What is a Quaranzine? This new term is a combination of "quarantine" and "zine" - or mini-magazine. Collaborate with other participants on a zine reflecting on your quarantine experiences. Use simple techniques like collage, stamping, and hand writing to reflect on your experiences over the past year. We'll talk about zine history and culture, and go through some prompts to get your creativity flowing. Participants will submit 1 to 2 pages to Common Press, and will later receive a printed and bound zine compiling everyone's responses. (Also a "comp zine.")A list of materials you might like to have on hand is below -- but really you don't need anything besides paper and a pen, or a computer.

List of zine making materials:

Copy paper (heavy weight can be good for your originals if you’re heavy on marker ink or collage), but a typical thinner (20lb) copy paper allows you to trace other materials.

Pencil and eraser, pencil sharpener Range of pens and markers

Scissors

Glue stick

Collage materials - old magazines and newspapers, mailing circulars, stamps, ribbons or other thin/flat materials that can be glued down

Washi tape

Alphabet stickers or stamps and stamp pad (or other designs!)

Access to computer and printer

Page size:

We'll be working with a half letter sized sheet (8.5 x 5 inches) - zine will be portrait orientation but your pages can be in either portrait or landscape orientation