No need to know how to draw, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new things are all you need!
Grassroots comics can be used for example as a medium in direct, local NGO communication or in other applied ways of using comics. It is a low tech, cost efficient and easy to access communication tool.
Koulutus ruohonjuurisarjakuvaan ja työpajojen vetämiseen
Aika: Sat 7.3. - Sun 8.3. 2020 at 10AM–4PM
Place: Fingo, Elimäenkatu 25–27 (5. floor)
Price: Free
Facilitators of the workshop are: cartoonist, activist Sanna Hukkanen and comics laureate Johanna Rojola.
The workshop is organized by World Comics Finland and it is part of Comics and Migration project funded by Kone Foundation.
Course target group:
The workshop is aimed for NGO activists and employees as well as teachers and professional educators. We are seeking applicants of different ages, genders, languages, cultures and other minorities.
Enrollment through this form by Feb 28th 2020.
Course goals:
The participants will learn to make grassroots comics themselves and also gain skills to facilitate their own workshops. The participants will ponder on how to apply the grassroots comics method in their own work. The participants have a chance to hold a workshop for their own interest groups, such as active members of their organisation or other target group. These workshops will be tutored by Worldcomics facilitators.
Course schedule and content:
During this weekend, the instructors will lead the participants to the basics of comics one phase at a time according to the educational material. The participants will also learn about how to instruct a comics workshop and how to apply, publish and spread the comics being made. The participants will gain experience and receive educational material for workshops to come.
Why: What is ‘grassroots comics’?
The method of grassroots comics was developed by the Worldcomics organization. Workshops have been held in Finland and other countries already since 1997. On the website of Wordlcomics is a vast multilingual assignment bank and plenty of examples of how to adapt comics to serve concrete subjects – all free of charge. The method of grassroots comics has been widely used in education, organization campaigns and development work. In Finland, workshops were arranged for immigrants, speakers of endangered languages and representatives of sexual minorities. The method was also used to deal with environmental and developmental issues in schools. Grassroots comics is quick to learn, cheap to produce and easy to publish. It enables spreading information in a compact, understandable and interesting form. It also sets a basis on which to develop one’s own artistic expression for those who are interested in comics as an artform.
Course costs:
The course is free of charge and it includes free tea and coffee on breaks. Lunch will be at the participant’s own cost: you may either have lunch at the restaurants nearby or bring your own. Food can be heated in the kitchen of Fingo, where there is an electric kettle and a microwave oven. Travel and housing compensations:
Those coming from outside of Helsinki may apply for compensation for travel and housing costs. The travel costs will be compensated from receipts of the least expensive vehicle and housing up to 80 € /night/person. Number of participants:
The course will accept up to 16 persons. Enroll for the course:
Enrollments through this form by Feb 28th 2020.
Organizers:
Instructors:
Facilitators of the workshop are cartoonist, activist Sanna Hukkanen and comics laureate Johanna Rojola.
Comics and migration – Belonging, narration, activism is a project, funded by the Kone foundation, that will be actualized between 2018–2020. In this project, researchers and comics artists together examine how comics represent migration. The project group consists of Warda Ahmed, Ralf Kauranen, Olli Löytty, Aura Nikkilä, Hannele Richert, Johanna Rojola and Anna Vuorinne.
www.migrationcomics.fi
Facebook page for the project
Instagram page for the project
Twitter page for the project
World comics is an organization founded by comics artists and activists of development coordination in 1997.
It’s goal is to promote the use of comics in the communication of organizations and communities, especially on grass root level.
The aim is in bringing forth the voices and opinions of minorities and other groups in less advantageous positions.
As a part of its international operations, Worldcomics has developed the grassroots comics method and produced comics-based educational materials in thirteen languages.
www.worldcomics.fi
https://illustratingmecomics.com/
http://finnougriccomics.com/en
Facebook page of the world comics project
