ECOS Bookbinding Workshop with Marimacha Monarca Press

This event is a part of ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival

In this workshop, Marimacha Monarca Press (MMP) will lead participants in a bookbinding workshop in which you’ll make your own chrysalis journal. MMP will show participants how to make their own journals with seed paper using a saddle stitch. Fill the journals with poems, love letters to yourself, doodles, and ponderings.Tear pages away to plant andwrite down ideas or feelings you want to embrace and let go of. All materials will be provided. Slots are limited, so register in advance!

Marimacha Monarca Press is is a queer and trans people of color collective of artists and educators based on the Southside of Chicago since autumn 2017. MMP travels across Chicago to provide workshops in printmaking, seed paper making, piñata making, bookbinding and zine-making as a means of self publication, communication, and reflection. Working alongside themes of queerness, race, language, migration, accessibility, and visual storytelling, MMP’s hope is to illustrate and illuminate the power of collective histories. Their pedagogy utilizes anti-racist and trauma informed approaches and their practice is centered on rasquachismo, the act of overcoming material and professional limitations within their home and public practices.

Masks are strongly encouraged and available at check-in for those who would like to wear one. The Poetry Foundation’s events are completely free of charge and open to the public. For more information about accessibility, please visit the Movements on Montrose page or reach out to [email protected].