Teen Zine Night
2024-11-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
A FREE, drop-in zine making night for ages 13-20. A zine can be any multi-page booklet made for passion, not profit. Come with ideas and maybe your favorite pen and learn how to make your very own zine from cartoonist Daryl Seitchik. Supplies provided. JAM thanks Norwich Lions Club for making this series possible!
9/20 – at JAM
10/18 – at Howe Library
11/15 – at JAM

Teen Zine Night
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Daryl Seitchik(she/they) is a cartoonist and teacher currently living in Vermont. They graduated with a B.A. in Art History and Visual Art from Barnard College in 2012, and received an MFA in cartooning from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2018. She has taught comics workshops for children, teens, and adults at schools, libraries, and museums all throughout New England, and has enjoyed expanding her reach through virtual classes on Zoom. Daryl is nominated for a 2024 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic for their comic “Follow the Doll Issue 2” (Parsifal Press). You can find their work at https://www.darylseitchik.com/.

Voices of the Voters Listening Party & Community Potluck Dinner
2024-11-21 18:30 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Share food at JAM and debrief the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election with a presentation from Valley News alum, Frances Mize on interviews with Upper Valley residents collected in the months leading up to the election for her podcast, “Voices of the Voters.” Listen here!

WANT TO BE INTERVIEWED?
To participate in an anonymous interview, call 603-685-5716 or email frances@uvjam.org. Participation will involve an interview of up to 15 minutes, and can be done over the phone or in person.
Disclosure: The interviews, while anonymous, will be archived and publicly accessible on the JAM website. They may also be transcribed and distributed in print. Some interviews might also be used in a podcast-style audio story, which would be on the JAM website too.
ABOUT VOICES OF THE VOTERS: THE UPPER VALLEY AND A HISTORIC ELECTION
Oral histories emphasize the importance of everyday experience, serving as a record of feeling. This project aims to compile a “living” oral history of the Upper Valley in advance of the 2024 presidential election. In times such as these, the lived reality of one’s citizenship and politics acts upon voters (and nonvoters alike) in profound ways. While there’s substantial reporting on partisan interests, “Voices of the Voters” believes that the more personal side of the election has gone underexplored – and that how people are thinking about, feeling about and framing current politics to themselves plays an important role in this moment in history. The project is less interested in who you’re voting for than how you feel about the country today, and how you feel about the country’s future. Stepping aside from pigeon-holed, issues-driven categorizing in more standard voter coverage, this is an opportunity for a community “vibe check.”
This work is made possible in part through grants from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and Vermont Humanities.

About FRANCES MIZE, freelance journalist
Frances Mize is currently a freelance journalist and a 2024 Higher Education Fellow with the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. She is working on a series about apprenticeships and the trades in Vermont, forthcoming in VTDigger. She was a 2022-2024 Report for America corps member with the Valley News, where she covered rural and environmental issues, municipal politics, the growing socioeconomic gap, and college campuses. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2022.

ABOUT MEDIATED LIVES

This event is part of JAM’s “Mediated Lives” series which aims to explore the roll of our current media landscape in shaping American culture, free speech, and democracy.

JAM Clubs Fall Showcase
2024-11-22 17:00 - 18:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
JAM’s Digital Media Creation for Seniors, High School Media Fellowship Program, and after school Film and Animation Clubs will screen short films and present media arts projects they have been working on throughout the Fall. Family and friends are invited to come celebrate these multigenerational artists and filmmakers!

The Art Of Emily Neidin Fava
2024-12-03 08:00 - 2024-12-31 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Paintings by Emily Neidin Fava, for whom the Newberry Arts Space (which houses JAM) is dedicated, will be on display during open hours through December. Her paintings will be accompanied by a video in memoriam created by her father, Roy Fava.

About EMILY NEIDIN FAVA
Emily was born September 15, 1988 in Nashville TN, the daughter of Roy Fava and Marilyn Welch-Fava. She was a delightful child, full of curiosity and blessed with a brilliant mind and unique sense of humor that she retained throughout her life. In 1992 the family moved to Thetford Center, VT, where Emily attended Thetford Elementary School and Thetford Academy, which she left after her sophomore year. Emily had an innate artistic ability, which she continued to develop independently at home with encouragement from her family. She studied at Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, NY, briefly took classes in painting and glass blowing at RISD in Rhode Island and later to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. Emily returned to Thetford Center and continued to paint and draw until the end of her life in May 2018. The artist lives forever in her work.

