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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