Project Fusion Junction: A multimedia graphic novel project

What are some of the similar concerns, celebrations, joys, fears, questions, answers shared by teens around the world. How can they, coming from different backgrounds, identities, cultures, challenges, creative abilities and perspectives – have a collective conversation on a single topic that they are passionate about?

Project Fusion Junction is a six-month reative project which brought teens ages 14 to 18 from Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica and Northern Ireland together to collaborate to create a shared, three part  story, told from their three different perspectives and experiences.

Following a call for submissions, participants for Project Fusion Junction were selected from each territory through programmes run by the project partners: Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad & Tobago; Fighting Words’ Write Club, Northern Ireland and applicants from the Jamaica Book Festival’s Young Writers Prize.

Over a six month period from December to April, teen writers, illustrators and musicians from each country attended virtual and in-person workshops to create a three-part digital graphic novel exploring the dystopian consequences and possibilities AI.

The result: three distinctive stories; set in different times, environments and concerns -a critical intervention in a world that’s increasingly becoming more polarised.

Project Fusion Junction fostered conversations and collaborations across borders from fresh, new perspectives – bringing together a diversity of voices to tell a cohesive story, along a common theme.