Cut, paste, fold, create
Free
Port Fairy Library
65 Sackville St, Port Fairy
Short for fanzine or magazine, it’s pronounced zeen, like bean or seen or teen and it’s a cheap print run of a hand-made publication. You can make a zine about things you love, loathe and other heartfelt opinions and ideas important to you. You can write, paste, illustrate, stamp, collage or any use any technique to make your zine, and then to duplicate it for the small print run, you use a photocopier.
Sticky Institute is the hub for Zine makers in Melbourne. Their diverse community is made up of writers, artists, illustrators, poets, graphic designers, graphic novelists and anyone who has the need for creative communication in a non-mainstream environment. Alex Clark @lexlotl and Helen Graham @juimon from Sticky will facilitate this hands-on workshop of personal creativity where you can discover zines and find your inner publisher.
All materials and use of photocopier provided. Recommended for teenagers and adults. Places are limited and bookings essential. Book online via the Port Fairy Library website.
Extra details on what the workshop involves:
The good bit!
Start a story in the middle and build a zine around it. Rearrange plots to tell different stories. How did we get here and where do we go? Start at the good bit and figure out the rest.
8 pagers
The thrill of a pocket sized zine about your loves, loathes and other heartfelt opinions. Sick of repeating yourself and wish you could hand someone an explainer of a story you've told a hundred times before? This is the format for you! Photocopy it and give it to people to bypass conversational reruns.
8pager maps!
Start with intuitive drawing and fill a page with scrawls. Fold it up and turn those lines into landmarks on a map. Tell a story about your journey.
Show n tell
Read a selection of zines and see what's possible in the medium. Talk to zinemakers about how they make them. Find out how to make your own cheap print runs of handmade publications.
Image credits: Zines: Cows Eyes Five & The First Day of Summer distributed by Small Zine Volcano, Midnight Kiss by Helen Graham juimon.com, The Case for Walking Very Slowly in Nature & Everyday Alchemy by Natalie Blom, Make Your Own Minizine by @Xeroxdays, A Love/Hate Letter to the Cannon by @Xeroxdays and @14thFrame, 1816 The Year Without a Summer by Isabella Brown, Hello It Was Nice To Meet You by @amiramakesthings. Photography: Jo O’Keefe
