Zine workshop
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 3 pm
DobraVaga, Adamič-Lundrovo nabrežje 5, Ljubljana
APPLY BY: 8 September 2025
The Zine-Ship is a moving workshop station, an oasis, a library, an urban garden. Share & Give & Make & Take. A workshop for zine-making and zine community planting, a mobile ecosystem. A zine hub that contains and ignites a moment of innovation, from concept and production to process, exhibition, and archive. The Zine-Ship is about making author-ship accessible to all, encouraging self-publishing, and activating creativity. Creative owner-ship becomes a collective lab.
Learn how to make a simple book from one piece of paper and some basic bookmaking techniques, from glueing and printing to distribution. Tools and materials will be provided. Bring your ideas. By the end, you will be ready to start your own DIY press at home, at work, and with friends. The workshop will provide a brief historical overview of this DIY format, from 80s punk and Riot Grrrl to other political movements.
Paper sails are hoisted! The makers are the motor!
The workshop is intended for ages 16+. No prior knowledge is needed. Duration: 2–3 hours
The event will be held in English.
Free entry.
The number of places is limited. Registration is required.
APPLY AT: maja.alibegovic@dobravaga.si
This year, the focus of World of Art’s series of public events is contemporary zines at the intersection of art and community.
- Wednesday, 10 September, DobraVaga
7 pm – ZINE VITRINE | Nina Prader: Plant Libraries – Here to Express!, exhibition opening
- Thursday, 11 September, DobraVaga
3 pm – Nina Prader: Community Zine Ships – Ahoy, Power Lines!, workshop
6 pm – Nina Prader: The Library Is an Event – Enter the Reading Ring!, lecture
7 pm – Glasgow Zine Library: The Radical Present of Self-Publishing, lecture
Nina Prader a.k.a. Lady Liberty Press is an artist, writer, curator, mentor, independent publisher — or in short, an artist-librarian at large between Vienna, Berlin, and the world. Born in Washington, DC, she studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston in affiliation with Tufts University and at the Slade in London in affiliation with UCL. She received her MA in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has exhibited and written internationally in Boston, New York, Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, and London. Her most recent projects include graphic novel artist books, printed by Risograph, and directing the Lady Liberty Library project. This year, she celebrates 10 years of Lady Liberty Press & Library activities on printed matters. (Photo: Malte Spindler)
Original text: Nina Prader
Organised by: World of Art/SCCA-Ljubljana, DobraVaga/Kino Šiška
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
