About this Event
An afternoon of nostalgia & crafting to create your own Queer zine 🌈📖
- Design the teen mag you wish you’d read 🎨
- Create a fanzine for your first crush ❤️🔥
- Collage your fantasy prom-night 💐
- Write a letter to your younger self 💌
- Draw a coming-of-age cartoon 👀
...or simply sit & doodle with a friendly queer crowd, to a throwback soundtrack 🎶
Bring pals, a date, or come along solo to meet some new friendly faces.
All crafting materials provided: Felt-tips + gel pens + stickers + stencils + a stack of old teen magazines to cut up & re-cycle for your own queer-tastic zine ✂️
We also provide instruction (how to fold a basic zine) and ✨zine-spiration✨ in the form of some zines we've enjoyed, and some we’ve made before, along with a throwback playlist, of songs from your coming-of-age era (we take requests!)
If you wanna use your own life as inspiration, we invite you to bring something you've kept from your past: a favourite object, a picture, a song, or treasured memory* to use as inspiration on turning them into a Queer-tastic Zine (this is not required - just if you want to!)
🎟 Tickets are Pay What You Can - choose a price that's affordable for you.
This event is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary (the night where queer folks read our teenage diaries on stage). More about us:
Insta | Bluesky | Facebook | TikTok | Linktree
www.queerdiary.org.uk
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*Non-treasured memories also welcome! Teenage troubles, angst & cringe are all part of life. Please look after yourself and consider other participants if choosing to explore or share anything very difficult or sensitive.
Location & Access:
- Pride House is accessible is step-free and on street level
- There is an accessible toilet.
- Timings of activities are approximate, and may vary slightly, depending on how many people attend.
- If you have any questions or access needs you'd like us to know about, please email Beth from Queer Diary at: [email protected] and copy in the venue [email protected]
Inclusivity & Community Safety:
Please note this event is themed around memories of teenage years gone by, and is aimed at adults. This is an-LGBTQIA+ community centred space. We will not assume your gender or sexuality, or apply gendered pronouns or honourifics (until we learn which ones you use). To make sure everyone feels welcome, we ask attendees to do the same.
Sharing is always optional - please engage with this workshop on your own terms. Our suggested prompts, and the invitation to "show and tell" are offers, not obligations - feel free to make a zine about whatever you like, and share as much or little as you're comfortable with.
Discrimination will not be tolerated (including - but not limited to - transphobia, biphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, xenophobia, classism, ablism, fatphobia). If anyone makes you feel uncomfortable in the space, please tell the event organisers and/or venue staff as soon as you can.
Please consider the wellbeing of yourself and others. Please give a content warning if raising sensitive or potentially triggering topics, so other participants can choose what themes they do/don't want to hear about or engage with as part of this session.
Do NOT bring coughs, colds, sneezes into this space - stay home and look after yourself if you have symptons of COVID, or any similar potentially airbourne infections. Please take a lateral flow test before attending, if you can. Event organisers are vaccinated and still regularly test for COVID. We welcome the wearing of masks.
We may take photos at this event, to publicise future events like this - if you'd prefer not to be in photos, or want to be anonymised/removed from any pictures we publish on our social media, etc, please let us know, we want to make sure we respect your privacy.
Follow Queer Diary for more on our work:
Instagram @hasbianshow | Bluesky @queerdiary
Facebook @QueerDiaryCIC | TikTok @hasbianqueerdiary
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Agenda
🕑: 02:30 PM
Introdution, instruction, and inspiration for zine-making
Info: Beth will talk you through our materials and creative prompts, and demonstrate how to fold a mini-zine
🕑: 02:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Zine-making time ✂️✏️
Info: We'll put on a throwback playlist, while you stuck into making your own zine. You can use our prompts/materials as inspiration, or feel free to make whatever you like!
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Show & tell: share what you've made (if you want to)
Info: A chance to share what you've made with the group (this is optional, with no pressure to share, if you make something that's just for you!)
Event venue & nearby stays
Pride House, 27 School Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
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