Web Finds: Essential Sequential, delivering the ABC Comics Project to long-term unemployed

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Essential Sequential is a not-for-profit organisation created to provide creative workshops and activities for mainstream and hard-to-reach individuals of virtually all ages and abilities – and they’re working on a number of projects in the works, including the ABC Comic Project, which helps long-term unemployed participants explore and uncover possible routes to employment or training through comic creation and solution-focused storytelling.

Created for Neighbourhoods That Work, a five-year multi-agency project in Great Yarmouth designed to improve community resilience, the ABC comic workshops demonstrate skills and techniques used by professionals to create amazing comic book stories and artwork whilst exploring the participants career and training options.

One of the pieces of art created as part of the ABC Comics Project workshops

One of the pieces of art created as part of the ABC Comics Project workshops

The aims and goals of the workshop are to use storytelling and comic drawing to explore and discuss each step on their journey with the workshop leader or others in the group could help uncover possible routes to your personal goals that could go undiscovered.

The workshop leader on Essential Sequential is Stuart Paterson, who delivered his first Comic Drawing Workshop in 2014 following decades of experience as a commercial designer and Illustrator. As an avowed comic, game and movie geek Stuart uses his considerable skills and limitless enthusiasm to help groups of virtually any age and ability create stories and artwork for their own original comic strips.

Essential Sequential are also working with creative students at Great Yarmouth College to mould them into a comic publishing team that will draft, write, design and promote their own, original comic book, and Moving Ink, a National Lottery-funded year-long series of 24 creative workshops, working within flexible and accessible locations at the point of need. The project will work with a minimum of 75 young people (aged between 16 to 24 years old) identified as being at risk of or who is currently NEET and having faced specific challenges in seeking to find meaningful employment or further education and training opportunities.

• If you are interested in taking part in this project, either as an individual or as an organisation, or think your organisation could benefit from creating comics, contact project leader Stuart Paterson via the Essential Sequential web site | Facebook | Pinterest | Follow Stuart Paterson on Twitter @stoorat



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