Big Draw East Launch 2005
Other launch events: South West,
South East,
London, East Midlands,
West Midlands, North West,
Yorkshire, North East,
Scotland, Wales,
N. Ireland
Norwich Fringe Festival at The Forum
East meets East - Making the Norwich Manga
8 October 2005
Kicking off a city-wide Big Draw, combining performance and participatory
drawing, contributing to the Norwich Manga and Mini Manga, visual storytelling
about the city through serial drawings in the style of a comic book, based on
the popular art form in Japan.
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In the Forum, 10am
Live video link with art students in Japan demonstrating manga drawing,
plus a specially made film of a professional manga artist at work.
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11am
Everyone pitches in to their own drawing tasks, from badges and t-shirts to
buildings and people. There were people everywhere - lying on the floor, up on
the balcony, outside at the Norwich Jazz festival, in the maze, on the long
table. People of every type and age - families, teenagers, older people - all
immersed in a frenzy of drawing.
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5pm
The exhausted team tries to send people home. Eventually they go, leaving
behind a mass of drawings of all kinds and a four-roll strip of the story for
Norwich in manga form. A great day!
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