booklet - ER 2011
booklet - ER 2011
booklet - ER 2011
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Conference Dinner<br />
Wednesday, November 2<br />
7:30 PM to midnight<br />
Social Events<br />
Belgian Center for Comic Strip Art<br />
Rue des Sables, 20<br />
1000 Brussels<br />
(25 minutes walk from the hotel or<br />
8 minutes from Botanique metro station)<br />
http://www.comicscenter.net/en/home<br />
Additional tickets are available for purchase for e 100 each.<br />
We’re very pleased to have found a truly exceptional place for hosting the conference dinner. The<br />
Belgian Comic Strip Center is housed in a magnificent Art Nouveau temple (architect Victor Horta,<br />
1906) and since its opening in 1989 has become one of Brussels major tourist draws. Every year more<br />
than 200,000 visitors come here to explore 4,200 m 2 worth of permanent and temporary exhibitions.<br />
With more than 700 comic strip authors, Belgium has more comic strip artists per square kilometre<br />
than any other country in the world! It is here that the comic strip has grown from a popular medium<br />
into an art in its own right. Nowhere else comics are so strongly rooted in reality and in people’s<br />
imagination. This kingdom of the imagination is home to some of Belgium’s best-known comic strip<br />
heroes: Tintin, Spirou, Bob and Bobette, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Blake and Mortimer, Marsupilami,<br />
etc.<br />
We hope this unique building and the world-class meal we’ll enjoy there will make for a memorable<br />
networking event and a fitful closing for the conference.<br />
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