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WOW – Women of the World

Thanks to Clare taking for the photos and writing this piece and on our latest Soupa event at WOW festival:

Soupa was invited by Storm in a Teacup to host a zine making workshop at The Southbank Centre today and yesterday for a new festival called WOW – Women of the World which kicked off on Friday with a live of broadcast of the brilliant BBC Woman’s Hour.

Although, there’s a lot to cover, I’ll keep it brief and tell you about some of things we did (with the aid of a few pics).

In preparation for the festival we made our own special edition Soupa Zine (above) containing lots of exciting new illustrations, photographs and bite-size stories. You can read the zine in full here: http://issuu.com/jospencer/docs/soupazine-mar-2011-23

We made little packs for each zine maker who came to the workshop and we also took along our fantastic retro typewriter which I picked up for about £2 in a recycling centre.

I did a bit of typing to encourage people to give it a go – blank white pages can be a bit intimidating!

While many of the zines contained important messages about women’s issues, we also wanted people to relax, have fun and be creative. Fellow Soupa member, illustrator Elissa Elwick brought along her friendly characters, the Bob Wob’s (watching you from above, and below) and was on hand with Anna Spencer to help people create their own illustrations.

Throughout the day, there was live music and this seemed to attract a lot of people to the workshop – all of whom worked really hard creating something unique to them. As you can see, the workspace was a mess with glue, cuttings and pencils everywhere, but as far as I’m concerned, all the better to take pictures of.

I took five minutes out to catch up on the other events going on at the festival and headed downstairs where I met Mary Kilvert, an illustrator who makes products which include these pretty cushions. Loving the one of these print-perfect sheep!

I was glad we had taken some old magazines for cutting up as these were providing some unexpected inspiration for zines (thanks to my sister for passing them on to me). The illustration below is a great example of this.

Over the weekend, the Soupa team are helping to create a Master WOW Zine that will be a lasting reminder of the amazing work created.

If you came along to WOW this weekend, we hope you had a really good time!

Posted by Clare Kelly

We will be uploading our pictures from the weekend to our Flickr stream very soon.

Colour me Totem – inkygoodness

Inkygoodness are calling for submissions for – Colour Me Totem – their first online creative project!

Colour Me Totem

Here’s your chance to be part of the inkygoodness Character Totem project..

Discover your inner character – doodle, ink, paint or digitally design your own Character Totem. Give him a name & send us the results!

All you need to do is:

• download
• print off
• customise
• scan
• submit

All you need to do is download the Colour Me Totem pdf below and get drawing. Give your characters a name, along with your web address & contact details and keep a close look at their gallery for your Totem to appear.

Send your submissions to: inkygoodness@easy.com – no later than Friday 25th March. All entries will be uploaded to their evolving Character Totem online gallery. The best entries will be displayed in the Neurotitan Gallery as part of the official Character Totem exhibition at Pictoplasma this year – so what are you waiting for? Get involved!

colour me totem download

 

Emerging Talent Exhibition – Spindle magazine

This Friday there is an exhibition featuring the artists, designers and photographers who make up the pool of talent that goes in to making Spindle Magazine. A fashion and culture magazine curated by Heather Falconer.

A quarterly magazine that’s now in its third incarnation. Why not stop by Madame Geisha from 6pm to see work by Sarah Ferrari, Peter James Field, Kevin Mason, Maria Sagun, Soupa’s very own Carlos Garde-Martin, and a host of others.

Exhibition Details

Private View – Friday the 4th of March, 6-9pm
Madame Geisha – 75-79 East Street, Brighton

http://spindlemagazine.com/.

http://madamegeisha.com/.

Click here to download the PDF flyer

Pick Me Up 2011

 

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Design Museum – ILLUSTRATE, NOMINATE, FONTIFERATE

Click here for more info http://designmuseum.org/design-overtime

YARNfest Round-up

Those of you who follow @okjo_soupa on Twitter won’t have failed to notice that there’s been a lot of YARNfest talk of late.

