RESPONSE PROGRAM

MAKE ZINES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS!

 

Join us for the first Response workshop series with artist Cathy Busby!

 

• Thursday 10 April, 1 – 4 pm

• Thursday 17 April, 1 – 4 pm

• Thursday 24 April, 1 – 4 pm

 

Kéxwusm-áyakn Student Centre (LB 196), Capilano University

 

Print and share your RESPONSES to the theme of Indigenous histories in this series of three hands-on workshops. You provide the ideas: telling stories and talking about what you know; exploring Indigenous imagery in media and pop culture; commemorating events or people, etc. What zines and other printed matter have in common is that their creators feel they have something to say that they would like to share with others.

 

Learn how to put your ideas into zines and other kinds of publications. We’ll give you lots of examples to look at and talk about, as well as magazines and photos to cut up as a starting place, and all the paper, scissors, glue, pens, and photocopiers you could need, and there are digital layout possibilities, too.

 

Since the 1990s there’s been an explosion of zine publishing, with everything from poetry and personal writing, to work, food, health, feminism, racism, protest and much more. And there are zine libraries and distribution networks, so if you want to circulate your zines and other printed matter, there’s a ready-made way to do it. We’ll talk about that, too.

 

Open to all Capilano University students. No pre-requisites or previous experience required. Space is limited to 20 participants.

 

Cathy Busby is a Canadian artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has been exhibiting her work extensively over the past 20 years. She has an MA in Media Studies and a PhD in Communication, both from Concordia University, Montreal. This year she is a visiting artist teaching in the Visual Arts at UBC.

 

She grew up in the suburbs of Toronto until 1974 when she had the opportunity to attend the Carcross Community Education Centre in the Yukon. This was an "alternative school" housed in the former Chooutla Indian Residential School and attended by both settler and First Nations students. This grade eleven year was a turning point, marking the beginning of her development as an artist concerned with social justice.

 

Response is an educational program created by the Presentation House Gallery in partnership with First Nations Student Services at Capilano University. For more info, please contact Sydney Hart (Education Coordinator at Presentation House Gallery) at s.hart [at] presentationhousegallery [dot] org

 

Image credit: I'm Still Here, Amiel Gonzales (4th year, UBC)