I hope that this email finds you
all well.
Before the seminar I have a few
things I would like you to prepare in advance.
We will send you the timetable of
the week in the next days.
1)
Presentation
of yourself:
We will create a special webpage on the Comic Sans
blog on which you (and other visitors) will be able to learn a bit more
about the other participants. Therefore I would like you to send me by
the 15th October:
-
a picture of yourself,
-
a list of 20 words of things you like and you
think represent yourself,
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a list of 5-10 comic book/magazine
titles/characters you like,
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and a short paragraph (maximum 40 words), about
your experience within adult education and comics (if you have no experience,
please explain your objective to teach/work with adults in the future and to
learn about comics)
-
your twitter (see point number 2) )
For example, about
myself (Raphael Harfaux), it would be: laptop, graphic design, comics, theatre,
countryside, website, rhum, CD of Arcade Fire, chocolate, sushi, Corse, DVDs of
Miranda (British comedy), Le Monde, couscous, duck, video, photography, dance floor, beach, phone.
Comics: Tintin, Astérix, Robin Dubois, Picsou magazine (Scrooge McDuck),
Batman.
I have been working
for the last 5 years within organisations offering mobility/non formal learning
opportunities to young adults. I introduced comics as a way for adults
participating in our programmes to express themselves and share their
experience.
@RaphaelHarfaux
2) Twitter:
I will ask you to create a Twitter account (if you
don’t have one already!). You will have to use your account during the
workshop. It is very easy to create a Twitter account. Please sign up on https://twitter.com/ . You can already follow:
@eispossible . If you use tweet about the workshop, try to include this two
mentions @eispossible and #comicsans
3) Follow us:
Follow us on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/eveULJ ), Twitter (http://bit.ly/ia8W6r ) and Youtube (http://bit.ly/10PXKep ). Please note that for
Youtube, you don’t need to have an account: You can easily subscribe to our
channel if you have a Gmail address.
4) Create your own comic page about your life:
I will ask you to create a comic page about your
life: only one page, if possible on a A4, portrait format. You can use any
technic you want: this will be a nice way to show to the other what you can do.
But please, don’t stress about it. For example, myself, I don’t have any talent
in drawing but I will use some other technics I like in order to create the
page! You will have 5 min on the Sunday 3rd to present your comic
page and yourself.
Please send me a digital copy (PDF., JPEG. ) of
your comic page by the Tuesday 29th October. If you do
a picture of it, try to make a high quality picture (or better, try to scan
it). I will put all comic page together in a small leaflet.
Let your imagination run away!
5) Intercultural evening:
During one of the evening, we will organise an
intercultural soiree. This will be the occasion for you to present your
country/region and offer some typical food/drink from your region. So it could
be great if you could bring some specialities from your region (food/drinks),
documents about your country/region/organisation, a flag, some music. For the
presentation, each country will have 5 minutes maximum. You can prepare a
presentation (if you do a PowerPoint, please make sure that your presentation
will not be longer than 5 slides). Please do not include videos in your 5
minutes presentation. If you really want to show videos we could showcase them
later in the evening.
6) Bring examples of your work:
If you are already working with adults and/or comics,
please bring some documents, example of what you are doing.
7) Bring some comics books/magazines:
Bring with you some comic books you like and you
would like to share with others (put your name on it).
8) Bring all your original tickets and receipt:
Do not forget to keep with you
all your travel tickets!
NB
Many train stations in the UK have machines which keep your ticket. So at the
barrier, don’t put your ticket in the machine, but please inform the station
staff you wish to retain your ticket.
Please bring me all your original tickets and
receipts as well as your bank details of the account on which you want us to
reimburse the money (I will send you a form for that).
We
cannot reimburse without original ticket/receipt.
9) Bring anything you think could be useful.
For example, maybe some of you
would like to share a specific comic technic, and may need some material for
that, etc.
10)
Bring your laptop, if you can.
There will be internet in the
place where we will run the workshop, so I encourage you to bring your laptop
if you have access to internet and be able to tweet about the event!
11)
Other useful things to bring:
- UK adaptor!
