Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival :: Event Details
Exhibitions
It's About Time
Over eighty cartoons on the theme of Time. Originals and quality signed prints - produced and selected specially for the annual Festival themed exhibition. A great opportunity to buy high quality professional cartoon art at affordable prices.
At the Upper Floor Gallery, Shrewsbury Market Hall 2nd April - 6th May 2013
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays plus Sunday 21st April
10am - 4pm
It's About Time will then tour to:
QUBE Gallery, Oswestry 9th May to 20th June
Open: Mon - Fri 9:00 - 5:00 & Sat 9:30 - 12:30
www.qube-oca.org.uk
Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow
July
Wem Town Hall, August/September
Open Mon - Sat 10am - 4pm
www.wemtownhall.co.uk
All venues are free admission.
Cartoons by Australian cartoonist Dean Alston
In the Chapel Bar, Theatre Severn
22nd March - 15th June
Aussie cartoonist Dean Alston has been the editorial cartoonist on The West Australian since 1986. He has published over 12,000 cartoons and won numerous awards.
Top Marks - Celebrating 10 years of Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival
The FCB Manby Bowdler Gallery, Upper Floor, Theatre Severn
The Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival is ten years old.
This retrospective exhibition shows some of the best themed cartoons from previous years alongside photos and memories of the Festival's first ten years.
22nd March - 15th June
Local Folk & National Heroes
In The Parade Shopping Centre, St. Mary's Place.
An exhibition of the last ten years of Caricatures of visitors to the festival + the published work of famous figures the Cartoonists have drawn. Come & see who you recognise. Plus live caricature drawing from 1pm - 2pm on Friday 19 April.
Open: 29 March - 29 April 9.30am - 5pm Mon-Sat
S-mile Trail
1st - 30th April around Shrewsbury Town Centre
Spot the cartoons in shops, restaurants, market stalls and galleries.
Caricatures by Shropshire's Young People
At First Floor Gallery, Bear Steps Gallery, St. Alkmund's Place 21st April - 4th May. Open Daily 10am - 4pm
Young people aged up to 17 years explored their observational skills and humour by drawing caricatures at the Shropshire Youth Parliament in February, and at the International Women's Day event in March. Many of these are now on show at the Bear Steps Gallery.
Cartoons from Festival Workshops
At First Floor Gallery, Bear Steps Gallery, St. Alkmund's Place 21st April - 4th May. Open Daily 10am - 4pm
Come and see some of the work produced at the festival workshops.
Cartoonists Live Weekend
Fri 19th - Sunday 21st April 2013
Cartoonists at Work
Cartoon activity starts gently in The Square on Friday 19th April as we count down to the main Cartoonists Live days on:
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 11am - 4pm
Cartoons in The Square
Cartoonists work on 8ft x 6ft boards on Saturday 20th to create huge cartoons on the theme of Time. The finished giant cartoons will be displayed on Sunday 21st. The cartoonists will get to work on smaller cartoons to create an instant exhibition which will grow before your eyes throughout Sunday.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Reverse Caricaturing is where the artist draws the victim's body on a giant canvas below their head. Order the body you aspire to or put yourself at the mercy of the artist! Bring your camera. In The Square.
Caricaturing - in the Square and the Market Hall
Festival caricaturists will be in The Square on Saturday 11am - 4pm and the Market Hall beneath the clock tower on Sunday 11am - 3pm to draw you! Free!
Saturday & Sunday 20th & 21st April at 3pm
The Square
Fetlock Moans and the Thief of Time A spiffingly timely comic strip drawn just in time on the spot by a crack team of timeless cartoon melodrawmartists, to live recitation and a soaring musical accompaniment.
Cartoon Festival Fun in Shrewsbury Market Hall
Sunday 21st April 11am - 3pm
Free on the spot caricatures. Meet and see cartoon and comic artists at work. Bring your cartoons for a professional critique and advice. Have a go at cartooning in free family workshops. Timely music from the Bridgnorth Ukelele band. Free cup cakes for children who, like Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, are 10 years old.
It's About Time themed exhibition of 90 cartoons is on show in the Upper Floor gallery.
