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Brest stopover city of the BD Village on September 19 and 20, 2020

After Lille, Brest is the next stopover town for the BD-Village on September 19 and 20 as part of the Brest Comics Meetings.

After Lille this summer, Brest is the second city hosting the Village-BD. This traveling event is offered as part of Comics 2020, the Year of Comics, the operation launched by the Ministry of Culture during the Angoulême International Comics Festival last January and implemented by the National Book Center (CNL). Integrated into the programming of Comic strip meetings in Brest, festival organized by Brest in a bubble, in partnership with the city of Brest, the Village-BD will be set up within the Capuchins workshops and will offer the public activities revolving around 3 main axes.

A major exhibition on comics will be open to the public from September 15th. Conceived and conceived as much for neophytes as for enlightened amateurs, the exhibition will show the different facets of the 9th art: the decryption of the creation of a comic strip, illustrated and explanatory focuses on the many genres and styles of comics. , and an overview of the 9th art around the world. The exhibition can be visited from September 15 to 20 at the Capucins workshops.

The Castaways of the MedusaA BD 2020 stage set up in the BD Village will offer meetings with comic book authors including Chloé Wary, young author and illustrator, winner of the France Télévisions public prize at the last Angoulême International Comic Festival for Season of Roses (FLBLB editions) and Amélie Fléchais, a young versatile artist who has already distinguished herself in the world of animation by working on Song of the Sea, Irish animated studio film Cartoon Saloon and about the film Trolls from Dreamworks, will discuss various topics on the theme of comics.

Meeting and dedication also with Jean-Sébastien Bordas, scriptwriter and cartoonist, practicing the 9th art since the age of five, the desire to make it his profession came to him around 17 years old by reading Fred’s albums. or Loisel. Last April, he published The Castaways of the Medusa at Casterman, a work as artistic as it is documented on the history of Géricault’s masterpiece.

Like before

BD-concert is produced by the videographer Benjamin Lacquement from the comic strip by Alfred, fauve d’or d’Angoulême 2014, Like before. The show will take place in the Auditorium on Saturday September 19 at 6 p.m. and Sunday September 20 at 11 a.m. Reservation required (free) on the site brestenbulle.fr.

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