PRINT TIME Workshop: Zine Forest with Rayhan Blankinship

PRINT TIME Workshop: Zine Forest with Rayhan Blankinship

Enter into the dense, leafy and wild world of zines: In this workshop you'll learn a brief history of zines, then play an exquisite corpse style comics game. Participants will also have the opportunity to create their own 8 page mini zine about a topic of their choosing; for example, a niche interest or a short story. We will go over how to make a 2-color 2-layer print on a classic printer used for zines, the mighty Riso. Participants will leave with their own zine!

Open to anyone 12 years and older.

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This workshop is brought to you by PRINT TIME, a monthlong exhibition and programming series dedicated to print culture, community publishing, and their surrounding ecosystems. Co-organized by FORTUNE, Ulises, and Icebox Project Space, with generous support from the Penn Treaty Special Services District and Fire Museum Presents.

PRINT TIME will feature an exhibition featuring large print studies by Erik Ruin, Jarrah May, Kocot & Hatton, and Olivia Fredricks — open during Icebox Project Space’s gallery hours (Thursday–Saturday, 12–6PM). Register for our free workshops, each weekend in July, to practice the possibilities of print. And, come to our Big Summer Book Sale on PRINT TIME’s closing day (Sunday, July 27, 11AM–5PM) to visit 30 vendors who print in multiples, toward manifold means of learning.

Rayhan Blankinship is a mixed media visual artist who grew up in Philadelphia but has family in Egypt. She grew up speaking English and Arabic. Rayhan currently works for Spiral Q Puppet Theater and Al Bustan Seeds of Culture as a Teaching Artist. IG: @shrimpy_bubbler

Zine Forest is presented in partnership with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture. Rooted in Arab arts and language, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture offers artistic and educational programming that enriches understanding and celebrates diversity, while supporting the pursuit and affirmation of Arab American cultural identity and playing a constructive civic role within broader American society.

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Accessibility Details: This event will be in-person and indoors. Icebox Project Space, located within the Crane Arts Building, is wheelchair accessible. There is limited accessible parking at the front of the building, and a ramp leading into the main entrance. The main building door is not automated. Once inside the building, there are no steps leading into Icebox Project Space. Two all-gender bathrooms with multiple stalls are available for use — one with urinals, one without, and both with 1–2 wheelchair-accessible stall(s). Folding chairs will be available for sitting.

Please email cHJpbnRpbmdmb3J0dW5lcyB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t with any accessibility questions and requests.

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