WHAT: In this clothed life drawing workshop, our model Lekhani will be doing a series of clothed poses which tell their journey of growing up Black in Cumbria and finding their confidence and power through theater. “No matter where I am, I’m holding my head up high and being myself”. WHEN: 11:30-12:30 in the workshop room WHO: Capacity 20 people. All ages
Carlidoscope is a group of global majority creatives in and around Carlisle and Cumbria. Dani Kazuko Münzel, who will be hosting the session is an artist who works with portraiture, challenging the dynamics between painter and “subject”, the dominant “gaze”s in art, and how portraiture can be used to tell stories and change narratives. Lekhani Chirwa, who will be the model, is from Cumbria and works as an Actor, Writer, Activist and Facilitator in Manchester. @dani.munz @carlidoscope @lekhanichirwa
WHAT: In this workshop you will play a quick fire game of Bananagrams, a word game where you will create a grid of words as fast as you can. Using the words in your grid, you will write a poem and then put it into a zine which you can take home! WHEN: 1:30-2:30 in the workshop room WHO: Capacity 16 people. Age 14+
Fajar is a multidisciplinary creative based in Manchester. Working mainly in print, collage and poetry, she take’s inspiration from the mundane to extract works which aim to express a sense of nostalgia, memory and personal history. Taking this concept, she has enriched her research through the facilitation of workshops across the city. She teaches both reflection and making, inviting others to explore how small, personal artefacts embed meaning in daily life. @fajkart
0.08 Imprints (He/Him) 0.08 Imprints is an accessible platform for photographers with any amount of experience to be able to submit and share work that is aesthetically conscientious, meaningful and curious. Website: www.008imprints.co.uk Instagram: @0.08imprints
51 Personae (she/Her) 51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions. Instgram: @51personaeproject
Ayman J. Sabir (She/her) Ayman Juwairiyyah Sabir is the Creative Director and Founder of Samajh My Gal, a creative magazine for dual-heritage South Asians, celebrating dual heritage, South Asian identity. She’s also a writer, poet and creative herself! Instagram: @samajhmygal
Bee “Sea Spaghetti” Wong (They/Them) From cute to contemplative… quirky animator, illustrator & doodler loves making bright and colourful stickers, zines, prints, and lil bits. Website: seaspaghetti.etsy.com Instagram: @seaspaghetti
Black Tones (She/Her) Blue Bodies is a zine for the many faces and forms that shape Black-Irish identity. The project is by Black Tones, a Dublin based literary arts community. Website: blacktones.ie/blue-bodies Instagram: @blacktones.ie
Redacted/Bunny X My work draws from autoethnography, lived experience + academic research to tell stories that feel direct, accessible + relatable. It is a kaleidoscopic portal to the past, present + future of marginalised narratives. Prints, badges and stickers of my digital artwork, a zine about tattooing. Instagram: @r__acted
Carlidiocope Carlidoscope are a community of artists/creatives of the global majority, in Carlisle and surrounding areas in north-west England. They make zines, stickers, prints, and other handmade things like pins and jewellery. Instagram: @carlidoscope
Dal & Sheree (She/Her) Dal makes perzines on race, creativity, nature, memory, and identity. Sheree makes zines on similar themes from the perspective of a Black Woman in nature Instagram: @dalkular @shereemackwrites
Demi AD (They/Them) Leeds-based writer and zine-maker. With an engineering background, they have always been interested in taking things apart to understand them. Their work focuses on themes of love, race, gender, and intersectionality. Instagram: @endy__enby
I Have a Mouth and I Must Scream (She/Her) My work dissects the liminality of being a third culture kid, always feeling like I exist in the in-between no matter where I am. I explore the immense joy and nostalgia this brings as well as the discomfort. I delve into nostalgia both as a tool for empowerment and disempowerment through zines like “2002 girl archive”, “The Nostalgia Problem”, and “all that I fear.”. I have alternative zines that combine zines with other formats like archives and music. Website: open.substack.com/pub/2002girlarchive Instagram: @ihaveamouthandimustscream
Kadebruh.Squid (They/Them) Kadebruh.Squid was born and raised in Hong Kong, currently living in Manchester. They have explored queer East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) culture, racism, pop culture and subcultures, and more. Website: ko-fi.com/kadebruhsquid248 Instagram: @kadebruh.squid248
