What’s a “zine”? Pronounced like the end of ‘magazine’ – ‘ZEENS’ are self-published

do-it-yourself printed booklets made in various ways through simple printing methods,

cutting, folding, and stapling using everyday office supplies. In this 3-hour workshop,

you’ll learn all about zines, their history, and most importantly become equipped with the

method for making the most basic type of zine: the 8-page mini zine! Created using just

ONE piece of 8.5” x 11” paper, you’ll make your own with Orion’s help and spend the

rest of the workshop customizing your first mini zine publication with a smorgasbord of

zine-making tools and ephemera to choose from. You’ll leave this workshop with 10

copies made of your finished mini zine to assemble and redistribute among your friends, family and community.

Each month we will be offering different perspectives on zines and their relevancy to

different areas of life and history.

December 2026’s theme is: Autobiographical Zines; Our Stories, Our Voices, Evidence

That We Were Here

We will be honoring HIV/AIDS Awareness Month with a distinct feature on zines created

during the AIDS crisis from many creatives that are no longer with us but left important

marks on the world through their “immense creativity, brilliance, and a mordant, furious,

catty, grief-laden, exquisitely fa**y sense of humour” as stated by a curator of the Queer

Zine Archive Project which provides these important pieces of zine and queer history for

all to read.