2011 Workshops
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Workshops will be held on Saturday March 26th between 10am and 5pm. Please be aware that these are casual,
informal skill-sharing sessions. These are meant to be fun and informative! So don't be intimidated. Drop in for a
session or two.
WORKSHOPS - ROOM 1
11:00AM
Cindy Crabb - A Writing Workshop for Writers and Non-Writers
Cindy Crabb will lead this writing intensive workshop. Practicing to gently uncover the truth of what we want to say.
It's about sneaking your way through the mazes you put up around your truth to hide it even from yourself.
At the end there will be one or two excercises where we break into groups of two and read to each other.
Perfect writing is not encouraged. Bring a pen and notebook.
12:00PM
Getting to Z: How To Finish The Zine You Started
Become a Better Zine Writer through Editing
Congratulations! You've written several pieces for a zine and have thus passed the starting line. Now what?
Learn several techniques, including clustering, blind rewrite, and peer review, that will build on that initial burst
of energy and take you all the way to the finish line. Handouts with specific examples provided.
1:00PM
Alex Wrekk - Zine Event Organizing
A discussion workshop for people who organize zine events or would like to organize zine events to swap experiences and ideas. Share your perspectives and tips on everything from finding a space to fund raising, promotions and tabling issues or learn from other zine event organizers.
2:00PM
QZAP - Gimme a Q! Gimme a Z!
An open discussion about queer zines, queer zine history, and why it's important to make your own damn media.
3:00PM
J Bee & Jami Sailor - Archiving the Underground:
A Conversation on Zines in Academia
Discussion panel on the topic of zines in academia, including the growing legitimization of zines as an object of study as well as access and best practices. Panel members are still TBA but will be comprised of professors, librarians, archivists. Questions will be facilitated but panel will also be open to workshop attendee questions and input.
4:00PM
Midwest Books to Prisoners -
Supporting Prisoners by Sending Them Zines
A hands on workshop for creating birthday cards, letters and care packages that include zines to support political and social prisoners. Also includes an informal discussion about the work done by Midwest Books to Prisoners and solidarity/political repression in the USA.
WORKSHOPS - ROOM 2
12:00PM
Daniel Copulsky - One Page Zine Making
A hands-on step-by-step walkthrough of cutting and folding a single piece of paper into your own tiny 8 or 10 page zine. Includes example zines and how to use equipment like a paper cutter; perfect as a 101 lesson for people new to zinemaking, or learning a new technique for veteran zinesters.
1:00PM
Rebecca Rakstad - Bookbinding for Zinesters
Learn hands-on, simple bookbinding techniques to take you beyond the good ol' fold in half and staple method of zinemaking. Supplies and paper will be provided, no experience necessary!
2:00PM
Jeffrey Brown - One Hour Minicomic Challenge
Local cartoonist Jeffrey Brown will attempt to complete an 8 page minicomic in one hour, from idea to drawing to printing and handing out copies to the audience. The audience will suggest themes, one of which Jeffrey will run with. While drawing his comic, Jeffrey will also talk about his thinking and working process as he goes through it, as well as try to answer any questions the audience may have.
3:00PM
Free Rogers Park - Using A Zine to Build Community In A Neighborhood
A lecture discussing the tremendous value of the printed publication for building community in a digital age and calling for zine makers to more closely consider the idea of audience.
4:00PM
Tara Seibel - Creating a Mini: Self Promotion for a Self Published Artist
Lecture and discussion on how to get your work out there as a self published zine and comics artist. Experiences with mini-comics, and the workshop facilitator's involvement with the (Harvey) Pekar Project.
WORKSHOPS - AUDITORIUM
12:00PM
DIY Film Festival and Filmmaking Q&A with Eric Ayotte
Join in for a discussion about DIY filmmaking with Eric Ayotte, curator of the Gadabout Film Fest. Then stay for a one-hour DIY film festival curated especially for the Chicago Zine Fest! Film Festival followed by a brief Q & A with Eric Ayotte.
With Films By:
Wilson "Our Balls. Your Court." - Eric Ayotte (IN)
A Story - Sarah Morean (MN)
Pizza Pizza Pizza World - David Woodruff (IN)
Floppy Disks - Ginger Alford (IN)
11 Frames - Gustavo Franco (Canada)
Wild Child - Benjimin Epstein (MD)
Rare Bones "Back in the Day" - George Cox (CT)
Stuff What is in this House - Ryd Cook (U.K.)
Dear Abbey - Lewis Rogers (IN)
Once More, Once More - Katie Armstrong (NY)
Wild Style - Paul Baribeau (IN)
Waiting - Project Trident (U.K.)
Back In My Day - Torlando Hakes (IN)
Date With Death - Brooke Glaser (NE)
Belly Jar 4 - Iin and George Cox (Indonesia)
A Story - Sarah Morean (MN)
Pizza Pizza Pizza World - David Woodruff (IN)
Floppy Disks - Ginger Alford (IN)
11 Frames - Gustavo Franco (Canada)
Wild Child - Benjimin Epstein (MD)
Rare Bones "Back in the Day" - George Cox (CT)
Stuff What is in this House - Ryd Cook (U.K.)
Dear Abbey - Lewis Rogers (IN)
Once More, Once More - Katie Armstrong (NY)
Wild Style - Paul Baribeau (IN)
Waiting - Project Trident (U.K.)
Back In My Day - Torlando Hakes (IN)
Date With Death - Brooke Glaser (NE)
Belly Jar 4 - Iin and George Cox (Indonesia)
Lilli Carre - Bleedin Heart (IL)
The Norton Project - Jeff Ledellaytner (MA)
The Norton Project - Jeff Ledellaytner (MA)
3:00PM
Anne Elizabeth Moore - Cambodian Grrl
For over three years, Anne Elizabeth Moore has been teaching self-publishing to young women in one of the poorest countries in the world—with one of the lowest literacy rates. In a slideshow and reading from her upcoming book Cambodian Grrrl, she'll share how a new generation of young women, second-generation genocide survivors facing staunch gender norms, have started to demand their voices be heard.
4:00PM
Becoming (and Surviving as) a Full time Artist:
A discussion by Liz Prince and John Porcellino.
This moderated discussion will cover the topic of how one transitions from making art a hobby to making it a full time commitment and career. Questions and discussions are welcome.
WORKSHOPS - CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS - 2ND FLOOR
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Letterpress - Drop in any time between 12 & 2 for for a hands-on demo
Expert Book and Paper Arts graduate students will show you how to print your own ZineFest broadside! They'll show you the Center's swanky letterpress set-up, and you get your own mini-poster takeaway!
Location: Letterpress Studios, 2nd Floor
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Binding Demo - Drop in any time between 12 & 2 for for a hands-on demo
Learn how to create a flexagon: these simple folded book structures require no glue, sewing, and only one one sheet of paper, but we still call 'em magical. Find out why!
Location: Bindery, 2nd Floor
Programs sponsored by PIT, the graduate association of binders, printmakers and hand papermaking artists at Columbia College Chicago and the Center for Book and Paper Arts.