Khidr Collective (She/Her) Khidr Collective is a UK-based arts collective which curates and platforms original work from Muslim artists – including illustrators, writers, poets, photographers and creatives of other disciplines. Website: khidrcollective.co.uk Instagram: @khidrcollective
LittleCrafts Arts (She/Her) I make art pieces like postcards, greeting cards, and prints. I also make zines. Instagram: @littlecrafts_arts
Mango Jam Collective (They/Them) Mango Jam is a collective of artists who make zines, stickers, and other analogue material which celebrates Asian joy and creativity. Website: fajarkayani.com / pitahpat.com / judewhippey.com Instagram: @mangojamcollective
Nabila (She/Her) Nabila is a zinester and writer currently doing a PhD in critical AI studies while dreaming of fulfilling her true calling of making zines and telling stories for a living. Website: nabilacruz.com Instagram: @ninavoluminosa
P R Kaur Gibbons (She/Her) A self-taught art maker using colour to story tell visually. She makes zines about Punjabi, nature, and her mental health. She loves running playful workshops and her monthly online Colour Club. Website: stuffbypam.com Instagram: @stuffbypam
Queer Patch (She/Her/They) Queer Patch is a Sinophone queer-feminist collective. We share community-made zines, prints, and crafts that nurture everyday resistance, creative expression, and collective world-making through art. Instagram: @queerpatch
Rain Bug Studio (She/Her) I create whimsy cool art for whimsy cool people! From prints and zines, stickers and badges, to clay and felt trinkets! Instagram: @rainbugstudio
Raya Zines (They/Them) Raya is an overthinker and zine making helps to organise those big thoughts and feelings. Printing stuff about movies and cats to Greek mythology and neurodivergent history. Website: linktr.ee/rayasunshinee Instagram: @raya.zines
Rumbi (She/Her) I am an artist/writer and I love creating comics, to illustrations and zines about belonging, nature and home. My often uses symbolism from Zimbabwean folklore for a fantasy twist. Instagram: @marykeepsgoing
Safrana Art (She/Her) I’m a blossom loving, beetroot grower who wears a hijab and makes zines about mental health, positive affirmations, body hair, and Islam in a world where people think me a clumsy allotment owner is both oppressed and a terrorist. I want to be able to use my art and show that the world is actually a place where we are all better when we find similarities not separation. Instagram: @Safrana.art
Satsuki Press (She/Her)Satsuki Press is a self-publishing project initiated by London-based artist Yuxuan Zhou, explores narratives in mundane objects and dreams. Website: satsukipress.yuxuan-zhou.com Instagram: @alibiecila
Seleena Laverne Daye (She/Her) Zine maker, creating zines around race, class, queerness, fandom and 90s pop culture! Website: seleenalavernedaye.co.uk Instagram: @seleenalavernedaye
Studio Haluhalo (They/Them) Studio Haluhalo is a Queer-Filipino-owned creative studio rooted in storytelling, community and cultural memory. Co-founded by Jude Whippey and Pita Santos, we create and publish collaborative zines that explore Filipino identity across culture, language, food, migration, and diaspora. Our name, “Haluhalo”, meaning “mix mix” in Tagalog, is the foundation of our practice where we bring together our individual skills to teach, collaborate and create work that has something to say without taking itself too seriously Instagram: @studiohaluhalo
toppo/misc (They/Them) toppo/misc is the creative output of the artist, who makes work meant to be evocative of the human condition, but can be best described as speaking to the viewer in a funny way. Website: toppodoesmiscthings.com Instagram: @mishmatoppo
Two Little Points (She/Her) Two Little Points is a creative brand linking Hong Kong and the UK. We use vibrant illustrations and graphic design to tell stories through our zines, exploring themes like memory, encouragement, and upcoming topics of diaspora and food. Instagram: @twolittlepoints
WingyuYeungArt (She/Her) Mother-and-daughter artists creating playful, unique portraits and lovely handmade zines, all made with love. Come for a portrait and discover a little piece of our art! Website: wingyuart.com Instagram:wingyuyeungart
Worryroom (She/Her) Worryroom is passionate about art therapy and well-being by exploring and connecting with diverse individuals through art and creative mediums, such as zines and art workshops. Instagram: @worryroom
Zine Chicas (she/her/they) As immigrants and women of colour, we have created a space that allows us to reflect on our diverse experiences. Zines are our chosen creative practice to share our embodied knowledges and register these memories as disputed territory.
