Upcoming Events

Feb 20 2008
The Rhode Island School of Design, Brian's alma mater has begun a new alumni lecture series and Brian will be the first speaker. For more information contact RISD.

March 9 2008
Brian will be speaking at Symphony Space in New York City about The Invention of Hugo Cabret. For more information, contact Symphony Space.

April 12 2008
Brian will be speaking at The Brooklyn Academy of Music about The Invention of Hugo Cabret. For more information, contact BAM.

June 8 2008
The Dallas Museum of Art will be hosting an event for The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Please contact the museum for more information.

Past Events

Dec 8th and 9th 2007
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens NY had a weekend-long event built around The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian spoke about the book, there were scavenger hunts and flip book making workshops, and the museum showed many of the movies that inspired him while making the book, including Georges Melies's early masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon. Live music by Sxip Shirey accompanied the Melies films. Donald Sosin, the country's leading silent movie composer and player, provided music for films by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Please contact the Museum of the Moving Image for more information about their current events and movies screenings.

November 4th 2007
Brian spoke about The Invention of Hugo Cabret at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Mechanical genius Andy Baron, who helped Brian with the research for the book, was on hand to wind up and demonstrate Maillardet's Automaton, one of the most complicated automata ever made. It can write three different poems in two different languages and draw four different pictures, and it's the automaton that Brian used as inspiration for the figure in his story. Please contact the Franklin Institute for more details about viewing the automaton when you visit.