Report of Boomfest 2008

Отчет о проведенииВторого Санкт-Петербургского международного фестиваля рисованных историй

«БУМ комиксов 2008»

Report on holding the Second International Comics Festival

BOOMFEST-2008

В сентябре 2008 года в Санкт-Петербурге состоялся уже второймеждународный фестиваль рисованных историй «БУМкомиксов». В фестивале приняли участие музеи, выставочныеплощадки, гостиницы и магазины города. В течении сентября вПетербурге открылось 12 выставок на 9 различных площадкахгорода. В их число входили:

ДОМ - лучшие конкурсные работы фестиваляЖурнал "Муха" - комиксы России 90-хComics small press (Франция, Италия, Португалия, Финляндия,Швеция, Чехия, Норвегия, Германия, Голландия, Латвия,Россия)специальный выставочный проект Bille noir 10x10 (Швейцария)10 - 30 сентябряНовый выставочный зал Музея городской скульптуры, Невскийпросп., 179/2

Международный фестиваль комиксов Fumetto (Швейцария),выставка победителей конкурса, 2008г.12 - 30 сентябряОтель Helvetia, ул. Марата д.11

David B. (Франция)16 сентября – 5 октябряМузей А.С. Пушкина, набережная реки Мойки, д.12

Markus MAWIL Witzel (Германия)17сентября – 6 октябряГалерея «100 своих», Лиговский проспект 39

Так не бывает?! Истории, рассказанные в картинках (Россия)18 сентября – 25 октябряГалерея «Глобус», Лиговский пр. 74

Лена Ужинова (Россия)20 - 30 сентябряГалерея «Сарай» в Фонтанном доме, наб. р. Фонтанки, 34, входв музей: Литейный пр., 53

Дино Буццати (Италия)22 сентября - 6 октябряМузей В.В. Набокова, Большая Морская, 47

Олег Тищенков (Россия)22 сентября – 2 октябряКафе «Стирка 40 градусов», ул.Казанская 26

Gary Baseman (США)26 сентября - 27 октябряГалерея «Формула», Лиговский пр. 74

По данным работников выставочных площадок выставкипользовались большой популярностью, и в совокупности ихпосетило более 7000 человек. Наибольшей популярностьюпользовались выставки ДОМ - лучшие конкурсные работыфестиваля, Журнал "Муха" - комиксы России 90-х, Bille noir10x10, Comics small press – по данным Нового выставочногозала Государственного музея городской скульптуры за 16 днейих посетило более 2000 человек. Выставки, организованные влофт-проекте «ЭТАЖИ» на Лиговском проспекте 74 («Так небывает?! Истории, рассказанные в картинках», галерея«Глобус» и персональной выставкой Gary Baseman, галерея«Формула»), так же посещает большое количество зрителей, всвязи с известностью и популярностью этой площадки.Остальные выставки посетило в среднем не менее 500 человеккаждую.

Кроме того, американский художник Gary Baseman, проведя вПетербурге 10 дней, нарисовал специально для выставки 2картины на холсте, а швейцарские кураторы иKarine Tissot собственноручно привезли выставку «Bille noir10x10».

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Oleg Tischenkov (Russia)September 22– October 2 Stirka 40 café, 26 Kazanskaya st.

Gary Baseman (USA)September 26 - October 27 Formula Gallery, 74 Ligovski pr.

According to the data given by the curators of the exhibition halls, exhibitions were of great success. Total quantity of visitors exceeded 7 000 people. The most popular exhibitions were Dom (Home) - best works from the festival contest, Mukha Magazine - Russian comics of 90s, Bille noir 10x10, Comics small press. According to the data the number of visitors exceeded 2 000 people within 16 days. Exhibitions, organized at the territory of Loft Project FLOORS (Can it be like that?! Stories through pictures in Globe Gallery and a personal exhibition of Gary Baseman, Formula Gallery) are also attended by a great number of people due to a growing popularity of the place. The other exhibi-tions were attended by not less than 500 people.

