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Two shows will be opening on Friday 5 December at Eastside Projects:

• One-Day-Comic by Henrik Schrat (with special guests – a.a.s, Access Local, Asia Alfasi, Simon & Tom Bloor, Celine Condorelli, Hans Christian Dany, Shezad Dawood, Stefan Heidenreich, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Plastique Fantastique and Olav Westphalen)
• Feature: Architecture by Shezad Dawood

There’ll be talks by Shezad Dawood and Henrik Shrat at 5.30pm on the Friday, with both shows officially opening at 7pm.

After that the shows will run from 6 Dec 2008 to 31 Jan 2009 (closed 21 December – 7 January).  Eastside Projects is open Thursday to Saturday, 12-5pm. There’s more info on the shows here.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure One Day Comic was meant to be part of the New Generation Arts Festival back in June. Or maybe it’s developed since then.