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.
Misleading maps manipulate public opinion in a variety of subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Reece Steinberg is creating and exhibiting a series of prints based on maps that have helped to make a Canadian oil pipeline look safe, erased Labrador, diminished the size of Africa, and committed other intentional and politically motivated inaccuracies.
James Gem and Nix Six Six will collaborate on postcard-sized pieces of art that focus on their relationships to anti-capitalist, queer and trans identity, and how those things interact with public spaces. They will display their art in a color zine and site-specific installations. They will also host an art making night for anyone who wants to contribute postcards to the project.
Participatory Action Research is about the cycle of action and reflection that is so important for effective organizing and community work. As a psychogeographilosopher and lover-of-halifax, I'm so looking forward to sharing and developing participatory research processes with you through discussion, a workshop and of course a collaborative zine!
Candace Mooers will complete and launch a personal zine called Dislocations that presents personal moments of introspection about place and times past. Dislocations is about moving from Toronto to Fredericton to Montreal and the feelings associated with migration under settler colonialism and capitalist patriarchy. The zine touches on such themes as exile, ancestry, canoe-burnings, and other journeys. Candace will also host a rhubarb canning extravaganza!
While in residence, Vanessa plans to finish the second issue of Other Worlds, a collaborative zine project through futuristic utopian / dystopian queer and trans comics. Vanessa will organize a zine art show centred on Queer Futures—culling from Anchor Archive’s collections. As well, Vanessa will host a workshop to create a collaborative silkscreen fortune telling art object.
Carina, the woodland elf from Byrnes Road P.E.I, will be organizing embroidery workshops/ stitch-tea parties where she will share embroidery skills and conversations with the Robert's street community. She hopes to create site-specific patchwork embroidery that reflects her experiences there and to hold a closing art show.
Erin will write and create a new issue of her feminist and art perzine, Imaginary Windows. This issue will cover topics such as community, vulnerability, and longing. She will host a skill-sharing workshop on how to ferment kimchi. She will present her project and zine with a dinner party where participants will share the fermented foods from the workshop.
Kelly is a librarian and will be working on a series of mini-zines focused on radical research topics, a sort of correspondence school answering the questions: why look offline? and how?
Christopher Lee Kennedy will transform the Robert Street Social Center into a living mushroom collaboratory for the ID of fungi specimens, mushroom foraging adventures, and mycological print making. You're invited to join for a community mushroom hunt and free advice on how everything is connected to everything else (like a rhizome of course).