Improvisations: A zine-making workshop
Date: Saturday, 2 May 2026
Time: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Venue: Emami Art, Ground floor, Gallery 3
Recommended age: Anyone over 15 years of age
Emami Art in collaboration with KCC presents a zine-making workshop as a public-facing programme under Nothing Twice curated by Ushmita Sahu on view till 9 May 2026 at Emami Art.
This workshop explores the concept of impermanence through the physical form of an improvised paper zine. It emphasises ‘imperfection as method’, inviting participants to integrate material play with analytical looking, focusing on themes like feminine labour, family archives, and the female body as a political site of remembrance. Guided by facilitators from Marchbaari, the participants will take inspiration from the ongoing group exhibition and use mixed media to construct narratives around memory, loss, and preservation, ultimately sharing their work in a process-oriented pop-up display.
Workshop Structure
- 30 mins: Looking and thinking
- 30 mins Material play
- 60 mins: Constructing the zine
- 15 mins: Sharing one’s zines
- 15 mins: Pop-up display/reading of one another’s zines
Note: Participants are required to bring
- 1. Scissors, pencil, eraser, ruler, black marker, paper and fabric scraps of their choice
- 2. A few printed photographs (of themselves, their mothers, female friends, and their home)
- 3. Their favourite poems (could be carried digitally or in printed form too if they want to paste)
- 4. Anything else in printed form that reminds them of change
About the Facilitator: Marchbaari is an art studio run by friends old and new. Based across towns in West Bengal and online, it brings together art-minded people on their platform. They paint, make things you can hold, use, gift, and also run a digital zine on women artists called Chhuri, publishing an issue
