OPEN PUBLIC EVENT
To accompany our Cork Zine Fest Market we will be hosting a Zine Makers Panel conversation with our fellow creators discussing "the impact of zines and zine communities”. Join us for the panel talk followed by a Q&A session. Attendance is free but tickets are required due to limited seating.
The talk will be hosted by Justine Lepage from the CZF team, with panelists Helen O’Keeffe, Kat Foyle and Oriane Duboz.
Kat Foyle (They/she)
Kat Foyle is a Dublin-based comic maker and illustrator with an interest in video, music and anything else that can enhance storytelling. The stories they tell are often spooky, often funny. She also organises the monthly Dublin Comic Jam.
Oriane Duboz
Oriane Duboz is a visual artist, photographer and textile artist based in the Jura Mountains, between France and Switzerland.
“Since 2009, I have continually moved between the familiar and the unknown, seeking out journeys, encounters, and moments that shift my sense of place and belonging. I use photography, writing and zine-making to interpret what I can’t fully understand and create my own myths within these spaces of dissonance.”
“After living in Ireland, where I founded Cork Zine Fest, I moved to the French mountains in 2020 to establish l’Atelier de la Baraque, a space for artistic collaboration and experimentation in rurality, along with l’Agrafeuse (“the stapler”), an itinerant international zine library.”
Helen O’ Keeffe
Helen O’ Keeffe is an artist and global justice educator at MTU’s Crawford's Creativity & Change programme. Her work centres on co-designing arts-based transformative learning experiences and critical global awareness, as well as collaboration with diverse and underserved communities to explore equity, identity and justice through creative social practice including zine-making, street art and cultural activism that amplifies people’s voices and experiences.
With a background in youth arts, Helen has co-run Splattervan, a mobile street art project for young people since 2013 and spent ten years facilitating creative programmes at alternative education project, Cork Life Centre. She is driven by a belief in the potential of all young people and in the transformative power of art, community and co-creation.