Community Death Care Zine Workshop & Exchange

A two hour workshop on creating resources for death-positive artists & EOL doulas in the form of Risograph printed zines.
Is there a community death care or grief resource you really wish existed, but doesn’t yet? Do you have specialized knowledge, experiences, or ideas that would help others move through loss and grief?

Zines, accessible pocket-sized DIY publications, are a great way to share ideas, stories, and information; whether you’re a practicing death doula, grief tender, or just starting to learn about death, grief, and loss this workshop will benefit you.

There will be a brief intro to zines and the Risograph printing process, we’ll use generative prompts to refine zine ideas and go over basic file set up. Each participant will create their own one or two-color, one-page zine design (11×17 or 8.5×11), which will be printed by me in my home studio. You will receive 25-50 copies of your own zine, as well as 1 copy of all of the other zines created in the class. One week after the initial workshop there will be an optional LIVE PRINTING over zoom if you’d like to see more of the process and get a preview of your prints before they are sent to you via USPS.

If you’re completely new to Riso and want to know what you’re signing up for, here are some examples. In short, Riso printing is very similar to screen printing, but the machine looks like your average copy machine. It has a really fun, vibrant aesthetic and it’s environmentally friendly, as it uses soy based ink, rice paper for the stencils and no heat in the printing process.

Class fee covers instruction, printing time, supplies, and shipping costs.