In this interactive workshop, Lambda award-winning writer and illustrator, Nicole Georges will lead participants through her process as a comic and zine creator, exploring how these mediums can be used as tools for storytelling and empowerment. More so, what are best practices for taking these tools into communities outside of our own?
Georges will recount what she's learned in her own 20 years of experience sharing zines as an organizer, teacher, and artist - as well as best practices, ethics, and funding options. She'll discuss her time with the Independent Publishing Resource Center, the Rock'n'Roll Camp for Girls, homeless youth, and her decade-long project with senior citizens, "Tell It Like It Tiz". Participants will leave with tools for how to ethically and cooperatively tell someone else's story, be it written, drawn, or spoken.
Presented in partnership with Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse, Leeway Foundation, and Temple College of Liberal Arts, this workshop is free, but space is limited so RSVP is required. Children are welcome and ASL available with prior notice (by October 11) – There will be an option to request when reserving a ticket.
Also, a public reading and book signing will follow from 7:30-8:30pm. No registration is required. Information for this reading found here.
ABOUT NICOLE GEORGES
Nicole Georges is a writer and illustrator from Portland, Oregon. Her Lambda Award winning graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called “engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant” by Rachel Maddow, and “disarming and haunting, hip and sweet, all at once” by Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home.“ Allô, dr Laura? was an Official Selection at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
She has been publishing her own zines and comics for 20 years, and has toured the country extensively, including two appearances on Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit tour. Nicole’s diary comic zine, Invincible Summer, has been collected into two anthology books.
Nicole won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Arts Education in 2012. She was the 2013 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies, the 2015/2016 Donaldson Writer in Residence at the College of William and Mary, and currently teaches at California College for the Art’s MFA in Comics Program.
Nicole currently lives in between Portland and Los Angeles with her chromeranian best friend, Ponyo Georges.
ABOUT AMALGAM COMICS & COFFEEHOUSE
Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse is a celebration of geek culture. A place for comic book fans, hardcore gamers, movie addicts, television connoisseurs, and zombie apocalypse survivalists to meet, and with their powers combined, change the world a little bit. They specialize in comics, toys & figurines, games, comic related magazines, apparel, coffee & espresso related beverages, and baked goods.
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ABOUT LEEWAY FOUNDATION
The Leeway Foundation supports women and trans* artists and cultural producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change. Through their grantmaking and other programs, they promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and works in the service of movements for economic and social justice.
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ABOUT CULTUREWORKS
CultureWorks is a management commons for arts, heritage, and creative communities — a platform of space, human capital, and services to help artists not only survive, but flourish. With more than 200 members, including roughly 80 fiscally sponsored projects, they provide equitable access to management resources for both individuals and organizations, the makers and preservers of culture.
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ABOUT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts prepares students to become innovators in all fields, across all industries. They are civic-minded, globally conscious creative thinkers, doers and risk-takers. They are home to more than 5,500 students across 28 departments and programs that offer a focused liberal arts college experience within a premier urban, research university.