold annual community events on an agricultural field in the centre of the village. Changes in ownership and in legislation stopped these events. For the last 30 years there has been no space for the village to meet, socialise, and no defined safe space for children to play.
Bramfield Village Hall is campaigning to raise funds to transform this field into a bio-diverse, community centric space for the village, with a wildflower meadow, community orchard and space for children to play. All proceeds from this event will go towards this inspiring community initiative. You can donate additional funds here. https://gofund.me/caf6c8c2