Open Call to Artists

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Are you a student interested in any of the following? -Publishing your story/artwork (translated into Chinese) on one of the leading Chinese social media platforms Xinhua News; -Publishing your story/artwork in a collection of gender equality comics that will be released in China (Chinese language) in 2022; -Contributing to women’s rights; -Participate in a large-scale international event that spans across four continents; -Meet leading professionals and passionate women’s rights activists; -Attending other virtual conferences and events on behalf of the Baturu Centre. Gender Equality Comics Project* We invite illustrators and writers to participate in a comics research project on feminism and gender equality issues and ways of embedding them in an imaginary steampunk world located in the late Qing Dynasty period. As a result of the research you will write/illustrate/write and illustrate (depending on your skills and interests) a women’s empowerment story with a protagonist Princess Su (Su is a rank not a name!). Responsibilities Include: Writing/illustrating a story on a gender equality issue, based on research on the representation (literary/visual) of gender equality issues in arts, with a protagonist Princess Su and located in the imaginary world of the beginning of the 20th century; Working together with a social science student on the basis for the story / its visual representation; Examples of Comics about Princess Su Three comic artists from China, members of the Total Vision collective, have taken part in the project. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/LPr0Isgd6uVfL9spoKw8kA https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3sinmY8DC7JJiseqov3LEA https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3sinmY8DC7JJiseqov3LEA An internship at BATURU is an opportunity to encounter a broad range of international artists and curators, and to gain insight into the operations of independent non-profit arts organizations. As well as represent us at various women's conferences, comics conferences Writer interns are involved in various activities such as: - Developing a story for the Journey of the Princess Su anthology book; - Interact with local Chinese NGOs to learn from their cases; Comic artist interns are involved in various activities such as: - Be one of the artists to create visual stories for the Journey of the Princess Su anthology book; - Interact with local Chinese art curators to learn more about Chinese comics art; The minimum internship time is 3 months, but we prefer a part-time internship of 4-5 months or longer. Internship periods: Spring (approx Feb-June 2021) Summer (approx May-Sept 2021) Autumn (approx Aug 2020-Jan 2022) The application deadline is Friday, 29 January 2021, 20:00. We are accepting applications: - from comics writers, in the form of pitches of at most 500 words from individual writers and creative teams. - from comics artist, in the form of a link to their portfolio with at least 10 works, with at least 2 comics pages examples. All applications should be submitted to contact@chinawomensff.net Learn more about our China Women’s Film Festival and Baturu Art Festival here: https://chinawomensff.net/