September 23, 24
This year educational programme of the Boomfest International Comics Festival will take place on New Holland Island. For two days the Pavillion will host lectures and discussions by comic book authors, publishers, curators and scholars. The first floor of the Mayak school will host a bookfair for fanzines, comics and illustrated books, and master-classes for kids.
Free admission.
Boomfest International Comics Festival was born in 2007 in Saint-Petersburg. Since then it has grown up into a bright international event in the world of comics art. Annually in September the festival covers the main city stages. Comics and illustration exhibitions, performances, film screening, competetitions and master-classes for young authors, meetings with artists and professionals and of course the book-fair — all of these could be found within every Boomfest.
September 23. Science and education.
11:30 AM The science of comics: Why it is time for all the humanities scholars to study comics, a talk by Alexei Pavlovsky (organizer of the ComixStudies project)
12 PM Analysis of the concept of style in comics: a new scientific approach, a lecture by Jacques Durrenmatt (Professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University)
1:30 PM New discipline – old methods: what does comics research need to become a science?, Discussion panel Participants: Natalia Potapova (PHD in History, assistant professor at History Department of St.Petersburg European University), Irina Golovacheva (PHD in Philology, professor, St.Petersburg State University)
2:30 PM I Am An Elephant!, book presentation and public talk with the authors Lena Uzhinova and Vladimir Rudak
4 PM Self-training in graphic arts, a lecture by Victor Melamed (artist, teacher of The British Higher School of Art and Design)
5 PM Teaching Drawing as a Language, a lecture by Pierre Thome (Teacher and Head of Department of Illustration at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Art & Design)
6:30 PM The changing cultural status of comics in America, a lecture by Bill Kartalopoulos (teacher, curator of exhibitions, critic, publisher)
8 PM From sketch to graphic reportage, a lecture by Benoit Guillaume (French illustrator and comics artist)
September 24. Author and publisher
11:30 AM Fanzines in Russia Today, a talk by Vitaly Terletsky (comics artist, curator of the Fanzine Factory at the Big Festival)
12 PM 15 years of fanzines, a lecture by König Lü. Q. (comics artist, Switzerland)
1 PM Why do we create zines?, discussion panel. Participants: Minava, Tipatzeha project, Artem Lakhin (association Grotesque)
2 PM Midnight Earth, book presentation and public talk with the book's author, Julia Nikitina
3:30 PM Modern Russian Comics, a talk by Alexei Pavlovsky (organizer of the ComixStudies project)
4 PM 10 years of kuš!, a lecture by David Schilter (founder of the kuš! anthology)
5 PM Is it easy to publish Russian comics?, discussion panel. Participants: Dmitry Yakovlev (Boomkniga Press), Vladimir Lopatin (Live Bubbles Press), Alexander Borchevskiy (SPb comics Press)
