Grab a pritt-stick & join the Queer Diary team for an evening of nostalgia, crafting & chance to create your own personal Queer Teenage History Zine 🌈📖

• Design the teen mag you wish you’d read 🎨
• Collage your fantasy prom-night 💐
• Create a fanzine for your first crush ❤️‍🔥
• Write a letter to your younger self 💌
• Draw a coming-of-age cartoon 👀

Or simply sit & doodle with a friendly queer crowd, to a throwback soundtrack  💿🎶

 

Bring your pals, your date, or come alone to meet some new friendly faces.
 

All crafting materials are provided by us: 

Paper + pritt stick + scissors + felt-tips + gel pens + pencils + stencils  🖍

+ a load of old teen mags to cut up & re-cycle into your own queer-tastic zine ✂️✂️

 

We also provide instruction (how to fold a basic zine) and ✨zine-spiration✨ in the form of some zines we’ve enjoyed, and some we’ve made before, and with a collaborative playlist, where you can request your own fave throwback tracks from your teenage years.

If you wanna use your own life as inspiration, we invite you to bring something you’ve kept from your past: a favourite object, a picture, a song, or treasured memory* to turn into a Queer-tastic Zine (this is not required – just if you want to!)

 

🎟 All tickets to this event are Pay What You Can – booking is essential and spaces are limited, if you can no longer make it, please let us know in advance so we can free up a place for somebody else.

 

This event is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary (the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage). Find out more about us: Instagram | TwXtter | Facebook | Linktree | TikTok

 

If you have any questions, concerns, or access needs you’d like us to know about, please email Beth & Josie at: Hasbianshow@gmail.com (we often miss messages sent through Outsavvy).

 

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Queer Diary Zine-making at Oxford Old Fire Station is supported by funding from Arts Council England.

 

*Non-treasured memories also welcome! Teenage troubles, angst & cringe are all part of life.  Please look after yourself & consider others by thinking before you choose what to share, and giving a content warning if sharing anything sensitive or potentially triggering. 

 

 

Location & Access:

Full information about access at the Old Fire Station is on their website, and we recommend contacting them directly if you have any specific questions about finding or accessing their space.

• Queer Diary zine-making is in the Cafe at the Old Fire Station
• The closest car park is Gloucester Green Car Park, accessed via Gloucester Street.
• There are a number of Blue Badge parking spaces nearby on Beaumont Street, New Inn Hall Street and St Giles.  
• The cafe is wheelchair accessible: It is on the ground floor with an accessible toilet on the same level.

This zine-making session will be lightly facilitated with a relaxed atmosphere where you are free to come and go and engage however feels most comfortable to you. If there’s something you’d like the facilitators to consider, to make this workshop more accessible for you, please email the organisers directly: hasbianshow@gmail.com 

 

COVID Safety:

Please take a lateral flow test before attending. 

Event organisers are vaccinated and use lateral flow testing regularly. We also welcome the wearing of masks.

Do NOT attend this event if you have either COVID symptoms or a positive test result.

 

Inclusivity & Community Safety:

Please note this event is themed around memories of teenage years gone by, and is aimed at adult audiences.

This is an-LGBTQIA+ centred space. As hosts of this workshop, we will not assume your gender or sexuality, or apply gendered pronouns or honourifics (until we learn which ones you use). To make sure everyone feels welcome in this space, we ask attendees to do the same.

Discriminatory language or behaviour will not be tolerated (including – but not limited to – transphobia, biphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, xenophobia, classism, ablism, fatphobia). 

If anyone makes you feel uncomfortable in the space, please tell the event organisers.

We may take a few photos at this event, to publicise future workshops like this – if you’d prefer not to be in photos, or want to be anonymised in any pictures we publish on our social media, etc, please let us know, we want to make sure we respect your privacy.

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