♥ This is the first zine launch party held in conjunction with the Fight Boredom Zine Residency! Celebrating the release of issue #19 of US-based perzine Motor City Kitty. ♥

Held at: Parc Geroges-Etienne Cartier

Thursday June 21 : 18h00-21h00

FB invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/404754506233073/

Bowties, babydoll dresses, dancin’ shoes and pigtails. Don your most adorable attire for the Summer Bummer Twee Picnic & Reading. Shed a few tears in yr waterproof mascara, because we’ll be reading about summer bummers: grief, loss, guilty pleasures, misandry, catcallin’ and more. But don’t be afraid to tell us about your summertime adventures and sappy romances. It’s a twee picnic, after all!

Featuring readings by:

• Bri of Motor City Kitty (Cleveland, OH)
• Amber Dearest of Culture Slut and Fight Boredom Distro (Montréal)
• Claire Evans of Unicornzine (Montréal)
• More TBA – Anyone is welcome to read at this event, be it from your own zine, your favourite zine, or your embarrassing journals.

Snacks and refreshments will be available, and if you’re lucky, we’ll bring temporary tattoos and the Fight Boredom Distro catalogue, which you can also peruse at www.fight-boredom.com.

Why the dancing shoes? Because we’ll be heading over to the dance party at Squalor afterward: https://www.facebook.com/events/457190030959553/

*If it rains, you can find us havin’ an indoor picnic at the Ste-Émilie Skillshare (Located at 3942 rue Ste-Émilie, on the second floor).

BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP

Sunday June 17 1:00-5:00pm
PWYC, suggested donation $5-$20
Please RSVP : info@steemilieskillshare.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/286731081424283/

In this intensive workshop you will learn how to make your own beautiful hand-bound hardcover journal or sketchbook from start to finish – it’s so fun! No experience necessary.

We will go through all the steps of sizing and cutting pages and cover boards, sewing signatures, adding endpapers, gluing and reinforcing the spine, and pressing the finished book.

Materials to bring, if you have them:
-Paper of your choice (Think about what this book will be used for – computer paper is fine but you may want something heavier, the pages of unused sketchbooks can work well. Big papers are good and can be cut down in the workshop. Imagine the dimensions of the book you want to make. The pages will be folded in half, so at minimum your paper size should be double the horizontal width of your book, like a zine)
-Decorative papers and/or fabrics, to cover the outside and create end pages for your book
-Thick, sturdy cardboard (like mat board for framing photos, or thicker)
-Large sewing needles, like embroidery needles
-*Bull clips (see link below)
-Old paintbrushes and/or small rollers for glue
-Utility knife
-Metal ruler
-C or F clamps

Don’t worry if you don’t have any or all of these things, some of everything will be at the space and we will share with each other.
*Link to photo of bull clips: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-467172-bull-clips.php

Hope to see you there!

Please see the original announcement on the Fight Boredom Zine Distro website here.

June: Bri is a zinester, artist, and musician from Cleveland, Ohio. She has been writing the perzine Motor City Kitty since 2004. During her stay at Tulip Farm, she plans to create the latest issue of MCK (#19), focusing mostly on the topics of family, loss, grief and the concept of home. Other topics that have been floating through her head lately that could appear in the issue are confronting privileges, accepting “guilty pleasures” (and why that phrase is problematic), and femme identity. She hopes to include more of her artwork and diary style comics in this issue, as well.

August: Teresa Cheng lives in Toronto, Ontario and is the creator of the zines Dykes & Their Hair, Feeling Words: A Pocket Book of Emotions and Upskirt: Dirty (Un)feminist Secrets. She is a first generation Chinese-Taiwanese queer woman of colour who is working toward becoming a high school English and Geography teacher. During her stay, she plans on making a zine called Repeat Conceit, containing interviews with punks of colour, as well as excerpts and new reflections on pieces from Race Riot, Shotgun Seamstress, Femme Shark Communique and other zines by people of colour.

September: Lacy J. Davis is an artist living and working in Oakland, California. She is super pumped on making things, specifically things that reference the teenage years, coming-of-age, sexual bumblings, memory, and the (not-so) subtleties of the feminine identity. While in Montreal, Lacy plans to work on a young adult novel. Within the story you may read about the process of dropping out of high school, a lady’s first queer love, the struggle to break free of the addictive powers of anorexia and bulimia, and of course, feminism.

Info on how this year’s zine residency participants were chosen is here. To stay up-to-date on zine happenings and be the first to know about launch parties for these three projects, please subscribe to the Fight Boredom Zine Distro & Blog, or ‘like’ Fight Boredom on Facebook.