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OPENING TIMES12:00 - 19:00Last entry at 18:00 every dayDoors close at 18:45
FIND USRound ChapelOld School Rooms1D GLENARM ROAD, E5 0LY
NEAREST TRAINHackney Central, 0.5MIHackney Downs, 0.6MI
FREE CASHPOINTS1. Sainsburys: 13 Lower Clapton Rd, E5 0NS2. Tesco: 146 Lower Clapton Rd, E5 0QJ3. Santander: 392 Mare St, E8 1HP
www.elcaf.co.uk
ELComicsArtsFestival elcafest ELCAFest
SPECIAL INFORMATIONAll talks Are FREE with an ELCAF all access ticket
All workshopsare FREE with an ELCAF ticketare suitable for all ages unless specified
PROGRAMME
TALKSSCHOOL ROOMS
14.30 - 15.30HOUSE OF ILLUSTRATION: COMMISSION, CURATE, CREATE!Want to know more about the opportunities and practicalities of working with galleries? How to get commissioned, and the process behind curating and mounting an exhibition? Join Paul Gravett (co-curator of Posy Simmonds: A Retrospective), Katie Nairne (co-curator of Marie Neurath: Picturing Science) and YiMiao Shih, HOI’s current illustrator in residence, as they discuss the current and forthcoming House of Illustration exhibitions that they’ve worked on.
15.45 - 17.00ELCAF INTRODUCES: IMPRESSÃO MINHA FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSIONJoin us for an exclusive screening of Impressão Minha (Finger Print) , a short documentary exploring the self-publishing scene in São Paulo and wider Brazil. It will be followed by a discussion chaired by ELCAF’s Ligaya Salazar that brings together Bebel Abreu of Bebel Books, two of the directors of the documentary, João Varella and Gabriela Leite and Brazilian illustrator Bárbara Malagoli to discuss the nature and catalysts of the scene in São Paulo.
FRIDAY7 JUNE
SATURDAY8 JUNE
SUNDAY9 JUNE
17.15 - 18.15AOI DISCUSSES: CONNECTING WITH YOUR AUDIENCEJoin the AOI’s Lou Bones together with illustrators Dominic Kesterton, Molley May and Robert Sae-Heng as they discuss the challenges of self-promotion, taking ownership over your brand - and how not to get lost in the din of social media. They’ll share their experiences on making positive connections with real life examples and practical tips, followed by a Q&A session.
Springboard MeetingsTalks TENT
15.00 - 18.00Our hugely popular one on one portfolio reviews provide the chance for emerging creatives to meet industry experts, show work and ask questions to gain an insight into the professional creative industries. Each expert is available for four 15 minutes slots each, bookable through eventbrite via the ELCAF website.
WORKSHOPS MAIN HALL
14.00 - 16.00PANEL TO PAGE with PEONY GENT AND MHAIRI BRADEN Discover how easy and approachable comics can be in this workshop with illustrators and artists Peony Gent and Mhairi Braden. Create a collaborative comic with your fellow workshoppers using warm up exercises, straightforward techniques and endless possibilities. Suitable for ages 7+
14.00 - 16.00MAKE YOUR MARK with BRIGHTON UNIVERSITYTry your hand at some experimental mark making with University of Brighton illustration students Ella Willson-Smith and Lucia Vinti. Create accidental and interesting compositions through experimentation and play, collaborative mono-printing, stamping, wax resist and more, you’ll then be able to take your finished pieces away as a folded poster-zine!
16.30 - 18.30FACE TO FACE with KITOKIA GRAFIKATake part in this fast and fun portrait drawing activity suitable for all ages with Lithuanian comic publishers and creators Kitokia Grafika. Observe your partner’s face for one minute, but once they’re gone, you have only two minutes to draw their portrait! A great introduction to character design and live drawing - see how good/terrible/amusing your visual memory really is.
16.30 - 18.30COM-MIX with KINGSTON UNIVERSITYAllow a story to unravel in unexpected ways in this relaxed exercise with the aim of encouraging creativity, storytelling and problem-solving skills. Come and make a loose and experimental comic with a partner/friend/the person you happen to be sat next to, led by illustration students from BA Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art. Suitable for ages 7+
TALKSSCHOOL ROOMS
12.30 - 13.45FLATPACK SCREENING: BELONGINGOur friends at Flatpack Festival present two specially curated programmes for ELCAF. The first, Belonging, explores the relationships that shape us, including animations Cat Days by Jon Frickey, which follows a boy’s trip to the doctor, and Siqi Song’s Sister, the story of a man’s nostalgic memories of early years shared with his annoying sibling.
