In collaboration with Laila Hammouti and Nørrebrobyggerne, Salaam Film & Dialog held a cartoon workshop in Hamletsgade in Nørrebro in Copenhagen. Sanna Hukkanen taught and Mia Fryland, who will teach the remaining workshops in Denmark, was there to see how Sanna Hukkanen holds workshops with participants who are not used to drawing.

There were three elderly people and eight children from the settlement, and they spent some nice hours together. First, we watched the animation film 'Nightshift' as inspiration for the participants. Sanne then introduced how you with using simple methods can work to create a short cartoon in four pictures.

Then everyone started drawing and after a few hours of intense work, the parents of the participating children came to see the result.

FilmCentrum Syd held a cartoon workshop in Studiefrämjandet Vuxsenskolans premises at Grynbodgatan 20 in Malmö. Sanna Hukkanen taught and Anna Lönn Franko, who will teach the remaining workshops in Sweden, was there to see how Sanna Hukkanen conducted the workshop with pariticipants who are not used to drawing.

There were a total of 12 participants, of which 6 young people between the ages of 18-25, who are also part of the city of Malmö´s investment in mentoring for you people who are struggling to get into the culturefield. The remaining participants were 6 people from our network aged 60-85.

The workshop began with Sanna describing how, using simple methods, you can work on making a short cartoon series of four images. We also looked at some series that were made by previous group and thus had the opportunity to analyze visual storytelling.
After that we went for a short walk in our nearby park Kungsparken, to get inspiration and open uour minds to ideas. Then everyone started drawing, and after a few hours of work, we finished with a presentation of all the results.

Explore the gap-hanke järjesti sarjakuvatyöpajan Lieksassa 1.2.2024. Työpaja järjestettiin yhteistyössä Norpas festivaalin ja Itäisen dokkariklubin kanssa. Tapahtumapaikkana oli monikulttuurisuusyhdistys Metkan pyörittämä kulttuurikeskus Kulma Lieksan keskustassa. Työpajaan osallistui noin 20 henkeä. He olivat kotoisin muun muassa Ukrainasta, Suomesta ja Somaliasta ja edustivat eri ikäryhmiä.

Työpaja alkoi Pieter-Jan Van Dammen lyhytelokuvalla ”Fabula rasa”, jossa tekijä pohtii omaa siirtymäänsä dokumentaristista omavaraisviljelijäksi. Lyhyen keskustelun jälkeen Aalto-yliopiston tutkija Inkeri Aula ohjasi osallistujille mielikuvaharjoituksen, jossa kuviteltiin tulevaisuutta, tarkoituksena johdatella osallistujat sarjakuviensa ideoimiseen. Heidän työpajassa toteuttamansa sarjakuvat käsittelivät heidän taustojaan pakolaisina, uuteen yhteisöön sopeutumista ja tulevaisuudennäkymiä Lieksassa. Ympäristöasiat tulivat vahvasti esille tulevaisuudenvisioissa.

Aula on osallistunut työpajojen ohjaamiseen ja kerännyt samalla aineistoa tutkimukseensa luovuudesta ja ikääntymisestä.

NGO FUFF organized a combined camp for elderly / adults and children - but mostly focused on youth in Vatsa village, Estonia between 25-30 th of June 2023. We had 25 youngsters who made animations and comics. 14 adults and elders were guiding the camp with their knowledge and knowhow.

We have made 15 min of animation and several comics. The comics teacher was Sanna Hukkanen.