Lego Animation Workshop @ Norwich Library
2024-12-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Norwich Public Library, 368 Main St, Norwich, VT, 05055, United States
THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY.
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LEGO ANIMATION
Families are invited to drop by and learn basic stop motion animation using legos! Recommended for elementary and middle school aged kids. 100% free thanks to generous support from the Norwich Lions Club.
This event was made possible with funding from the Norwich Lions Club and in partnership with Norwich Public Library Youth Services.

The JAMmy Awards 2024
2024-12-13 18:00 - 22:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
It’s not the Emmys, it’s not the Grammys, it’s the JAMmys!
For JAM’s second birthday, we’ll be honoring members of our creative community with awards for their outstanding work. In 2022 CATV (Community Access Television) joined forces with WRIF (White River Indie Films), moved to our new location in the Newberry Market, and – with a vast outpouring of community support – secured a Better Places grant to create JAM – Junction Arts & Media. We want to celebrate YOU, who made this possible, and in JAM-style, put on a great party!
Dress Code: paJAMa formal (or come as you are!) Please RSVP below.

Watch the JAMmys Live @ 6:30 PM!

Live performances by
Applefall
Colleen McCleary
Harry and Alex – Jazz Duo
Kennedy Brown & Paxton Asher of Upper Valley Circus Collective

Last year’s JAMmy live stream

Soul Santa Saturday
2024-12-14 10:00 - 13:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
FREE tickets & more info HERE.
Welcome to the 2nd Annual Vermont Soul Santa Saturday! Get ready for a day filled with holiday cheer, soulful music, and festive activities, and a jolly good time. Meet Soul Santa, craft and indulge in delicious treats. This in-person event is the perfect way to kick off the holiday season with family and friends.

Anonyms with Inua Ellams
2025-01-06 17:30 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
About Anonyms
What’s in a name? Dive into the fascinating world of names as writer Inua Ellams invites a panel of guests to dig deep and explore the story and meaning behind their own names. Our first 10 interested RSVPs will be participatory subjects!

In parts of West Africa it is believed children grow to embody their names; that a child named Peace will grow up to create serenity wherever they go. Other West Africans think this is nonsense, but how do we come to be named? What then do we inherit? Do names change us? Who cares? And why should we? Held before a live audience, Inua Ellams guides intelligent, funny and insightful guests through Anonyms, a rich, invasive and poignant exploration into what we are called, and why. Audience members are invited to come along with the story and meaning behind their own names.

ABOUT INUA ELLAMS
Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of: The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates poetry & hip hop, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates Poetry and Film. Identity, Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring themes in his work, where he tries to mix the old with the new: traditional African oral storytelling with contemporary poetics, paint with pixel, texture with vector.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Story JAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle
2025-01-09 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
In a society increasingly divided and isolated, storytelling can bring us together.Story Jam is a bi-monthly story circle where community members can meet to get to know each other through personal stories. All members of the Upper Valley community are invited to join the circle and share an unrehearsed 5-minute true story from their own life. No competition, no judgment, no lecturing, no ranting… Just share a story about something that happened to you and listen to other people’s stories. Whether you are a new or seasoned storyteller; whether you are shy or extroverted – all are welcome! The moderators will keep track of time to make sure everyone has a chance to speak. Read more about StoryJAM and Upper Valley storytelling in The Valley News and Daybreak!

For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

MEDIATED LIVES: The Family Historian with Dena Rueb Romero and Richard Neugass
2025-01-16 18:30 - 20:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Richard Neugass and Dena Rueb Romero will discuss two family histories touched by the Holocaust and the roll of family historians in keeping the archive alive. How does media promote memory and what are the potential pitfalls?
After her father’s death, Dena Rueb Romero accidentally discovered a box of letters at her parents’ home. The letters dated back to 1938. These letter illuminated for Dena her parents’ lives during the war and filled in gaps of information that had haunted her childhood. Romero uses both family documents and historical research to flesh out her parents’ moving love story, the growing hostilities toward the German Jewish population, her grandparents’ increasing desperation, and her father’s hard work to help his loved ones escape Nazi Germany in her debut book, All for You.
Painters tell stories about their subjects through pictures. Richard tells stories about his subjects by recording and preserving a dialogue about their life adventures. Turning his focus inward toward his own family history, Richard excavates the incredible story of his father, Herman Neugass, the ‘Human Bullet’—an American Jewish sprinter who famously chose to boycott the 1936 Olympic trials in protest against Nazi antisemitism.

