"Come to My Window" is a collection of readings sometimes hosted by nicole killian and sometimes hosted by nico fontana : ) It is a space for folks to play with language within the framework of a window, a screen, a framework. Bookended by facts on Melissa Etheridge's 90s hit, Come to My Window, the readings are held by desire, longing and love. Come to My Window: 3 includes readings by Jen Ansley, sean keonté, Umber Majeed and Hannah Marshall.

No pre-registration required, attendance is first come first serve basis. 

A performance in which Editorial Negra introduces their three zines, will tell a little bit about every author, and then recite one poem included in each zine. They will do so in English and also in Spanish.

No pre-registration required, attendance is first come first serve basis. 

Sounds About Riso will be discussing themes of resource/process sharing, imperfections, and tactile learning. They will be distributing a zine workbook and participants will split into groups to both individually and collaboratively complete various prompts. They hope to utilize the in-person environment to connect and share various resources, build connections, expand collaborative possibilities, and bridge a variety of creative practices. In addition, each studio/individual will introduce their creative practice and discuss their emergence into the zine and risograph community and how this has impacted their work. They also hope to, of course, talk about risograph printing and run a risograph printing demo!

(Sounds About Riso is: Social Species, lucky risograph, Zine Hug, Ritu Ghiya, and Hyperlink Press)

Chicha, Kombucha, Vinegar, Kimchi... Fermentation is a simple process that can take multiple forms. We cut some veggies, submerge them in salty water and forget about them. Time and microorganisms will turn it into something delicious that defies any notion of expiration date.

Fermentation is also a metaphor that teaches us other ways of relation with our environment, allowing us to make bubbles where to go for nourishment and rest, places to converge and imagine new stories, write new rules, craft new agreements. In this workshop we will conspire with the microscopic entities that live with and within us, we will create bubbles and make ferments while reading some fermenting related texts like The Fervent Manifesto by Mercedes Villalba.

All tools and ingredients will be provided by the organization.

Learn the basics of letterpress printing, zinemaking, and hot foil stamping with Center for Book Arts! We’ll be facilitating drop-in activities for all participants and will be demonstrating our proofing press, plate press, hot foil stamping press, and how to make a one-page instant zine.

Participants will work with ink, wood type, and paper to create a zine of their own to take home.
Open to all participants; stop by between 2:00–5:00 to join in.

Please join us on Saturday, July 16 from 4-5:30pm for the launch of the catalog accompanying Center for Book Arts’ current exhibition, Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling, curated by Paige Landesberg. Reflecting similar adhoc scan-to-print strategies employed in the catalog, this event offers visitors the opportunity to create Risograph prints using the photocopy feature.

The prints will become contributions toward a small, collectively made publication that ultimately documents the fair itself.

Secret Riso Club collaborates with SPICY zine collective for a radical and generative zine-making workshop that will invite everyone into a process of collectively reimagining ways to tell our stories. We'll also be creating our own zines that will represent the thawing of the season, ourselves, and the oppressive boxes mainstream publishing works to keep us in.

This workshop would be open to everyone at all levels of artistry, including those who do not self-identify as artists, and materials will be provided.

No pre-registration required, attendance is first come first serve basis.  

We are seeing surveillance technology evolve faster than ever, and we need creative ways to investigate how surveillance impacts our daily lives. In this workshop we will explore the history of black resistance and methods of counter-mapping surveillance constructs. Throughout history resistance movements have always had to fight against formations of surveillance. Together we will create a mapping system to explore how personal experience, language, and artistic expressions can reimagine safety.

This workshop is an interactive experiment where we use art and writing to share our collective knowledge around surveillance technology. 
No pre-registration required, attendance is first come first serve basis.

Priority attendance will be given to BIPOC. 

golden (he/they) of Diasporan Savant Press invites you to a community conversation about bringing zines into unconventional spaces (ex. schools, bars, treatment programs, etc). He will share about unconventional venues he has seen zines activated and talk with folks about where we would love to see zines deployed. The utility of zines as a hard-to-surveil freedom technology is what they want people to leave thinking about. Participants will then all collaborate on a community one-page riso zine that he will print and send to them if they are interested.

Space is limited and QTBIPOC will be prioritized, but all are welcome!

A discussion between Rin Kim and project contributors Oliver Davis and Olivia Ross, moderated by Nicole Killian / Nico Fontana. The conversation will explore some of the themes of Rin's recent project Hunters Follow Harpy Shadows, published by Printed Matter, Inc., which takes the form of an extended poetic sequence built from reimagined Korean folklore, biblical storytelling, and queer mythologies. 
No pre-registration required, attendance is first come first serve basis.