24-HOUR COMICS DAY AT HOODWINX CREATIVE SPACE IN WOODSTOCK

INTRODUCTION

24-Hour Comics Day (24HCD) is an event held around the world which challenges writers and artists to create a full 24-page comic in 24 consecutive hours. Since this is the first 24HCD in Cape Town, and probably in South Africa, we are going all-out to inspire our participating artists and entertain the audience with animation and graphic novel movies from 5 continents, music and an exhibition with a mix of illustration and comic art. Our cherry on the cake will be a live-feed with 24HCD in Amsterdam, organised by the ‘sketch battle queen’ Maia Matches.

There will be a small award ceremony held at the end with winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.

Background: Co/Mix
Co/Mix 2011, the first ever comic art exhibition at the National Arts Festival, (NAF) was hosted at the Monument in Grahamstown from 30 June – 10 July 2011. Co/Mix consisted of an exhibition of 23 South African and 6 international comic artists, 16 workshops, 3 seminars, a gallery-shop, a graffiti mural and a Toon-a-day in the daily Cue Newspaper. The exhibition featured a mind-boggling array of styles, techniques and themes, from hard-hitting political cartoons to whimsical assemblages celebrating the fantastic and the absurd. Ismail Mahommed, director of the NAF, called it ‘an outstanding highlight!’

Hoodwinx
Hoodwinx is created as a home for artists and creative South Africans to express their unique creative voice, as well as a space for public discussions, debates and campaigns on issues that are of benefit and relevance to community advancement.

It is an art cafe that offers a platform for Independent South African artists and creative people from all walks of life. It is a unique concept housing independent South African books, films, music, art, and performance. It is a platform for knowledge and information sharing on relevant issues that raise consciousness and awareness. The brand and its custodians live by the values of honesty, self expression, freedom, love, compassion, joy, inspiration and consciousness.

Art Café Concept

HOODWINX is an arts café and creative space encompassing a variety of creative divisions including:
• An art gallery showcasing local South African fine art, sculpture and photography
• An independent cinema screening South African films, documentaries and short films
• A book library comprising of independently published South African books
• A music library of underground independent South African musicians
• A cafe set in a beautiful heritage building based in the recently gentrified Woodstock area surrounded by the design district

For interviews contact:
Isabelle Rorke, Hoodwinx Custodian – 078 303 9967
Lieve Vanleeuw – 072 047 8379
Atang Tshikare – 071 436 3028