About DENA RUEB ROMERO
Dena Rueb Romero grew up and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. She graduated from Brandeis University and received an MA in English from the University of Virginia and an MSW from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Her essay about German citizenship was published in a book about reclaiming German citizenship. All for You is her first full-length book. Dena sings in a women’s chorus, volunteers at a daycare center, and works with an organization supporting refugees and asylum seekers.

About RICHARD NEUGASS
Richard developed a business offering “video memoir” to individuals and families. Preparing subject(s) on how to approach their life stories and then videotaping them as they presented those stories is his forte. In undergraduate studies at Amherst College he majored in political science and learned that history is what cultures believe about the stories. After retiring Richard became an active volunteer with OSHER@Dartmouth, an organization dedicated to providing lifelong learning opportunities.

ABOUT MEDIATED LIVES

This event is part of JAM’s “Mediated Lives” series which aims to explore the roll of our current media landscape in shaping American culture, free speech, and democracy.

Dance Film Showcase
2025-01-17 - 2025-02-07 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
January’s exhibit highlights 4 dance films from Vermont and New Hampshire, “We Remember” by Elizabeth Kurylo, “The Migrant Body” by Paula Higa, and “Novel Formats” 1 & 2 by Rachel Bernsen. These works are collaborations between dancers and filmmakers to accent and enhance choreographed movements with fluid cinematography and intentional editing.
See the dance film showcase on display during JAM’s open hours 9-5 Monday-Friday or during special events.

Lampshade Poets Open Mic
2025-01-23 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Open to all Lampshaders as well as any poet who is interested in reading an original piece or two. Poets have the opportunity to be videoed for JAM’s community access station and YouTube channel if they wish.

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In 2012 David Celone couldn’t find a poetry reading group in the Upper Valley area, so he started his own, offering readings both at his then Long River Studios Gallery in Lyme, NH, and WRJ, where Lampscapes owner Ken Blaisdell opened his store to the event. Two of the original poets, Janet Watton and Pam Ahlen, will resume the readings at JAM.

MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY FUNDING FROM

STARLINGS : LEAFLETS
2025-02-11 - 2025-02-28 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
STARLINGS : LEAFLETS is an interactive video art installation by artist and designer, Saba Maheen unpacking the IDF’s leaflet campaign in Gaza. View the web companion.

STARLINGS : LEAFLETS at Rutgers University
ABOUT SABA MAHEEN

Saba Maheen (b.1997 Lawrenceville, GA) is a female, Muslim, Bengali-American, multimodal maker and thinker working with image, reproduction, and participation. Utilizing multimedic forms, there is a porosity in the goals of her work: In the wake of the viralized Palestinian genocide, Maheen urges her audience to return to a radical, collective humanity for one another, and to understand “hereness and thereness” of intersolidarity liberation. More specifically, analyzing the diminishing rate of attention in response to short-form media, she believes it is imperative to combat the flattening, desensitizing effect that social media has beyond the screen. She considers portals that break down the dichotomy between print-digital, time-space, and human-computer. Her work tends toward repetition, multiples, editions, versions, iterations, units, modules, and collections, and is fabricated often through the most accessible and efficient means. What objects and systems can we influence to prevent a speculatively dark future? Saba Maheen received a B.A. in Studio Art, Human Centered Design and Arabic Language from Dartmouth College (2020). Shooting internationally as a film photographer in the years following the pandemic, she is now completing her MFA in Design at Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University.

WRIF, LAUGH, LOVE
2025-02-12 19:30 - 21:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Get ready for an unforgettable night of laughs and help us kick off WRIF with a bang, featuring headliner Paul Ollinger, fresh off of headlining the NYC Comedy Festival. Other acts include Ian Levy, Rufat Agayev, and Shaunak Godkhindi. This event is a fundraiser for JAM – Junction Arts & Media’s year round events and education programming and will make the JAM experiences you love possible in 2025!
Sponsored by Tuck School of Business
DEALS!

Only $15 single tickets with any WRIF pass.
For friends and lovers – get two general admission tickets for $40.
Tuck student? Email wrif.help@uvjam.org with your student email and the subject line “WRIF LAUGH LOVE” to claim a discount code for up to 2 free tickets pre-purchased by Tuck Business School.

View White River Indie Films 2025 schedule.

White River Indie Film Festival 2025
2025-02-13, 2025-02-14, 2025-02-15, 2025-02-16 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
View White River Indie Films 2025 schedule.

