Glimpses from World Village Festival 2013 in Helsinki

It did not rain this year, and the festival was visited by about 85.000 people! One of the main themes this year was Human Rights. 

The big Market of Opportunities tent with about 200 NGOs was at times almost too crowded. Our small stand with an exhibition of grassroots comics, sales of Comics Power! pins, postcards and books, was very popular and had visitors from all over the world.

Lidia Kivinen and Heidi Leino helped building our stand from recycled material from a building-site dump. The pictures below speak for themselves:

We displayed wallposter comics from different projects. Lidia Kivinen at the stand.  

Happy reunion of old-timers in comics, from left: Tarmo Koivisto (World Comics Finland), Fredrik Stromberg (Swedish Comics Society), and Leif Packalen (World Comics Finland).

Our stand was built as a walk-in mini-exhibition.

Johanna Helin (Mondo, Estonia) checks out the exhibition.