14.00 - 15.15SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT: THE ROLE OF COMICS AND ILLUSTRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURYJoin Warren Bernard, Director of Small Press
Expo in Maryland as he chairs a panel exploring the ways in which comics and
illustration can act as a platform to represent groups, address topics and answer the biases of our times. Panellists include Rui Tenreiro, Francesca Sanna and comics publisher/not-for-profit organisation Samandal.
15.30 - 16.45FLATPACK SCREENING: METAMORPHOSIS The second of Flatpack Festival’s selections for ELCAF this year explores animation as the art of metamorphosis. This selection of films play with forms, shapes and
movements, from Boris Labbé’s The Fall, and Swiss animator Michael Frei’s
Kids, a film about group dynamics, conceived also as a video game.
17.00 - 18.15BROKEN FRONTIER PANEL: INDIE COMICS, TAKING NEW CREATORS TO NEW AUDIENCESJoin Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver as he chairs a panel of comics artists, activists and publishers to discuss their experiences of bringing comics to wider readerships, how to champion new creative voices, and thoughts on how you can raise the profile of your own work. Featuring Hannah Berry, Jayde Perkin, Aleesha Nandhra and Katriona Chapman of Avery Hill Publishing.
TALKSTENT
12.30 - 13.30 TARA BOOTH: THE RISK AND REWARDS OF VULNERABILITY IN COMICSPhiladelphia based artist Tara Booth joins us at ELCAF this year to discuss her life and work through mental health and comics. She’ll explore issues surrounding fear and vulnerability, and the ways in which opening up and taking risks helped both her career and her own mental health journey.
13.45 - 14.45MARÍA MEDEM: FIELD RECORDINGSJoin artist María Medem as she discusses the beauty of ambiguity and mystery within illustration. Using examples of her work and her own influences, she’ll discuss ways of working with real subjects in order to create different atmospheres.
15.00 - 16.00JAYDE PERKIN: COMICS AS GRAPHIC MEDICINEIllustrator and comics artist Jayde Perkin will share the process of her new book I’m Not Ready, and talk us through her journey since winning 2018’s ELCAF X WeTransfer Award. She will also discuss comics as graphic medicine; using art and narrative as a vehicle for exploring complicated feelings and emotions, particularly grief.
16.15 - 17.15RUI TENREIRO: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN COMICSJoin author, illustrator and art director Rui Tenreiro as he chats about comic artists from Southern and Eastern Africa with Nobrow’s Sam Arthur. Focuses will include the post-revolution, government sponsored comics from 1980’s Mozambique, Mozambican comics today (including Rui’s own work) , Tanzanian comics from Dar es Salaam, and the South African comics of Mogorosi Motshumi and the Capetonian collective K.I.F.
17.30 - 18.30FRANCESCA SANNA: SHARING YOUR FEARSJoin illustrator and designer Francesca Sanna as she discusses the processes behind her latest book Me and My Fear. She’ll reflect particularly on the few months she spent working with a research group from Birkbeck University and how that led to and influenced the design and story.
WORKSHOPS MAIN HALL
12.15 - 13.45 COLOUR, SHAPE, LAND, PRINT with TOM HAUGOMATParis-based artist Tom Haugomat will be running a stencil workshop based on his own work and illustrations. Learn how landscapes are created and developed through foreground and background imagery, and make your own stencils and personal compositions. Suitable for ages 7+
14.00 - 15.30JUNK MODELLING WEATHERVANEwith OKIDOCome and join OKIDO Studio to make your very own weathervane in this junk modelling workshop. Using drawing, collage and modelling techniques, and with the help of scrap and junk materials, create a glorious weathervane for a plant pot with the OKIDO creative team. Sit it on a windowsill at home and watch the breeze come in!
15.45 - 17.15THE SILLY BALLET with CARLES PORTADownload a free Stop Motion Studio app (via iTunes) on your phone in order to take part in a silly ELCAF animated ballet run by illustrator, animator and graphic designer Carles Porta. Make a cardboard paper puppet and learn how to bring it to life through steps, jumps or dance!
17.30 - 19.00THE POWER OF THE DOODLE 3: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SCRIBBLE with NICK WHITEArtist, Illustrator, lecturer and full time doodler Nick White returns yet again with his ever popular doodle workshop. These fun collaborative games will see you embrace mindless doodling, discovering new ideas through making, rather than thinking. Instead of staring at a blank piece of paper let go of expectations and enjoy the freedom of the doodle!Suitable for ages 10+
WORKSHOPS TENT
12.15 - 14.45PIÑATA with HOLLY ST CLAIR:ELCAF is like a big illustration party, and no party is complete without a piñata. Join illustrator Holly St Clair in creating a fun and easy piñata by turning simple illustrations into three dimensional objects. Suitable for ages 10+
15.00 - 19.00HATO PRESS: 2-COLOUR BAUHAUS PRINTINGWhat is ELCAF without riso? Our friends at Hato Press will be running a drop-in riso printing workshop and bringing their riso printer with them for the ride. Celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus and create your own unique riso-print through cutting, pasting, collage and mark making, resulting in a personalised notebook.
