Residents and visitors alike will have a chance to add their own creations to LUNA ARTS this year by making a zine that will then be showcased on a traveling cart. Kira Makela, zine project designer is looking for those interested in creating a zine and sending it in. She’s also hosting workshops around town leading up to LUNA ARTS so folks can come learn the art of zine making. Attendees will be able to check out the finished print products Saturday, Sept. 21 while exploring the other downtown art attractions.
“I just wanted a project that everyone could participate in at any skill level. They’re creating because they want to create,” Makela, project designer told Revelstoke Mountaineer.
Zines are a small-batch publication product with all information written on one side of a piece of paper so it can be photocopied. The page is then folded and cut in a specific manner to create a small booklet for easy delivery and showcasing.
During the festival you can catch Makela wandering around Revelstoke’s downtown with a cart filled with the zines that folks can then peruse and take a few home. It’s a fitting initiative for an arts festival that showcases Revelstoke’s art scene through a night of live music, a night of art performances and a day of family fun.
Makela has hosted zine making workshops at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives and has one planned for Saturday, Aug. 31 at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. Participants learn how to create a zine and have access to a range of art supplies and collage items to build and fold their own zine. They can then either give it to Makela for the LUNA ARTS project, take it home to finish some details before scanning and send it to Makela, or they can keep the project for themselves.
“It would be awesome if they want to add theirs to the zine cart. But it’s totally okay if they just want to make it for themselves,” Makela stressed. She just wants to make the unique art form available to as many people in town as possible.
Zines for the LUNA ARTS cart need to be made on standard letter sized paper (8.5” x 11”) scanned and submitted before Sept. 13 by sending either an image or PDF file to Makela at [email protected].
Makela will be photocopying and hand folding zines in preparation for LUNA ARTS. Currently zines submitted for the cart have included poetry, drawings of wildflower species around Revelstoke, a collection of animals important to Revelstoke’s history and a dictionary of current teenage slang. All of them are welcome in Makela’s project, which from the beginning has aimed to be as inclusive as possible.
“That was my intention when I pitched the cart, that it would be simple, interactive and accessible.”
Those who won’t be able to make it to LUNA ARTS will still be able to check out the zines at Revelstoke’s Okanagan Regional Library location at the Revelstoke Community & Aquatic Centre. The library’s enthusiastic hosting of the project is just one more way the community has stepped up to support Makela’s project, something she says is a key part of all of LUNA.
“I’m loving the support from Revelstoke Visual Arts, the library, and the museum who have just all been so helpful in this project. And the community who has sent in pieces.”
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