Workshop: Plant and Garden Zine Making
This practical and creative workshop is an opportunity to come together as a community, learn about zines as a tool for exploring our personal and political connections with plants, gardens and the natural world.
Exploring zines as a medium and using the garden as inspiration, we will create our own mini zines and bring our work together to create a collaborative, community zine.
We will be sharing creative prompts, and exploring themes of community, connection and our relationships to plants. Our emphasis will be on creating a safe, supportive space to explore and create as community, emulating the natural world.
Together we will:
Explore the history of zine-making and how they can be used to explore personal and political themes and issues, and our connections to the natural world.
Using the garden as inspiration, we will learn to make our own personal 8-page mini zines.
Share our relationships with the natural world, how it can support us and can foster creativity.
You will leave this session with knowledge of how to create your own zines, take home a mini zine and a larger zine that we’ve made as part of the group. We’ll explore ideas of community and how plants can support in this.
Please bring along any collage materials - these can be magazines rescued from the recycling, old gardening books, newspapers, or anything else you’d like to cut up and use! You might have some zines that you love to bring along to share and inspire!
Meet Carmen
Carmen is the co-editor of FLORXL zine, a DIY publication that celebrates the joy of plants and gardens - designed to be an accessible and safe space that emulates the safety and sanctuary of a garden. It brings together a range of artists, writers and passionate plant lovers. All proceeds from sales of the zine go to the Lemon Tree Trust - a charity that supports the growth of gardens in refugee camps
Carmen is also a horticultural trainee at Wakehurst Kew. She is interested in the importance of plants and gardens for our mental health and wellbeing, and how a relationship with them can help us make sense of the world and society we live in.
@_carmengardens / @florxl_zine
Price: £85
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