LGBTQ+ History Month Zine making workshop with SL Grange and Linnea Maertens
This years history month is highlighting Octavia Hill, Ivor Cummings, Anni Kenney, Charlie Kiss and Olaudah Equiano. If you fancy learning more about them and how to create your own zine then join us!
Facilitated by poet and queer historian SL Grange, and artist, illustrator and queer historian Linnea Maertens, this zine workshop will be a playful way to explore the lives of 5 historical LGBTQ+ personalities, lean in to our historical crushes and make a zine celebrating them, then, and enjoying ourselves, now.
Workshop starts prompt at 11am, arrive 10.30am for coffee. We will provide all the materials, archive and know how!
About the Artists
SL Grange is a poet, queer historian, creative archivist and facilitator who has been published by Seren Books, Poetry Wales, Intellect Books and is soon to be published by Bloomsbury and University of Toronto Press. SL Grange’s favourite historical queer is Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl.
Linnea is a multidisciplinary maker and artist with a focus on queer histories whose recent work has explored illustrating trans pirates with the National Maritime Museum and telling stories through mudlarked objects with the Thames Discovery Program.
This workshop is free and supported by Lewisham Council