Xpace Sweet 16 Zineposium Roundtable

Saturday, August 28th, 2021

2PM – 5PM

FREE

Join us for a casual conversation + show & tell with Cleopatria Peterson, Jesjit Gill, Kelsey Adams and Mo Thunder as we discuss everything zine culture, visual storytelling, independent publishing and beyond!

SPEAKER BIOS

Cleopatria Peterson (they/them) is an award winning multidisciplinary artist that loves to make zines, illustrate, and more. They are the co-founder of Old Growth Press and love teaching workshops on zine making and self-publishing.

Jesjit Gill is an artist based in Toronto, ON. He runs Colour Code Printing, a Risograph & Screenprinting studio established in 2011 alongside his wife, Jenny Gitman. Colour Code offers artist friendly printing services and operates as a small press, publishing artist books, zines and prints. Colour Code hosts Risograph workshops at their studio (currently via video chat) where they teach an overview of the printing process and help participants create 2 colour riso posters. He is a co-organizer of Zine Dream, a small press fair that began in 2007 and features 90+ exhibitors including small presses, self-publishers, printmakers and illustrators.

Kelsey Adams

Kelsey Adams is an arts and culture journalist born and raised in Toronto. She is an associate producer at CBC Music and has written about music, art, film and culture for several other publications, including NOW Magazine, the Globe and Mail, The FADER, Complex CA and Canadian Art. After graduating from the Ryerson School of Journalism in 2017, she devoted herself to elevating the voices of marginalized cultural creators. She works on her passion project, ripe. in her free time. It’s a labour of love that she creates with her friends that highlights important stories about food justice and culture beyond those displayed in the mainstream.

Mo Thunder (They/Them/Theirs) is Onkwehonwe [Onyota’a:ka with family ties to Oneida Nation of the Thames x Aamjiwnaang First Nation] and French-Canadian. They’re a non-binary, neuroemergent artist x visual storyteller from a small town along the St. Clair River and are currently based on One Dish One Spoon Territory x Tkaronto (Toronto).

Mo holds a BFA in studio art with a focus on drawing, silkscreen printing, photography and video from Fanshawe College and the University of Lethbridge, however, much of their current art practice is self and community-taught. They have over 15 years of experience in community arts facilitation, organization, education, demonstration, collaboration and consultation. They have been working in community arts since high school when they created solo and collaborative murals, organizing an art club with a few other students and providing group and individual art facilitation. Mo has also been drawing since they were a child, they created cartoons, comic books and designed clothing and places to escape to.

Through their multidisciplinary art practice (painting, collaging, beading, journaling, poetry and textiles), they aim to express stories about their lived experiences with their mind, heart, spirit and body. Mo is inspired by intergenerational connections, ancestors, kin, community, healing and growth, all of creation, sky world and personal/collective empowerment.

For the last 5 years, Mo has co-created and co-facilitated a community, art and land-based creative expression program for Indigenous youth aged 18-30 in Tkaronto called Our Stories Our Truths (OSOT). They are currently completing their major project at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and working on a visual art journal with and for Indigenous folks, scheduled to be released in 2022!

They have a deep love and passion for zines, journals, art supplies, music, neurodiversity, organization, sewing, tattoos and YB!

All are welcome! Space is limited, please RSVP to reserve a spot.

Poster designed by Philip Leonard Ocampo