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, along with a collaborative playlist, where you can add 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 use as inspiration on turning them into a Queer-tastic Zine (this is not required - just if you want to!)
🎟 All tickets to this event are Pay What You Can - please choose the price-point that makes this event affordable for you.
Artfix cafe will be open for you to buy hot drinks, soft drinks, hard drinks, and snacks ☕️🍷
More info on the venue can be found on the Artfix website.
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 here:
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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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*Non-treasured memories also welcome! Teenage troubles, angst & cringe are all part of life. Please look after yourself if choosing to explore anything difficult or sensitive.
Location & Access:
ArtFix Cafe is on the way in to Greenwich Market, in a busy area near several stations and other shops, cafes, etc.
The address is 7 Durnford Street, SE10 9BF (just off Greenwich Church Street). The venue on Google Maps.
The nearest stations are Cutty Sark (DLR) and Greenwich (DLR & National Rail), and there are several bus-stops nearby.
Artfix has partial step-free access, but no wheelchair accessible toilets: the cafe entrance is 91cm wide, and the front of the cafe is step-free. However, there's a 2cm step across the centre of the cafe, and toilets are beyond this step. The toilet door does not fully open, and there is no handrail installed.
The nearest parking lot with free Blue Badge parking is 350m away, at Burney Street.
Dogs are welcome.
There is a range of different seating available within the venue - from wooden chairs at tables to soft couches and armchairs.
For more information and any questions about Artfix Cafe, you can contact them via https://www.artfix.org.uk/artfix-greenwich/
If there's something you'd like the organisers and facilitators to consider, to make this workshop accessible for you, please email the organisers: hasbianshow@gmail.com
COVID Safety:
Please take a lateral flow test before attending.
Event organisers are fully 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.
Toilet signage will be gender-neutral.
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 would like 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.