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SHREWSBURY INTERNATIONAL CARTOON FESTIVAL 2012
Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival will take place through April and May 2012 with ‘Cartoonists Live’, a weekend of free cartoon drawing events and activities, workshops and caricaturing, on 20th – 22nd April.
The 2012 Festival theme is Flying.
The Festival offers unique opportunitites to see artists at work; 20 of them creating giant cartoons in The Square during the Cartoonists Live weekend, others drawing caricatures and running cartoon workshops for all ages. Cartoon exhibitions of new work by top UK and overseas cartoonists, and the Shrewsbury Smile Trail, featuring cartoons in shops and restaurants around the town, run throughout the Festival period of April and May.
The full programme of events, exhibitions and activities will be listed on this site from early 2012. Click here to see the 2011 programme for a flavour of the Festival.
Since 2003 the town has hosted this international event which attracts around 40 full-time, professional cartoonists and caricaturists from the UK and abroad.
To see more photos of previous year's Festivals click here.
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