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Link to Creators page on Collaboratory Website

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Link to Creators page on Collaboratory Website

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https://www.earlychildhoodcollaboratory.net/zine-creators

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Start by envisioning the aesthetic or visual impact you want to achieve. Think about the mood, tone, and message of your zine—what do you want your audience to feel or take away? Imagine how colours, textures, shapes, and compositions could bring this vision to life. Use one of the prompts posted by Tesni to get you started

Once you have a clear idea, break it down into smaller steps and begin to build it out in Photoshop:

1. Sketch Your Concept: Begin with a rough sketch or notes to map out your idea. Even a simple doodle can help guide your design. You may choose to do more than 1 of these. Iteration is part of the process.

2. Set Up Your Canvas: Create your Photoshop file with the appropriate dimensions and resolution for print or digital use. (See the workshop recording for how to do this)

3. Work in Layers: Use layers to separate different elements of your design, like backgrounds, text, and images. This makes it easier to experiment and refine individual components.

4. Experiment and Adjust: Play with tools like Brushes, Blending Options, or Effects to explore your ideas. Don’t hesitate to try out multiple versions or make changes as you go. For more tools to try navigate to the last slide in the workshop there are tool recommendations, tutorials and manuals you might find helpful.

5. Iterate Step by Step: Build your design gradually. Start with the foundational elements—like background textures or key images—and layer additional details, such as text, highlights, or effects.

6. If stuck book a 1:1 with Tesni or Malvika

There are links to adobe resources available at the end of the workshop 2 slides, where you can learn more about each tool mentioned above. You will find them on the Zine creators website. You can find the link by scrolling through this padlet or in emails send by Paolo.

Remember, creating in Photoshop is a process of exploration, making tonnes of mistakes and finding your way somehow. There’s no better way to start than simply diving in, getting lost, and finding your way back.

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Hello, it was great to meet some of the zine creators on October 8th, 2024. I’m looking forward to the drop-in session on October 10th, 2024.

For those who haven’t met me yet, I’m Malvika Agarwal, one of the Research Assistants working alongside Tesni, Rajat, and Paolo. I am a PhD candidate at Western University. In my research, I work with young children and am interested in sonic forms of analysis. I prefer drawing and creating art over writing, but I’ve recently discovered a growing love for the written form. The zine conversation series for me is an opportunity to further explore this form in a different way. I approach this project with a passion for communicating and engaging in dialogue in alternative ways, queering the outcomes of these conversations. I’m excited to explore how we will take this up through the creation of zines.

In our role as RA, we’re primarily here to provide technical support in creating the zines and to think conceptually about what zines do, demand, and afford.

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Hi All,

I'm really looking forward to this project and seeing what everyone creates.

I live on Snuneymuxw Territory, colonially known as Gabriola Island. I run a fully outdoor preschool and school age (4-7) program here, in addition to stewarding land where I live as a small farm. I am also currently doing my masters at UNB. I though I would share one of my assignments I recently submitted on Queer Theory that I presented as a zine.

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Check out this Zine designed by JoAnna Rickard.

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Greetings everyone. The legend has it that I named myself Amielle through a dream. I was raised on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka people. I was lucky to live a childhood with urban and nature exposures.

From an early age, I noticed social inequalities in the world surrounding me. This awareness inclined me to strive to treat everyone, human and not, with dignity and respect.

In 2009, I relocated to the unceded lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, Lil̓wat7úl, Tsleil-Waututh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. Coming from a line of Euro white settlers, I walk on these lands with unfair privileges infused by colonialism. I seek to educate myself, heal, and reconcile.

In efforts to challenge the adult-centric society we live in, I completed a bachelor degree in Early Child Care and Education at Capilano University. I am thankful to join this collective seeking create dialogues through esthetic and thought provoking materials.

On my spare time, you can find me sliding down snowy slopes, walking my dear darling puppy, gardening, cooking, enjoying music, or in the forest.

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Hello everyone, it's already been great to meet you and I'm excited about our ongoing work together in this project. I recently moved from Toronto to the rural area of Trent Hills, Ontario. The country air, the birds, the quiet, the rolling hills -- I'm paying close attention to it all and it's making an impact on my doctoral studies. I'm studying in the Faculty of Education at York University and will soon be inviting students to form drawing groups where we will make images to think together and respond to each other. I've played with zine-making in both research and personally so I'm excited to help you bring your work to life. I'm currently sitting on my front porch with my cat, Lily, and this is our view.

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Hey everyone, my name is Alysha — or Al for short. I am a settler artist and educator living and working on the sacred unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ nations, also known as East Vancouver.

I work with children and other creative people making projects that sometimes turn into videos, GIFs, performances, publications, stories, memories, films, and other technological objects. For the past few years I've been creating anti-colonial animist inquiry projects with public school iPads and children through the AIRS Program and ArtStarts in Schools. You can peek at some of these projects on my website: https://www.alyshaseriani.com/

Some other side projects of mine include working at an outdoor school, working with artists, hosting online vigils, and learning scottish gaelic.

Looking forward to making and sharing zines with you all!

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Alysha Seriani queer feminist independent film producer, educator, facilitator and media artist based in Vancouver, Canada.

