artists,
libraries,
social justice.
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:
Saturday, May 4, 1-4pm at Sunset Park
Saturday, May 11, 1-4pm at Sunset Park
Saturday, May 18, 1-4pm at Maria Hernandez Park
Saturday, May 25, 1-4pm at Maria Hernandez Park
Photos by Manuel Molina Martagon.
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.
Join us for a fun, crafty, and educational activity—Bookmaking for Language Learning!
On six dates in May & June from 10am-12pm, María Verónica San Martín of Booklyn, Inc. will offer workshops in bookmaking that will support English language learning. Participants will learn to make several handmade book forms focusing on vocabulary development and basic grammar. No experience is necessary. All materials will be provided. RSVP is necessary as class size is limited.
Please register in this link. https://bit.ly/43UzDRv
You can also call 929-430-1450 or email [email protected] to register
RSVP here
Location:
MIXTECA
245 23rd Street
2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Dates:
Monday, May 6, 10am-12pm
Monday, May 13, 10am-12pm
Monday, May 20, 10am-12pm
Tuesday, May 28 10am-12pm
Tuesday, June 4, 10am-12pm
Tuesday, June 11, 10am-12pm
Photo by Manuel Molina Martagon.
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.
Encuadernación para aprender Idiomas
María Verónica San Martín de Booklyn, Inc. ofrecerá tres talleres divertidos y educativos sobre creación de libros para apoyar el aprendizaje del inglés. Aprenderá a hacer varios libros centrados en el desarrollo del vocabulario y la gramática básica. No se requiere experiencia previa y se proporcionarán todos los materiales.
Los talleres se llevarán a cabo los lunes 6, 13 y 20 de mayo, de 10AM a 12PM.
¡Inscríbase ahora! Cupos limitados. RSVP
Bookbinding 101 is a hands-on bookbinding workshop for adults & teens brought to you by Booklyn, Inc., and hosted at Interference Archive in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Learn two handy and simplistically beautiful binding techniques: the Pamphlet Stitch & Japanese Stab-binding.
We’ll cover some history of both techniques, explore zines and artists’ books with unique bindings, and introduce you to a range of bookbinding tools. Then we will make our own books! You can bring your own paper to bind or use our selection of various paper types to make a journal, sketchbook, or blank book. Two hours will be dedicated to learning and instruction. 30 minutes will be reserved for studio time so you can finish your projects.
All materials and tools will be provided. No previous bookbinding experience is necessary, but an interest in writing, drawing, or crafting will go a long way. We strongly believe that bookmaking is for everyone interested in making them.
Questions? Email us at [email protected].
Instructor: María Verónica San Martín (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Latin-American artist who has lived in New York since 2010. She has been a studio artist at the Whitney Museum, ISP (NYC), a scholar at the Center for Book Arts (NYC), and participated in the Art OMI Residency (Ghent, NY). She has also been awarded two NYFA grants and three Chilean grants. San Martín has taught at the Center for Book Arts (NYC), Penland School of Craft (NC), Universidad de Chile, and Universidad Catolica de Chile and has conducted workshops for Vera List Center, The New School, and Weeksville Heritage Center. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Booklyn, as well as participating as an artist and contributing to their education program. She has been performing and lecturing her Moving Memorial and Dignidad series at international museums, galleries, public libraries, universities, and schools since 2016. San Martín has also exhibited nationally and internationally including at The Immigrant Artist Biennial (New York) Her work is in more than 60 collections including those of the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Metropolitan Museum (NYC), and The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis).
Bookbinding 101 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.
Always wanted to make a zine but didn’t know where to start? Used to make zines, but it’s been a while? Looking for something new and creative to do?
Join us for Zines 101! This is a hands-on zine and bookmaking workshop for adults & teens at Interference Archive in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
Zines 101: Workshop for Adults & Teens
Tuesday, March 26, 6-8pm
Interference Archive, 314 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Cost: $35
You’ll learn the basics of zine making during this 2-hour workshop, including zine history, binding techniques, printing approaches, and distribution. Booklyn educators will demonstrate the fundamentals of making zines, share their decades of experience, and answer your questions. Leave with your very own mini-zine and lots of handouts and resources to help you on your zine-making journey.
This is a hands-on workshop. We’ll fold paper, cut, bind, stamp, draw, collage, and print. No experience is necessary, but an interest in writing, drawing, or crafting will go a long way. We strongly believe that zines are for everyone interested in making them.