Zine Freak (He/Him) Matt Simmons runs Zine Freak, a small press comic shop in the north of England, and produces handmade zines about horror, movies, smut and creativity! Website: mattsimmonscomics.bigcartel.com Instagram: @zine_freak
The Zuri Caves (They/Them) Zuri is a multidisciplinary artist who creates fantasy inspired prints, posters, stickers, zines, costume jewellery and iron-on patches from their bedroom studio, affectionately called The Zuri Caves. Website: thezuricaves.substack.com Instagram: @thezuricaves
It’s been just under two weeks since this years Over Here Zine fest, and we just wanted to say a BIG thank you!
Thanks to everyone involved…
Thank you to all the stall holders, every year you are the people that give Over Here the extra spark, always so creative and supportive of everyone in the room, keep doing what you’re doing we love you!
Thanks to Alison, Dal and WingYu for hosting workshops and creating spaces where people could get creative.
Thank you to People’s History Museum for having us and being the perfect fit.
And thank you to everyone that came down to say hello, support the stall holders, create something, help us raise money for local orgs. and just said lovely things.
Community is everything and we felt hopeful after Over Here so THANK YOU!
WHAT: Make a pennant with a message. Something you love, something you’re passionate about… Get hands on making vibrant pennants with a big slogan, Join Alison as she shows you how to DIY a cardboard pennant, guiding you to pick the right word, font or colours to get your message across WHEN: 11:00-12:00 in the workshop room WHO: Capacity 12 people. Age 5+, (under 12 accompanied by an adult.)
Alison Erika Forde (she/her/they/them) is Co-Director of Two Crows Arts Studio CIC based in Bury, running workshops/ events, an Artist studio and spreading the word that Art Is For Everyone.
Alison is a Visual Artist/ illustrator practising in and around Greater Manchester for the past 15 years. Specialising in painting, inspired by anything from high art to the sub-cultural with playfulness, exhibiting Internationally as well as locally at Manchester Art gallery and The Whitworth. Co-founder of Yiiikes! Art Collective and Two Crows Arts Studio, Alison believes art brings people together, she has always been passionate about making Art more accessible as well as sustainability!
Recent commissions include illustrations for The Portico Library, The World Reimagined, DepartConsultancy and artwork for The Met Bury. @alisonerikaforde @two_crows_studios
WHAT: Through lovingly crafted creative writing prompts we’ll connect with one of our ancestors (living, in the after-living, or future. Known/unknown) and craft them a letter. Dal will then guide you on how you can continue this journey after the session. Featuring real life letter-writing paper, envelopes and a stamp! WHEN: 12:30-13:30 in the workshop room WHO: Capacity 20 people. Age 16+
Dal Kular (she/her) is a creative facilitator, writer, mentor and mixed-media maker. Her creative social practice centres ancestors, healing, liberation, abolition and joy. She’s inspired by Black/Global feminisms, Mother Earth and social justice. She lives in Sheffield. @dalkular dalkular.com
WHAT: In this playful workshop, participants will create their own mini zine using simple drawing and collage techniques. We’ll focus on self-expression through portraits — capturing identity, emotions, or imagination — and explore different mini-zine making methods with samples for inspiration. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to experiment and have fun! WHEN: 14:00-15:00 in the workshop room WHO: Capacity 12 people. Age 10+ (under 10 accompanied by an adult.)
Wingyu Yeung (she/her) is anartist and illustrator originally from Hong Kong, now based in the U.K. Her practice focuses on portraiture, memory, and storytelling, and she often runs creative workshops for both children and adults that encourage self-expression through art.
