Candace Blas
5 - 7PM

Drop in for a 10min guided meditation offered by poet, Candace Blas. Each meditation is designed to ground artists in their body and sensory experience and inspire creativity and thought.

Meditations will be followed by an optional facilitated group conversation and opportunity to connect.

These meditations are part of a workshop series Blas created on exploring alternative ways to connect and spend time off social media.

Meditation Schedule:
5pm, On Day Dreaming
5:30pm, On Not Knowing and Missing Out
6:00pm, On Day Dreaming
6:30pm, On Not Knowing and Missing Out

Brian Hutton
5 - 7PM

Drop in and join this Etch-A-Sketch artist extraordinaire for a good time drawing using this classic toy. Brian will have prompts and pointers if you’d like them, and we will have a photo station for documenting your masterpieces. Who knows, maybe an Etch-A-Sketch zine or 2 will come out of it.

Brian will be there to help Friday, but the Etch-A-Sketches will be around for the whole event.

Jessi Thornton & Brandon Hill
6-7pm

In this workshop Brandon & Jessi will share the process of creating their collaborative zine, Cold Front. The goal of Cold Front is to share reflections from the decolonization and climate justice movements working in Alaska through written pieces, art, poetry, photography and creative work that captures our communities and the local climate justice movement. Participants will receive a copy and leave with a plan for your own zine campaign.

Lee Post
7 - 9PM

Want to make zines, but don’t know what you’ll do and how to start creating? Spark your imagination and bust through any temporary writer’s block with cartoonist Lee Post. He’s got a load of fun solo activities to help clarify your thoughts, stacks of weird story cubes and unusual prompts to help craft unexpected stories, and a chill space for folks to chat, collaborate and encourage. Open to all ages.

hosted by Brian Hutton
7PM sign-up
7:20-9PM Open Mic

A brilliant opportunity for writers to take it from the Page to the Stage to the Air Waves.

Read a poem or a page from the Zine you’re working on, some kick-ass piece from CC’s Classic Poetry Slam you nailed on Tuesday, preview something you’re pulling together for OUT NORTH’s month long Fringe Festival, or simply share some poetic notion that’s bubbling in your head or burning for an audience

We will be recording with the intention of broadcasting and participants will invited to have their piece included in a zine made during the 24 hour ZTFD.

9 - 10PM

Live music in the Seed Lab garage!

Alex Petkanas & g0th
7AM

Alex and g0th will be hosting a breakfast workshop on maintaining creativity during the production of your work. They will be discussing how to take an idea from start to finish, how to practice creativity on the boring days, and how to utilize free tools in the process.

Julia O’Malley
9 - 11AM

A pep talk with coffee to prepare us for the final stretch of this 24 hour flingding. Join Julia for a no pressure conversation about getting out of your head and seeing the creative process as a physical discipline instead of an intellectual one.

Karolína Zákravská
11AM-1PM

Introduction to the process of creating illustrated pieces using watercolors & markers. The workshop will cover subject selection, initial sketch creation, research phase breakdown, color theory, and line work fundamentals. Tools used: watercolors, markers, and/or ink.

Maddie Troiano & Mikhail Siskoff
11AM - 3PM

Drop in and join local artists Maddie Troiano & Mikhail Siskoff at our collage table. Stay for however long you’d like and learn different approaches to college and found poetry.

11AM - 1PM - Maddie Troiano: Found poetry
1 - 3PM - Mikhail Siskoff

Lee Post
1 - 3PM

We all have stories to tell. Big stories of the events that define us. Small stories about what we had for breakfast and little conversations. Imaginary stories of lives we could live. Join cartoonist Lee Post to Folks explore the building blocks of storytelling, learn some of the history behind this form, play with some story prompts, then draft and create a story of their own real or imagined journey on a giant sheet of paper. Fun for youth, adults and families of all ages. Youth in 2nd grade or younger will have fun, but will need an adult or teen to join them on their storytelling adventure.

Bryce Nicolasa Foks
3 - 5PM

Come see Bryce’s brand new letterpress studio in the Seed Lab garage space. In this hands-on drop-in demo, participants can pull a print from the Chandler & Price platen press, explore the extensive Tent City Press font library, and create their own unique letterpress memorabilia.

Bryce is the proprietor of Tent City Press and is a Seed Lab artist in residence.

Nithya Thiru
3 - 5PM

Drop in and make a zine about queer joy and identity and learn to make one-sheet zines in the process!