Animate Europe Awards ceremony and exhibition
I’ll be attending, and speaking, at the Animate Europe International Comics Competition 2017 Award Ceremony on 11 July at the Belgium Comic Strip Centre in Brussels, where the overall winner of the competition will be announced.
It’s been a pleasure to serve on this jury and read a wide variety of ideas on how to ‘Re-Animate Europe’. It was a tough job to whittle it down to the seven finalists, but here they are:
- Jordana Globerman (UK): “My Uncle’s Dream”
- Stefan Haller (Switzerland): “Back to the Grass Roots”
- Štepánka Jislová (Czech Republic): “How to Save the World”
- Noelle Kröger (Germany): “There’s a Way”
- Magdalena Kaszuba (Germany): “Spaziergang durch Europa/ A Walk Through Europe”
- Davide Pascutti (Italy): “The CreatEUre”
- Paul Rietzl (Germany): “A Dream of Europe”
The programme for the evening events is:
18.30 Registration
19.00 Award ceremony
Welcome
Willem De Graeve
Director, Belgian Comic Strip Center
Remarks
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort
Member of the Board of Directors, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Gesine Meissner MEP,
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Maura McHugh & Gert Jan Pos
Comic Book Writer / Teacher, editor, photographer
Re-Animate Europe Jury Members
Awards
Hans H. Stein
Director European and Transatlantic Dialogue, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
20.00 Reception
Atmospheric music by Sofie la Digue & the Blue Skies
You’ll be able to meet the artists and see their work too. Pass along the invite along to anyone who might be interested. It’s free to attend, but they ask that you register in advance.
