Live Art Mixer: Zine Workshop with Artizine & Mini Zine Fair

Date: Saturday 13 Dec 2025
Venue: The Garrett Centre
Timings: 2-4pm (doors open 1:45pm)
Price: Free, but please RSVP so we know you are coming

Live Art Mixers are quarterly gatherings for artists and arts workers to collect and connect with each other and the LADA team.

Join us for our second mixer featuring a two-hour zine-making workshop with Ioana, founder of Artizine. All materials will be provided.

For this mixer we are partnering with Queer and Feminist Zine Spirits Across Borders, a new series of public events exploring self-publishing and ‘unbound’ as a radical strategy in East and Southeast Asian queer culture, designed and produced by Burong Zeng.

Come browse Live Art Bookshop and a pop-up stall of zines and printed matter from Sino-diasporic publishing platforms, including OUTLAND and Pubis Project. Celebrate the launch of artist books by oo, Finch, SickGirl, and Funa Ye, commissioned by Queer and Feminist Zine Spirits Across Borders.

The workshop will be followed by Live Art Bookshop x Queer and Feminist Zine Spirits Across Borders.

loana

loana (she/her) is a community artist and educator exploring the potential of zine-making to support storytelling, wellbeing and imaginative development. Under her artistic identity, Artizine, she designs and facilitates workshops and community projects that enable participants to document their narratives and engage in collective creative practice.

Queer and Feminist Zine Spirits Across Borders

Queer and Feminist Zine Spirits Across Borders is a new series of public events exploring self-publishing and ‘unbound’ as a radical strategy in East and Southeast Asian queer culture, designed and produced by Burong Zeng. The events include public screenings of a 30-minute film directed by Oyester, a live performance, and zine-making workshops, paired with ESEA zine fairs.

Oyester

Born in Kunming, Yunnan, Oyester (Funa Ye, she/her) is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London and Beijing. Her practice critically engages with the realities of daily life and the perceived nexus between authority and various societal domains, such as differing power structures and marginalised groups. Her politically charged art uses pastiche to critique and satirise cultural uniformity.

Burong Zeng

Burong Zeng (she/xe) is a creative producer and live artist based in London and Beijing, working at the intersection of critical disability studies, queer cultures and transnational collaboration. With a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Sussex, Zeng maintains a distinctive practice that bridges artistic creation, academic rigour and independent producing.

00 Zhang

00 Zhang (she/it) is a Chinese-born, London-based artist who is gaining a reputation with her innovative explorations of a sensibility she terms ‘a double-sided exile’ – entwined feelings of dislocation and connection. Thematically, her practice investigates the potential of a new form of collective imagination to transcend the borders of national identity, gender, and religion. Her multifaceted practice spans sculpture, installation, CGI animation, and interactive digital game environments.

OUTLAND

OUTLAND platforms creative publishing from Chinese and Sino-diasporic communities in London and beyond. Through its annual Outland Publishing Fair and pop-up Outland Convini, it seeks to cultivate a dynamic network fostering translocal and intercultural exchange among independent Sinophone publishers worldwide.

SickGirl

A photographer based in mainland China, SickGirl (she/they) was selected from 4,746 contestants for the 2015 Xitek Emerging Photographer Award at 18. They continue creating provocative, poetic images, often exploring sexuality and the brutality of youth life in the political context. They photograph everything without rushing to finish projects, collecting images naturally.

Pubis Project

Starting from 2024, Pubis Project has been using indie publishing and events as methods of connection and empowerment for Chinese feminist and Queer diasporic communities. We build an intimate yet radical space where fugitivity, critical care and dissident joy can coexist. Annually, Pubis Project explores diasporic experiences through a chosen theme, producing an annual issue of Pubis Magazine and organising a series of related events, workshops and exhibitions.

Access Information

Event information:
A two-hour zine workshop hosted in English. Materials will be provided and instruction given on how to make your own zine. There will be stalls of printed matter to browse and buy from. This is a relaxed event. Various seating options will be available including fold out chairs, office chairs, a sofa and a bench. All are welcome to join in a relaxed space and are free to come and go as they please. The lighting will be fixed with no sudden changes. There are disposable masks and hand sanitiser available.

LADA space:
The building is wheelchair accessible by lift and provides a wheelchair accessible ground-floor bathroom. All bathrooms are gender inclusive. There is no isolated quiet space inside, but there is a small quiet outdoor area. Some of the art on display in the space includes naked bodies. You can find more information and see photos of the space here. Should you have any particular access requirements, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to offer further support.

Content notes:
Please email [email protected] if you would like more information on what to expect.