ZIPE 2018
ZIPE 2018 is a free Zine Production and Exchange Program offered by Paperhouse Outreach Collective in partnership with SKETCH Working Arts and Toronto Art Book Fair, for youth and young adults (13-29) who identify as one or multiple: 2SLGBTQIAP, disabled or POC, led by local artists who also self-id as a member of the above communities.
Youth will learn about the historical significance and power of zines and artists’ books, creative writing, image, and printing skills, in addition to gaining an understanding of how to sell and table work professionally. ZIPE will culminate into a series of tabling opportunities, including Zine Dream 11.
Mapping Territories: Practicing With(/in) Communities
Panel Moderator: Henry Heng Lu
Artists: Maanii Oakes, sab meynert, Steven Beckly
How does an artistic practitioner navigate their relationship with the community which they position themselves within and respond to? How are notions of advocacy, kinship, resistance, and trauma expressed through varied figurations of image and text? In this panel, the three artists who are committed to either working across print media or creating works on paper cogitate the intersection of contemporary art practice and community roots that is situated in the ever-changing political and cultural landscapes of our time.
Additional thanks to Community One Foundation for capturing snippets of Toronto Art Book Fair and the ZIPE Artist Salon, part of Art Book Week.
TEAM
Project Coordinator: Flora Shum
Image and Zine Facilitator: Althea Balmes
Writing and Zine Facilitator: Asad Chishti
Print and Production Facilitator: Jackie Lee
ZIPE Youth Mentor: Erum Hasan
Class Assistant: Emily Cook
ZIPE 2018 learners participated tabling/selling their zines in Canzine, and Zine Dream.
ZIPE 2018 is made possible thanks to the generous support of Toronto Arts Council and Community One Foundation, with additional support from Art Metropole, Broken Pencil, Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, and Zine Dream.