Come make zines to celebrate this season of abundance with this fun and crafty zine workshop! Whatever holidays you may celebrate, fall can be a wonderful time to connect to nature and celebrate the annual harvest. Participants can learn to create zines in two formats: an 8-page zine using just one sheet of paper, and a pocket-sized, staple-bound zine. We’ll explore “abundance” in its many forms using fun collage imagery, stickers, stamps, and our own imaginations! No experience is necessary. All materials will be provided.
Saturday November 2, 2024, 1:00-3:00 pm Adult Workshop.
Come celebrate this spooky season with Trick or Zines, a workshop for teens! Participants can learn to create zines in two formats: an 8-page zine using just one sheet of paper, and a pocket-sized, staple-bound zine. We’ll explore “spookiness” and “monsters” using fun collage imagery, stickers, stamps, and our own imaginations! No experience necessary. All materials will be provided.
Know a creative kid who loves Pokémon? This school break camp is for them!
During this 2-day camp, we’ll create our own “pocket monster” trading cards, Pokémon “fanzines”, and explore the creative concept of monsters. A creative DIY camp experience connecting our love of zines with our love for Pokémon!
Ages: 6-11 (grades 2-5)
Location: Old Stone House of Brooklyn
Dates: October 3 & 4, 2024, 9am-3pm
Summer is a great time for zine reading, and a good time to sign up for Booklyn Zine Club as well: we’re currently offering 10% off annual memberships. Between now and August 25th, join the club at a discount and get some extras too. The first five sign-ups get a copy of Streetopia. The next five get a Booklyn tote bag. Everyone who signs up gets an exclusive mini-zine.
Here’s how Booklyn Zine Club works:
Choose the membership that’s right for you. We’ll hand-select the zines that will surprise and delight, along with a respectable amount of bonuses, and mail them to you every quarter.
Check out our page on the Booklyn Zine Club for more info, or if you’re ready, join here.
Are you an institution? We recommend discussing Booklyn Zine Club directly with us. Send us an email at [email protected]!
Puerto Rican textile artist Gloribel Delgado Esquilín talks with Monica & Marshall about her work as a journalist, the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and how a found bag of cloth ignited a journey of sewing dolls and creating soft books. The three talk about the political nature of her work, and Gloribel shares the importance of making work that is vulnerable and physically soft (to offset hard topics), while also needing to feel free in her creation, as a reaction to living in a colonized space.
Subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. You can also play all episodes right on our website here.
Gloribel Delgado Esquilín is a textile artist, craftswoman, teacher, and writer from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She worked for more than 20 years as a journalist, creating community newspapers, literary magazines, community radio programs, theater, and art. Her career took a surprising turn after finding some cloth bags on the city streets, inspiring her to create dolls with stories. From that meeting, she returned to her passion for sewing, creating over 400 dolls. In 2014, she moved to Lima, Peru, to expand her knowledge of textile art and joined the collective of textile artists, “La Hermandad de la Costura”. In 2018, she visited Paris, where she learned to create pieces in natural felt. In 2019, she returned to Peru and exhibited her first textile book “La Casa Inundada”.
Delgado Esquilín’s identity as an ecofeminist is a cornerstone of her work. She has trained as an agroecological promoter at the Puerto Rican farm school El Josco Bravo, and collaborated to spearhead the Project 4645 initiative, a poignant tribute to the memory of thousands of victims in Puerto Rico following the devastating Hurricane María. Currently, Delgado Esquilín is completing graduate studies in narration. She is working on her first book of chronicles and creates textile books with an anti-racist and decolonial vision of her days in Puerto Rico.
Booklyn Calling is made possible in part by funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the NY City Council.
Join us in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library for a Brooklyn Zine-In where you will learn how to make your own zine, pick up free copies of zines and limited edition stickers, view special zine-related materials from the Center for Brooklyn History’s collection, and contribute to the Brooklyn Zine-In Community Zine, a collection of stories from BPL staff and patrons.
All zine-making materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring any of your own images, stickers, stamps, markers, or other materials that you’d like to use.
Are you a practicing zine-maker or “zinester”? If so, this workshop is for you.
This presentation and workshop will help you expand your zine-making practice, deepen the sustainability of your self-publishing, and introduce you to an audience that can provide substantial professional and financial resources for your entire creative practice.
Date & time
Wednesday, June 26 · 6:30 – 8:30pm EDT
Location
Interference Archive314 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join us on June 25 at Brooklyn Community Pride Center for a free after-school zine-making activity for gender-expansive families! If your family has been touched by transness or gender-expansivity in any way, then this workshop is for you!
Read more about this workshop here and RSVP in the link below.
This is an all-ages workshop, recommended for adults of any age, and children ages 6-12 who are accompanied by an adult. All materials will be provided. No experience is necessary, although an interest in drawing, writing, or crafting helps!
For questions or more information email Monica Johnson at [email protected].
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the NY City Council.
We believe that bookmaking is for the people, and this includes our LGBTQ+ family. Join us in making zines that celebrate, express, and love our rainbow pride!
No sign-ups, no age limits, no cost, no experience needed: just come over and we’ll get you started with a zine.
We believe that bookmaking is for the people. That’s why Zine Jam is a free zine-making workshop hosted by Booklyn, Inc. in public parks. No sign-ups, no age limits, no cost, no experience needed: just come over and we’ll get you started with a zine.
Come find us every Saturday in May in either Sunset Park or Maria Hernandez Park. Look for the red mobile bike and the ‘Make Zines’ banner. You’ll find Booklyn educators Jan Descartes, Mars Kruchinskaya, Sarah Lopez, and Mylo Mendez who will invite you to create a zine and enjoy the outdoors for a while.
Exact park locations can be found within the links below. Come jam with us at these times:
This program was made possible in part by funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with the New York City Council.
Booklyn’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