Besides an American artist Gary Baseman, who was invited to Russia for 10 days, made a live show where he made two canvases specially for the exhibition and Swiss curators Benoît Chevallier and Karine Tis-sot brought the originals of «Bille noir 10x10» exhibition at their own expence.

Thus, the exhibition program has started on 10th of September and will come to an end on 27th of October.The audience visited the exhibitions can be divided into the following groups:• Children (up to 12) – 10%• Teenagers (12 to 16) – 25%• Youths (16 to 30) – 50%• Grown-ups (elder than 30) – 15%

September 2008 witnessed the second international comics festival BOOMFest. A number of museums, exhibition halls, hotels and trading centers took part in the event. 12 exhibitions opened in the beginning of September covered 9 exhibition spaces of the city. Among those are: DOM (Home) - best works from the festival contest Mukha Magazine – Russian comics of 90sComics small press (France, Italy, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Russia)Special exhibition project Bille noir 10x10 (Switzerland)September 10 - 30 New exhibition hall of the State Museum of City Sculpture, 179/2 Nevski pr.

Fumetto International Comics Festival (Switzerland), winners of the festival contest, 2008.September 12 - 30 Helvetia Hotel, 11 Marata st.

David B. (France)September 16– October 5Pushkin Museum, 12 Moyka emb.

Markus MAWIL Witzel (Germany)September 17 – October 6 Sto Svoih Gallery, 39 Ligovski pr.

Can it be like that?! Stories through pictures (Russia)September 18 – October 25 Globe Gallery, 74 Ligovski pr.

Lena Uzhinova (Russia)September 20 - 30 Fontannyj Dom, Saray Gallery, 34 Fontanka emb., enter at 53 Litejnij pr.

Dino Bucatti (Italy)September 22 - October 6 Nabokov Museum, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya st.

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Festival part program.

September 25Official opening of “International comics festival Fumetto (Switzerland). Winners of the festival contest, 2008” exhibition. Helvetia Hotel, 11 Marata st., 6pm

Official opening of Oleg Tischenkov’s exhibition (Russia), Stirka 40 café, 26 Kazanskaya st., 8 pm

September 26 – Professional Day (12 pm – 6.30 pm)Lynn Kost (Switzerland) –Fumetto Festival 12 pm – 1 pmJoost Pollman (Netherlands) – Stripdagen Haarlem Festival 1 pm – 2 pmGiovanni Russo (Italy) –Lucca comics and games Festival 2 pm – 3 pmTommaso D’Aleesandro (Italy) –Tomato Farm Agency 3 pm – 4 pmPaul Gravett (UK) 4 pm – 5 pm

Meeting David B. (France) at the institute of France, 5 pmOfficial opening of David B.’s exhibition (France), Pushkin’s Museum, 12 Moyka river emb., 7 pm

Opening of Gary Baseman’s exhibition (USA), Formula Gallery, 74 Ligovsky pr., 8 pm

September 27 (11.30 – 7.30 pm)Art-fair (at the day time)LA FABRIQUE DE FANZINES (Switzerland) Andréas Kündig, Alex Baladi, Benjamin Novello Workshops, seminars and presentations given by the authors.12 pm – 4 pm “Nightmare in St-Pete” - Eric Lambe, Thierry Van Has-selt (Belgium) – St. Luc Academy teachers, Hall # 3, 10 people at the workshopHall # 1The Hoochie Coochie (France), Gérald Auclin. 11.30 – 1 pmCanicola (Italy) Liliana Cupido, Andrea Bruno, Michealangelo Setola, Edo Chieragato 1 pm – 2.30 pm

The contest among the comics artists held by the Second International Comics Festival BOOMFest-2008 was declared in May 2008. Accord-ing to the conditions of the contest the story had to be completed and shouldn’t contain more than three pages. Over 50 works were sent to the jury and 26 works were included into the main program of the festi-val.