0.08 Imprints (He/Him) 0.08 Imprints is an independent photobook/zine publisher. We design and publish projects that utilise the camera as a tool for investigation, primarily studying relationships and habits that form around ourselves, others and places. Our mission is to be an accessible platform for photographers with any amount of experience to be able to submit and share work that is aesthetically conscientious, meaningful and curious. Website: 008imprints.co.uk Instagram: @0.08imprints
51 Personae (she/Her) 51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions. Website: 51personae.org Instagram: @51personaeproject
Amber Carter Art (She/Her) Creating with a drive for authentic storytelling and representation, my work focuses on the character, on human experiences and the desire to tell untold stories. I work deftly between digital and hand-made methods, and tackle both narrative and design-based work with imagination and empathy. My practice is geared towards self-publishing, editorial design and narrative illustration. Website: ambercarterart.etsy.com Instgram/TikTok: @ambercarter.art
Bee Wong (They/Them) Pensive illustrator & doodler – i have been reconnecting with my identity through making philosophical zines, silly stickers and whimsical prints Website: seaspaghetti.co.uk Instagram: @seaspaghetti
Dal Kular & Sheree Mack (She/Her) Dal makes perzines on race, creativity, nature, memory and identity. Sheree makes zines on similar themes from the perspective of a Black Woman in nature, as well as the Black Nature in Residence zine (3 issues), a collaborative zine. Both make one off zines too. Dal also makes journals, notebooks, cartonera and badges as liberatory and anti-colonial archival practice. Sheree and Dal both have visual journaling practices. Instagram: @dalkular @shereemackwrites
Dig Where You Stand- zines (She/Her)- collective We were brought together by Dig Where You Stands archive workshop aimed at women of colour. In one of the sessions, we explored zines as a way of registering our experiences and reflecting on memory making as a disputed territory. That stayed with us as a group and are happy to be taking our love of zine making to Over Here Zine Fest.
Eunis Hailey Scalett We are doing our original drawing, but also we are making some cute and hand-made craft as well. Instagram:@ ty._paint
Fajar Kayani (She/Her) Fajar Kayani is a multidisciplinary creative based in Manchester. Her practice mainly explores the significance of everyday objects and how their origins and daily use can be used to create a portrait and/or archive of the self. Working mainly in print, collage and poetry, Fajar takes inspiration from the mundane to extract works which aim to express a sense of nostalgia, memory and personal history. Website: fajarkayani.com Instagram: @fajkart
Isa & Lily Seminega (she/her) We’re a family of readers celebrating inclusive children’s books. We write zines about books we’re obsessed with, Black culture and all things creative. We also make illustrated products for book lovers Wesbite: gloriousreads.com Instagram: @gloriousreads
Little Crafts Art My promotional purpose is to share my artwork such as hand-painted cards and zine Instagram: @littlecrafts_art
Morrowdragon (He/Him) Hey! I’m morrowdragon, a Cantonese comic and zine artist based in London. My comics explore queer experiences growing up in small cities like Hong Kong and Macau. Like “Lotus’ Dream”, it explores queer youth, fantasies, and self-discovery based in both cities. I am currently making a long series comic, “SkeleMacaco”, packing action and navigating relationships in one story. Instagram: @morrowdragon
Nabila Cruz (She/Her) I make personal zines about things I love or with my poetry, which I sell for a small fee. I still feel fairly new to zine making as I made my first zine in 2023, but I enjoy it so much it has become my mission to get everyone to make one zine in their lifetime. And so I also facilitate zine making workshops and through those have enabled collective zines, which I usually share for free during zine fairs. Website: nabilacruz.com Instagram: @ninavoluminosa
Ollie Hicks (They/Them) Ollie is a Black butch comics creator based on the Wirral. They make silly, joyful and horny queer comics and zines. Their work revolves around butch bodies, sexuality and goofy religious trauma. Website: hickscomics.com Instagram: @drolliehicks
Rain Bug Studio (She/Her) I’m a creative artist who loves making whimsical and cosy pieces, from digital prints and stickers to felt keyrings and clay bits. Instagram: @rainbugstudio