TALKSTENT
13.00 - 14.00DESIGN FOR TODAY: THE NEXT CHAPTERSmall Press publisher Joe Pearson launched Design For Today at ELCAF back in 2015. Join Joe as he discusses why he started publishing, how he collaborates and the challenges of small publishing in a world of multinational publishers and discount sellers. After losing stock in a warehouse fire Joe is re-launching with a clutch of new books - from Emma Lewis, Alice Pattullo, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Alex Barrow - and is more determined than ever to carry on.
14.15 - 15.15AJ DUNGO: SEQUENTIAL SELF HELP AND SURFINGHear illustrator and author AJ Dungo discuss his beautiful new graphic novel, In Waves, which deals with love, loss, and the solace of surfing. Take a peek into the process of how the book came together, the role of comics in escapism, and about all of the relationships that paved the way for his first collaboration with Nobrow.
ELCAF AWARDs CEREMONYSunday, 18.00MAIN HALLELCAF will be announcing the winners of our awards for exhibitors.
The ELCAF Award, sponsored by WeTransfer, gives an artist £3,500 to transform their idea into a printed publication.
The ELCAF Audience Award winner gets a £200 gift card by Cass Arts and an opportunity to exhibit at their exhibition space in Islington. Don’t forget to look for nominated publications at the stalls and vote for your favourite!
MUSIC
Friday to Sunday12:00 - 19:00MAIN HALL ELCAF Soundsystem DJsAn eclectic line up of London’s finest vinyl selectors programmed by Brett Booth will provide audio vibes from the pulpit throughout the weekend. Check the daily line-up on the board next to the DJ Booth.
15.30 - 16.30MELEK ZERTAL: COMICS/IDENTITYHow can comics fill the gap between contemporary art and popular culture? How can it be something both futile and committed? A link between a home country and a foster one? Join illustrator Melek Zertal as she talks about her work and considers these questions, as well as pondering why she keeps drawing sad lesbian love stories.
16.45 - 17.45JON MCNAUGHTOur ELCAF 2019 artist-in-residence Jon McNaught will talk about the process of creating his latest comic book Kingdom, which explores the landscapes of a caravan site on the British coast, and the beauty and boredom of childhood holidays. Talking through the creative process, from initial ideas and research to final artwork, Jon will also explain printmaking, poetry, and his use of comics to explore distant memories and the passing of time.
WORKSHOPS TENT
12.15 - 13.45IT’S ABOUT with TRICICLO EDITORAJoin Lisbon based children’s micro-publisher Triciclo Editora in this lighthearted and fun interpretation game. Use postcards, tickets, photographs and other images as a starting point to illustrate and bring the game to life.
14.00 - 15.30PRINTED PENNANTS with AKVILE MAGICDUSTIllustrator and ELCAF 2018 Award winner Akvile Magicdust invites you into the secret world of flags. Create colourful banners (pennants) of textiles using linocut techniques. Using a bit of designing, sewing and printing, voilà! - you’ll have your own personal banner to take home with you! Suitable for ages 10+
15.45 - 17.15PLANET PLASTICINE with BROLLY LOLLYJoin our pals at Brolly Lolly to create a colourful world full of plasticine figures and props. Come up with a story, create a cast of characters and creatures, and then bring it all to life in a stop-motion animated video. You’ll need a mobile phone, the Stop Motion Studio app (download this for free before the workshop via iTunes), and your imagination!
