In February the project "RESPECT. Comics from different countries" presents the results of collaborative work of 9 leading comics artists from Russia and Europe. After 5-day workshop at the International festival of drawn stories "KomMissia" in May, 2011 each one of them created his own drawn story on the subject "respect". "You don't have to love you neighbor, just begin to respect him" — that's informal motto of RESPECT.

The audience of the project is young people in the first place, including high school students, college students and university students. The objective is to talk about actual social problems and tolerance in accessible and colorful language of drawing.

On February 4 at 7 p.m. in The Fifth Floor Space (Cast-iron Floor) will be opened the comics exhibition RESPECT. The organizers will hold a discussion about mutual respect and life in a new multicultural world, about issues of xenophobia and possible solutions of those problems with the help of young people. And of course will be touched comics in general and the issues raised in them.

Participants:

• Anastasia Galashina and Serguey Simonov, coordinators of RESPECT from Moscow;
• Roman Sokolov, comics artist;
• Dmitry Yakovlev, director of the publishing house "Bumkniga";
• Astrid Shorn, one of the creators of Uppsala Circus;
• Maxim Ivantsov, civil rights advocate and teacher.

On February 5 in Loft Project ETAGI is planned a workshop of Roman Sokolov dedicated to skiils of drawing cool comics.

Everyone who visits the exhibition in the first days will get comica for free! Examples of works are presented at на www.respect.com.mx.

February 4 – 23, 2012

Entrance is free

Working hours

Mon – Fri: 12 — 22

Sat – Sun: 10 — 22

Igor Baranko