I've finally arrived in Nablus and am delighted to get going with the project. As Rebecca's wonderful posts show, she has been working with art students from An-Najah University in creating 5 page comics based on their experiences. I've had the chance to see some of thier work and it is trully fantastic stuff. The comic creation concludes tommorow, but Rebecca will be continuing work on the project. organizing exhibitions and printing a book of the students work to be distrubited freely around Nablus. We'll publish a similiar book back home, which will then be sold to help provide a scholarship for students at An-Najah who wish to continue their studies abroad.
As for myself, up till now its been organized chaos in planning for the various projects. My classes proper start on Sunday, which I am trully excited for. This will consist of an English class using comics as a teaching resource, a comics based class which will focus more on small activities that let the students create stories, and hopefully a class with another volunteer combining techniques of photgraphy and comics, getting them to create stories using sequential photos. All of them should be great, and I'll keep you posted.
Once again, the fundraising website is http://www.givemeaning.com/project/nablusnovels We'll provide a permalink on the right hand side shortly, but if you have anything to give - be it 20, 50 or 200 dollars - it'd be hugely appreciated, as the program and publication costs are too much for two students to bear alone.
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