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Please fill in the following survey to share with the RAs what you need and when you're most available

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Please fill in the following survey to share with the RAs what you need and when you're most available

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Info Gathering with Zine Conversation Series Creators

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Please answer a few brief questions so that the RAs (Tesni and Malvika) can design resources and offerings that meet your needs as you work through your creative process as a creator in the Zine Conversation Series.

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Hello! My name is Maureen, and I am a PhD candidate researching early childhood education through rethinking waste practices and (re)worlding vibrant, interconnected relationships with more-than-human kin. My work embraces relational approaches to early childhood education, exploring how young children can develop meaningful engagements with the more-than-human world.

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Child Studies and Social Work at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. I teach primarily in the Early Learning and Child Care Program.

I’m excited to participate as a zine creator, fostering dialogue and engaging with other contributors and readers. I look forward to the conversations that will emerge.

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Either by hand or digitally (e.g. Mural.co, Miro.com, or FigJam.com), consider using a mind-map to get started. A mind-map can be helpful for moving through creative blocks and identifying connections, relationships, and discrepancies worth investigating more extensively.

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Create a paper or digital collage (e.g. Pinterest, Canva) of images, textures, styles, or references that capture or evoke something of a 'mood'. How does that mood relate to your zine? What does that mood say about the zine as a pedagogical form?

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From Andrew Causey's "Drawn to See" (2017): "Ask someone to put a small, common household object into a [bag] without telling you what it is. ... [Put] your non-drawing/non-dominant hand into the bag and try to "see" the object through touch while simultaneously drawing what your fingers tell you. The point here is to try making a direct connection between your two hands, the one sensing the shape, density, weight, and texture of the object, the other one registering those sensations via line drawing. Now, do the same exercise but in near darkness so that the drawing you are making is nearly impossible to see. Focus, concentrate: make one hand draw what the other one "sees"." (p. 135).

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Go for a walk without planning your route or having a plan for where you'll end up. Take note of any “desire paths” you happen to meet along the way - “paths & tracks made over time by the wishes & feet of walkers, especially those paths that run contrary to design or planning” (Macfarlane, as cited in The Guardian, here). What kind of desire lines exist in your pedagogical work? In your zine?

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On a walk, sitting still, or anything in-between -- turn on a recording device (e.g. Voice Memos app, Voice Recorder app) and capture the sounds and silences around you. Move to another space and hear what resonates differently. What can your zine do that sound does?

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Make a list of a dozen small noticings in this moment: twelve tangible things you perceive with your five senses. Draw a few of them.

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Thumbnail Features Art by Hannah West https://www.hannahmaywest.com/

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Frame and observe: Choose or take a photo of something that inspires you, or you love dearly, or is part of your daily routine or catches your eye.

Zoom in: Pick an area in this image. A small, intriguing detail. Square crop the photo to isolate this fragment, focusing on textures, edges, or colors.

Draw and study: Treat this as a detail study, tracing or hand-drawing the cropped section. Repeat regularly to create a collection of micro studies, like a swatch library of textures and techniques for your zine. Try re-drawing, collaging paper cutting, knitting or even digitally recreating this same section with different materials.

The idea is to create a swatch library of textures, contours, colours and compositions that you might lean on once you begin thumbnails/prototypes for your zines.

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1. Set up your camera: Keep it stationary, focused on a moving subject in a fixed background.

2. Take successive photos: Capture the subject as it moves through the frame, keeping the background unchanged.

3. Trace the movement: Layer the photos and trace the subject in each frame onto a single sheet to show its path over time.

Or

Print each photo and cut out the subject and collage them together to to show its movement over time.

Or

Position all photos onto a single document by scaling them down so multiple images fit on a single piece of paper and using a marker rotoscope out the subject leaving the background in view with the subject now empty space that moves with time.

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Behind the Scenes - Prince of Persia (1989) [Making of]

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How might reflecting on the ethics you follow in your work influence your zine design decisions—such as what you leave out, what you include, and how you treat the source material?

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How might reflecting on the ethics you follow in your work influence your zine design decisions—such as what you leave out, what you include, and how you treat the source material?

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How can I evoke texture in my zine despite its 2D format?

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How can I evoke texture in my zine despite its 2D format?

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Is there something I can read to help me think why making a zine matters and how it differs from creating an academic article, a presentation, or an art magazine?

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Is there something I can read to help me think why making a zine matters and how it differs from creating an academic article, a presentation, or an art magazine?

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Hi everyone! (sorry I am late to the party),

My name is Kathryn - you can call me Kat! I am a hybrid Aussie-Canadian, growing up on Boonwurrung Country in south-east Australia and immigrating to Treaty 6 in Saskatoon, Canada in 2015. I now reside in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and the original lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewak, Dakota Oyate, and Dene and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.

I am an Assistant Professor in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, researching and teaching at the nexus of physical education and movement, health & wellbeing, and place and outdoor education. I am very passionate about more-than-human and relational pedagogies through an anticolonial praxis for social and ecological justice and flourishing.

My previous involvement with zines has been as a teaching and learning practice with pre-service teachers through collaborative zine making. But only with paper, watercolor, magazines, scissors, and tape, so I am super excited to delve into zine creation with Photoshop!