Nominations of the festival included grand-prix, best script, best graphic design.

Among the jury members were: Lena Uzhinova, comics artist, BOOM-Fest-2007 contest winner; Oleg Tischenkov – Artemij Lebedev Studio illustrator; Maria Zaborovskaya – artist, art-director of BOOMFest.

The winner of BOOMFest-2008 is Polina Petrushina – a Russian art-ist who studies in France now. Next year her personal exhibition will be held as the part of the main program of the festival.

Besides, the second comics contest was held together with www.live-journal.ru blog-service among lj-users. 23 works were applied to the contest, 8 comics stories were pointed out by the jury and 3 best authors were granted with the prizes, provided by the festival partners.

Prizes were provided by the following partners of the festival: Wacom, Corel, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Lunokhod-1 Company.

On 28th of September the Trendy Griboyedov Club witnessed the last day of the festival where the contests’ winners were named and granted.

During September 26th – 28th the new exhibition hall of the State Mu-seum of City Sculpture had held the festival part of BOOMFest-2008.

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The total number of people visited the festival program exceeded 800 people, teenagers and youths mostly, from Russia and abroad.

This year the festival started tight cooperation with the State University of St-Petersburg where two meetings were organized: Gary Baseman (USA) and Oleg Tischenkov (Russia) met the students and the depart-ment of graphic design. It allowed widening the audience of the event. Besides meeting in St-Petersburg a meeting and workshop with Gary Baseman (USA) in Moscow was organized.

While the festival was held we achieved the targets and provided people, interested in comics, to meet the world achievements in the genre of comics.

We have managed to reach most of the planned aims:• Organize comics contest to evoke more interest to the genre from people who live in Russia; • organizing the dialog between traditional and contemporary layers of culture - i.e. attracting the youth to literature, arts, cinema, visiting museums and be introduced to the range of currencies of art;• promote tolerance towards the culture of other countries;• opportunity to be exhibited given to Russian authors as well as meet-ing their viewers and readers;• organizing cultural exchange between Russian cities as well as other countries;• forcing the creation and development of the comics market in Russia;• Strengthen the status of St-Petersburg as the center of culture of Russia as well as the center of comics culture.

Besides that it turned out to be the actual international festival. It ap-peared so that during the whole period of the festival not only Russian visitors got the ability to meet the foreign comics cultures but also he invited authors and specialists might learn much about the condition of comics in Russia and other countries which may lead to further coop-eration. The foregoing reveals that we have met the expected results and at the moment have started preparations for the third BOOMFestival which we plan to hold in September of 2009.

AARGH (Czech Republic), Tomáš Prokůpek. 2.30 pm – 4 pmKUS (Latvia), Ingrida Picukane, Kaspars Groševs. 4 pm – 5.30 pmSPb Comics Community 5.30 pm – 7 pmHall # 2Nikolaj Chesnokov (Russia) – Rendering sounds in manga 12.00 – 1.30 pmBogdan and Hatchett (Russia) – Text and balloon function in comics 1pm – 3 pm Paul Gravett (UK) – manga history 3 pm – 4.30 pmMawil (Germany) 4.30 pm – 6 pmOleg Tischenkov (Russia) –Wacom drawpad opportunities for making up a comics 6 pm – 7.30 pm

September 28 (11.30 – 7 pm)Art-fair (at the day time)Ikea Comics Studio – the stories appear right at the celebrated tables.Workshops, seminars and presentations given by the authors.12 pm – 4 pm “Nightmare in St-Pete” - Eric Lambe, Thierry Van Hasselt (Belgium) – St. Luc Academy teachers, Hall # 2, 10 people at the work-shopHall # 1Carolina Cutolo (Italy) – writer and comic stories 11.30 – 12.30 pmOrang (Germany) Klaas Neumann , Till Thomas 12.30 pm - 2 pmKuti Kuti (Finland), Amanda Vähämäki, Tommi Musturi. 2 pm – 3.30 pmJippi (Norway) Martin_Ernstsen, Rui Tenreiro, Erik Falk 3.30 pm – 5 pmLamelos (Netherlands) Jeroen Funke, Boris Peeters, Sam Peeters 3.30 pm – 6.30 pmHall # 2Alim Velitov (Russia) 12 pm – 1.30 pmDavid B. (France) 1.30 pm – 3 pmLena Uzhinova (Russia) 3.00 pm – 4.30 pmGary Baseman (USA) 4.30 pm – 6 pm

