THE STORY OF THE JEWS with STAN MACK



Veteran cartoonist and writer Stan Mack has never used

his documentary style of graphic design to better

effect than in his stunning Story of the Jews. Through

projection of graphics onto a screen accompanied by

his lively narration, the book is transformed into a

historical drama.



Sept. 3, 1pm, Marilyn Brewer Community Space, Free



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GRAPHIC LIVES: BEN KATCHOR & BERNICE EISENSTEIN



Artists and writers Ben Katchor and Bernice Eisenstein

both employ graphics in their storytelling. Using

multi-media techniques, they will screen illustrations

and dramatically evoke the real and imagined events in

such acclaimed books as Katchor’s The Jew of New York

and Eisenstein’s I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors.





Sept. 3,  5pm, Studio Theatre, $10

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Illustration, Passion, and Memory: Jews and the Graphic Novel

with Ben Katchor, Bernice Eisenstein and Stan Mack



Harbourfront Centre

235 Queens Quay West

Marilyn Brewer Community Space

Monday September 4, 2pm

FREE!



A new literary genre is emerging. Called the graphic novel, it haphazardly incorporates memoir and fiction, documentary and fantasy. Though clearly not always a novel, the form always uses illustrations and text, and is intended for adults to enjoy.



Pioneered by Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, the graphic novel has strong roots - though not solely - in Ashkenaz culture.



Three of the finest exemplars of this new genre, Ben Katchor, Bernice Eisenstein and Stan Mack, will discuss their contentious relationships to this new, highly visible, form. Is it literature? Art? How will it develop? Join them for a lively discussion.



Part of the program of Ashkenaz : A Festival of New Yiddish Culture, which is part of Harbourfront's World Routes series.