Zines 102: The Personal & Political

Tue Apr 22 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-04:00

Interference Archive | Brooklyn

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Zines 102: The Personal & Political
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Learn about zines, zinemaking, layouts, personal-political narratives and more at Zines 102!
About this Event

Zines 102: The Personal & The Political is a hands-on zine and bookmaking workshop (18+) at Interference Archive in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.

Building on the foundations of Zines 101, this workshop explores how personal narratives intersect with larger political and social movements through zine-making. Participants will deepen their technical skills by learning new formats, including half-letter staple-bound zines (saddle stitch), pagination, and creating a master flat for easy duplication. More than just a technical workshop, this is a space to channel the social justice topics you can’t shut up about—the issues that fuel your thinking, feeling, and action. By copying ephemera, layering archives, and experimenting with text and image, you’ll craft a zine that captures your urgency, voice, and vision. By the end, you’ll have the skills to reproduce your zines independently—amplifying your ideas beyond the page.

Participants should bring several personal items that represent them. This could be family photos, ID cards, keepsakes, documents, or small objects that can be photocopied - anything you consider essential to your narrative! These items will be photocopied on-site and used as raw material to creatively re-imagine their personal narratives into zines.

This is a hands-on workshop. We'll fold paper, cut, bind, stamp, draw, collage, and print. No experience is necessary, but an interest in writing, drawing, or crafting will go a long way. We strongly believe that zines are for everyone interested in making them.

Instructor: Francisco Donoso (he/him/el) is an artist, curator, and educator based in NYC. Originally from Ecuador, he’s been a recipient of DACA since 2013. He creates mixed media works that explore the psychic spaces of migration: the psychological, emotional, spiritual, memory, and unseen terrains.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Interference Archive, 314 7th Street, Brooklyn, United States

Tickets

USD 17.85 to USD 35.00

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