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She came to Halifax to work on new issue of her Brainscan zine, in time for the annual Halifax Zine Fair. She also  co-facilititated a workshop on teaching zine workshops.

She worked on a zine about turning 30, asking questions like “What does it mean to ‘grow up’ in a culture where adulthood is predicated on participation in a capitalist culture that I don’t want to be a part of?” and “What does success look like?” She also did a Skillshare Workshop on simple book structures.

Tim is active in unearthing Toronto’s hidden histories, through projects like the Missing Plaque Project, and looked for ignored and overshadowed Halifax histories. He created several posters on local Halifax history and put them up in relevant locations as site-specific zines. Tim also taught a Skillshare on investigative research. 

Luna and Coco are artists and activists who worked together on beginning stages of a larger multi-media installation project. Using poetry, visual and print media, they are working to give voice to the inner, personal life of the organizer, exploring inner and outer realities of seeking social chance as queer feminists. Luna held a workshop about "Finding your voice through your politics" and Riot Coco held a workshop about "Empowerment through radical visual art".

Garth is an artist and musician who created a collaborative, improvised score for a the classic silent film "Man With a Movie Camera" that was performed during the city wide Sound Bites Festival. He assembled a cast of local musicians to participated in a workshop process to create the score, and taught an Improv Music Skillshare.

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.

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.

Molly and Hunter created the zine "All of Us Giants", to "identifying the things we like and enjoy that lay hidden in the world we walk through every day; but that also means learning to imagine what’s not here, and thinking about how to combine it with what is." They compiling ideas from interviews conducted, anonymous answers put in public Answer Boxes, and a Think-a-Thon/Talk-a-Thon/Draw-a-Thon/Make-a-Thon.

Judy, as well as her dog Cindy, braved the cool Maritime spring in the shed. She held a workshop/discussion about defining sexuality and gender, and built a giant puppet for the Atlantica Protests in June.

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.