As every year, the Parc de Bruxelles will this year host the Comic Strip Festival (la Fête de la Bande dessinée). This edition, which will take place from 2 until 4 September, will feature two Polish authors, Tomasz SAMOJLIK and Agata WAWRYNIUK. They will present their work and sign copies of their books at the EUNIC stand, which you can find in the international pavilion. Tomasz SAMOJLIK will be running the workshop ‘Let’s draw the largest forest in the world’ and will participate in the round table discussion ‘Current Trends in European Comics’ whilst Agata WAWRYNIUK will be running the workshop ‘How to draw a joke’ and will participate in the round table discussion ‘Everyday Life in Comics’.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Parc de Bruxelles – see map 
>>> Friday 2 September – 15:00>20:00
       Round table discussion Current trends in European comics – 17:30 (participation of Tomasz SAMOJLIK)
>>> Satursday 3 September – 10:00>20:00 
        Round table discussion Everyday life in comics – 12:30 (participation of Agata WAWRYNIUK)  
        Workshop Let’s draw the largest forest in the world, by Tomasz SAMOJLIK – 14:00
        Workshop How to draw a joke, by Agata WAWRYNIUK – 18:30 
>>> Sunday 4 September – 10:00>18:00  
>>> Free of charges

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Tomasz SAMOJLIK
There are two faces to Tomasz SAMOJLIK. By day, he’s a bilogy PhD, dealing with science (more specifically the history of nature in the forest of Białowieża, about which he is undertaking research for the Institute of Biology of Mammals, which is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences. By night, he writes and draws comics in which he combines a gift for telling stories with his considerable knowledge of biology. This allows him to transmit his knowlege to the youngest generation of readers in a fun way. One of his recent scripts was for a cartoon on Pompik the bison. He has also produced work for the audio version of the comic book Ryjówka przeznaczenia (The Shrew of Destiny).

+++ Find out more about Tomasz SAMOJLIK on the site culture.pl

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Agata WAWRYNIUK
Agata WAWRYNIUK is a graphic artist, illustratrator and comic book author. Her autobiographical comic book, Polish-English Conversations, received a very warm welcome in Poland and picked up many prizes. All of her work is available in her portfolio at the following address: aguti.carbonmade.com/. 

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Fête de la Bande dessinée

Since 2009, the Comic Strip Festival has been the place in Brussels to celebrate the comic in all its forms, welcoming more than 100,000 people each year. Children and adults, amateurs or specialists, there’s something for everyone in the multitude of activities on offer.
For the 2016 edition, Brussels is gearing up for a colourful weekend from 2 until 4 September, with its now renowned Festival BD: the Parc de Bruxelles will be housing the Comic Museums, dozens of exhibitions, booksellers, comic book and desktop-publishing dealers, conferences, workshops and hundreds of authors signing their works!
However, the Comic Festival is also a night-time event in the Parc de Bruxelles, the Balloon’s Day Parade, the Tintin Rally Magazine, guided tours, comic exhibitions and activities all over the city.

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EUNIC Brussels
EUNIC, an abbreviation of ‘European Union National Institutes for Culture’, is a network of National Institutes for Culture from the Member States of the European Union, which aims to contribute to cultural diversity inside and outside of the EU and to strengthen cultural dialogue and exchange. EUNIC Brussels is part of a network of over 90 EUNIC clusters present on all continents.
The EUNIC stand during the Comic Strip Festival is an event organised by the cultural institutes and official representations of the Basque Country, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Turkey.

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