The EDIU invites you to collaborate in an online zine workshop that aims to highlight 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled artists and scholars!
About this event:
This is the second workshop of Re–imagining a Community: Our Third Place, a zine workshop that aims to highlight 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled artists and scholars.
The purpose of this event is to hold a zine workshop and develop a collection that centers the experiences of our students at the Faculty of Information (iSchool). Zines provide spaces for equity-seeking community stories that were originally excluded from traditional publishing and academia. We intend to challenge ourselves to think about ownership and the ways we can progress away from traditional archive, library, and collection practices. With this we hope to achieve and provide the following:
- Collect diverse student voices surrounding their identities and experiences with information and museum studies
- Prepare students to learn and imagine new ways of creating information, community collections, and disseminating important stories while reflecting on their futures as professionals
- Create a safe space for marginalized voices to be heard through collaboration
This event will be moderated by Lenora Huỳnh (MI Candidate, Faculty of Information: Archives and Records Management, University of Toronto). This event is part of the EDIU Fellowship Program and presented by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Unit at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.
About the facilitator:
Cleopatria Peterson (they/them) is currently an Adult Arts Educator at Art Gallery of Ontario. They started making zines and never stopped and co-founded Old Growth Press to prioritize publishing marginalized voices in and are also the medal winner for OCAD’s Publication program in 2020. They have taught zine workshops to a variety of different communities, and love sharing their skills to ease barriers around creating and sharing artwork.
Event Details:
Target Audience: Open to all students
Date: February 7, 2024
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: Zoom
All supplies will be provided in a kit! Further details will be given to participants upon registration.
There will be a raffle for registered participants to win exciting prizes!
Please register here.
