Sharad Sharma is an Indian cartoonist and Ashoka Fellow based in New Delhi, India and founder of World Comics Network. He was associated with many newspapers and magazines before he switched to electronic media and introduced political animation to Indian TV news channels. In late nineties he formed an organisation World Comics India to introduce the idea of grassroots comics. He took the art of cartooning and comics to the rural hinterland of India and other parts of the globe. He has extensive experience from workshops with a variety of organisations in India and internationally. His cartoon strip Develomentoon has been published in several newspapers and website internationally. He has published several books and manuals. He has been helping small organisations working in remote areas to initiate social campaigns using grassroots comics on issues like infanticide, foeticide, corporal punishment, local governance, paedophilia, stereotypes. He was awarded Communication For Social Change Award by the University of Queensland, Australia and University of Massachusetts, USA.

Nida Shams is a comics trainer and trained Graphic Designer. The World Comics Network – Pakistan was formed under her leadership. She has conducted several grassroots comics workshops across Pakistan and trained hundreds of teachers, students, activists and ordinary people. She has a vast experience of conducting workshops internationally. She co-authored “Bolti Lakeerain”, an anthology of comics. She is the author of two more books, „Tolerance“ and „There lives few stories behind the bars”. The latter is the outcome of a one-month training she organized and conducted with Karachi Central Jail inmates, both women and their children.

Ihre Arbeit unter dem Titel „Grassroots Comics“ klingt fantastisch und bezaubernd.

Grassroots Comics are simply comics that tell a local story. They are a communication tool for all citizens that can transcend the barriers of language, literacy, media access and social classes. For these reasons, grassroots comics have been extremely successful in remote and low literacy areas as well as in primary and higher education widely in India and the Indian subcontinent, but the accommodating format of this visual medium has led to its spread worldwide.

Ihre Geschichte hat mich sofort fasziniert und der Wunsch war geboren, die beiden persönlich kennenzulernen und ihre Arbeit zu erleben. Umso erfreulicher war der Umstand, dass die beiden im Februar 2017 hier in der Gegend um Bregenz unterwegs sind und auf meine Anfrage hin sich bereit erklärt haben, einen Workshop anzubieten.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Datum: 21. und 22. Februar 2017
Ort: vielfeld Lochau, Lindauerstraße 31, 6911 Lochau
Uhrzeit: an beiden Tagen von 10 bis 16 Uhr
Kosten: Euro 150,- pro Person (inkl. Mittagsverpflegung)
Veranstalter: inszemo – büro für erlebnisgesichten
Kontakt/Anmeldung: Florian Oberforcher
Telefon: 0699 10575016
E-mail: flo@inszemo.at