PeaceBirds
2025-02-14 - 2025-04-05 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
The PeaceBirds Project is a community engaged art action that integrates shared stories of grief and renewal amidst the anguish of the repeated erasure of the people, culture, history, Land and Water in what is left of Palestine. What is happening to Palestine parallels the continual nation-building, ongoing land-grabs, “slow violence” of colonization and collective massacres worldwide. And what is happening in Palestine opens up a crack, a liminal space in which all kinds of disruptions and syncopations can occur. This project grew out of a shared desire of two artist friends, Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin, to transform the agony of witnessing atrocities happening around the world. Both artists come from lineages of occupation and struggle for sovereignty, from Palestine and from Taiwan; both lands and peoples that have suffered from the “monstrosity” of colonization, empire-building, enslavement and bondage of living beings. This project invites all to fold doves and cranes to befriend our monsters, to transform the monstrosities of modernism.

PeaceBirds at Goddard College, February – March 2024
ABOUT MONA SHIBER AND JUPONG LIN

Mona Shiber, MFA, of Clear Vision Studio, is a visual artist who is a first generation Palestinian America whose art has been shown locally, nationally & internationally. She has worked with groups on an array of community art projects, also teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels and mentoring all levels. Her middle eastern roots grew out from an upbringing in the Deep South, with a true gumbo mix of racial diversity, Mardi Gras and Epiphany, jambalaya and makloubeh.
JuPong Lin is an independent artist-scholar and cultural worker who dances with horseshoe crabs and makes ceremony with cranes. Her work is dedicated to hospicing the dying colonized world and using the arts and poetics to create futures of joyful interspecies co-becoming. JuPong’s current poetry and socially-engaged art projects focus on shifting the paradigm of conquest and violent occupation by narrating new kinds of stories and worlds in pluriverses (many worlds) that honor beloved heartplaces. JuPong was a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for nearly 20 years before the College closed in 2024. She recently completed her doctorate in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England.
Read more about PeaceBirds

Filmmaker Friday Master Classes
2025-02-14 09:00 - 16:15 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
On Friday, February 14, WRIF will host a series of master classes aimed at filmmakers aspiring to hone their craft. Enrollment fee is $15 each, $45 for all 5 classes or included in the WRIF pass, supporter pass, or student pass.
View White River Indie Film Festival 2025 schedule.

Story JAM: Bi-Monthly Storytelling Circle
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
This month’s theme is “Speaking Up”
In a society increasingly divided and isolated, storytelling can bring us together.Story Jam is a bi-monthly story circle where community members can meet to get to know each other through personal stories. All members of the Upper Valley community are invited to join the circle and share an unrehearsed 5-minute true story from their own life. No competition, no judgment, no lecturing, no ranting… Just share a story about something that happened to you and listen to other people’s stories. Whether you are a new or seasoned storyteller; whether you are shy or extroverted – all are welcome! The moderators will keep track of time to make sure everyone has a chance to speak. Read more about StoryJAM and Upper Valley storytelling in The Valley News and Daybreak!

For more info, reach us at storyjam@uvjam.org

How To Stay Sane While Losing Your Mind: A Rock Opera By Sir Babygirl
2025-03-07 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-03-08 16:00 - 20:00 | Briggs Opera House, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
The world premiere of Sir Babygirl’s experimental rock opera, “How To Stay Sane While Losing Your Mind,” crashes into Briggs Opera House March 7th and 8th. Mixing Greek mythology, absurdism and queer camp, we join Sir Babygirl’s Persephone in Hell, a few days before her annual return to Spring. What could go wrong? It’s only nature after all.

After a growing recording and touring career pre-pandemic, Sir Babygirl lost it all, moved back home, and has spent the last several years rebuilding her zany world from the ashes up, one musical number at a time. This is her sophomore album, in operatic form. Join her and her incredible band of musicians and local creative and technical talents as they bring help bring an Odyssey of the human condition to the Upper Valley. Flowers & Dollar Bills encouraged.

A JAM Co-production!

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Cookies for the Community
2025-03-31 17:00 - 18:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
For Trans Day of Visibility, Cobra Lily Collective invites trans, nonbinary, gender queer, gender nonconforming, and gender questioning individuals of all ages to stop by for free cookies donated by King Arthur Baking Company from 5:00 – 6:30PM at JAM!

