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A Bethlehem training encampment for Palestinian and British mirthful book Maker , open for ten days in July 2025
The Qusasat Comics & Digital Production Training Camp is remove place in Bethlehem in July . A ten - day intensive breeding refugee camp , it intends to work together young creative person from Palestine and the UK to research the art of funnies and visual storytelling . This is the first encampment of its kind in Palestine , and is project to patronize come forth voice and creative endowment using an modern , multidisciplinary approach . They anticipate that through mitt - on workshops in comics technique , draught , animation , and digital production , participants will develop their own original comics . The computer programme includes individual and group education in comic artistic creation and storytelling ; digital output and originative software package sessions ; node talks and panel discussion with Palestinian and British artist ; and ethnic tours and local esthetic activity . Representing the British comedian residential area will beMollie Ray , whose debut graphic novel , Giant , was publish last yr , by Faber and Faber .
The initiative is a partnership between Power Group ( Bethlehem ) and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival ( LICAF ) , supported by the British Council and Amos Trust . It builds on a creative exchange that began with a family in the UK and is now expanding into this pilot film education program . " We ’re delighted to be part of this internationally endorse project , commented LICAF Festival DirectorJulie Tait . “We are hoping this will leave to further collaborations , involving and adorn in young comic natural endowment across the world , as we have done in many other parts of the globe over the past few years .
Power Group is a youth - led cultural initiative based in Bethlehem , instal in 2012 . It works at the intersection of visual arts , media , and residential area involvement , using creative thinking as a tool for ego - expression and social change .
" At powerfulness , we ’re always research new creative tool to avail young people tell their stories , and comics , combine with digital medium , open up exciting new possibility , " saysSliman Mukarker , co - father of Power Group . " Our partnership with LICAF is prospicient - term , and we see ' Qusasat ' as the beginning of what we hope will become an annual training programme that support a new generation of storytellers in Palestine . "
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