“Dibujatolrato Sinparar” is an open and self-managed collective in Bilbao, made up of people who share their passion for drawing. We occupy the street, experiment and commit ourselves socially and culturally to the complex reality of the neighbourhoods of Bilbao La Vieja, San Francisco and Zabala.
After 10 years of activity with 60 tolrater@s regularly participating, many beers and almost 500 sketchcrawls, we have generated a creative culture that has made possible new individual and collaborative projects arising from this informal network of relationships.
One of these projects is the book "20 Years Rices of the World. Recipes and Stories". The Squares Social Groups District Platform asked us to publish this book to tribute this annual event that brings together nearly 4,000 people to celebrate cultural diversity, weave community relations, occupy public space and demand the improvement of our neighbourhoods.
We created a team of three illustrators and had long coffees with 15 diverse people to listen to their stories and, incidentally, to collect their favourite recipes that they cook in "Rices of the World" in the square.
It was Eugenio Lasarte's turn to illustrate live. He has been editing the "Amazing Trips" blog for years and has recently published "Unlikely Constructions". Eva Hidalgo, "Evanoru", offered to lovingly layout the book. She is an illustrator and graphic designer who has done dozens of freelance works. Ander Elgorriaga, who published the story "White Butterfly", coordinated the project and wrote the texts. And... in just 11 weeks this socio-gastronomic project was in bookshops.