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PROGRAMME: Egypt's third Comix Week launches Monday featuring workshops, seminars
Published in Ahram Online on 05 - 12 - 2016

The third annual Egypt Comix Week will be launched in Cairo on Monday, and will feature workshops, exhibitions and seminars in a number of Egyptian cities.
There will be workshops for emerging cartoon and comics artists in Cairo, Alexandria, Assuit and Hurghada, which will focus on teaching the skills of comic production, for a total capacity of 235 artists.
The week also will include two comic galleries in Garden City and Beit El-Seheimy in Fatimid Cairo, in addition to seminars, discussions and film screenings in Cairo, Fayoum, and Alexandria.
Artists from Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Finland, Denmark and Austria will participate in the festival.
Two comic books will also be launched at the festival: the graphic novel Invisible Hands by Finnish artist Ville Tietäväinen and the collective comic book Border Crossing.
Egypt Comix week is organised by the by the state's Cultural Development Fund, the Swiss Arts Council (Prohelvetia), the Goethe Institute, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, the Robert Bosch Institute and the Japan Foundation.
Programme:
Opening event
5 December, 7pm
Speakers: Ville Tietäväinen, Titus Ackermann and Mohammed El-Baaly.
Location: Rawabet Theatre, Townhouse, Downtown Cairo
Anime movie
6 December, 4pm
5 Centimeters Per Second, 63 min
Location: Medrar Gallery, Garden City, Cairo
Book launch
6 December, 6pm
Launching the collective comic book Border Crossing
Location: Medrar Gallery, Garden City, Cairo
Exhibition opening
7 December, 6pm
Illustration exhibition by the Danish artist Inger-Lise Kristoffersen.
Location: Beit El-Seheimy, Cairo.
The Social Relevance of Comics
7 December, 7pm
Speakers: Titus Ackermann and Mohamed Abla
Location: Goethe Institute, Dokki, Giza
Discussion about the graphic novel Invisible Hands by Ville Tietäväinen
8 December, 6pm
Location: Café Haroun, Fayoum
Discussion on comics
8 December, 7pm
Speakers: Julia Marti and Milva Stutz
Location: Goethe Institute, Alexandria
Book signing
9 December, 7pm
Graphic novel Invisible Hands by Ville Tietäväinen
Location: Wekalet Bahna, Alexandria.
Closing ceremony
10 December, 7pm
Location: Beit El-Seheimy, Cairo.


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