Festival

The 4th international Comics Festival Boomfest will take place in Saint Petersburg this September. Traditionally it will occupy several different public and exhibition places at ones. The festival events will be presented at the most picturesque places of Saint Petersburg: museums and galleries, stores and cafes, streets and parks.

The exhibition program of the festival will take place since the 10th of September till the 17th. The educational part including meetings, lections, workshops and the comic sale will take place on last weekend of September at the Anna Akhamatova Museum at the Fountain House.

The Boomfest’s program includes as usual the wide range of events. You will be able to find works of young Scandinavian authors, personal exhibitions of the artists from Russia, Germany and France. You will have the opportunity read comics based on the work of Daniil Kharms and retrace the Belgian artists new book creation. You can also feel the power of the story told without the help of words.

France as one of the world’s capital of comics culture will be the special guest of the festival this year. We are organizing the wide range of exhibitions, workshops and meeting in order to provide the impression of the French 9th art. The realization of project is held in the collaboration with the biggest European comics convent – the Angouleme Comics Festival.

Moreover in the course of festival the comics competition primary targeting young authors is organized form March to August. Theme of the competition is “HERO” (term of participation) The winner of last year challenge was Julia Grigorieva. This year her personal exhibition will take place during Boomfest.