Inspired by the exhibition please touch gently: zines, comics, ephemera, which positions zines as intimate, independent forms of storytelling and as radical practices of production beyond the mainstream, this session extends that ethos into the realm of the home. Just as zines create alternative archives of voices often overlooked, the fabric zine becomes both object and metaphor, a layered record of how unseen work and shared routines hold families together.

The resulting creation is not just a playful artifact, but an archive of tenderness, labour, and memory, a reminder that even the smallest gestures can be forms of storytelling.

Audience Takeaway:

Explore the book as a tactile and textile space of memory and care

Reflect on how everyday domestic routines can be reimagined as narratives

Connect with the exhibition’s spirit of zines as independent and intimate archives

Carry home a fabric-based zine that embodies the unseen labor of family life