Queer Zine Library – Talk and Zine Making Workshop
We’re so excited to be rounding off our Eat Up! For Starters workshop season with a visit from the Queer Zine Library! Come along between 11am and 4pm to browse the collection, talk to the zine librarians and donate your own zines to the collection.
Queer Zine Library (https://www.queerzinelibrary.com) is a UK based roaming DIY queer zine library celebrating radical LGBTQ self-publishing. Queer Zine Library has over 400+ zines which tour and travel the UK, sharing LGBTQIA stories and lived experiences outside of traditional library settings, putting queer histories in the hands of queer communities.
There’ll be a short presentation from QZL about the history and mission of the library, as well as a ticketed zine making workshop from local zine maker and artist Sophie Sherwood in the afternoon.
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TIMINGS:
– Queer Zine Library: 11am-4pm (free/donations)
– Queer Zine Library presentation: 12:30-1pm (free/donations)
– Zine making workshop: 1-3.30pm (£5 each, tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eat-up-for-starters-zine-making-workshop-tickets-92482639063)
Workshop | Zine Making
Zinester Sophie Sherwood will share with you the art of creating this classic, low-fi, DIY form of publication. They will be bringing zines from their own collections to share with and inspire you.
Presented by Arnolfini as part of the Still I Rise expanded programme.
This workshop, in conjunction with Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance – Act 3, aims to look at everyday feminism and how we can bring together ideas to distribute to a wider audience through the power of zines. An accessible, affordable way of sharing ideas and information, totally independent of formal and commercial systems, the Zine has been the activist’s go to tool for ever.
Sophie Sherwood is a visual artist living and working in Bristol and has recently completed an MA in Photography at UWE. She specialises in cameraless photographic creative workshops and zine making for all ages.
Materials and equipment will be provided, but please bring anything from your own archive you’d particularly like to include (photocopied if it’s precious) for some old-school cutting and pasting.
We recommend a walk around the exhibition prior to the event to soak up the different forms of feminist activist expression that can offer up an inspiration or a space for self reflection.
The materials used could contain partial nudity.
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance – Act 3 is a large-scale exhibition of international artists, highlighting the experiences of women and celebrating their triumphs – with an expanded programme of performances, screenings, workshops and talks filling Arnolfini through Autumn 2019.
Bristol Zine Collective meet up
Bristol Zine Collective is having a get together to work on current zines and projects. This is free and everyone is welcome to attend!
This is part of Sophie Sherwood’s Cosmos exhibition in the Tobacco Factory snug, which will be displayed on the walls during the workshop.
Bristol Comic & Zine Fair
Table applications for Bristol Comic & Zine Fair are now open! Apply using our online form here: https://bczf.co.uk/applications/
Bristol Anarchist Zine Fair
Zines, pamphlets, booklets… whatever you want to call them, many of us can agree that they’re a great way to spread information and share ideas easily and accessibly.
So this May, as a build up to this year’s bookfair, we are having a Bristol anarchist zinefair! There will be activist and distro stalls including our own distro of the bookfair collective’s favourites. There will also be a zine making workshop and other workshops and discussions. Kebele vegan cafe will be serving food and cakes all day. In the evening there will be a fundraising gig at a different venue, more info on that nearer the time.
May 13th 12 -5pm
Kebele social centre
14 Robertson Road
Easton
BS5 6JY
And to set your minds at rest and put to bed all the rumours that have been circulating, YES the Bookfair itself IS happening! It’s going to be on the 16th of September and it’s going to be fabulous
Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2017
Bristol Comic and Zine Fair celebrates the world of DIY and independent publishing.
The fair brings together artists, writers, and publishers from across Bristol and further afield for a one-day market. 2017 will be our 7th year.
BCZF was established in 2011 to give artists interested in self-publishing a chance to sell their work and to invite new audiences to see what the UK’s vibrant DIY arts scene is up to.
BCZF 2017 returns to The Station, Broadmead, a city-centre space run by The Creative Youth Network to provide a place for young people to meet, develop their talent, and get advice and support.
Papergirl Bristol: Zine-Making with Sophie Sherwood
On December 7th, we’re hosting a beginner-friendly workshop on the art of zine-making with Sophie Sherwood, a Bristol-based photographer and zinester who has hosted workshops for other festivals such as Try This… Dorchester in Dorset – and is Papergirl Bristol’s own team leader! You can see Sophie’s art, photography and zines at her website: http://www.sophiesherwood.co.uk/
For this workshop, bring along any ideas you might have about creating a story, elaborating on diary entries, creating original artwork in a zine or just creating your own scrapbook.
Some basic materials will be provided – magazines for collage, glue, scissors, etc – but bring any of your own materials along too.
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It’s free to RSVP. All PG workshops are pay-what-you-can (collection boxes at the door).
Agency : Make your Mark
Agency : Make your Mark is a participatory zine-making project created throughout the summer at Arnolfini, conceived and facilitated by artist Rachael House.
Agency : Make your Mark talks about how we survive, and pass on ideas of how to make things better, for ourselves, other people and the planet. In tiny ways – or thinking on a BIG scale. “It’s important to remember that we have some agency in the world, and that our actions have consequences”.
In 2016, in times just as difficult as the late 1970s, zines are still a way for us to connect with each other, to have a voice. We don’t have to be ‘experts’, zines are for all of us, we all have something to say and a need to be heard. Small lo-fi publications, we can use zines to reach out to others, to campaign, to find our people, locally, nationally and internationally.
No previous experience necessary, this is a drop-in activity for all ages and abilities produced by artist Rachael House – just come along, join-in and DIY.
Saturday August 13 1-5pm, Gallery 1
Rachael will present tips on how to ‘zine’ and audiences are invited to discover how to make their own one-off zine using a single sheet of A4 paper and/or contribute a single page (or two or three) to a larger zine, to be published after the summer.
Agency : Make your Mark zine sessions continue every day throughout August & September in Gallery 1 facilitated by Arnolfini project volunteers.
Saturday 10 September 11-5pm, Gallery 1
During this final session, Rachael will present a short performative talk about zine culture. The rest of the session will be for both audiences and participants to view and select works made throughout the summer to be collated and layed out to create a final printed zine.
Rachael House is an artist lucky and unlucky enough to come of age in the punk era. She carries with her from that time a belief in DIY; if you want something to happen you can make it happen. From dyeing your hair, forming a band, customising your clothes to making a zine.
Rachael makes events, objects, performances, comic strips and zines. In the 1990s Rachael was part of the thriving queerzine scene, with her autobiographical comic Red Hanky Panky. She continues to make zines and comic strips as part of and alongside her fine art practice. Her recent projects and exhibitions include Focus on Feminism and Gender, New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, There Is An Alternative! Critical Comics and Cartoons, University of Kent, Comix Creatrix- 100 women making comics at House of Illustration, London, Queer Feminist Disco at Bent Fest, Powerlunches, London, Feminism and zines- changing the world with comic strips, part of Future Perfect: The Changing Face of Girls’ Comics, LJMU Special Collections and Archives, Liverpool and Challenge Heteronormativity at the V&A, London.
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