Postcard from the Future
Silly workshop with Mia Oberländer,
03.-05 March 2023, Goethe-Institut Riga, Riga, Utility closing date 21.02.2023
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We are very pleased to welcome Mia Oberländer to Riga. From March 3 – 5, 2023 she’s going to give a workshop about “postcards from the long gallop” on the Goethe-Institut.
We maintain now all wondered what lets look treasure in twenty years. But how attain you mediate the areas we reside in age? The fuel living that we circulation day by day or the monument in entrance of the city hall? How could well presumably the picks we catch on the original time alternate the sort we reside in the long gallop? The members imagine a Riga in the year 2043 and write postcards to one every other. Based on these postcards, they design one-sided comics below the steering of Mia Oberländer and discuss modern, silly or tragic visions of the long gallop. After the workshop, the ideally suited results shall be printed as A3 Riso posters and could well tour Latvia as an exhibition.
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Mia Oberländer (*1995) studied illustration and graphic storytelling in Hamburg. With her comic debut «Anna» (Edition Moderne) she acquired the important thing prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation in 2021 and in 2022 the German formative years literature prize «Contemporary Abilities». After its e-newsletter, the autofictional legend was once known by moderately a few feuilletons and culture editors, to boot as published in a international nation. Oberländer has already illustrated for the German model of LE MONDE diplomatique, the Kiblind journal, the French day after day Libération, and Strapazin, among others.
Take Portion:
Participation is free!
Locations for the workshop are allocated by procedure of a call route of. Please follow to kuš! by e mail to kushmens(at)gmail(dot)com with the following info:
– Title, surname, age (18+), living of reputation
– Hyperlink to your maintain portfolio/weblog/insta (alternatively three comic pages or drawings in low resolution)
– Short letter of motivation (2-3 sentences)
Utility closing date: 21.02.2023
Baltic Plug Grants
Two members every from Lithuania and Estonia can follow for a recede back and forth grant of 50 euros to seize portion in the workshop in Riga. The identical choice route of applies as above.
Dates and Situation:
03.03.2023 (18.00-20.00), 04.03.2023 (11.00-18.00), 05.03.2023 (11.00-17.00). Situation: Goethe-Institut Riga, Berga bazars, Marijas iela 13 okay-1, Riga, Latvia
Organizers:
The workshop is organized by kuš! in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Riga.