Penpals: Make your BFF a Fanzine!

This event will take place in the Clydeside Hall at The Briggait.

Make a fanzine dedicated to your bestie at this workshop led by writers Anahit Behrooz and Mika Morava. We'll draw on different aspects of the traditional fanzine – playlists, memories, gushing essays, collages – to make a zine dedicated to your BFF.

You’ll learn how to make a simple zine, and how to use different techniques such as collage, printing and pop-up, resulting in something very sweet and gushy about the platonic love in your life. We'll have an instant camera on hand so bringing your best friend and doing the workshop together is encouraged!

Anahit Behrooz is a writer, editor and critic based in Edinburgh. She is the author of BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship and works as Books Editor and Events Editor at The Skinny. Her writing has appeared in i-D, AnOther Magazine, Little White Lies, and gal-dem among others.

Mika Morava is a multidisciplinary artist, journalist and Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner. Her work centres creative movement-building, often in collaboration with other dreamers of liberation. She is currently Theatre Editor at The Skinny, and works at TOScotland to use forum theatre with communities reimagining harm and transformation.

This event will take place in the Briggait. You can find directions here.

There will be 20 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: hands on activities, sharing work that has been created.

If you’d like a British Sign Language interpreter or Live Captioning at this event, please get in touch and we’ll arrange support. Email us at [email protected] to book - we’d love to see you there. Please book BSL and Live Captioning in with us no later than the 8th of May.

If you have any questions or access requirements, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

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GZL pledges to support The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. As part of this pledge we may participate in strikes called in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. If this event falls on a strike day and is cancelled, we will work with event leaders to reschedule the event asap. Participants will also have the option of receiving an immediate refund for any ticket purchases and travel booked to attend.

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