The 451Initiative has many facets. A new free centre/museum will be a home to display and exhibit original Art and comics from our past and heritage as Well as art from the exciting new generation of graphic novel illustrators.

There will also be residential Workshops. Outreach/touring workshops for Schools Libraries and selected bookshops.
There already has been highly successful workshops. The workshops will teach and inspire new artists, and raise awareness of comic book they will be discovering the art of visual storytelling, creating characters using only imagination and learning how to tell stories in a comic/graphic novel form

Comic Convention with Cosplay later this year (summer/autumn 2019)The 451 comic con/expo will be an exhilarating and unforgettable experience and will include not only loved comic books but other aspects of this popular genre that deserve wider recognition

The 451 graphic novel comic book awards. The 451 awards will be based on the premise of the libraries summer Reading challenge. The challenge will be to read five graphic novels during the summer and then vote on your favourite, story, artwork, and thought-provoking. This will be run with Gloucestershire library service and Waterstone books.

There will be a reading room complete with its own Graphic Novels to enjoy.this will be used to help with 451 awards and will include many independent books that are not in the mainstream.