Grab a pritt-stick & join the Queer Diary team for an evening of nostalgia & crafting to create your own 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:
Felt-tips + gel pens + stickers + stencils 🖍
+ a stack of old teen magazines to cut up & re-cycle for 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 throwback playlist, of songs from your coming-of-age era (we take requests!)
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 - choose the price-point that is affordable for you.
BSL Interpreted: we'll be joined by BSL/English Interpreter Kate Reynolds. If using BSL, please choose a BSL ticket, so we have an idea of how many people to expect.
This event is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary (the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage). More about us:
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www.queerdiary.org.uk
Queer Diary zine-making in Greenwich is supported by the Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund.
If you have any questions, concerns, or access needs you'd like us to know about, please email Beth & Josie at: hello@queerdiary.org.uk (we may miss messages sent through Outsavvy).
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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, and check in/offer a content warning, if sharing with other participants.
Timings:
18:30 Get settled in the space (facilitators will be around setting up from 6pm, if you need early access to the space just let us know!)
19:00 Instructions/inspiration for zine-making
19:00-20:15 Zine-making time ✂️🖍
20:15 - 20:30 Show & tell: we close the session with a chance to share & see what others have made.
Location & Access:
- QUEERCIRCLE is in the Design District in North Greenwich (near the o2). More info on the venue.
- How to find QUEERCIRCLE.
- We're in the QUEERCIRCLE Project Space which is upstairs on the first floor, accessible via lift, with accessible & gender neutral toilets on the same floor.
- If you arrive after 7pm, or no one's at the door to greet you, please use the buzzer (on the left) and select QUEERCIRCLE 1.02, so we can let you in. We'll stick a phone number on the door too, in case of any issues with the buzzer.
- Dogs are welcome.
- BSL/English Interpreter Kate Reynolds is booked for our next upcoming session in April.
This is the door to QUEERCIRCLE, and entry buzzer to use, if we're upstairs when you arrive.
If there's something you'd like the event organisers and facilitators to consider, to make this workshop accessible for you, or you have a question for us, please email the organisers: hello@queerdiary.org.uk
COVID Safety:
Please take a lateral flow test before attending.
Event organisers are fully vaccinated and use lateral flow testing regularly.
We welcome the wearing of masks.
Do NOT attend this event if you have either COVID symptoms or a positive test result.
inclusivity & Community Safety:
Please note this event is themed around memories of teenage years gone by, and is aimed at adult audiences.
This is an-LGBTQIA+ centred space. As hosts we will not assume your gender or sexuality, or apply gendered pronouns or honourifics (until we learn which ones you use). To make sure everyone feels welcome in this space, we ask attendees to do the same.
Toilet signs will be gender-neutral.
Discriminatory language or behaviour will not be tolerated (including - but not limited to - transphobia, biphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, xenophobia, classism, ablism, fatphobia).
If anyone makes you feel uncomfortable, please tell the event organisers.
We'll take a few photos at this event, to publicise future sessions. If you'd prefer not to be in photos, or want to be anonymised in any pictures we share, please let us know, we want to make sure we respect your privacy.