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Elvis is currently working on Homos in Herstory, a comics zine that focuses on 19th and 20th century queer history. Elvis is plotting to work on their 1980's edition of "Homos in Herstory" while in Halifax, and is super thrilled and excited to be there.

Shannon will work on the third issue of her zine about DIY music called Basements and Living Rooms, while experiencing the DIY scene in Halifax. She also plans to make 3-5 poster style screenprints based on the DIY scenes both in Halifax and Milwaukee to show correlations between different cities and their like-minded DIY scenes, and to celebrate them both. She plans to base these projects on her experiences with both music and social centres – specifically Roberts Street Social Centre, and Cream City Collectives in Milwaukee.

Sarah seeks to be inspired by what she discovers in Halifax and wants to create a short transmedia narrative in two parts: an interactive website with a printed zine-like physical component. (Comics!)

While in Halifax Jesse will complete their new collection of non-fiction comics with stories ranging from the history of hoodies, to looking at the relationships people have with crows in major cities. Jesse is looking to bring fun and energy back into learning and research, by approaching the accessibility of learning in new formats. 

Amber is planning on completing the 26th issue of her quarter-sized perzine called Culture Slut which focuses on feminism, queer-identity, adventures, small-town living, and more.

Aubrey has recently completed a degree in visual arts with a minor in business and would like to distill what he has learned into two zines: one on personal finances and one on how to manage the financial aspects of artist-run-centres.

Marie-Pier, Marie-Andrée, and Audrée Demers-Roberge will collaboratively create a bilingual zine inspired by their experiences in Halifax and distribute it throughout Halifax and Québec.

Ella will create pinhole photographs with pinhole cameras she has built. The exposures will be of everyday scenery around Halifax and will be manipulated by using burning and dodging techniques to depict ufos and other paranormal happenings in the scenes. This residency coincides with a solo exhibition at Viewpoint Gallery, Halifax, NS.

Megan wants to make Trabant #5, which will be a zine about the 9-month professional circus training program she will complete in May of this year. This series began in 2005, coinciding with her training to be a flying trapeze instructor. trapeze instructor. This zine has followed her journey throughout the world of circus, from training on flying trapeze (Trabant #1) to discovering handstands (Trabant #2), to performing professionally with a feminist acrobatics company in NYC (Trabant #3), to trying to understand priorities around art-making and art objects in her life (Trabant #4).

Amy Leigh is in the midst of working on a book documenting Canadian zine culture over the last decade and a half. While she hopes to dosome Halifax-specific research during her residency, she is mostly going to focus on writing a (first!) personal zine of her own. (Finally!) You can also check out her distro, twelveohtwo at the PopExplosion Zine Fair on October 20th.

Shannon will screenprint a series of images that contrast weapons of colonization and native plants of North America, exploring how violence and beauty coexist.

Walker will be illustrating a comic-collaboration with a middle-schooler, as part of the Providence Comics Consortium, a group that teaches sequential art to kids at the public library.

Cheyenne is compiling interviews with folks who run zine libraries and archives, and will visit the Anchor Archive to do some interviews for a zine that will become both a resource for existing zine libraries, and a guide for folks who are interested in starting one themselves.

Mary will work on a few issues of Black Out, a free mini-zine that critically re-arranges images and text from mainstream print media. Having tackled several Fredricton free papers, Mary will use Halifax papers to articulate media analysis.

Coral will work on The Preserving Project (I Love You This Much), a participatory performance that uses traditional food preserving techniques to transform non-food stories and objects, providing a space to talk about food, nature, memory, nostalgia, and colonization.