ECHOAc
ECHO Academies (ECHOAc) is an arts project that aims to foster young and emerging European talents in the fields of comics (in Greece-GR), fashion design (in Bulgaria-BU), music (in North Macedonia-MK), photography and architecture (in Hungary-HU) by using heritage (Karagiozis Shadow Puppet Theatre-GR, Traditional Folklore Costumes of Rhodope region-BU, Ritual Songs-MK, and Urban Industrial Heritage of Budapest 1860-1960-HU) as a means and inspiration for their work.
ECHO Academy in 2023 will take place in Athens, Greece, from 12 June to 2 July.
The Academy will focus on Comics. 10 Selected comic artists will travel and stay in Athens for a period of 3 weeks and create:
- an artwork inspired by Karagiozis Shadow Puppet Theater and
- a plan for a pilot project designed to be implemented in their home country in collaboration with Inter Alia and a local micro-organisation.
Partner Organisations
INTER ALIA, Greece
OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION, Bulgaria Partner
SFERA INTERNATIONAL North Macedonia
PRO PROGRESSIONE, Hungary
CUMEDIAE, Belgium
The selected artists will create original comic artworks (2-5 pages per comic artist) that will be published in a collective volume by Jemma Press. Comic artists will need to transfer the economic rights (granted by copyright) of the final designs to Inter Alia for the purposes of the publication. The artists will retain the moral rights of their works, along with the copyrights of any sketches they will create during their participation in the Academy. Revenue generated by the selling of the publication will be attributed directly to the artists at regular intervals.