Delhi Comic Arts Festival (DECAF)

The first edition of DECAF brings together artists, publishers, curators and animators from the field of comic arts over 3 days for talks, book launches and presentations. There is also an accompanying Exhibition of works by participating artists at the Venue : of lines and TALES=I and II (from 4th Dec to 12th Dec) Venue: IIC, Delhi. Presented by: Manicmongol in collaboration with IIC Website- www.decafonline.com PROGRAMME 4th December 2017, Monday Day 1 3.00 p.m to 4.30 p.m SESSION 1 Opening Appupen (Artist’s Presentation),India. Title - Superheroes, Mythology and Halahala Kokaachi (Publisher’s Presentation), India. Title- A journey in Indie-comics making Film Session 1( A compilation of Animation Films curated by Sekhar Mukherjee, NID), BREAK 4.45 p.m to 6.00 p.m - SESSION 2 Amruta Patil (Artist’s Presentation), France. Title- Forests of Transformation Josef Yohannes (Artist’s Presentation), Norway. Title - The Urban Legend : Why I created a Superhero Jana Jakoubek (Curator’s Presentation), Switzerland. Title - Fumetto Festival Lucerne : A comic festival built on bridges BREAK 6.15 p.m to 7.30 p.m- SESSION 3 Launch of the book “The Elephant in the Room”, An Indo-German anthology, Published by Zubaan. Presenters - Urvashi Butalia, Priya Kuriyan, Anpu Varkey and Kaveri Gopalakrishnan. Panel Discussion - "Is Comics Something you can teach ?" Speakers - TBD 5th December 2017, Tuesday Day 2 3.00 p.m to 4.30 p.m SESSION 1 Presentation of the anthology, “Long Form” by Sekhar Mukherjee, to be published by Harper Collins India . Lika Nuessli (Artist’s Presentation), Switzerland. Title :Drawing is meditating Sharad Sharma (Artist’s Presentation), India. Title - Grassroots Comics BREAK SESSION 2 4.45 p.m to 6.00 p.m Vishwajyoti ghosh (Artist’s Presentation), India. Title - Style vs Substance (negotiating between form and content in graphic narratives). Film session 2 (A compilation of animation Films curated by Sekhar Mukherjee, NID) Kruttika Susarla (Artist’s Presentation),India. Title - The Personal is Political BREAK 6.15 p.m to 8.00 p.m SESSION 3 Bettina Egger (Artist’s Presentation), Austria. Title - Moscow to Vladivostok , A Travelogue Reinhard Kleist (Artist’s Presentation), Germany. Title - A Musical rendezvous with Nick Cave Panel discussion “"How can comics be used effectively to bring about social change ? " Speakers - TBD 6th December 2017, Wednesday Day 3 3.00 p.m to 4.30 p.m SESSION 1 2 Films by Miguel Gallardo, Maria's journey- Dur: 5mins. 43 secs and The Specialist Academy-Dur: 7mins. 28 secs. Miguel Gallardo (Artist’s Presentation). Title- Drawing for Maria, Drawing for Autism Bharath murthy (Artist’s Presentation), India. Title - What I learnt from Japanese comics Kaveri Gopala Krishnan (Artist’s Presentation), India. Title - Drawing Private in Public BREAK 4.45 p.m to 6.00 p.m SESSION 2 Pierre Thomé (Artist’s Presentation),Switzerland. Title - Drawing as reportage Arne Jysch (Artist’s Presentation), Germany. Title - Drawing the Twenties. The visual creation of the crime novel "Der nasse Fisch" (Babylon Berlin) Priyesh Trivedi (Adarsh Balak, Artist’s presentation), India. Title - Redefining 'Ideal' BREAK 6.15 p.m to 8.15 p.m SESSION 3 Bia Bittencourt (Curator’s Presentation), Brazil. Title - Publishing the universe: the power of self publishing A Panel Discussion with Comic Artists- What is it like,to be a comic creator ? Speakers - TBD Live drawing and Music Concert, by Lika Nuessli and the band HA !