New Lakes International Comic Art Festival "App" offers artwork rewards

Heading to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival? Get the Festival app on your iPhone, iPad or iTouch - and grab some artwork rewards as you explore Kendal.

Created by Mobetrics, a Cumbrian mobile technology and app development company, the app, designed by Joe Lethbridge at Cactus Creative, will enhance your Festival experience by providing event information, assistance in finding venues.

With Bluetooth enabled, the app also offers the option to collect artwork on your as you go along, by artists such as Duncan Fegredo, Aimee de Jongh and Christian Ward, among others.

This is the first phase and the Festival is looking for your feedback on what will make the app, and the Festival, even better!

Based in Cockermouth, Mobetric's work designing apps for IOS, Android and Blackberyy includes Stolen Lives,  a learning resource featuring an illustrated comic book, which builds upon extensive research into the use of visual content and mental exploration to aid learning as well as employing the principles of transformative learning techniques.

Cactus Creative - a team of eight - are based in Kendal in The Factory – an independent, creative hub which is home to other talented creatives and artists. Their work includes Kendal's own web site (visit-kendal.co.uk) and work for Keswick's Theatre by the Lake.

• Download the app from iTunes here (requires iOS 10.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch)

• Comic Art Festival www.comicartfestival.com

• Mobmetrics: mobetrics.com | Follow Mobetrics on Twitter @mobetrics

• Cactus Creative: cactuscreative.com | Follow Cactus Creative on Twitter: @cactuscreative

Monad Journal Launch Symposium at the University of Northampton

The University of Northampton  is to host the launch of a new peer-reviewed open access online journal MONAD next month - and comics writer Alan Moore is among invited guests for the Launch Symposium.

The Monad Journal Launch Symposium on Thursday 9th November is a free one-day research symposium to officially launch the Monad project and journal at the University of Northampton, Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology.

This event will feature a selection of excellent speakers (programme below) addressing various of forms of transformative practice in relation to progressive change. The event is free for the first 50 registrants. A lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Following the Symposium a 'Transition' event format will be making a very special return to the Phoenix Bar in Northampton. Special guests include: World-renowned author Alan Moore; legendary ska-punk band Inner Terrestrials; comedian, musician and writer Andrew O’Neill; and writer-poet Sophie Sparham.

Transition events aim to bring innovative, independent and academic research, about methods of realising progressive change, to the wider community,” explain organisers Roy Wallace and Cavan McLaughlin, "while providing a safe, shared, creative, recreational space for everyone. We will continue to investigate the principle of transformative practice, over a beer or two with performances from our special guest, all of whom are both hugely entertaining and inspiring examples of how you can 'be the change you want to see in the world."

Symposium Programme

10.00-10.45: Registration and coffeeNewton Grand Hall, Newton Building, Avenue Campus, University of Northampton
10.45 Introductions
11.00 Panel 1 – Transformative Practitioners
Stephen Godfrey (Artist) & Cavan McLaughlin (University of Northampton)
Phototerragrams: Organic and photo-chemical collaborations with the earth.
Arte Artemiou (University of Northampton)
Imagining a Transformative Performative Education
Anne Crossey (Artist & Independent Scholar)
The Emperor is Wearing No Clothes: Clothing as metaphor in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
Carlos Ruiz Brussain (ERAM Escola Universitaria – University of Girona)
Nailing the Snake: Dealing with the elusiveness of liminal experiences in self-transformative creative practice and research.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch and film screenings
2.00 – 4.00 Panel 2 – Transformative Practices
Luc Robene (University of Bordeaux) & Solveig Serre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Negotiating borders between hegemonic culture and the restricted culture of subversion: How to write the history of the punk scene in France (1976-2016)?
Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson (University of Northampton)
Title TBC (presentation on meditation)
Peter Duchemin (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Designing a Transformative Chronology: Experiments in calendar construction.
David Luke (University of Greenwich)
Psychedelics as Transformative Praxis
4.00 – 4.30 Coffee break
4.30 – 5.30 Panel 3 – Monad Journal Launch Discussion Panel
Roy Wallace (University of Northampton), Cavan McLaughlin, Carlos Ruiz Brussain, Helena Blakemore (University of East London), Luc Robene, Solveig Serre
• To register for the Monad symposium visit: http://monad-launch.eventbrite.co.uk | To book your tickets for Transition (after party) visit:http://makersofchange.eventbrite.co.uk
• To find out more about the Monad Journal and Project visit: http://www.monadjournal.com

Call For Papers: Storytelling Conference 2018

The organisers of the Storytelling Conference 2018 (10th - 11th July) at the University of Suffolk have announced the call for papers is now open.

They are inviting papers that theoretically and empirically engage with a broad range of disciplines reflecting the diverse nature o storytelling and stories substantively and methodologically.

The conference aims to bring together established academics, early career researchers, PhD candidates and students.

Topics covered by this call could include but are not limited to:

• Stories as a research method(ology)
• Storytelling in the workplace
• ‘Storied organisation’
• Stories of place, space, movement and migration
• Archaeological and historical stories
• Children, stories and storytelling
• Health and wellbeing
• Stories in and of education
• The organisation of story
• The storytelling business
• Sex and sexuality
• Ethnographic stories
• Disability and activism
• Cultures and communities
• Stories and popular culture
• Stories, leisure and sport

Welcome are traditional presentations of 20 minutes with additional time for questions, pre‐formed panels of speakers, and posters; as well as alternative modes of presentation including performance, film, photography etc.

Please send 250-word abstracts for a 20-minute presentation, 500-word abstracts for panels and 150-word abstracts for posters: storytellingpapers@uos.ac.uk

 • For further information please visit the website | The deadline for submissions is Monday 30th March 2018

More Frank Bellamy "Garth" under the hammer at Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auctions is offering this Frank Bellamy Garth daily comic strip first published in the Daily Mirror in 1975 in its latest auction

J214 dated 8-29-75 sees Garth use a pilot's trick to throw the bad guys around.

The strip was produced in ink over graphite on illustration board with an image area of 20.5" x 5.5" and is in excellent condition, an item from the Ethan Roberts Estate Collection.

Other art offered in the auction, which takes place this weekend online, includes work by Jack Davis, Gil Kane, Stan Sakai and many more.

• View the lot here on Heritage Auctions | View the auction

Garth © Daily Mirror