An episode of Panel Borders: Sarah Lightman visits the Eastside Educational Trust in Hackney and talks to Rakhee Jasani and Truly Johnston, plus four young creators who have worked on an anthology called 'Tales of Diversity' being launched next month.
Press release: "In the last of this month's shows looking at the use of comics in education, Sarah Lightman visits the Eastside Educational Trust in Hackney and talks to two of the tutors / mentors from the organisation - Rakhee Jasani and Truly Johnston - who have set up a project called 'Graphic Truths' as a way of engaging young people with comic book creation to tell stories that are personal to them. Sarah also talks to four of the young creators - Chantelle, Shantel, Leke and Nickita - who have worked on the project and are seeing their comics printed in an anthology called 'Tales of Diversity' being launched next month."