This year, we have two female artists coming to our festival. Mari Yamazaki is known as an artist of “Thermae Romae” where she finds something in common between the Roman and Japanese bath cultures. Although born in Japan, Yamazaki left Japan when she was seventeen, and moves to Italy, Portugal, Cuba, and other parts of the world while drawing manga. She keeps energetically producing many works such as the biography of late Steve Jobs.
Penelope Bagieu is a talented young artist living in Paris. She represents her generation to speaks out contributing to many papers and magazines in France. The females artists will have a talk on subjects ranging from women to cultures.