Taught by Shebani Rao.

Make a comic about your connection to Chinatown! This workshop will explore comics as a medium for storytelling and social justice. We'll warm up with some fun drawing exercises and reflect on why Chinatown matters to us. We'll then make comics that explore our relationship to Chinatown and share them with each other!

You don’t need any prior experience, and all supplies will be provided. Just bring yourself, your love of Chinatown, and any favorite Chinatown pictures you might have as inspiration. All adults and teens are welcome.

This workshop will be led by comic artist and writer Shebani Rao. Shebani likes to combine text, images, and lots of snark in her storytelling. Her work has been published in The Seventh Wave, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, LitHub, The Margins, and others. Shebani has worked in nonprofits and local government for the past decade. Her day job, art practice, and identity as a daughter of Indian immigrants inform each other.

This program is part of a month-long series of free arts programs in libraries, presented by the Philadelphia Folklore Project. To learn more, visit www.folkloreproject.org. This project is made possible in part by federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries. This program was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.