Thi Bui will join us in a discussion and Q&A on her award winning graphic memoir "The Best We Could Do," followed by her popular, out-of-the-box, interactive craft talk and mini workshop:  "Wild Possibilities with Comics, Sequential Art, and Text/Image Relationships."

​Join us at the Ruby for a Saturday afternoon of creative inspiration, doodling, and refreshing chats, snacks, and laughs with Thi!

​This is designed to be an intimate, interactive experience, with limited seats available. Tickets are sliding scale for nonmembers to help support the Ruby and artist costs ($20-40, click the register button and name your price!). Members receive discounted $15 rate.

​***A Note on Health & Accessibility: This event is open only to vaccinated individuals providing proof of vaccination. Masking is highly encouraged. Joining this event requires walking up a set of stairs. Please let us know if we can help you up the stairs. Additionally, this event is aligned and dedicated to our mission of building community and safe spaces among people those who identify as women, non-binary, and trans. ***

​About The Artist:

​Thi Bui is a writer and artist from Viet Nam, California, and New York, now planting roots in New Orleans. Best known for her award-winning graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do, she has also been a longtime educator in public high schools, a professor of comics, an organizer and artist-activist, an ambivalent sculptor and puppeteer, a fledgling screenwriter, and an award-winning illustrator of children’s books and comics journalism. Photo credit Marion Hill (IG @ma.rion.hnh).