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Kelly is a librarian and will be working on a series of mini-zines focused on radical research topics, a sort of correspondence school answering the questions: why look offline? and how?

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.

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.

Ana is going to work on a graphic and written zine about experiences in Mexican punk and radical communities.

Mariana will develop her performance music project Hunter Rapper which humourously and critically explores food politics and systems, while Ross will produce a zine of recipes from memory with hand drawn lettering. Both of them will look specifically at lobster and fisheries, celebrating and examining local food knowledge.

Anne-Francoise will use homemade microphones, cassette recorders and homemade cassette loops to record sound samples around Roberts Street and create an ephemeral sound installation in the garden.

Caroline will work on drawings for a comic-based zine Womanimalistic and a zine revolving around “Punk Health” creating dialogue about health and self-care with information and humour.