If you were lucky enough to come along, or unlucky and not able to come, here’s a little round-up of events for your pleasure…

Saturday night’s alright (and the day isn’t so bad either)

Zine workshop curated by Jo of Soupa | Photo © Clare Kelly

 

The Soupa crew (Jo, Anna, Elissa, Jessica, Jamie, Clare) were up very early indeed and made their way to The Book Club to get started on the Zine Workshop.

Elissa, Jessica and Anna were on hand to help out those who attended the workshop by showing them how to create characters. We were really chuffed with the turn-out with many people booking in advance and then staying for the duration of the workshop.

Oschon Wespi-Tschopp of Cure Studio came along with a screen and some really vibrant inks to enable all those who came along to screenprint their own cover. This was a great introduction to screenprinting and produced some great results. Jo was also able to help demonstrate the art of hand stitching to ensure that no one’s zine fell apart!

We saw some really fantastic work being produced and Efdeay were in attendance to provide a zine template which could be worked into as much or as little as people liked.

At 5pm, the workshop drew to a close and the floor and tables were testament to the amount of creativity that had taken place with bits of magazines, glue and pens strewn about the place! This did take some time to clear up but because some of those on the workshop were reluctant to leave, we did have some help!!

Soupa then disbanded for the evening to get ready for the next day of YARNfest (and have some much needed sleep).

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Easy like Sunday morning

Luke Waller & Harriet Gray at Illustrationarium LIVE! | Photo © Clare Kelly

 

Team Soupa enjoyed a chilled out morning before rocking up to The Book Club for day two of the proceedings. Once again, the basement were the event was taking place, was completely ram-jammed and lots of people had turned up for the quiz – a fully interactive event that called for improvisation, wit and a sprinkling of talent. Then came the SCAT PACK with their improvised ‘film’ which has been a hit at Edinburgh Fringe due to its quick thinking talent. Read more about that here.

This allowed everyone to relax a bit before thoughts turned to the Illustrationarium which would see Soupa members Jessica Allan, Luke Waller, Harriet Gray and Carlos Garde-Martin illustrate live on a overhead projector (not seen since school days) while authors and storytellers such as Helen Smith, Rachel Rose Reid and Katy Darby read and performed. A tough task if ever there was one! Soupa felt very proud of all its talent who put so much into it and created some really unique pieces in front of this live audience.

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Tell me why I don’t like Mondays?

Jamie Littler creating his 20 minute masterpiece | Photo © Clare Kelly

I don’t know why you don’t like Mondays really. But perhaps if your name was Jamie Littler and you were about to do a live illustration of a book cover in front of the author Hanif Kureishi, you’d be a little worried about Monday’s too!

However, this Monday at The Queen of Hoxton turned into a pretty good one with Jamie doing a beautiful illustration that nearly made Team Soupa weep with joy! There were three other illustrators from other collectives from AMMO Magazine Claire Hartley, from Paperfox press Robin Boyden, from Hidden Dingbat Phil Howell and Lauren Baker taking part too and while Jamie didn’t win in the final round, he did win his own round, and though we are biased, he was our winner for sure.

This was the culmination of YARNfest for Soupa but everyone left feeling energised and ready for the next one. If you missed it, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for more news about the next YARNfest event – we wouldn’t want you to miss out!

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Soupa would like to thank the following for their part in making YARNfest so much fun:

Gemma Mitchell, Osch Wespi-Tschopp, James Hurst, Anna Spencer, Elissa Elwick, Clare Kelly, Jamie Littler, Carlos Garde-Martin, Jessica Allan, Harriet Gray and Luke Waller.

La Boca @ Concrete Hermit

Design giants La Boca this Thursday at Kingly Court!

La Boca, one of London’s most exciting and recognisable design studios are taking over our Kingly Court shop space from the 25th February until the 10th March.

Alongside an amazing portfolio of prints, they will have a selection of other products available to buy, and an installation on the back wall.

Their neo-retro film poster inspired design has seen them undertake work for a wide vareity of clients, including Sony, Renault, SixPack France, and  Warp Records.

Private view of the work THIS THURSDAY (24th Feb) at Kingly Court You can RSVP on Facebook , or just turn up!