Join us for an open making session! During this informal drop-in workshop, we will show you how to create a “magic zine” and other folds, and let you freely make a zine using collage, drawing and prompts. If you want an introduction to zines, this is a great start! Or if you have made some before but want space to work on a personal zine project, come along as well.

Due to the drop-in nature of this event, please note it is unticketed and seating is not guaranteed but we will try and accomodate all best we can!

Participants will be given the opportunity to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library.

Gather round, gentle folks! For one eve only, travel back in time with us to a medieval land through the magic of zines… Bring a short tale of love and foes to transcribe and illuminate, or use drawing and collage to create some magnificent beasts and the bards and knights they cohabitate with.

Book your tickets through the Triskel website.

Please note that open workshops are not devised with large/school groups in mind. If you are making a booking of 5+ tickets, please get in touch with the CZF team to discuss whether this event is the right fit for you.

A special evening of music and zines is coming your way! We invited three talented artists who are both musicians and zine-makers, to share their art with us for an evening. This one-of-a-kind performance will give you an insight into the world of these really talented folks, and you will be provided with some materials to doodle some zines on the go yourself during the performance.

With performances by Laurie Shaw, Samuel Arnold Keane & Wike Schippers.

Book your free tickets through the Triskel website.

More about the performers: 

Laurie Shaw

Laurie Shaw is a zine maker and cartoonist based between Kerry and Cork. His work mixes retro comic book hijinx, supernatural daftness and explorations into weird goings on. His comic book series "classic cigar shape" is now in its sixth issue. Other recent work includes the one-off comic "Rabbit Fighter", the one page zines "UF(Oh no)", "The Future" and "The Past" and the traumatic, L-plate shaped "Learner" zine. 

Samuel Arnold Keane

Samuel Arnold Keane is a forager, illustrator, musician... merging various art forms to tell the stories of the seaweeds, coasts and streets, he gathers, wades and walks. At the essence of his creative practice is a passion for the natural world and to share this with others through song, performance, image and word.

Wike Schippers

My name is Wike Schippers, I'm a visual artist and a singer-songwriter/composer. My main visual art style is mainly colourful watercolours with a lot of movement inspired by the natural world. Usually my pieces are mixed media in combination with pens, ink, gouache, coloured pencil etc. I also make lino cuts that I use to print on shirts but also to make cards, prints and zines. In music, I mostly write intensely self-reflective lyrics. Lately I've loved putting together my different art mediums, so combining my song lyrics, poems and music with my visual art and making them into zines.