Zine Club Columbus turns 1 this weekend!!
hang out with me tomorrow at Bexley Library
In July 2024, I asked Dan, owner of Prologue Bookshop (good guy, you should pay the store a visit and tell him I said hi) if I could run some kind of a zine-making studio in the store sometime. I was hungry for connection and missed touching materials while gossiping with friends and strangers. He bought me a 300 pack of Astrobright paper, I printed some flyers, put them around town, made an Instagram and boom, Zine Club Columbus was born.
This project has taught me so much about myself and the lengths I’m willing to go to craft an experience and create a safe space for people to make. Most of our audience has been folks who are new to zines and haven’t confronted a blank sheet of paper in a long time. (I’m about to get so sappy about folding paper) Teaching people how to fold a zine is like breaking bread to me. Everyone looks so stressed and they trust me so much in carrying them through that experience. I don’t take it for granted. I love going to people’s tables to help troubleshoot when they cut the wrong end of the page.
I’m bad at directions, they usually say.
I’m dyslexic I literally can’t tell left from right, I’d say back.
After every workshop single workshop, I’ve asked Chloe:
How was that one?
Should we have added more tables?
Should I have introduced it this way?
That person came back, maybe we’re doing something right?
Did everyone look comfortable?
This past Monday, my friend Sprout gave me the first two issues of her new music zine, TAMBJATATE. Last month I went to a zine workshop lead by an undergrad who went to my workshop only a month prior. My two favorite bookstores in town have added zine shelves to their inventory. There’s a basket of zines I’ve been gifted by students, friends, and zine club regulars on my bookshelf.
I'm so grateful to everyone who's picked up the thread and found a way to bring zines into their lives. It is the greatest complement.
, a New Yorker cartoonist, gave a talk at my day job and she said something about teaching that really stuck with me.When I am teaching I am trying to teach my students how to love something.
Zine Club Columbus has taught me how to love something.
Thanks for being here :)
Around The Block
A Local Bulletin Board
From Zine Club Columbus: Come hang out with me at Bexley library to talk about manifestos and make your own. Hurry there’s only 4 spots left!!!
I had a friend joke about turning their Hinge profile into a pocket-sized zine. I’m begging for someone to do that tomorrow!
From A Columbus Creative Community: A creative co-working meetup at Casa Cacao, First and Third Mondays of each month.
From ToyHaus.Studio: Collage Party with @columbuscollagecollective coming up at @934gallery on Saturday, July 26 from 6-9 pm!
✂️ Columbus Collage Collective will supply all tools and materials for folks to get creative, including: magazines, scissors, glue, exacto blades, cutting mats, substrate. Feel free to bring your own collage materials or any old magazines to swap with the collective!
From Queer4AF: Calling all world builders and dreamers to help build a future with queer people not just surviving but thriving. There is a collective power in playing, and it is critical for our collective liberation. Lets play and liberate with each other!
We have city officials in Columbus, Ohio, building with pro-Israeli support, a deep desire to expand police, and profiting off oppressive outcomes that help the rich get richer and keep the poor dependent on charity. Humanity is suffering from these white-minded fools and dreams, it’s time we escape the colonial imagination and remember what it means to live and share this beautiful, providing world.
@buildingutopiadeck is a community-focused activity that helps facilitate the process of world-building. We can have fun in four easy steps! Thank you @mycommunitygrounds for using us Sunday, July 27th, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. We will have free coffee and baked goods while supplies last.
Thanks for reading and supporting Zine Club Columbus!
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