Storyworks
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Introducing our new project... Magic Torch Comics CIC are delighted to have received over £67.000 from National Lottery Community Fund, to support our new 2 year project, 'Storyworks', running from Summer 2023 - 2025. The project will work with young people to create a whole range of stories and publications, developed in collaborative workshops delivered all across Inverclyde. In addition to our traditional comics workshops, we'll also be creating escape rooms. storymaking card games, storymaps, an illustrated storybook, a podcast audio drama, a choose your own adventure style game book an ..read more
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Scottish Parliament Comics
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1y ago
Exploring and Explaining Parliament Magic Torch Comics are pleased to announce that we recently won a contract with the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to create a series of comics focussing on different aspects of life and work in the Scottish Parliament.   Working with Primary and Secondary schools from each of the Scottish Electoral regions, the comics will explore everything from First Ministers Questions and language in Parliament through to the beehives which sit on the Scottish Parliament roof and the quirkier stories behind the building.   Work on the comic started this we ..read more
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Aye, It WIs Aabody
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1y ago
A Story of Scotland's Role in the Slave Trade Earlier in the year, we worked with Birse Community Trust and Finzean Primary School on a fascinating project exploring the realities of Scotland’s role within the slave trade. Aye, it Wis Aabody is funded by Heritage Lottery Fund and Aberdeen Council, and it investigated the links between Birse and chattel slavery in the Caribbean. In particular, the project focussed on the establishment of Finzean Primary School (then Bankhead Endowed School) in 1732, with funds from the sale of enslaved people in Barbados. The project was supported by Professor ..read more
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Digital Open Studios
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1y ago
Magic Torch Comics Director - Behind the Magic! Earlier this year, our director Paul Bristow spoke to Tall Tale films as part of CVS Inverclyde's Digital Open Studios project. Check out the short video below to hear Paul chat about storytelling, communities and his creative process for his own writing and his work with Magic Torch Comics CIC.  You can also see his fairly messy home office under the stairs ..read more
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Stories of Hope
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1y ago
Refugee Week 2021 Back in 2019, artist Mhairi Robertson and myself, spent some time with a group of women in Glasgow, who told us about their experience of the asylum process, and the welcome they had found in Scotland. The project was pit together by the Poverty Truth Community, and the women all wanted to focus on the positive things that had happened to them since arriving, and the actions that other could take while in the process. A booklet of their stories, which also shares information on the support which is available for people, was launched during Refugee Week 2021 at an online ev ..read more
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Starbound - Get Involved
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1y ago
Magic Torch Comics CIC are asking local young people to get involved in creating a science fiction adventure comic online.  The comic, Starbound, is part of our ‘Outside The Box’ project, supported by National Lottery Community Fund. Over the last year, the project has delivered online workshops and involved young people in creating comics about life in lockdown and a collection of spooky stories for Galoshans. For this project, we wanted to do something a little different. It’s a choose your own adventure comic, where local people help create and shape the story on instagram. Every Mo ..read more
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Stories from a strange time
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1y ago
Comics in Lockdown Before the year ends, we are sharing two publications created as part of our National Lottery Community Fund project, Outside The Box, working with marginalised young people in Inverclyde to create stories which reflect their lived experience. And obviously, in 2020, there was one lived experience it was hard to avoid. One that we all shared in different ways. So throughout spring and summer of 2020, we continued to work with as many young people in Inverclyde as we could, to create comics which explored their experiences of lockdown.  Sometimes that would mean worki ..read more
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Our Words
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1y ago
Scottish Parliament Comics Over the last year, we worked with eight schools across the eight parliamentary areas in Scotland, to create 'Our Words', comics which explore the work of the Scottish Parliament. It's been an amazing project to be involved with and we are delighted that the comics are now available to read online. There were four primary schools and four secondary schools involved in the project - each working with the Scottish Parliament Education and Outreach team to find out more about their chosen topic. The schools visited parliament, talked to MSPs, the returning officer, th ..read more
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Going Galoshans
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1y ago
Hallowe'en in Inverclyde For the last few years, Inverclyde has celebrated a more traditional type of Halloween with its Galoshans Festival. The festival takes its name from the play which used to be performed around the houses on Halloween - you can read, download and perform a version of the play I created a few years back . This year, Inverclyde’s Galoshans Festival is obviously having to adapt to the even scarier realities of Covid-19 – and so much of the activity has shifted online for now, but there are still lots of events, activities and performances to enjoy. Check out the programme ..read more
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Common Good Comics
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1y ago
Stories that matter... Glasgow Caledonian University and Magic Torch Comics CIC have secured £76,300 funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, for a two year project which will share stories of social enterprise and community action. Common Good Comics will work with organisations from across Scotland to record oral histories and explore community archives and then present the material in two comic collections which will be shared in schools, online and at comicons and other national events. Magic Torch Comics director, Paul Bristow, explains “I’ve worked in and around social enterp ..read more
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