This skill share seeks to share information on how zines can be used to heal.
Scabby, Taylor, Momo, and Marie represented Papercut Zine Library at Watertown Public Library’s Zine Roundtable for Zine Month.
Learn how to make linocut prints – including how to get started with just an X-acto knife and a big eraser!
As part of this beginner’s bookbinding workshop, we'll discuss tools and design decisions, and look at two different binding techniques.
This workshop will introduce folks to a brief history of zines, how to make one, and how zines change the world!
Come learn some basic techniques of Stop Motion Animating (= No experience or special equipment needed to attend~~~just bring yourself!
Learn the art of bookbinding + free zine! Free & no experience needed! Produced by science punks ~
Papercut is throwing a summer party to celebrate a year in our zine shack, and also the return of 1,000 water-damaged zines, and also we just like to party.
Papercut is on the move again and we invite you to brainstorm our next steps with us.
Visual artist and zinester Sybil Lamb, whose How to Kill Queer Scum is a treasured part of our zine collection, has her first book coming out on Topside Press in June, and her reading tour is coming to Papercut!
Among the many delightful aspects of our growing (!) librarian staff collective is the specialized skills and knowledge we each bring with us! We thought we should let our patrons in on the fun!
The Papercut Librarians have wrapped up their second, seasonal collaborative zine and are ready to share it with a bunch of lovely friends, patrons, and neighbors of Inman Square.
All our old, rare, and straight up WEIRD comic books will be available to browse, buy, and TAKE on Sunday, February 2 from 11am-7pm.
Lorem Ipsum Books and Papercut Zine Library present a very special evening of festive food, readings, and good cheer.
Come check out an awesome yard sale to benefit Papercut Zine Library...
April is National Poetry Month and we've got a new poetry zine display up at the library! In keeping with this theme, come join Papercut for an open mic along with readings by Antonio Ochoa and Jesse Mack.
"Brianna Dearest is hitting the road for her first zine tour in celebration of the release of the 20th issue of her zine, "Motor City Kitty." A perzine with a feminist slant, "Motor City Kitty" has been in publication since 2004.
This Sunday, come by the library between noon and 7 for a very special bake sale!
This December we'll be celebrating the release of a new mail art zine by PZL friend Marissa Falco (http://www.marissaland.com/), and creating some radical postal creations of our own.
Bring your recipes, food stories, harvest vibes, etc... we'll have all the usual zine making stuff on hand. See you then!
PZL is excited to be holding a reading and zine swap featuring the work of local zinesters of color to raise funds for the PoC Zine Project, an awesome group whose mission is to " make all zines by people of color easy to find, distribute and share. Community and activism through materiality."
PZL will be BACK at the Union Square Farmers Market collecting recipes (illustration and not!) for a fall produce recipe zine.
PZL will be hanging out at the Union Square Farmers' Market soliciting illustrated recipes of your favorite things do to with the yummy produce from USFM. The finished product will be an awesome, illustrated recipe zine!
Come on over and diversify our sports and bikes section - how do you like to get sweaty?? Let's design a training-for-the-revolution obstacle course, write about the politics of weight lifting, or make up our own rules for Papercut-ball!
This meetup (the second in PZL's new monthly zine-making meetups) will be dedicated to making zines that capture great learning experiences (before they ooze out of your brain over the summer).
Summer is the time to get your surf on! This summer kickoff event will be the launch of a Boston Couch Surfing zine, a space to contribute pages to a collaborative zine about your experience as a couch surfer / host, and time to eat snacks and have a great time!
We will explore zines made about teaching and learning, both in mainstream and alternative contexts, as well as the many exciting uses of zines in the classroom.
What is a zine? Why are they important? Most of all, how can I make one?!! This workshop is an introduction to the wide world of zines–whether you are a beginner who has never held a zine in your hands, or someone looking for tips at the photocopier: this is a workshop for you!
Another Papercut Zine Library's workshop series, magnanimously funded by the Somerville Arts Council, this time held uphill from Papercut at Somerville Public Library.
