Queer Diary Zine-making (Newcastle)

Grab a pritt-stick & join the Queer Diary team for an evening of nostalgia & crafting to create your own Queer 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, a date, or come alone to meet some new friendly faces.

All crafting materials provided: Felt-tips + gel pens + stickers + stencils + a stack of old teen magazines to cut up & re-cycle for 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 throwback playlist, of songs from your coming-of-age era (we take requests!)

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 - choose the price-point that is affordable for you.

This event is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary (the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage). More about us:

Insta | Bluesky | Facebook | TikTok | Linktree

www.queerdiary.org.uk

Our show Hasbian is on tour, coming to Alphabetti Theatre on Thu Oct 23rd

If you have any questions or access needs you'd like us to know about, please email Beth & Josie at: hello@queerdiary.org.uk

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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.

Timings:

18:00 'Soft start' - arrive between 6-6:30 for extra time to get settled in the space with craft materials, refreshments, etc.

18:30 Instructions/inspiration for zine-making

18:45-20:15 Zine-making time ✂️🖍

20:15 - 20:30 Show & tell: a chance to share & see what others made.

Location & Access:

• Queer Diary is in the Bar at Alphabetti which is step-free
• There is one wheelchair accessible toilet
• Nearby 'pay-and-display' parking on Blandford Square FREE after 6pm. The nearest BLUE BADGE parking is in the car park in between Alphabetti and the Discovery museum.
• If there's something you'd like the Queer Diary team to consider, to make this event more accessible for you, please email the organisers: hello@queerdiary.org.uk
• For questions relating to the location, or physical access to the space, please contact the venue directly.

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. 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, we ask attendees to do the same.

Discrimination 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 as soon as you can.

Sharing is always optional - please engage with this workshop on your own terms. Our suggested prompts, and the invitation to "show and tell" are offers, not obligations - feel free to make a zine about whatever you like, and share as much or little as you're comfortable with.

Please consider the wellbeing of yourself and others. Use content warnings if raising sensitive or potentially triggering topics, so other participants can choose what they do/don't want to hear about or engage with.

We may take photos at this event, to publicise future events like this - if you'd prefer not to be in photos, or want to be anonymised/removed from any pictures we publish on our social media, etc, please let us know, we want to make sure we respect your privacy.

COVID Safety:

Please take a lateral flow test before attending.

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

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

Follow for more:

Instagram @hasbianshow | Bluesky ‪@queerdiary

Facebook @QueerDiaryCIC | TikTok @hasbianqueerdiary

If you have any questions or access needs you'd like us to know about, please email Beth & Josie at: hello@queerdiary.org.uk

Book for Hasbian at Alphabetti Theatre on Thu Oct 23rd