17.30 - 19.00ART ON THE MOVE with BÁRBARA MALAGOLI AND BLACK SABATake part in this considered comic making workshop on identity and migration with Brazilian artist Bárbara Malagoli and Black Saba Press. Highlighting how specific the mundane can be when you are far from home, develop a story based on your memories. In a world of migration and movement, consider what it means to call somewhere home, and the associations attached with it no matter how far away you go. Suitable for ages 10+
8TH EAST LONDON COMICS & ARTS FESTIVAL
PROGRAMME & MAP
476Adam Allsuch BoardmanAga GieckoAkvile MagicdustAlekalkoAlex Hahn, BlopShopAnchenillustrationAtnoonbooksBad MagnetsBárbara MalagoliBarbawkBebel BooksBenjamin WrightBia MeloBrolly LollyCamille AubryCarne LíquidaCentralaChili Com CarneChristian Harrop ColoramaDay JobDavid McMillan DecadenceDesign For TodayDoggoDom McKenzie Dominic KestertonDuat Ltd.ELCAF Artists TableEli HoweyEllinor Richey
476Adam Allsuch BoardmanAkvile MagicdustAleesha Nandhra IllustrationAlekalkoAlex Simpson AnchenillustrationAndy BarronArabella SimpsonAtnoonbooksAvery Hill PublishingAvocadoBárbara MalagoliBarbawkBebel BooksBerke YaziciogluBia MeloBlack Hook PressBlack Lodge PressBlack Saba PressBoeyW & YanshuBook IslandBreakdown PressBrolly LollyCarne LíquidaCentralaChili Com CarneChristian Harrop Claire MichaudClio IsadoraDavid BiskupDavid McMillan Day JobDe PressDecadence
Adam Allsuch BoardmanAkvile MagicdustAlekalkoAlex SimpsonAnchenillustrationAndy BarronArabella SimpsonAtnoonbooksAvery Hill PublishingBárbara MalagoliBebel BooksBia MeloBlack Hook PressBlack Saba PressBoeyW & YanshuBook IslandBreakdown PressBrolly LollyCentralaChili Com CarneClaire MichaudClio IsadoraDavid BiskupDavid McMillan Day JobDe PressDecadence
MAP &EXHIBITOR LIST
Eloise Szaruga-BoltEmma RabyEstrella VegaFamily StoreFidèle Editions & Melek ZertalFlat Filters & CoFlessshFlutisteFosfatina with Óscar Raña & Cynthia AlfonsoFrances Castle IllustrationGenie LiangHel CovellHolly St ClairHouse of IllustrationInkpenInuit EditionsJayde Perkin Joe StoneJjokpressJonathan CapeKaren ShangguanKing Louie’s LabKitokia GrafikaKlub ZinKnust, ExtrapoolL’appâtLeebinsoyeonLily BlakelyLizzy StewartLyli FengMarcus Jernberger
Design For TodyDisa & CatDoggoDom McKenzie Dominic KestertonDoug John MillerEd ChevertonELCAF Artists TableEli HoweyEllastratedEmmanuelle Walker Family StoreFidèle EditionsFlutisteFosfatina with Óscar Raña & Cynthia AlfonsoFroglumpGiulia Sagramola Hel CovellHolly St ClairHouse of IllustrationIcinoriInuit EditionsIsabel Greenberg Jamie JonesJayde Perkin Joe StoneJohn Cei DouglasJonathan CapeKing Louie’s LabKitokia GrafikaKnust, ExtrapoolKristyna BaczynskiLeebinsoyeonLesley Barnes
Design For TodayDisa & CatDoggoDoug John MillerEd ChevertonELCAF Artists TableEleonora MartonEmmanuelle Walker Family StoreFidèle Editions & Melek ZertalFlutisteFreddeLankaFroglumpGiulia SagramolaHolly St ClairHouse of IllustrationIcinoriInuit EditionsIsabel GreenbergJamie JonesJayde Perkin Joe StoneJonathan CapeLeebinsoyeonLesley BarnesLökZine
Mark Pawson, DisinfotainmentMarc MorrowMarlene KrauseMelissa Sinclair Mhairi BradenMight and Delight MijiLeeMolley MayMyriadNew InternationalistNexus Nobrow OkidoOtto PressPaper NutsPaul HatcherPencil BanditPeony GentPeter AllenRobert Sae-HengSam BaldwinSamandalSantiago TabernaSimon BridglandSnellingSputnikatTakayo & YoyoTom KindleyViola Wang studioWilliam PowersYama Comics
Lizzy StewartLökZineMark Pawson, DisinfotainmentMarc MorrowMarlene KrauseMelek ZertalMhairi BradenMijiLeeMyriadNew InternationalistNick WhiteNoam MalkaNobrow O Panda GordoOff to ( _ ) AloneOkido TBCOlivia SualdeaOtto PressOwl & Dog PlaybooksPeony GentPeow StudioPeter AllenPittville PressPower Couple PressSamandalShortBoxSputnikatTakayo & YoyoTerry BleuThing PrintsTim BirdTriciclo EditoraWilliam PowersYukai PrintsZane Zlemeša
Marlene KrauseMhairi BradenMijiLeeMyriadNew InternationalistNoam MalkaNobrow O Panda GordoOff to ( _ ) AloneOlivia SualdeaOtto PressOwl & Dog PlaybooksPeony GentPeow StudioPower Couple PressSamandalShortBoxSputnikatTakayo & YoyoTerry BleuThing PrintsTriciclo EditoraWilliam PowersYukai PrintsZane ZlemešaZhang Liang
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