A drop-in zine library and creative workshop for Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025
In the spirit of “New Horizons”
This open-day event invites you to slow down, listen in, and explore the gentle creative power of zine-making as a way to document your inner world and connect with others. Whether you're curious about making your first zine or simply want to browse through stories told by others, Zine Sanctuary offers space to reflect, discover, and play—with no pressure to perform or produce.
At the heart of the space:
A cozy Zine Library of over 200 self-published zines from around the world
A self-led zine-making station with prompts, materials, and creative guidance
A display of Ioana’s handmade zines and stories from past community workshops
A chance to join the Zine Club, a monthly creative gathering starting this summer
A growing Community Zine-in-Progress, where visitors can contribute a page, drawing, poem, or reflection on what their own “new horizon” might look or feel like.
This is a space for listening:
👂 Listening to yourself through quiet creative time,
📚 Listening to others through the voices in zine,
🌱 Listening to the community by co-creating a shared space for care and curiosity.
All are welcome—no art experience needed, just a little curiosity. Stay for five minutes or hours.
This event is part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
Artist Bio:
Ioana Simion is an artist-educator and facilitator based in East London. She runs community workshops under the artistic identity of Artizine. Her socially-engaged practice explores the use of zine-making as a vehicle for encouraging individuals to share their stories, develop imaginative skills and practice well-being in a social setting.
Ioana’s practice centres the intuitive quality of play and participation to amplify community spaces where individuals receive support to expand on their lived-experience and document it through a creative, radical outlet.
When talking about her work, the artist explains, “My practice is based on zine-making which is inherently collaborative. Historically, the zine culture has emerged from a radical need for marginalized groups to organise and empower each other through sharing their stories. Through my workshops and extended art practice, I aim to facilitate these interactions and celebrate the multi-layered process of connecting and creating communities and cultures of meaning together.”
Recent projects include a zine commission for Instagram Design, Full of Radical Potential, a 6-month creative community programme funded by the Foundation for Future London; schools programmes delivered at the Southbank Centre; a community youth group project at the Story Museum, Oxford; as well as several public programmes at the Barbican Centre.
Instagram: @artizineuk
Date: Saturday 24th May
Time: 12:30-16:30pm
Venue: The Mulberry Hall at St. Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL
Tickets: FREE (registration is essential)