This year the Haarlem Stripdagen have a special focus on Eastern European comics. Mondiaal Centrum Haarlem will host three Spartak activities: a screening of a panorama of animated movies from Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia and other countries, a Storytelling Comix party with music and presentations and an exhibition of Roma-comics from the Czech Republic.

Cinemal Globaal: Panorama of Eastern European animated short-movies
A series of animated movies from Eastern Europe will be shown on Thursday 3rd at 20:00 in the Mondiaal Centrum Haarlem. Creators of some Czech short movies will tell about their own movies and favourite or famous works in the long tradition of Czech animated movies.
The selection of the movies is in collaboration with the Balkan Snapshots Film Festival in Amsterdam.
Thursday June 3th – Mondiaal Centrum Haarlem – Lange Herenvest 122 – Start 20:00 – Entrance € 2,50

Storytelling comix party: Multidisciplinary event with music, comix, food & drinks
On Saturday June 5th Mondiaal Centrum Haarlem hosts a programme of music and comix for the visitors of the Haarlem Stripdagen and others. Between 20:00 and 21:00 three projects on storytelling and global culture will be presented: Robust Stories (Dutch, Romanian and Bulgarian project on digital storytelling), Negotiated Stories (Czech project on documentary comics about Rroma culture) and Migrating Comics – Perspectives of the European Traveller (youth exchange of comic writers from Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria). During this event the Dutch Balkanjazzgroup KASHA NASHA will do a show.
Saturday June 5th – Mondiaal Centrum Haarlem – Lange Herenvest 122 – Doors open: 19:00 – Start programme 20:00 – Entrance: € 6

Exhibition: Negotiated Stories – Rroma culture in comics
During the Haarlem Comic days (Haarlem Stripdagen) Platform Spartak opens the exhibition of Czech comics on Rroma-culture, as drawn by Asta Sme – a civic organisation in Prague. The comic writer Vojta Masek, cultural antropologist Marketa Hajska and Masha Borkovcova did interviews with individual roma and created a comic story afterwards. The three volumes are finished now and a first glimpse of the results will be shown in Mondiaal Centrum Haarlem.

HERE an article about the Haarlem Comic Days, including an interview with Migrating Comics project manager Guido van Hengel (in Dutch)

Partners: Centrala Komiksu (Poznan - Poland), Next Page (Sofia - Bulgaria), Asta Sme (Prague - Czech Republic), Robust Stories (Amsterdam - Netherlands), Balkan Snapshots (Amsterdam - Netherlands).