* a day of ‘zine making and skillsharing *
Saturday, March 28th – 12pm – 5:30pm
@ Ste. Emilie Skillshare
3942 rue Ste. Emilie (corner of St. Augustin – Metro Place St. Henri)

On Sunday March 28th the Ste Emilie skillshare will be hosting a special zine day that will involve workshops on how to make a zine and how to book-bind, a zine “show and tell”, tea and snacks, materials and space to work on your own zine, and tutorials on how to use the ste Emilie studio, the button maker, sewing machines, and silkscreen studio!!!

Schedule of Events:

12:00-12:30: “Tour of the Space“, brief information on how to use the studios (like how you can silkscreen your own zine covers)
12:30-1:30: “Intro to Zine Making“
2:00-3:00: “Zine Show and Tell” (in collaboration with the St Henri Walking Zine Distro, see below for more details!)
3:30-5:00: “Intro to Bookbinding”
5:30: The End.

While workshops and tours are happening you can also hang out and make zines the whole time!
Feel free to use our sewing machienes, type writer, art supplies etc…

Who we are:

The Ste-Emilie SkillShare is a group of artists and activists, primarily people of colour and queer people, committed to promoting artistic expression and self-representation in our communities. The Skillshare collective runs an art studio for people to learn new skills, share their skills, and create art in the spirit of revolution and anti-oppression (anti-racism/ sexism/ classism/ homophobia/ transphobia/ ableism/ sizeism/ etc). Our space is open to all. Long live skill-sharing!

We host open studios (Saturdays) from 1-6pm and workshops, open to the public, for cheap or by donation.

Our space includes a silkscreen studio (fabric and paper), a black and white photo darkroom, solid sewing machines, craft supplies, a kids’ room and a ‘zine distro/library. (Please note that some but not all supplies are available on site, depending on what ya wanna do). We accept donations during (from supplies to cash) to help keep the space running (talk to us for more details).

The Walking Zine Distro: the st-henri walking distance zine distro is a group of nerds in st-henri, montreal. we make sweet little packages of zines & other nonsense to drop at the doorstep of neighbours. for free, of course. we’re always looking for zines, but also comix, fliers, artworks, tapes, odds & ends like buttons/shells/photos/maps/stickers etc. anything and everything welcome! we also hold events in the neighbourhood–slow dance parties, zine-making get togethers, movie nights, workshops, carnivalesque fundraisers, and more. We meet about 2x a month, in which we eat snacks + drink tea + self congratulate. email us at walkingdistancedistro@gmail.com if you wanna get involved, if you have anything to submit, or if you live in st-henri and would like to receive a package.