Celebrate Lower East Side History Month with us! Magnum Foundation, 8-Ball Community, and Photographer's Green Book will be hosting a zine workshop that honors community histories of New York City’s Lower East Side, in partnership with FABnyc.

We invite Lower East Side community members of all ages to visit our tables during Open Arts LES to make handmade zines that tell underrepresented stories of the neighborhood’s history. Participants can explore questions like: What about your neighborhood brings you joy? How do we value and respond to the history of a place while it faces social and political changes? How do we engage with histories that weren't photographed? What are some things that people don't know about where you live? What could an archive of the future look like?

The workshops will provide xeroxed archival images collected from Lower East Side community groups for participants to cut up and collage into their own unique creations. Feel free to bring your own photos and visual archives to add to your zines, too!

Details below. We hope to see you there ✨

Session 1: Thurs, May 19, 5-7pm @ 4th St. Open Street (between 2nd + Bowery)

Session 2: Sat, May 21, 2-5pm @ Ave. B Open Street (between 8th + 9th)