A Collaborative (or Personal) Zine Project!

February 2nd - 4th; 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
In-Person Zine Making Stations at GPS*
*4 zine making stations, drop-in welcome, no RSVP necessary, however we have capacity for only 8 participants at one time.

February 2nd, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Zoom Co-Working Session; access here.

February 4th, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Zoom Co-Working Session; access here.

A note! The in-person zine making stations are also open to the public during the Zoom sessions. Join us however works best for you.

A global pandemic; political unrest and an increase of domestic terrorism in the United States; oppression and violence perpetrated against BIPOC, immigrants, refugees, LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized communities, acts of anti-semitism—along with numerous other national, regional, and global struggles and injustices—we may feel, we are left in pieces.

Greensboro Project Space and first year MFA student, Ash Strazzinski, will hold space for the creation of a collaborative zine* (or your own, a personal zine) which will serve as a moment of reflection and consideration—an act of picking up and putting together the pieces to help us find some sense of peace. Through the activity/action of cutting and taping, drawing and writing, we will have an opportunity to process our experiences of these “unprecedented” times.

Participants are invited to create their zine or zine pages in-person at GPS (with covid-safe protocols) or to join from home via Zoom during the two co-working sessions on Tuesday, February 2nd and Thursday, February 4 from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.

Joining from home? All you'll need is:

• letter-sized computer paper (a couple sheets will do)
• scissors
• something sticky (tape or glue)
• drawing or mark making materials (pens, pencils, markers, crayons, etc.)
• collage materials (magazines, newspapers, junk mail, etc.)

Those who choose to participate in the collaborative zine, will submit their pages to be collated into a single publication. Collaborative zine participants will receive a print version of the zine via USPS mail as well as access to the digital publication on issuu.com. For anyone who is not able to create their page at GPS in-person, their page (or any contribution—an image, essay, poem etc.) can be submitted to Ash via email at amstrazzins@uncg.edu by Friday, February 5th at 5:00pm.

Questions? Email Ash at amstrazzins@uncg.edu.

*a zine, short for fanzine or magazine, is a do-it-yourself subculture self-publication, usually made on paper and reproduced with a photocopier or printer. Zine creators are often motivated by a desire to share knowledge or experience with people in marginalized or otherwise less-empowered communities. —Definition courtesy of Barnard Zine Collection.