Questions? Email us at [email protected].
Zines 101 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.
This mini-flag book is a favorite at Zines After School. Now we’re sharing it with you!
Typically, when we make flag books in a workshop, we make them collaboratively. Each participant creates one or several “flags” as an icebreaker activity before we transition to another zine or book activity. While students are busy working, one of our educators binds the collaborative flag book that we showcase at the conclusion of the workshop. It’s usually a fun, “wow” moment, and helps to see each other as collaborators, and therefore, a community of sorts.
But kids sometimes aren’t as “wow’ed” by this. They’ve asked, “Who gets to take the flag book home?” So, we added the mini-flag book to our curriculum so we can do both. And they have a mini-flag book of their own.
We love this book format in particular because the template can be printed out on (2) pieces of 8.5″ x 11″, which makes it more accessible for classroom teachers, or anyone with a basic computer and printer set up. Watch the video below, and download the template to make your own.
We are planning a full week of experimental printmaking, bookbinding, and storytelling activities that will culminate in a Zine Fest at the end of the week. There are still a few spots available and we’d LOVE for you to join us 🤍
This program is supposed, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the 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.
Josh MacPhee joins this episode of Booklyn Calling to discuss social movement culture as a third space outside of art and design with Booklyn curators Marshall Weber and Jan Descartes, and how art doesn’t make change on its own. The three talk about collective expression and how imagery takes on meaning, and MacPhee teaches how to read protest and organizing symbols as a language.
Subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. You can also play all episodes right on our website here.
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People’s History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade.
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.
We’re building a world of self-determined narratives through book & zine-making education.
Booklyn, Inc. is all about making bookmaking, zine-making, and self-publishing accessible to historically marginalized communities, delivered from a non-specialist (“DIY”) approach. We support communities hit hard by the lasting impacts of the worldwide pandemic. Young people, immigrants, and the LGBTQIA+ community, among others. Our program also provides work for teaching artists who continue to rebuild their futures after the devastating financial blows of the pandemic.
Our goal: To build a world of self-determined narratives, where hands-on bookmaking skills are used to affirm communities from within and to better understand the world around us.
With your support, we brought you the free downloadable Booklyn Education Manual–six binding techniques and 20 lesson plans, available in both English & Spanish. We created a series of bookmaking video tutorials. Now, you can download a newly re-designed abridged manual, formatted as a print-ready booklet. All are free to access online.
But there’s more you’ve helped us do!
In 2023 we brought eight zine workshops to Mixteca Organization, and four Zine Jam workshops to NYC public parks to make bookmaking a publicly accessible skill. We continued our partnership with Brooklyn Community Pride Center with Zine-making for Personal & Community Storytelling, an official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event. Finally, we partnered with Public Art Fund to bring three zine workshops to Sunset Park. All 16 workshops were free for participants.
Also in 2023 we focused our commitment to young people with Zine Camp and Zines After School programming for kids in grades 2-5, and did several onsite workshops at public elementary and middle schools. We worked with Emma Karin Eriksson and Kameelah Janan Rasheed to create an original curriculum specifically for these programs. We added Zines 101 for adults and Zines for Educators, a three-day professional development workshop for teachers wanting to integrate zine-making in the classroom.
Lastly, our beloved podcast, Booklyn Calling, brings you voices from the artist book field and explores artmaking as a tool for community engagement and social change.
An important note about how we do what we do: we support teaching artists by paying them a living wage, using the Teaching Artist Guild’s pay calculator. That means Booklyn teaching artists are paid between $50-$125 per hour. Always. We make this a priority in order to stabilize and strengthen the work teaching artists do in our community.
2024 is just around the corner and we have some great activities lined up during school breaks in NYC!
Discount code in this post!
Kids ages 7-10 (or 2nd – 5th grade) are invited to sign up for full days of hands-on zine and bookmaking activities at Old Stone House (at Washington Park & JJ Byrne Playground) in Park Slope. We’ll teach zine-making as a community-centered practice, one that builds social-emotional learning and teaches skill development for the creation of self-determined storytelling.
Sign up by December 31, 2023 and get 10% off using the code EARLYBIRD.
Educators, Jan Descartes and Monica Johnson will lead Zine Camp again, along with several visiting artists (TBD).
Questions? Email us at [email protected].
Photo credit: Manuel Molina Martagon
