HICABI DEMIRCI IN TEHRAN…
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SINEMA IS YASASI TASLAGI ICIN:
http://www.letscomics.org
Are you ready to comic your world?!
Four Italian and Lebanese associations – COSV, Insan Association, Najdeh and Samandal – have teamed up to create a contest where professional and non-professional comic writers and artists can submit their work. The contest, named “Let’s comics! 2010” is launched today – March 2nd, 2010 – and it will be running till May 31st, 2010. The contest will channel together the creativity of Euro-Mediterranean youth, addressing cartoonists aged 18-30 years old, and it will select up to 8 winners who will be invited to Lebanon for a week.
The four NGO’s are asking the participants to comic their personal point of view about “Multicultural Societies”, in the framework of the project “A comics competition on multicultural societies”, funded by the Delegation of the European Union in Lebanon. Entries must be original and unpublished comics, and they’ll be selected by an international jury of artists and comic experts.
Winners will be invited to attend a workshop in Beirut on comics as a tool of intercultural dialogue, and their work will be exhibited during a final event organized in Shatila Camp. The best stories will be considered as well for future publications.
All interested over/underage cartoonists are more than welcome! Even if not entitled to win, their work be evaluated and it could be exhibited in the final event in Beirut in a special section, as well as judged for upcoming publications.
Find all information and download the application form on
http://www.letscomics.org
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“DQ-ISTANBUL” MEMBERS PORTRAITS..
OGUZ GÜREL
https://donquichotte.org/content/view/5857/32/lang,de
“SALVADOR DALI” PORTRAIT
SALNAVARRO
LET’S DRAW CARTOONS FOR JUSTICE
Dear my friends,
The Counterterrorism Law currently allows children to be tried and
sentenced as adults on terrorism-related charges.
Most children are detained or arrested while participating in demonstrations or
rallies in the Kurdish provinces in southeastern and eastern Anatolia.
Some of them face prison sentences of up to 25 years for throwing
stones at security forces.
Recently, a 15-year-old girl (Berivan) was sentenced
to eight years in prison for participating in an illegal demonstration
in the eastern province of Batman.
The girl is accused of chanting illegal slogans and throwing stones
at police during a rally organized by the now-defunct
Democratic Society Party (DTP) on Oct. 9, 2009.
According to an advocacy group for children’s rights,
the Appeal for Justice for Children (CIAC), almost 4,000 minors
have been victimized by the Counterterrorism Law.
43 percent of these children were taken into custody for a simple and
childish reason like “carrying traces of stone in their hands,”
“a rapid heartbeat” or “sweating.” For the remaining 57 percent,
there is no concrete evidence against and they were simply taken
into custody from their homes and/or schools without any evidence
they paricipated in any demonstration.
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