Grab a pritt-stick & join the Queer Diary team for an evening of nostalgia, crafting & chance to create your own personal 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 playlist 💿🎶
Bring your pals, a date, or come solo to meet some new friendly faces.
All crafting materials are provided by us:
Paper + pritt stick + scissors + felt-tips + gel pens + pencils + stencils 🖍
+ a load of old teen mags to cut up & re-cycle into 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 collaborative playlist, where you can add your own fave throwback tracks from your teenage years.
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 - booking is essential and spaces are limited, if you can no longer make it, please let us know in advance so we can free up a place for somebody else.
This event is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary (the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage). Find out more about us here:
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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 often miss messages sent through Outsavvy).
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Queer Diary Zine-making at Kingswood Arts is supported by funding from the Southwark Council Pride fund.
*Non-treasured memories also welcome! Teenage troubles, angst & cringe are all part of life. Please look after yourself & consider others if choosing to explore or share anything difficult or sensitive.
⏱ Timings:
18:00 Arrival Soft start: Get settled with a seat & refreshments, browse the craft table & choose some materials
18:30 Intro to Zine-making Instructions on how to fold a zine, and some prompts to inspire you
18:45-20:15pm Making time 90min to work on your zines, chat to fellow makers, and enjoy our throwback playlist
20:15-20:30 Show & Tell An invitation to share your work (not obligatory, only for those who want to!)
📍 Location & Access:
- Kingswood Arts is at Kingswood House, Seeley Drive, Southwark, SE21 8QN.
- The nearest train stations are Sydenham Hill (5 min away) and Gipsy Hill (10 min away).
- To arrive by overground, the closest station is Sydenham and then take the 450 bus towards Crystal Palace, getting off at Kingswood Drive. By underground, take the Victoria line to Brixton, and the 3 bus towards Crystal Palace, getting off at Dulwich Wood Park/Kingswood Drive.
- There are 2 disabled parking spaces at the venue. Please let us know if you need to use a parking bay, so we can ensure they're available for you.
- Zine-making will be in the Palm Court, which is on the ground floor with step-free access.
- There will be signs up to help you find us.
- BSL Interpreter Kate Reynolds will be interpreting at this session.
More info about access at Kingswood Arts is on their website, and we recommend contacting them directly if you have any specific questions about physical access to the building.
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 vaccinated and use lateral flow tests regularly.
We also 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 of this workshop, 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 signage 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 in the space, please tell the event organisers.
We may take a few photos at this event, to publicise future workshops like this - if you'd prefer not to be in photos, or want to be anonymised in any pictures we publish on our social media, etc, please let us know, we want to make sure we respect your privacy.
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