About Caffeine & Zine Workshop Series
Hands-on zine-making workshops where participants will create pieces that address the timely, social justice elements of the exhibition while enjoying a cup (or two) of coffee.
The library will provide construction materials including pre-cut papers, markers, colored pencils, stamps, weeded illustrated books and magazines for collaging, glue, and scissors. Templates will be provided as a measure to avoid trivialization. After the program, the individual zines will be compiled into a single work, digitized, and placed in Digital Commons.
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Did you know...?
Zines were used in the Terezine ghetto and concentration camp during WWII.
Called “the Dead Poets Society of Terezin” by the Jewish Journal, Vedem was an extraordinary, vibrant, handmade magazine produced by a collective of teenagers under terrifying conditions in the Terezin ghetto/concentration camp during WWII. With a title that means “in the lead” in Czech, Vedem was founded in Terezin by a 14-year-old artistic prodigy, Petr Ginz. Born in Prague, Ginz was a writer, poet, and artist who had written several novels while still a child. Creating Vedem and driving its weekly production became his final and most influential achievement before he was deported to Auschwitz and killed at the age of 16. (via artslandia)
Still Unsure?
Check out this Beginners Guide to Creating Zines for inspiration and confidence building!
- A Beginner's Guide to Making Zines (Vice) Every step of how to make tiny books, from coming up with what you want to say to stapling your finished product into existence.
Additional Resources
Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2: DIY Zine Resources for Zines and Zine Culture by A brief, but engaging, and eminently useful guide to doing a zine. From tools to layout, copying, printing, trading, promotion, ordering, mailing, distribution, and a whole lot more.
Writing a Riot: Riot Grrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics by Riot grrrls, punk feminists best known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing to create radical feminist sites of resistance. In what ways did zines document feminism and activism of the 1990s? How did riot grrrls use punk ideologies to participate in DIY sites?
Make a Zine: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution by In this new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine making in today's digital and social-media-obsessed world.
Find more resources in the GIL-Universal Catalog.