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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.

Simon will go on a series of daily walks through Halifax, recording movement in a journal that will be used to create a hand drawn map of the city.

The same as human and terrestrial elements, celestial things have important and serious things to do, but also they can have fun. Celestial things have fun, is Claudia Tremblay’s new art zine, with some drawings that are inspired by the new age aesthetic and The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 science fiction short story collection written by Ray Bradbury.

Alessandra Naccarato worked on transforming sections of her play, The Custom of Killing Rabbits, into an interactive spoken word performance that shared a story of immigration, combining auto/biography and historical fact with fantasy. A lovely one-woman candlelight performance was held in the garden at dusk.

Nancy Anne McPhee set up a natural dye studio in the Roberts Street yard.  She experimented with preparing an Indigo pot, dyeing greens, used dyed silk to make small trapunto wall quilts. She held an all-day open-studio workshop to show and teach all parts of the dying process to several keen crafters.

Maranda Elizabeth completed a new issues (#20) of her zine, Telegram Ma'am, revolving around on disability and writing. Maranda also held a workshop on "Mental Health and the Concept of Home" and an Ice Cream Social and Zine Launch Party, and participated in the 24 Hour Zine Challenge and our 5th Birthday party!

Teresa Chun-Wen Cheng worked on creating a short stop-motion video from one of her comics, exploring the effects of racism and colonialism on children's perception of themselves and the violence that comes out of the internalized racism. She held a screening of the video-in-progress.

Henry Adam Svec worked on Folk Songs of Canada Now, a musical performance art piece that explores the possibility that Henry is a folksong collector. He gave a public performance of his work at the Company House, as well as SappyFest in Sackville NB. Henry also gave a workshop on Stage Banter for performance artists and musicians.

Kerri, Kir and Heidi made the amazing and epic zine "Make the Wind Blow... a Zine on Music and Resistance." The zine explores the political use of music as means for building community, self-representation, shared histories and social justice. It is a compilation of stories, articles, profiles and art that celebrates inspirational figures in music, and includes a mix cd, silkscreened cover, and art cards! They held an art show, zine launch and show and tell to share their work.

Katie made issue #4 of her zine "White Elephants", about yard saling and her love of all things old and unwanted, with a little linguistics lesson on the word nostalgia and related words in other languages, too. She held a yard sale/zine launch event entitled "Nostalgic For Something We Can't Remember: The poetry of secondhand things."

Clara wrote and illustrated a zine called "Hungry: A (re)Collection of Memorable Meals and Disordered Eating." She held a Zine L(A)unch, potluck lunch, reading, and discussion about relationships with food .