-Registration Closed-
Hosted by Neta Bomani
[Virtual]
Donation based: cashapp: $netabomani or venmo @netanoir.
Come celebrate Valentine’s Day by spending time making zines and contemplating love. Zines are the perfect tool for creative and political expression. Zines can function as letters of love to crushes, friends, lovers, family members, significant others, ancestors, partners and community; or letters of grievance, disappointment and heartbreak when systems fail, relationships end, people pass away, and so on.
As we continue to struggle living through a pandemic—in and out of isolation, spiritually drained, and starved for connection with inadequate support from the government…bell hooks reminds us that “when we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.”
We invite those who choose love to come as they are to this workshop. Together we will learn basic zine making techniques with a special Valentine’s Day twist and prompts to fill your zine with love. You will need: paper; binding materials like staples and a stapler or needle and embroidery thread; a cutting instrument like a scissors or an exacto knife; writing instruments like colorful pens and markers; and your imagination.
About workshop facilitator: Neta Bomani is an abolitionist, learner and educator who is interested in parsing information and histories while making things by hand with human and non-human computers. Neta’s work combines archives, oral histories, computation, social practices, printmaking, paper engineering, zine making and workshops to create do it yourself artifacts. Neta received a graduate degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Neta is currently an Instructor in the Collaborative Arts Department at New York University. Neta is also a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation. Neta has studied under Mariame Kaba, American Artist, Simone Browne, Ruha Benjamin, Fred Moten and many others who inform Neta’s work.
email: netanyabomani@gmail.com