Creative days for cut and past craze

A FREE workshop is set for next week with the aim of getting kids interested in the art of zine making.

The session will be organiser Bec Wilson’s first after having taken part in the activity with her family for the past decade.

She said the workshop will highlight the versatility of making zines, which are essentially small, often hand made magazines.

“We’ll be looking at different forms of zines and have some examples that children and young people have made as well as serious artists,” she said.

“We’ll talk about the form and what we’d like to make whether that’ll be poetry or a story or cutups when you cut things out of photos or books to make images.

“People can make a comic book or a joke book so it’ll be driven by participants in choosing the direction we want to head in.”

All resources will be provided for the workshop, which will run from 12.30pm to 1.30pm for participants aged between eight to 12 followed by 2pm to 3pm for 12 to 16-year-olds.

Both sessions will be capped at about 10 people.

Ms Wilson has previously displayed zines with her family at the Sticky Institute Zine Fair in Melbourne.

Following the workshops, Ms Wilson will follow up with her Crafternoon workshop at Inverleigh Town Hall on Sunday, 16 April.

Two other zine making sessions will take place in May with one at the Bannockburn Youth Hub to coincide with IDAHOBIT and another at the Haddon Community Centre.

Ms Wilson said an aim of the workshops are to drum up interest in the activity leading into the family’s debut Zineverleigh Fair in June.

“They’ll be a little bit of a precursor,” she said. “It’s just a great form to work with and it’s very accessible.

“It’s something that’s quite enjoyable to do and you don’t have to be amazing at whatever the form is. It can be messy and weird and that’s part of the joy.”

To book the upcoming April workshops, visit bit.ly/42M2FlH.