An exhibition of comics about respect for migrants and informals will open in Novosibirsk

Comics who speak with youth about tolerance of people with different identities - national, cultural, gender and religious - will be shown at the exhibition in Novosibirsk.

The German reading room of the regional scientific library, together with the Goethe-Institute, will be presented in Novosibirsk exhibition "Respect 2.0. Comics of different countries. " The slogan of the Respect project - "You are not obliged to love your neighbor, just begin to respect him." The organizers want to speak with children and adolescents with the help of comics in an understandable and interesting language for them about respect for people of different views, for various ethnic, religious and social groups.

“We no longer live in individual villages, cities or countries, but live on planet Earth. Our neighbors and people on the street are different nationalities, cultures and views; They think differently, they say, believe in different ideas, love and dislike different ones, ”the project’s manifesto says . - No one wants people to kill each other in his small city or a huge country. But sometimes it happens that those who lived peacefully with a neighbor yesterday, greeted him every day, walked along one streets and even friends - begin to be angry, swear, fight, and sometimes - pick up weapons and fight. ”

"Respect 2.0"-a continuation of the successful comic book project "Respect. Comics of different countries ”, created in 2011 by the artist Hikhus and the team of the Kommissance festival together with the Goethe-Institute in Moscow. It includes more than 35 works of professional authors of comics from Russia and other European countries, and interactive comics, which are used as a methodological material for working in state educational institutions and in the field of informal education.

“Problems related to identity can be very different. For example, what is now very relevant, this, of course, is the appearance. But it is very important for teenagers to try themselves in different identities. The same topic with subcultures and stereotypes that spread about them - they have not only teachers, but also among schoolchildren themselves, who begin to spread rot who look “wrong,” says one of the participants in the project Boris Romanov. “From here we go to the problems of groups of persecution - this is very important for us.”

As part of the exhibition, master classes on drawing comics will be held.

The opening of the exhibition is March 6.