zine

She came to Halifax to work on new issue of her Brainscan zine, in time for the annual Halifax Zine Fair. She also  co-facilititated a workshop on teaching zine workshops.

She worked on a new zine of Halifax-based drawings, and embroidered some of her drawings during backyard tea party sewing parties. She also hosted an animation screening that included her own work and other Montreal artists.

Chris works with the Queer Zine Archive Project, and his time in Halifax was used to launch SPEW Fo(u)rth: A Canadian Queer Zine Art Show, using zines from QZAP as well as the Anchor Archive collection. Using materials and methods of street style and grafitti art, the pieces used zine excerpts to highlight significant queer voices in pages of queer zines.

She worked on a zine about turning 30, asking questions like “What does it mean to ‘grow up’ in a culture where adulthood is predicated on participation in a capitalist culture that I don’t want to be a part of?” and “What does success look like?” She also did a Skillshare Workshop on simple book structures.

Russel used the Ink Storm Screenprinting Studio to compile a compendium of information regarding Secret Space Inhabitants (monsters, creatures, denziens of Halifax and the Atlantic Shore).

John is an animator, filmmaker and comic artist who worked with the NFB for more than 30 years. He created a special Halifax issue of his Ashcan Alley comic book, and held a screening of some of his film work in the CBC Radio Room.

In this double residency, Christopher compiled issues of his game playing zine, Ollyollyoxenfree, into a compact resource zine, while Leanne wrote a how-to zine about creating a DIY events guide, based on Pittsburgh “Do It!” calendar.

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."

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 .

Katie made issue #4 of her zine "White Elephants", about yard saling and her love of all things old and unwanted, with a little linguistics lesson on the word nostalgia and related words in other languages, too. She held a yard sale/zine launch event entitled "Nostalgic For Something We Can't Remember: The poetry of secondhand things."