MAC Birmingham Thinks Big to Ensure Kids Enjoy Birmingham Comics Festival!
THIS YEAR'S Birmingham Comics Festival starts with the roaring success that is the family-friendly WILD About Comics at the city’s Wildlife Conservation Park on Saturday 2nd April but with the next series of events planned being adults only it may have looked like kids were getting left out. Not so! And that’s due in a big way thanks to the MAC Birmingham.
With but a short walk through Cannonhill Park from one venue to another, the following weekend on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th the MAC Birmingham begins a series of Birmingham Comics Festival events that will take place throughout the day. Each morning from 11am – 1pm, Chris Hamilton will conduct a Creating Comics workshop for those aged from 8-14, then in the afternoons at 2pm at the MAC’s cinema there will be special screenings of that great comic-inspired film The Iron Giant for all the family to enjoy.
Creating Comics is a terrific event where kids can learn how to conjure up interesting and unique ideas to design iconic characters. Then using traditional sketching and drawing techniques they will develop those ideas into finished comic artwork. Places for the workshops need to be booked so you are advised to reserve your kids’ place soon.
Based on Ted Hughes’ classic poem, The Iron Giant is a super animated adventure about a young boy who befriends a gentle giant robot from space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy. For those who can’t make the special screenings that weekend The Iron Giant can also be seen on the following Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th April.
For more information on the MAC Birmingham’s Creating Comics workshops click here and here.
For more information on the MAC Birmingham’s screening of The Iron Giant click here.
For more information on The Birmingham Comics Festival click here.
