Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival :: Event Details
Exhibitions
Flights of Fancy
Over eighty new cartoons about Flying originals and quality signed prints produced and selected specially for the annual Festival themed exhibition. A great opportunity to see a range of interpretation, styles and humour and to buy high quality professional cartoon art at affordable prices.
At the VAN Gallery, Shrewsbury Market Hall 4th 30th April 2012
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays 10am 4pm
Then at:
Qube, Oswestry, 5th May 15th June
Open Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 9:30am - 12:30pm
Wem Town Hall, 20th June 31st July
Open Mon Sat 10am 4pm
RAF Museum Cosford, 5th August 22nd Sept
Open daily 10am 6pm (last admission 5pm)
All venues are free admission. Car parking charges at RAF Museum Cosford
French Flies
Cartoons on the theme of Flying from across the channel.
In the Chapel Bar and the FCB Manby Bowdler Gallery (Upper Floor) Theatre Severn 20th April 14th July
Flight Bites
Cartoons by Angela Martin at Cath Tate Cards, Hill Lane
Flights of fantasy and reality selected from archives and cellars and brown cardboard boxes. The cartoons pick up on Angela's witty one liners and sharp visual lines.
19th April 3rd May
Open Mon to Sat 10-5 plus 10-3 on the Sunday 22nd April
S-mile High Trail
1St 30th April around Shrewsbury Town Centre
Barry the Shrew is highlighting the festival theme with Cartoons in shop and restaurant windows. A stroll through town leads you to all other exhibition spaces and gives you a daily dose of humour.
Include children's quiz & prize draw. Trail leaflet available from - Visitor Information Centre, Shrewsbury Museum, Rowleys House, Barker Street or download from www.shrewsburycartoonfestival.com from 1st April.
Cartoonists Live Weekend Thurs 19th Saturday 21st April 2012
Cartoonists at Work
Friday 20th & Saturday 21st April 11am 4pm
Cartoons in The Square
Cartoonists work on 8ft x 6ft boards throughout both days to create huge cartoons on the theme of Flight.
Beat the Cartoonist
Readers Digest bring their regular cartoon caption competition to the Festival. Suggest captions for the cartoons on display. Three prizes each day for the funniest captions.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Reverse Caricaturing 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.
Caricaturing
Festival caricaturists will be in The Square to draw you! Free!
And more...
RAF Museum Cosford will join the Cartoon Festival in The Square with displays and activities
Images to music - Live music in the square by Daylevel & The Parallax
On the spot cartoon drawing
Friday 20th & Saturday 21st April 11am – 3pm in Shrewsbury Market Hall
On theme of Flying creating an instant and growing exhibition
"Baloney the Daredevil Flyer - a gripping airborne melodrawma."
Saturday 21st April 3pm in The Square
A comic strip drawn on the spot by a crack team of cartoon melodrawmatists, to live recitation and soaring musical accompaniment.
Festival Shop
The Square
Friday 20th & Saturday 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.
Cath Tate Cards of Hills Lane stock cartoon items and has a dedicated Festival section throughout the year.
Cartoon Clinics & Advice
All on Saturday 21st April
Cartoon Clinic
10.30am 12 noon
At Shrewsbury Unitarian Church, High Street (next to Rackhams)
Bring your cartoons for a critique and some tips from professional artists
What makes a Good Cartoon and How to Get It Published
2pm 3.30pm
Cartoonist and cartoon editor Steve Way, Readers Digest design director Martin Colyer and editor Gill Hudson talk about how to get your work into print followed by the opportunity for free individual advice.
Haydn Smith Room at Theatre Severn. For all ages.
Free, but please book in advance at the Visitor Information Centre, Shrewsbury Museum, Barker Street as numbers limited. Tel: 01743 281200
Getting Published
2.30pm – 4pm
Advice session with leading greeting card publisher Cath Tate at Cath Tate Cards, 37 Hills Lane
Workshops have a go sessions for all ages
'F is for Fly!'
11am – 12.30
At Shropshire Wildlife Trust
Join Cathy Simpson with this great activity where you can turn your initials into really cool cartoon characters! You'll learn how to add a few lines to any letter of the alphabet, punctuation mark or even your own tag, to create funny people or animals which will be completely unique! Suitable for anyone who knows their ABC (or at least some of it).
Free, drop-in, no need to book.
'Eggs, Bangers & Beans!'
2pm – 3.30pm.
At Shrewsbury Library
Cartoonist Paul Hardman will take you on a journey of anecdote and discovery as you learn how to build and create your own cartoon characters just as he and other professionals did in Hollywood
Free but please book at Shrewsbury Visitor Information Centre, Shrewsbury Museum, Barker Street 01743 281200
Drop-in Comic Strip workshop
2pm – 4pm
With Tim Harries at Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Fun writing and drawing just like the professionals.
For all ages.
Free, no need to book.
Talks
Steve Bell
Saturday 21st April - 11:30am
Old Market Hall, the Square
Illustrated talk on the art of political cartooning by If creator and Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell
Tickets £6 from Old Market Hall & Theatre Severn Box Office 01743 281281
"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
