Recipes for Resistance: A Food Zine Workshop with Christina Hajjar

15 JANUARY, 2023 | 6PM-9PM, at PLATFORM centre, 121-100 Arthur St.  

 

Zines are self-published booklets suitable for food narratives expressed through memoir, poetry, collage, comics,

short stories, recipes, and more. Facilitator Christina Hajjar will present on food zines, exploring their varied aesthetics

and political contexts. There will be some group activities and plenty of time to explore zines, eat, and get started on

your own project! In addition to drawing from some Palestinian examples, we also wish to use this time to write

postcards in support of Palestine. 

 

Free, all ages, no registration required.  No previous experience necessary. Materials and snacks will be provided.

 

SCHEDULE

6PM - 7PM - open time 

7PM - 8PM - presentation and prompts (low pressure group activities)

8PM - 9PM - open time

 

ACCESSIBILTY

This will be an in-person workshop only. Masks are mandatory, but may be removed for eating. A HEPA air purifier will be running in the space. The venue is wheelchair accessible. There are gender neutral bathrooms on the main floor and single stall gender neutral bathrooms on the second floor.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Christina Hajjar is a queer Lebanese artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. She is passionate about independent publishing and co-edits Carnation Zine (on diaspora and displacement) and qumra journal (on world cinema). She is the creator of Diaspora Daughter, Diaspora Dyke zine, which won Best Artzine at the 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, C Magazine, The Uniter, CV2, Prairie Fire, and PaperWait. Hajjar is the senior editor at Herizons, Canada’s foremost feminist magazine. Her visual arts practice considers intergenerational inheritance, domesticity, and place through diaspora, body archives, and cultural iconography—often through themes of food. As a queer femme and first-generation subject, she is invested in the poetics of process, translation, and collaborative labour. Hajjar was a recipient of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and received an honourable mention for the 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award. Learn more at https://christinahajjar.com/