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In order to escape the darkness of Finnish winter, the Helsinki Comics Festival will take a trip to Athens in November 2024. The Helsinki Comics Festival brings Finnish artists to Athens in a one-day event organised in collaboration with InnovAthens Technopolis City of Athens and Comicdom Con festival. The event at the InnovAthens space of Technopolis culture hub will take place on Saturday, the 16th of November from 11:00 to 19:00.
FREE ADMISSION!
Prominent artists from both the Finnish and Greek comics fields as invited guests.
The Finnish artists travelling to meet Greek audiences are: Reetta Niemensivu, who has been the selected festival artist and illustrator of the HCF GOES ATH event, Siiri Viljakka, and Tuoni Myllylä. They will be joined on stage by Steve Stivaktis, and Ilias Kyriazis.
Lida Tsene from Comicdom Com festival will be interviewing and being interviewed. Ville Hänninen and Myrto Tselenti will be presenting an overview of Finnish and Greek comics.
Several comics publishers and organisations will be presenting their activities and sharing what all creators want to know - how to best approach them with an idea for a book, exhibition or collaboration! Jemma Press, Athens Comics Library, and Athens Zine Bibliotheque are some of the organisations taking the stage.
Of course, no comics event would be complete without the chance to shop! InnovAthens Technopolis City of Athens will host over 20 comics creators who will sign books and sell books and merchandise.
Who?
HCF GOES ATH and Helsinki Comics Festival are organised by the Finnish Comics Society. The Finnish Comics Society is an association of makers, readers, collectors and researchers of comics. The society presents comics both to the wider public as well as to the cultural establishment. It aims to promote the awareness and critical reading of comics and to gain respect for the art form. In recent years the association has been active in launching several new cultural export projects as well as new websites and online services for comics lovers.
https://www.sarjakuvaseura.fi/fi/in-english
Where?
InnovAthens Technopolis City of Athens
https://www.facebook.com/innovathens
Τεχνόπολη Δήμου Αθηναίων
Πειραιώς 100 Γκάζι, 11854 Αθήνα
In collaboration with:
Comicdom Con, https://www.facebook.com/Comicdom
InnovAthens Technopolis City of Athens
Jemma Press
Athens Comics Library
Athens Zine Bibliotheque
Suomen Ateenan-instituutti
Suomen Ateenan suurlähetystö
Ateenan merimieskirkko
Net Technologies Finland Oy
Contact information and interview requests:
[email protected]
Ella Tahkolahti
producer
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Athanasía Aarniosuo
director
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Technopolis City of Athens, Πειραιώς 98, 118 54 Αθήνα, Ελλάδα,Athens, Greece