Rooted (She/Her) Jade Lindo is a PhD researcher at the University of Warwick and Kew Gardens, exploring the cultural and historical significance of the Breadfruit through the lenses of Caribbean history, identity, and gender. Her work highlights the intersections of colonialism, migration, and environmental history, amplifying underrepresented narratives within design and heritage studies. Alongside her academic research, Jade develops creative zines that translate complex historical themes into accessible, engaging formats. These zines serve as both research tools and community resources, bridging scholarship and public engagement. Passionate about Caribbean heritage, Jade seeks to connect past and present through both writing and making. Instagram: @eat.devour.nyam
Rosy Chen Art (She/Her) Rosychenart is a creative brand inspired by the playful spirit of Rosy’s Siamese cat, Mocha. Each piece of art is designed to bring joy and positivity into everyday life. With a focus on adorable aesthetics, Rosy specializes in cat and tiger-themed illustrations, occasionally incorporating delightful food, cozy scenes, and delicate floral elements. Instagram: @rosychenart
Seleena Laverne Daye (She/Her) Zine maker, creating zines around race, class, queerness, fandom and 90s pop culture! Website: seleenalavernedaye.co.uk Instagram: @seleenalavernedaye
Sharonjit Kaur Sutton (She/Her) Sharonjit is an Artist, Graphic Designer and Silly Billy from Birmingham. Her most recent scribbles depict birds and other creatures doing a manner of absurd things. She will be selling prints, zines, stickers and other paraphernalia. Website: etsy.com/shop/ideasloadingmakes Instagram: @ideasloading
Studio Haluhalo (They/Them) Studio Haluhalo is a queer and Filipino multidisciplinary creative studio based in Stockport, founded by Jude Whippey and Pita Santos. We create books and zines rooted in themes of identity, and our work spans from food photography to menu design. We also host workshops that explore identity, process, and technique. We aim to create safe spaces for creative connections and community. Instagram: @studiohaluhalo
Two Little Points (She/Her) Two Little Points is a creative brand linking Hong Kong and the UK. We use vibrant illustrations and graphic design to tell stories through our zines, exploring themes like memory, encouragement, and upcoming topics of diaspora and food. Instagram: @twolittlepoints
WingYu Yeung Art (She/Her) WingYu Yeung is a UK-based illustrator and artist originally from Hong Kong. A former graphic designer and mum of four, she returned to painting in 2020 as a way to heal and reconnect with herself. Her work explores themes of motherhood, loss, resilience, and personal growth. At the event, WingYu will showcase her zines, greeting cards, and art prints — and will also be offering live portrait painting for visitors. Website: wingyuyeungart.com Instagram/Facebook: @wingyuyeungART
Zac Burger (He/Him) Zac Burger is a DIY musician who performs as The Burgers. His latest album Kick Fights to Lose is accompanied by a zine titled Unrecognized Anger, which explores the exclusion and silencing of dissent within “progressive” cultural spaces. Instagram: @theburgersmusic
ZeenTawa I create a range of work inspired by nature and my heritage of Indian culture so. I also create work based around growing up as a 2nd gen immigrant in this country as that doesn’t get covered much so creating zines helps explore that. Instagram: @zeentawa
The Zuri Caves (They/Them) Zuri is an artist who likes to write, draw and make crafts. They often share their art in the form of mini zines, illustrations and jewellery. Although the focus of their work often changes, they always desire to convey their love for nature and imagining fantastical pocket worlds.
Shout out Caterpillar Press who printed our flyers and posters for this years fest.
They are a Risograph-focused worker’s cooperative based in PINK Studios in Stockport. Their aim is to make accessible and affordable printing, learning services to the immediate creative community and beyond.
See this post for more information on their printing services, and hit them up for all your printing needs!
Riso [Ree-so] printing is a fun and eco way to get things printed. It works like a digitized screen print. The Risograph machine takes an image and creates a master by creating tiny holes on a filmy sheet. This is then wrapped around a drum. the drum contains ink, which when it spins it is forced through the tiny holes and prints on to the paper.
