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Coral will work on The Preserving Project (I Love You This Much), a participatory performance that uses traditional food preserving techniques to transform non-food stories and objects, providing a space to talk about food, nature, memory, nostalgia, and colonization.

Simon will go on a series of daily walks through Halifax, recording movement in a journal that will be used to create a hand drawn map of the city.

The same as human and terrestrial elements, celestial things have important and serious things to do, but also they can have fun. Celestial things have fun, is Claudia Tremblay’s new art zine, with some drawings that are inspired by the new age aesthetic and The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 science fiction short story collection written by Ray Bradbury.

Ana is going to work on a graphic and written zine about experiences in Mexican punk and radical communities.

Mariana will develop her performance music project Hunter Rapper which humourously and critically explores food politics and systems, while Ross will produce a zine of recipes from memory with hand drawn lettering. Both of them will look specifically at lobster and fisheries, celebrating and examining local food knowledge.

Anne-Francoise will use homemade microphones, cassette recorders and homemade cassette loops to record sound samples around Roberts Street and create an ephemeral sound installation in the garden.

Caroline will work on drawings for a comic-based zine Womanimalistic and a zine revolving around “Punk Health” creating dialogue about health and self-care with information and humour.

Clara wrote and illustrated a zine called "Hungry: A (re)Collection of Memorable Meals and Disordered Eating." She held a Zine L(A)unch, potluck lunch, reading, and discussion about relationships with food .

Miss Nico organized Riot Grrrl Relived, an art show and visual examination of current grrrl zines as influenced by the 90's Riot Grrrl movement. Miss Nico also participated in the 2010 Pop Explosion Zine Fair, and finished a new issue of her zine "Desensitized."

Molly and Hunter created the zine "All of Us Giants", to "identifying the things we like and enjoy that lay hidden in the world we walk through every day; but that also means learning to imagine what’s not here, and thinking about how to combine it with what is." They compiling ideas from interviews conducted, anonymous answers put in public Answer Boxes, and a Think-a-Thon/Talk-a-Thon/Draw-a-Thon/Make-a-Thon.

Alessandra Naccarato worked on transforming sections of her play, The Custom of Killing Rabbits, into an interactive spoken word performance that shared a story of immigration, combining auto/biography and historical fact with fantasy. A lovely one-woman candlelight performance was held in the garden at dusk.

Nancy Anne McPhee set up a natural dye studio in the Roberts Street yard.  She experimented with preparing an Indigo pot, dyeing greens, used dyed silk to make small trapunto wall quilts. She held an all-day open-studio workshop to show and teach all parts of the dying process to several keen crafters.

Maranda Elizabeth completed a new issues (#20) of her zine, Telegram Ma'am, revolving around on disability and writing. Maranda also held a workshop on "Mental Health and the Concept of Home" and an Ice Cream Social and Zine Launch Party, and participated in the 24 Hour Zine Challenge and our 5th Birthday party!

Teresa Chun-Wen Cheng worked on creating a short stop-motion video from one of her comics, exploring the effects of racism and colonialism on children's perception of themselves and the violence that comes out of the internalized racism. She held a screening of the video-in-progress.

Henry Adam Svec worked on Folk Songs of Canada Now, a musical performance art piece that explores the possibility that Henry is a folksong collector. He gave a public performance of his work at the Company House, as well as SappyFest in Sackville NB. Henry also gave a workshop on Stage Banter for performance artists and musicians.