Fold PeaceBirds on First Friday
2025-04-04 17:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
On First Friday April 4, JAM invites our Upper Valley community to fold doves and cranes with artists Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin that will be added to the project to honor every life flown too soon. JuPong Lin will read aloud poetry from her play, “Phoenix in the Holy Land” which tells the story of three ceasefire activists involved in a small town’s fight to end the assault on Palestinian life.
ABOUT The PeaceBirds Project
The PeaceBirds Project is a community engaged art action that integrates shared stories of grief and renewal amidst the anguish of the repeated erasure of the people, culture, history, Land and Water in what is left of Palestine. This project grew out of a shared desire of two artist friends, Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin, to transform the agony of witnessing atrocities happening around the world. See the exhibit in JAM until April 5, 2025.

In Partnership with Upper Valley for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace VT/NH

Exhibit: Arantza Peña Popo's Visual Journalism
2025-04-11 - 2025-05-30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Comics journalism engages journalistic practices and cartooning techniques to explain true, current events in a visually engaging way.
Arantza Peña Popo first started her journalism career as a student at USC’s Annenberg School for Journalism. She later on went to work at NPR-Affiliated public radio station KPCC in Los Angeles and as a Story Art Fellow at Business Insider in New York. She has done comics journalism reporting for the Washington Post, LA Times, The Stranger Seattle, and Business Insider. She uses her comics journalism work to illuminate stories about queerness and belonging through the magical storytelling power of comics. See Peña Popo’s full color illustrations projected on the walls of JAM this month along with original art on display during open hours.
Attend a FREE zine workshop with the exhibiting artist on First Friday, May 2.
ABOUT THE ARTIST

Arantza Peña Popo (they/she) is currently a Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. They are an Igntaz-Award nominated cartoonist, illustrator and zinester who grew up in Atlanta Georgia. They’ve also made several editorial illustrations for publications like the LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and had a short but wonderful stint as a New Yorker cartoonist. She’s been invited to show her work at multiple art book and comics fairs around the world in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Montreal. Her vibrant comics focus on queerness, isolation, mental instability and hazy boundaries of the in between.
With generous support from

Lampshade Poets Open Mic
2025-04-24 18:00 - 19:30 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Open to all Lampshaders as well as any poet who is interested in reading an original piece or two. Poets have the opportunity to be videoed for JAM’s community access station and YouTube channel if they wish.

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"Healthcare is a Human Right" Medicaid Cuts Discussion With VT Workers' Center
2025-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Join the Vermont Workers’ Center for a presentation on the impact Medicaid cuts will have on Vermonters and the steps we can take to fight back! A group discussion where everyone will have the opportunity to share their own healthcare stories and insights will follow. Snacks and drinks provided!
Learn more about VT Workers’ Center @ workerscenter.org

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JAM CLOSED! VERMONT ACCESS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING
2025-05-02 09:00 - 17:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
The multiverses have collided! Community access stations from across the state of Vermont will be gathering in JAM. today. We’ll be closed to the public while we will each meet our alternate universe selves! Maybe we’ll kiss! Maybe we’ll fight to the death! Find out at our First Friday zine workshop or on Monday when JAM reopens for normal office hours.
Find out more about Vermont Access Network here.

Make A Zine With Your Ex: A Breakup Zine Workshop with CCS Fellow Arantza Peña Popo
2025-05-02 17:00 - 19:00 | JAM – Junction Arts & Media, 5 S Main St, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
We’ve all been through a breakup…but have you ever made a zine about it? This workshop is a brief survey of zines and art books that explore the inevitable phenomenon of the breakup. Not only do we explore zines that ruminate on heartbreak and ruptures–we’re also gonna make some zines of our own! Through this tender collaborative spirit, we’re going to find the ways we can find catharsis in conceptualizing our heartbreak!
This workshop will take place in-person at JAM. Bring a sketchbook and your favorite drawing tool(s). We will also provide paper and mark-making tools for the creation of zines. Inviting your ex is encouraged, but not required, for participation! Feel free to come alone or with friends <3

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This workshop was developed & written by Arantza Peña Popo & Anthi Sklavenitis.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Arantza Peña Popo (they/she) is currently a Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. She is an Igntaz-Award nominated cartoonist, illustrator and zinester who grew up in Atlanta Georgia. She’s also made several editorial illustrations for publications like the LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and had a short but wonderful stint as a New Yorker cartoonist. She’s been invited to show her work at multiple art book and comics fairs around the world in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Montreal. Her vibrant comics focus on queerness, isolation, mental instability and hazy boundaries of the inbetween.
With generous support from
