A drop-in zine library and zine-making workshop by Artizine for Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025
💫 In the spirit of “New Horizons”:
Step into a gentle, welcoming space designed to help you slow down, listen in, and explore the gentle yet radical power of zine-making. Whether you’re curious to create your very first zine or simply want to browse 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, you’ll find:
A cozy Zine Library with over 200 self-published zines from around the world, curated by Ioana (aka Artizine).
A hands-on zine-making station* with prompts, materials, and creative guidance from Emma (Gazette for Girls) and Isabela (Cool Girl Making Zines), members of Artizine Club.
A display of Ioana’s handmade zines and stories from past community workshops.
A chance to join Artizine Club, a monthly creative gathering where you can practice zine-making with friends.
A collaborative Community Zine-in-Progress, where visitors can contribute a page, drawing, poem, or reflection on what their own “new horizon” looks or feels like.
IMPORTANT: The zine-making station will host two drop-in workshops on a first come, first served basis. Around 20 spaces are available for each session:
🕛 12:30–14:00 – Facilitated by Emma
🕒 14:30–16:00 – Facilitated by Isabela
This workshop is not specifically designed for children. However, parents or carers are welcome to join with their children as long as they are supervised throughout.
This is a space for listening:
👂 To yourself, through quiet creative time,
📚 To others, through the voices shared in zines.
🌱 To community, by co-creating a space rooted in care and curiosity.
All are welcome—no art experience needed, just a little curiosity.
Come for five minutes or stay for hours.
Artist Bios
Organiser:
Ioana 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.
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 in Newham; 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
Emma (Gazette Girlie) is a London based zine maker who uses hyper feminine and whimsical aesthetics to create visual and written narrative zines through a queer and neurodivergent lens. She finds zines beneficial for her mental health and allowing play back into her life, and often uses zines as a safe space to talk about challenging topics. She advocates for everyone to make zines due to the non-restrictive and limitation free creativity they provide.
Instagram: @gazette.girlie
Izabela (Cool Girl making Zines) started her zine journey just over a year ago. Her first ever zine—created entirely from magazine scraps—felt like piecing together a puzzle, where every image and word seemed meant to be. In that moment, she knew zines would become a lasting part of her life. Since then, she has built a unique library of handmade zines, taken part in countless zine workshops, become a regular at Artizine Club, and is now proudly facilitating her second workshop.
Instagram: @coolgirlmakingzines
Venue: The Mulberry Hall at St. Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL
Date: Saturday 24th May
Time: 12.30-4.30pm
Tickets: FREE (registration is essential)