Zine Making Evening

Hosted by Queer Diary

Grab a pritt-stick & join the Queer Diary team for an evening of nostalgia, crafting & chance to create your own personal Queer Teenage History Zine 🌈📖

• Design the teen mag you wish you’d read 🎨
• Collage your fantasy prom-night 💐
• Create a fanzine for your first crush ❤️‍🔥
• Write a letter to your younger self 💌
• Draw a coming-of-age cartoon 👀

Or simply sit & doodle with a friendly queer crowd, to a throwback soundtrack  💿🎶

Bring your pals, your date, or come alone to meet some new friendly faces.

All crafting materials are provided by us:

Paper + pritt stick + scissors + felt-tips + gel pens + pencils + stencils  🖍

+ a load of old teen mags to cut up & re-cycle into your own queer-tastic zine ✂️✂️

We also provide instruction (how to fold a basic zine) and ✨zine-spiration✨ in the form of some zines we’ve enjoyed, and some we’ve made before, along with a collaborative playlist, where you can add your own fave throwback tracks from your teenage years.

If you wanna use your own life as inspiration, we invite you to bring something you’ve kept from your past: a favourite object, a picture, a song, or treasured memory* to use as inspiration on turning them into a Queer-tastic Zine (this is not required – just if you want to!)

🎟 All tickets to this event are Pay What You Can – please choose the price-point that makes this event affordable for you.

Artfix cafe will be open for you to buy hot drinks, soft drinks, wine, beer, cocktails, and snacks ☕️🍷

This event is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary (the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage). Find out more about us here:

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If you have any questions, concerns, or access needs you’d like us to know about, please email Beth & Josie at: Hasbianshow@gmail.com

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*Non-treasured memories also welcome! Teenage troubles, angst & cringe are all part of life.  Please look after yourself if choosing to explore anything difficult or sensitive. 

Timings:

18:00-19:00 Cafe open for refreshments, arrive early to grab a drink & settle into the space, before we start the session ☕️🍷 (serving until 8pm)

19:00 Instructions/inspiration for zine-making

19:00 – 20:15 Zine-making time ✂️🖍

20:15 – 20:30 Show & tell time: we’ll close the session with a chance to share & see what others have made.

Location & Access:

• ArtFix Cafe is on the way in to Greenwich Market, in a busy area near several stations and other shops, cafes, etc. The address is 7 Durnford Street, SE10 9BF (just off Greenwich Church Street). The venue on Google Maps. The nearest stations are Cutty Sark (DLR) and Greenwich (DLR & National Rail), and there are several bus-stops nearby.
• Artfix has partial step-free access, but no wheelchair accessible toilets: the cafe entrance is 91cm wide, and the front of the cafe is step-free. However, there’s a 2cm step across the centre of the cafe, and toilets are beyond this step. The toilet door does not fully open, and there is no handrail installed.
• The nearest parking lot with free Blue Badge parking is 350m away, at Burney Street.
• Dogs are welcome.
• There is a range of different seating available within the venue – from wooden chairs at tables to soft couches and armchairs.

If there’s something you’d like the organisers and facilitators to consider, to make this workshop accessible for you, please email the organisers: hasbianshow@gmail.com