The workshop invites storytellers and illustrators from any background or nationality to participate, meet and work together in the project “Picturing Encounters”.
Everybody, who wants to share a short story related to the encounter between different lifeworlds (migration, refugee, travel experiences, encounters between generations, neighbors, human/non-human encounters etc. ) is invited to present his or her story or to write it down. It could be a love story, funny or sad, an adventure, a family tale, about violence or loss… whatever you want to share. After sharing the story with the group, storytellers and illustrators become co-creators of a final product, which will put the story into pictures.
Illustrators are free to decide what kind of technique they would like to use. It can vary from comic to animation, including paintings or even sculptures! The idea is to translate the story of an encounter into pictures.
The final projects will be part of a touring exhibition in the public libraries of Schöneberg & Tempelhof and they will also be published on our website. Two of the projects will be chosen to be published in our printed magazine in December 2019.
Participation in this workshop is free of charge.
Workshop convenor: Alvaro Martínez (studioabashi.com)
We are happy to receive registrations until 17th of June 2019: contact-english@encounter-blog.com
The Workshop is taking place on three Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 to 13:00:
Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of June
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of June
Friday 5th and Saturday 6th of July
Mittelpunktbibliothek Schöneberg
„Theodor-Heuss-Bibliothek“
Hauptstr. 40
10827 Berlin
