The Asia-Europe Comics Project is a pilot project that brings together a team of artists from Asia and Europe to produce an Asia-Europe Comics Publication. The team convened in Singapore for a 12-day meeting last July 31 to August 12, 2006 to “hot-house” a script and storyboard sketches to be produced into a 100-120 page comics publication. It will set out to produce content that has both social purpose and commercial appeal, but its primary aim would be to promote the discovery and building of new inter-relationships between Asian and European people and societies, by relating their common concerns and aspirations through each other’s eyes. The publication would be targeted for launch at international festivals.
Specifically, this year-long pilot project intends to:
- Make new in-roads to complement existing efforts to promote awareness, mutual understanding and dialogue on a range of issues between Asia and Europe.
- Foster an initial network of creators, artists, writers and commentators engaged in the Asian and European comics medium, with a view to encouraging future opportunities for multilateral Asian-European collaboration.
- Contribute popular and reader-friendly material, using the comics art form, to the body of literature on Asia-Europe relations.
The success of the pilot led to a continuing process of collaboration and subsequent projects that would deepen understanding among Asian and European creators, storytellers, artists and communicators by encouraging cross-cultural exchange and production. Output from their projects could serve as the basis for future publications on Asia-Europe connections, both at the societal and personal levels. These could either be adopted as a publication series, or take place as finite and self-contained collaborations.
Schedule of Events:
31.07.2006 - 12.08.2006
Team Meeting in Singapore (see team listing)
11.08.2006 (from 4pm to 5.30pm)
Talk at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Topic: "Images and Narratives"
Speakers:
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Craig Au Yeung, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Frederic Felder, France
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Rafal Gosiniecki, Poland
Venue: Auditorium of LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, 90 Goodman Road
15.08.2006 (from 10 am to 5pm)
Workshop at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
Workshop Instructor: NIX (Belgium)
Venue: LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, 90 Goodman Road
18.08.2006 - 31.08.2006
The making of Asia-Europe Comics
Venue: National Library Board, Promenade @ Level 9
Opening hours: from 10 am to 9pm daily
End of 2006
Launch of publication