The Market Hall has great stalls including new and second hand books, hand made chocolates, vintage vinyl & specialist music books, vintage clothes & accessories, hand crafted gifts & jewellery, local fresh food. Expect to see more cartoons around the stalls and on the Smile Trail.
Festival Shop
The Square
Friday 19th, Saturday 20th , Sunday 21st April 11am - 4pm
Cartoon cards, prints, books and other items. Festival cartoonists will be working in The Square and other venues and will be pleased to sign prints and books of their work.
Cartoon Clinics & Advice
Cartoon Clinic at Shrewsbury Unitarian Church
10.30am - 12 noon
High Street (next to Rackhams).
Bring your cartoons for a critique and some tips from professional artists
Cartoon Clinic at Shrewsbury Market Hall
1.30pm - 3pm
Shoplatch - beneath the clock tower
Bring your cartoons for a critique and some tips from professional artists
Workshops - have a go sessions for all ages
Yippee, Time to Time Travel
Saturday 20th April
At Shropshire Wildlife Trust 11am - 12.30pm
Create your very own 'Yippee, Time to Time Travel' cartoon strip with Chichi Parish
Bring out the 'yippee' factor in time travel. Where will you go? What will you see? And what Yippee surprise will your bring back to show your friends? Suitable for 7+ years and adults.
Free but please book at Shrewsbury Visitor Information Centre, Shrewsbury Museum, Barker Street 01743 258888
How To Draw Absolutely Anything
Saturday 20th April
At 1a Castle Gates (former Reference Library) 11am - 12.30pm
The Beano's Wilbur Dawbarn takes you through the process of cartoon drawing, beginning with simple faces, including animals, monsters and aliens, and encompassing anything and everything you can think of. Suitable for those aged 6 to 106.
Drop in. Free. No need to book.
'Cuckoo to you!'
Saturday 20th April
At Shropshire Wildlife Trust 2pm - 4pm
Decorate a cuckoo clock - and design your very own cuckoo to live in it - with help from Cathy Simpson.
Suitable for children up to the age of 80!
Drop in. Free. No need to book.
Creating Comic Strips
Saturday 20th April
At 1a Castle Gates (former Reference Library) 2pm - 4pm
With Tim Harries. Have fun writing and drawing comic strips just like the professionals. Learn the best tips for creating your own characters and putting them in your very own strip!
Kid's workshop, but suitable for all ages.
Drop in. Free. No need to book.
Creating Comic Strips
Sunday 21st April
At 1a Castle Gates (former Reference Library) 11am - 12.30pm
With Tim Harries. Have fun writing and drawing comic strips just like the professionals. Learn the best tips for creating your own characters and putting them in your very own strip!
Kid's workshop, but suitable for all ages.
Drop in. Free. No need to book.
How To Draw Absolutely Anything
Sunday 21st April
At 1a Castle Gates (former Reference Library) 2pm - 3.30pm
The Beano's Wilbur Dawbarn takes you through the process of cartoon drawing, beginning with simple faces, including animals, monsters and aliens, and encompassing anything and everything you can think of. Suitable for those aged 6 to 106.
Drop in. Free. No need to book.
Saturday 20th April and Sunday 21st April
(Saturday & Sunday)
Create Your Own Mini-Comix From Scratch with Brick at St. Chad's Hall 2pm - 5pm Saturday, 10.30am - 3pm Sunday
With Brick. A two-day workshop covering all aspects of producing your own mini-comic, from raw idea to finished article, interwoven with examples of how the professionals do it. This workshop develops over both days and is for those who want to spend a bit more time developing ideas, drawing and creating a finished piece.
Suitable for those aged 12 yrs to 120 yrs
Free but please book at Shrewsbury Visitor Information Centre, Shrewsbury Museum, Barker Street 01743 258888
Talks
Saturday 20th April
Steve Chadburn
Illustrated talk on the history, development & use of strip cartoons from war illustration in the American Civil War to current use for storyboarding for TV. Illustrated by live drawing.
OMH Old Market Hall, The Square. Free event, no need to book.
11.30am - 12.30pm
"Cartoonists always go cheerfully and happily straight to the heart of the issue, or the trend, or the argument: they are wise, because they have seen the truth about life, which is that at the heart of everything there lies a joke"
Libby Purves, Broadcaster, Patron, Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival
