We are happy to announce that WOMCOM artists and works can be seen in further Budapest based events…

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM) brings together partners from Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia with the aim to empower female artists and to promote their visibility and representation. In addition to this, the project will call attention to the image of women in comics.

»» 2023.12.03. 10.00 – 16.00 WOMCOM x HUNGAROCOMIX
Artists at booth and podium discussion: Benczédi Anna Júlia (RO/HU), Ivana Geček (CRO), Anamarija Kvas (CRO), Szép Eszter (HU) and Artists led open workshop for children: Lilla Gregor, Lenke Lamm, Tamara Tóbiás
Venue: Lurdy Ház, Budapest, Könyves Kálmán Körút 12-14.
Web: https://hungarocomix2023.hu/#header
FB-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1391194814797263?active_tab=about

»» 2023.12.04 – 10. WOMCOM x AURÓRA FEMINISTA FESZTIVÁL
Exhibition – a selection of Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM) exhibition’s Hungarian works
2023. December 4. 17.30 Your Body, Your Zine” – WOMCOM EXHIBITION OPENING Selection of HUngarian artists of WOMCOM residencies: Benczédi Anna Júlia, Érsek Laura, Lamm Lenke and Tóbiás Tamara and further more zines created by Petja Kolenko (SLO), Dora Ivković (CRO), Dora Kaštrun (SLO), Ivana Geček (CRO). December 6. 17.00 – 20.00 Your Body, Your Zine” – WOMCOM Workshop; led by Laura Érsek , Lenke Lamm and Tamara Tóbiás (students of MOME).
The workshop we offer is free of charge but please register by sending an email to lenkelamm@gmail.com
Venue: Auróra (1084 Budapest, Auróra u. 11.)
FB-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1081574069645716?active_tab=about

»» 2023.12.08 – 10. WOMCOM x RS9 OFF FESZTIVÁL “Female destinies, female directors”
Exhibition – a selection of Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM) exhibition’s works (created in Serbia and Hungary)
2023. December 8. 17.30 Exhibition opening
Venue: RS9 Színház, Budapest, Rumbach Sebestyén u. 9.
FB-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/889812002777910

The Bakelit Multi Art Center Foundation is the Hungarian partner in the collaboration, who invited 12 artists selected through a competition to create short comic strips in the framework of WOMCOM during the Zánka residency from 17 September to 1 October, 2023. The artists were given feedback by the invited mentors, Márton Hegedűs and Dr Eszter Szép, and together they pulsed through the programmes in the countryside and in Budapest. The completed works will be presented in traveling exhibitions by the partners.

The project manager is contemporary choreographer and dance artist Márta Ladjánszki, artistic director of the L1 Association, international contact person of Bakelite MAC.

Artists participating and exhibiting at the residency in Hungary:
Anna Júlia Benczédi (H/RO), Sara Dervanović (MNE), Silva Dervanović (MNE), Helena Klakočar-Vukšić (SLO), Ivana Geček (CRO), Georgia Kalogeropoulou (GR), Dora Kaštrun (SLO), Petja Kolenko (SLO), Anamarija Kvas (CRO), Larisa Ackov Palić (SRB), Tóbiás Tamara (H), Jovana Vuković (SRB)

Participating and exhibiting artists at the Serbian residency:
Dora Ivković (CRO), Dora Kaštrun (SLO), Jovana Vuković (SRB), Katarina Šeme (SLO), Larisa Ackov Palić (SRB), Laura Érsek (H), Lenke Lamm (H), Sara & Silva Dervanović (MNE), Staša Miladinovič (SRB), Teodora Tintor (CRO), Vagelis Kolotsios (GR)

Find out more about us and the project:
BAKELIT MULTI ART CENTER
web-site: https://bmac.hu/en/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/bakelitmac/
insta: https://www.instagram.com/bakelit_multiartcenter/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BakelitBudapest/videos

WOMCOM – Women Power in Comics
web-site: https://womcom.io/about-us/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/womcom.power
insta: https://www.instagram.com/womcom.power/

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM) is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027 of the European Union (Project ID: 101099913). Bakelit Multi Art Center is the Hungarian partner in the two year long project.