The Belgian Comic Strip Center - Museum Brussels

Workshop - FULLY BOOKED

How do we live in our bodies and how are these bodies interpreted by society? How can drawing change our experience and create new visions, new representations that may even open the way to more positivity and more inclusion?

Mar Maremoto invites participants to this workshop to start from a very personal reflection and then take their reflection to the level of society. She confronts her own experience in a society where female bodies are often regarded as objects, leading to gender-based violence inflicted on thousands of women. In her drawings however, the body becomes a field of expression. 

During the workshop, we’ll go through different creative exercises: writing, drawing, cutting and pasting to map ourselves and finish the workshop with a fanzine, a great self publication tool.

Mar Maremoto 

Mariana Lorenzo, better known as Mar Maremoto, lives in Mexico City, where she was born in 1995. She is a textile designer and illustrator and has collaborated with renowned, international players. Since childhood, she has been drawing, she finds pencil and paper her best friends to help her unravel the feelings and thoughts that cross her heart and mind. Maremoto uses her art, her words and concrete actions to defend women's rights and promote dialogue. Her work is about self-esteem, feminism, sexuality, gender identity and the LGBTQ community. It reflects a spirit of resistance and freedom of expression. 

Practical info

- When? 4/11/2023, 2 pm - 5 pm

- For who? From 16 yo. Open to all, but designed especially for persons feeling close to gender issues and FLINTA identities. 

- What? drawing workshop in English. Drawing materials included (but feel free to bring your own)

- Price? Free upon presentation of a valid museum ticket. Free of charge for comic artists, illustrators and students of comic art

- How to participate? Registration is mandatory. Please click here to register. 

VR experience

Possibility to participate in the VR-experience We exist, we resist in the presence of director Mariana Cadenas from 11 am to 2 pm. 

© Clin d'Oeil films

Enter the vibrant world of Maremoto, a young Mexican cartoonist who, through her drawings, empowers women and addresses the taboos of her society.

In a combination of 360° video and animation, we become part of Maremoto's ongoing search for her identity and drive through art, tackling themes such as body positivity, sexual harassment and contemporary activism.   

Book signings

Book signing Draw for Change! (Lannoo publishers) by author Catherine Vuylsteke at bookstore Slumberland from 3 till 6 pm.

The courageous struggle of six females top cartoonists, their work and life story: Amany Al-Ali (Syria), Mar Maremoto (Mexico), Victoria Lomasko (Russia), Rachita Taneja (India), Ann Telnaes (USA), Doaa El-Adl (Egypt).

Six women, six stories. They make cartoons and graphic work in the besieged Syrian city of Idlib or unfree Egypt of President al-Sisi, they fight fat shaming and homophobia in Mexico, are on the run from president Putin, criticize Hindu nationalism and misogyny from Indian Prime Minister Modi or defy the powers that be in The Washington Post. Whether they are from Mexico, the USA, Syria, Egypt, India or Russia, they all belong to the absolute world top. But the way to the top was not an easy one for any of them.