Dear friends,
I am looking for your stories about Sydney’s Chinatown to turn into comics!
Earlier, I worked on a similar graphic novel project, ‘CAB’, which took collected autobiographical stories about my hometown of Canley Vale and Cabramatta to create a kind of narrative portrait of a community. It was a hugely rewarding experience that allowed me to engage a diverse family of people intimately familiar with the suburb to participate in sharing with the wider community comics imbued with a closer and more harmonious representation of our suburb and empathetic to our personal experiences and perspectives as its children, residents and workers.
Cabramatta’s connections and parallels makes Chinatown appear an organic growth from the ‘CAB’ project, but as a visiting eye rather than embedded resident to the Chinatown area, I’m conscious and excited by this opportunity to gain an intimate insight into the present beneficiaries of a rich history and the personalities invigorating and shaping this vibrant community’s future.
I’m fortunate to have 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s generous support and excited by the prospect of comics exhibited in a gallery context and distributed to a new audience. Over the next few months I’ll be sharing the process and development of ‘The Chinatown Comics’ with you as it progresses. Several generous participants and stories have already been in touch and I hope you’ll lend your voice to this project too.
The details for the project are below, if you have stories or might know somebody of interest I would love to hear from you, either directly or by contacting 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
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UPDATE: For further updates, process, and insights into this project please check the dedicated page.
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What kinda China town stories. I worked in Haymarket all up for 5 years and 2 years of Uni at UTS. So I have plenty
none particularly charming.
Particularly charming isn’t part of the criteria Alex! I’m casting a wide net regarding content – anything and everything curious that might resonate something true about the place or the people you’ve crossed there. I’ll send you an email, would love to hear from you.
i have a story (well really an image), from when i was a kid when we would go to a particular restaurant, that i think your drawing style would be absolutely perfect for. would love to collaborate with you if interested. please email me
Ian
Sounds great Ian, I’ll be sure to get in touch!
Cheers,
Matt.
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