10 Mahmoud Basuony St down town
Cairo
مصر
- Arts
To spread awareness and provide support on art as a society reform tool, this is achieved through discovering new talents, supporting innovation and creating empowering environments that allow creativity exchange experiences and success stories. Our work is spread to empower both professional artists and beginners.
Objectives
Widening the masses fundament of new and unconventional arts
Break the centralization of art and culture a
Attract the official and unofficial institutions for all different kinds of new arts
Support young generations of artists and help them produce their artistic projects and ensure continuity of their activities
Empower communication channels between artists and audience, media and institutions concerned with art and culture
Capacity Building Programs:
‘Express yourself through Comics workshop’
Mazg organized its first comics training workshop in February 2013. The 4 days workshop took place at the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Cairo. The workshop was instructed by comics artist: Makhlouf and the scriptwriter Tamer Abdel Hamid. It was attended by 10 university students from Cairo and other governorates. The workshop provided training for young artists on the techniques of creating comics, including drawing and writing, and on promoting the use of comics as an alternative art form to self expression.
®Supported by The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression
Specialized Curriculum of Comics Making
Mazg created a specialized curriculum and training manual in the process of creating comic illustrations. The content was a result of a long chain of sessions, with 7 of the most prominent comic artists in Egypt, sessions were held in the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), throughout April 2013.
The outcomes included a 6 days' workshop, for beginners and faux beginners on the techniques of drawing comics and comics script writing.
The manual is available for free online on the wiki link:
®Supported by ADEF
Time Difference workshop
Mazg seeks to decentralize its activities, and direct its efforts towards outreach and discovering young local talents living in the suburbs and rural areas around Egypt, as well as the centre, Cairo. Within the context of our Outreach campaigns, we launched the Time Difference Workshop, which is targeted at governorates. The workshop applies the curriculum that Mazg developed in collaboration with ADEF. Participants learn the techniques of creating comics, and writing scripts for comics. We form work groups, which creatively join together to produce a comics novel over the period of 2 months. The novel is produced to completion at a ‘ready for print’ status.
The first workshop was organized in June 2013, in Alexandria, the second largely populated city in Cairo. This was organised in coordination with Comicsawy, a group that works to promote the art of comics in Egypt. The workshop was instructed by young talents, including Hesham Rahma for comics art and Tamer Abdel Hamid for scriptwriting. Out of 65 applications received through an open call, 14 young artists made it successfully to the workshop.