The Learning Zone

This month is International Zine Month (IZM)! A global celebration of zines and independent self-publishing, founded by Alex Wrekk creator of Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Resource for Zines.

The OCAD Zine Library marks this month on the calendar with a special zine display highlighting a few of the 2500 zines that are in the collection.

The OCAD Zine Library was launched in 2007 by then student and artist Alicia Nauta “to inspire people…educate and entertain”, we hope that visiting the zine library during IZM will do just that.

Food Blog by Anna May Henry

Mad Mulatta by Brittany Couch

Canada: Some Subjective Perspectives, no author

Indigenous Visual Culture Program: Comic Writing Workshop with Walter Scott by various authors

Chojin Club Vol. 1 by various authors

We Are Not White Lesbians by Nia King

Queer Enough by Jamie Q

Back to Nappy: Guide to Beautifully Regressing to Natural Hair by Roechelle Adair

Small Time Magic by Wren McDonald

Forever: A Collection of Love Letters, no author

To view more zines visit the online zine library catalogue found here.

Make A Page For Our Zine is a participatory zine installation, installed in the Learning Zone Gallery for the summer. Inspired in part by Collage This Wall: Interactive Collage Experiment Installation (2012) and International Zine Month.

Collage This Wall was an interactive collage experiment installed in the Learning Zone during the summer of 2012 which drew participation from members of the OCAD U community and public to create and share a personal collage.

International Zine Month represents a global participation of DIY ethos that encompasses zine making and independent publishing. Various events like zine making workshops, readings and festivals are held and celebrated annually in the month of July.

Make A Page For Our Zine engages with this same process, inviting interactivity and collaboration in the zine making process.

At the conclusion of this project, the pages will be compiled, stapled and made into a zine then added to the OCAD Zine Library collection.

The process facilitates the creation of ideas, and captures the collaborative work.

On until August 15