Roots of Resistance Zine Workshop with Booklyn

Booklyn hosts an all ages zine-making workshop inspired by The Warehouse exhibition, inviting participants to create handmade books exploring incarceration, resistance, and abolition.

Using the exhibition as both framework and prompt, participants will create zines reflecting on the deep roots of resistance to incarceration, lived experiences of incarceration, and visions of abolitionist futures. 

Through a combination of text and image, the workshop invites participants to use plant life as a lens for resistance, regeneration, and collective care.

Zines are handmade, self-published books created individually or collaboratively, using basic tools (like paper, scissors, pens) along with powerful ideas. They offer an accessible way to share personal stories, collective histories, and grassroots knowledge.

Educators from Booklyn will introduce two zine-making techniques: the single-sheet (one-page) zine and the staple-bound booklet. Participants will have access to a wide range of materials, including rubber stamps, markers, stickers, and collage supplies, as well as onsite copying tools to reproduce and distribute their work.

No prior experience is required.

Registration is encouraged, but not required.

Booklyn, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, offers free and low-cost workshops in bookmaking, printmaking, and zine-making, presented onsite and in partnership with community organizations. The organization leads programs in libraries, parks, schools, and other public spaces, and collaborates with educators to bring book arts into classrooms. Booklyn runs NYC’s only youth program dedicated entirely to zine-making, Zine Camp, and produces free online resources for print and book arts education. Its podcast, Booklyn Calling, amplifies diverse voices in the artists’ book field and explores artmaking as a tool for community engagement and social justice.

Running from April 4 through June 28, 2026, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The project features more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Liu that cover the library's walls, transforming the public space into an immersive exploration of resistance, survival, and possibility.

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