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Recipes for Resistance: A Food Zine Workshop with Christina Hajjar

SUNDAY September 15, 2024 | 11AM

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art | 1-460 Portage Ave | Winnipeg MB | Canada

Zines are self-published booklets suitable for food narratives expressed through memoir, poetry, collage, comics, short stories, recipes, and more. Facilitator Christina Hajjar will present on food zines, exploring their varied aesthetics and political contexts. There will be some low pressure group activities and plenty of time to explore zines, eat, and get started on your own project! In addition to drawing from some Palestinian examples, we’ll also write postcards in support of Palestine. This session is part lecture, part hands-on, with open time to read, mingle, and reflect on the themes of diaspora, food justice, and the role of print media.

FREE, no previous experience necessary. Materials and snacks will be provided.

Please email bronwyn@plugin.org to reserve your spot

Accessibility: Masks are mandatory, but may be removed for eating. A HEPA air purifier will be running in the space. The venue is wheelchair accessible. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom on the 3rd floor via elevator.

Christina Hajjar is a queer femme first-generation Lebanese artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. She is passionate about independent publishing and edits Herizons (on feminism), Carnation Zine (on diaspora and displacement) and qumra journal (on world cinema). Her zine Diaspora Daughter, Diaspora Dyke won Best Artzine at the 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. She was a recipient of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and received an honourable mention for the 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award. Hajjar’s writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, C Magazine, The Uniter, CV2, Prairie Fire, and PaperWait. Learn more at https://christinahajjar.com/.

Acknowledgments

We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. We are grateful for our water which is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation. 

We are grateful to artists Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber for the Prairie Art Book Fair logo designed for our first fair in 2018.

Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.

We would like to The Winnipeg Foundation for their ongoing support of Plug In ICA.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.

Plug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all, and enable us to continue to present excellent programs. Please consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at plugin.org/support or by contacting  info@plugin.org.

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