You need to create a different master for each colour you want to print. You can layer colours to create depth of images/new colours.
It’s a no heat printing method and inks used are soy based.
I first met Dal when I (Seleena) was tabling at Sheffield zine fest some years ago where we chatted zines. She’s also tables at Over Here and her infectious enthusiasm for creating and nurturing is something we loved instantly, so when she asked us to bring Over Here for a mini pop in Sheffield, we couldn’t say no!
We asked Dal to share some words about what Zine making means to her…..
As I’m gearing up to collaborate with brilliant Over Here at ‘We’ve Got Food at Home!’ Zine Fest, as part of Migration Matters Festival, I’ve been reflecting on my transformative zine making journey.
Back in January 2020, just months before the covid pandemic locked us in our homes, I experienced the transformative potential of zine-making. I created a zine called ‘Wild Ink’ as part of my autoethnographic research for a masters in therapeutic writing exploring my identity, creativity and wildness using therapeutic zine-making methods. I wanted to understand the intersections of these in relation to my creative exile, and eventually, my creative return.
For me, zines are a bit like a cooking pot – they can be a holding space for the many complimentary and contradictory ingredients and experiences of our lives with the potential for stirring up some fresh and surprising flavours, challenging normative expectations and disrupting assumptions, both within ourselves and others. The multi-layered multi-media format encourages creative freedom, revealing epiphanies and revelations with the potential to map out new connections and possibilities.
The process of making Wild Ink zine felt like a therapeutic (and anarchic) “third space”cooking pot, an entirely new space that helped me to better understand and assert myself by negotiating cultural production on my own terms outside of traditional frameworks or institutions. Crucially, I was rejecting interpretation or analysis by an expert.
When I began making Wild Ink I knew I felt stuck and I knew I wanted to heal. It was an intuitive, creative and healing process, as if the zine was making me. The physicality of the cutting, tearing, sticking, pasting, re-arranging images, documents and words resonated with Toni Morrison’s idea of ‘pieces’ from memories sparking my creative process and ancestral memory. Audre Lorde’s description of, “…a dark place within where hidden and growing our true spirit rises…” which is full of ‘ancient and hidden’ transgenerational memories, source material for creativity and power rooted in “… unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling” hung in the air around me as I made my zine.
Guided by Audre Lorde’s words and wisdom from Toni Morrison, I managed to create a space where I was spontaneously able to develop my own alchemical language to express the‘moveable feast’ of my identity, giving me the opportunity to experiment with re-historising on my own terms.
Making the Wild Ink zine became an experimental space to unravel aspects of my life and myself which had been hidden, smothered, colonised and suppressed for most of my adult life. It was my chance to re-historise. As an intuitively guided process, by the time I’d finished the zine it felt as if it had exploded into my life like a huge masala-mix firework, sending fragrant sparks far and wide, across timelines, histories, memories and landscapes. It felt healing, illuminating and cleansing.
Since then I’ve made many zines, ran workshops and tabled at Over Here zine fests. Zines and the community around them have made a huge difference to my life. I’ve made friends, comrades, community and collaborations. And I’ve only just begun. Will you join in too?
This blog post contains extracts from articles originally published by the brilliant project Synergi.
Dal Kular (she/her) is a creative facilitator, writer, mentor and mixed-media maker. Her creative social practice centres ancestors, healing, liberation, abolition and joy. She’s inspired by Black/Global feminisms, Mother Earth and social justice. She lives in Sheffield. www.dalkular.com
This June we’re back. We’ve teamed up with long time Over Here tabler Dal Kul and Migration Matters Fest to bring a mini pop zine fest to Sheffield.
Expect zine stalls, zine making activities, zine library, badge making all with a theme on food. Celebrating our beautiful global cuisines that we cook and eat in our homes everyday. We’ll explore what our food means to us as migrant communities, our favourite international stores, foodie memories, connections, recipes and more.
All happening on Saturday June 28th 11am-4pm at Soft ground in Sheffield.
Applications are open to Global Majority zine makers and we will prioritise those in Sheffield and surrounding areas (South Yorkshire)
