Create your own comic book heros
04/08/08
Learn about Manga, the Japanese art of illustration made famous by well-known series such as Astro Boy, Dragon Ball and Naruto at a workshop from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday, 9 August at Glover House, 79 Balgownie Road, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen.
With tutors on hand to help, workshop participants will be able to create their very own comic heroes in this colourful style, which can be traced back to the older Japanese printmakers such as Hokusai.
Manga is the Japanese term for comic book. In Japan Manga are targeted at all age groups and cover a wide range of genres. This is in contrast to Western comics, which are typically based around superhero themes.
Thomas Blake Glover (1838 -1911) was born the son of a coastguard in Fraserburgh, and was brought up in Aberdeen. He sailed to the far East at the age of 19, arriving in Nagasaki just as Japan was opening up for trade with the West. Glover took advantage of this and used his crucial position as an importer of modern Western technology and ideas to help the forward-looking Samurai clans overthrow the reactionary Shogun and restored the hereditary emperor, thus ushering in the modern Meiji era.
He is also sometimes said to be the originator of the story of the opera Madame Butterfly by Puccini, and is greatly revered in Japan while he remains relatively unknown in his native country.
Aberdeen City Council manages the house on behalf of the Grampian Japan Trust this year, which has benefited from a grant from the Energising Aberdeen fund.
Glover House - opening hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.00pm to 4.30pm (last entry 4.00pm)
Sunday
Open first Sunday of each month from 1.30pm to 4.30pm (last entry 4.00pm).
Glover House will close for winter at the end of October. The entry fee is £3.00 for adults, £2.00 for children/concessions and £7.00 for families. Workshops are included in the entrance charge.
For further information contact Jane Kidd, Glover House, 79 Balgownie Rd, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen AB22 8JS, tel 01224 709301 email JaKidd@aberdeencity.gov.uk
If you have any queries regarding this, or any other news story, please contact Aberdeen City Council on: 01224 522000.