Every author among those who had a workshop presented the culture of comics of the native country and held the workshop. An average number of people present at the workshop was from 20 to 70 people. The audience was mostly youths from 16 to 30 years. Besides, outside the art-fair was organized where comics and artifacts devoted to comics were being sold.

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Advertising support of the festival. • Posters, A1 format – spread over the city, partners, universities;• Map of the Festival, A3 format – distribution at the exhibition space and at partners’ spots.• Advertising packages in «The St.Petersburg times» newspaper and «ProChtenie» magazine;• Advertising video at «A-ONE» TV channel;• Advertising packages at Internet sites – www.livejournal.ru, www.be-in.ru, www.animezone.ru, www.wacom.ru, www.incomics.ru, www.comics-catalog.ru, www.incomics.ru, www.9world.com.ua and others.

Informational support of the festival.

TV: A-ONE, Kultura, 5th channel, NTV, STS, STO, RenTV, RBK, MTV, MIR and others.Radio: Echo Moskvy, Radio Rossii, TRK Peterburg and others.Printed mass media resourses: special edition of Afisha magazine, devoted to comics culture, Vash Dosug, Vechernij Peterburg, Delovoj Peterburg, Kommersant, Komsomolskaja Pravda, Moskovski Komso-molets, Moj Rajon, St-Peterburgskie Vedomosti, Sobaka, Teatralni Pe-terburg, Na Nevskom, Art-Gorod, Chas Pik, Pod Klutch, ProChtenie, Professia, Egoist generation, Metro, Free Time, The St.Petersburg times, Time Out, City Navigator, Gaudeamus and others.Information agencies: ITAR tass, Fontanka Ru, Baltijskoe IA, and others.Internet resourses: bein.ru, peterout.ru, spbland.ru, lookatme.ru, art-gid.ru, comics-catalog.ru, incomics.ru, saint-petersburg.ru, yoki.ru, ufa1.ru, spbland.ru, and others.

Organizations and companies which have financially supported the festival.

Non-commercial organizations:

Consulates and embassies: General Consulate of Germany, General Consulate of Finland, General Consulate of Norway, Consulate of Swit-zerland, General Consulate of Latvia, General Consulate of the United States of America.Cultural centers and funds: Institute of France in St-Petersburg, Institute of Italy in St-Petersburg, Russian-German Exchange, Czech Center in Moscow, Mondriaan foundation (Netherlands), Helenika, CGRI (Bel-gium), Bereg art-center (Russia).

Covering the costs of inviting the artists to the festival (visa support, transport, accommodation, costs per diem).

Exhibition halls and galleries: Новый New exhibition hall of the State Museum of City Sculpture, Pushkin’s museum, Nabokov’s museum, Fontannyj Dom - Saray Gallery, Globe gallery, Formula Gallery, Sto Svoikh gallery, Helvetia Hotel exhibition hall, Stirka 40 café exhibition space.

Free of charge usage of exhibition space.

Commercial companies:

Loft project FLOORS, WAСOM, Corel, Adobe Systems Inc., IKEA, Air France, Helvetia Hotel, Lunokhod-1 company, Samokat Publishing House OOO, Anime Point shop.

Covering the costs connected to preparing the exhibition projects, pro-viding the festival with the prizes granted to the winners of the contests (draw-pads, licensed computer programs, exclusive toys, books etc).

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