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.
The artfix cafe will be open for you to buy hot drinks, soft drinks, wine, beer, cocktails, and snacks ☕️🍷
More info on the venue can be found on the artfix website.
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
Greenwich zine-making eves in 2025 are 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.
Timings:
18:30 Get settled in the space, grab your drinks & snacks from the cafe ☕️🍷 (serving 'til 8pm)
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:
- artfix Cafe is on the way in to Greenwich Market, in a busy area near several stations and other shops, cafes, etc. The address is 7 Durnford Street, SE10 9BF (just off Greenwich Church Street). The venue on Google Maps. The nearest stations are Cutty Sark (DLR) and Greenwich (DLR & National Rail), and there are several bus-stops nearby.
- artfix has step-free access (the entrance is 91cm wide, and the cafe is all on ground floor level, with plenty of space to move around). The toilet is not wheelchair accessible (it is step-free, but a very narrow cubicle with no handrails). The restaurant across from artfix has an accessible toilet, and artfix staff are happy to inquire about its use for anyone who needs it.
- The nearest parking lot with free Blue Badge parking is 350m away, at Burney Street.
- Dogs are welcome.
- There's a range of seating available within the venue - from wooden chairs at tables to couches & armchairs.
- BSL/English Interpreters booked for 2025: For August the interpreter will be Bernadette Travers, for September, October, November, the interpreter is Kate Reynolds.
For more information and any questions about artfix Cafe, contact them via https://www.artfix.org.uk/contact/
If there's something you'd like the organisers and facilitators to consider, to make this workshop accessible for you, 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.