Portugal-France season takes Portuguese artists to the Lyon Comic Book Festival – Observer
Several Portuguese emerging artists will be invited to participate this year Lyon Comic Festivalwhich runs in that French city between 10th and 12th of Junewithin the scope of the Portugal-France 2022 Cruzada Season, was announced Friday.
“The BD Lyon team is pleased to announce the 17th edition of its festival on June 10th, 11th and 12th. More than ever, the diversity of styles and styles will make the festival shine with original and surprising performancesin the magnificent setting of the city of Lyon”, revealed in a statement the director of the Festival BD de Lyon, Nicolas Piccato.
Assuming this as a “reunion moment“, after the constraints imposed in the previous year by the pandemic, festival authors reporting graphic arts and pandemics gathered, festival authors, graphic arts and city audiences, combining all forms of director, such as music, video games or performing arts.
About authors from all over the world will attend fifty‘well artists and professionals, festival and creative organizers, meeting formats, drawing meetings, ‘workshops’
This will be an edition with a perspective beyond borderswarns the organization, adding that it could be the object of several international projects with the expand the 9th art, encourage artistic exchange and encourage passionate artists and people.
It is in this context that the Portuguese participation, through the Portugal-France Cruzada Season, an initiative of bilateral diplomacywhich aims to deepen the relationship between these two countries.
“As part of the France-Portugal year, several emerging Portuguese authors will be sharing their works with the public and participating in a project of co-creation with their French counterparts“, statement by the organizers.
The event still has a another portuguesewithin the scope of the Comic Art Europe project (integrated in Creative Europe): a global exhibition dedicated to the theme “vision of tomorrow”.
Filipa Beautya Portuguese author hosted by the Belgian Comics Center in September 2021, was one of the European artists selected to present her work, joining the other four chosen candidates: the Romanian Maria Surducanthe German Meikel Mathiasa French author Mazery navyand the illustrated English Karrie Fransman.
The Comic Art Europe project, whose driving force is the Lyon Comic Book Festival, is open to all citizens and is based on a creative residency program, training for emerging artists through summer camps and media and education, through a literacy workshop using comics for example.