Does home have four walls? Does it sit on the tongue? Does it live fixed in land or does it float across bodies of water? Does home have a pulse? If it wriggles and changes and transforms, can we ever truly trap it on a page? In this zine-making workshop we will attempt to pin down the lifted edges of what home means to all of us. Using Dadaist influences and the power of intuition we will be creating collage-zines by tapping into our subconscious desires, fears and memories to reconcile our experiences with our own displaced, migrated or split sense of home.
We will be exploring the history of DIY publishing, zine making and ‘cut-up’ techniques to create your own zine and arm you with the tools to experiment past our workshop.
This event is part of our workshop series that explores themes of home, migration, displacement and diasporic knowledges.
Pushkin House is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please get in touch with us if you have a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it. Please contact us directly if the cost is a barrier to entry for a financially assisted place.
Elida Silvey is a self taught Mexican-American poet, writer and editor living in London, UK. Her self-published zines Home in Limbo, Southwest and her self-published book Nothings explore cinematic poetry centered around those closest to her as an exploration of the effects desire, language and memory have on identity. She is currently the Poetry Editor at Sunstroke Magazine where she occasionally writes, writer for Hard of Hearing Magazine and a part of the Gobjaw Poetry Collective and the second iteration of Un Nuevo Sol. She is also the Assistant Editor at Montez Press. Find her at www.elidasilvey.com and her works in the Pushkin House Bookshop.
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