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.
Ana is going to work on a graphic and written zine about experiences in Mexican punk and radical communities.
The same as human and terrestrial elements, celestial things have important and serious things to do, but also they can have fun.
Mary will work on a few issues of Black Out, a free mini-zine that critically re-arranges images and text from mainstream print media. Having tackled several Fredricton free papers, Mary will use Halifax papers to articulate media analysis.
Cheyenne is compiling interviews with folks who run zine libraries and archives, and will visit the Anchor Archive to do some interviews for a zine that will become both a resource for existing zine libraries, and a guide for folks who are interested in starting one themselves.
Walker will be illustrating a comic-collaboration with a middle-schooler, as part of the Providence Comics Consortium, a group that teaches sequential art to kids at the public library.
Elizabeth will work on a zine called The Sex Project; Or, How I Got Into Women's Studies, a memoir about a controversial high school project on sex. By connecting memory, bodies, archives and politics, Elizabeth hopes to connect personal stories to discussion of social justice.
Amy Leigh is in the midst of working on a book documenting Canadian zine culture over the last decade and a half. While she hopes to dosome Halifax-specific research during her residency, she is mostly going to focus on writing a (first!) personal zine of her own. (Finally!) You can also check out her distro, twelveohtwo at the PopExplosion Zine Fair on October 20th.
Megan wants to make Trabant #5, which will be a zine about the 9-month professional circus training program she will complete in May of this year. This series began in 2005, coinciding with her training to be a flying trapeze instructor. trapeze instructor. This zine has followed her journey throughout the world of circus, from training on flying trapeze (Trabant #1) to discovering handstands (Trabant #2), to performing professionally with a feminist acrobatics company in NYC (Trabant #3), to trying to understand priorities around art-making and art objects in her life (Trabant #4).
Marie-Pier, Marie-Andrée, and Audrée Demers-Roberge will collaboratively create a bilingual zine inspired by their experiences in Halifax and distribute it throughout Halifax and Québec.