Workshop Facilitation

Are you looking to hire a facilitator to run creative zine-making workshops with your community group, work staff, cohort of students, youth group, and more? Keep reading to learn more about the workshops we offer at Coin-Operated Press!

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We are based in Edinburgh and we can host workshops and events all across Scotland - if we can travel there by public transport, we wanna make zines with you!!

 

Our workshops typically run for 2 hours but can be longer or as short as 1 hour depending on your requirements. Our facilitator fee starts from £200 after VAT, which covers a 2-hour workshop in which we will travel to your location (we do not currently have a venue of our own but can suggest venues that we frequently work with if you do not have one in mind) and provide all of the materials.

 

All workshop materials are provided by us. This includes a variety of paper, scissors, glue, markers, washi tape, felt pens, coloured pencils, stamps, stencils, stickers, and a large selection of collage materials (which we can tailor to suit the themes of the workshop), but we also encourage participants to bring their own materials if they want to add a more personal touch to their zines!

 

You might have a theme in mind for your workshop, or we can work with you to choose a theme that works for your group/audience, or the theme can be completely open for participants to create freely.

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Looking for something else? Mini-Zine Workshops are our most requested workshop! but we also offer different formats of zine-making workshops, such as collaborative zine-making and printing, or unusual fold techniques, as well as zinearring-making, collage pin-badge making, print/protest banner-making, custom colouring-page workshops collage bookmark-making, and so much more! Do get in touch to learn more about the different workshops we have available and tell us about your unique ideas - we love collaborating with you to create fun and unusual creative workshops!

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If you are interested in hiring us to set up a series of Zine Club events in your venue, please click on Zine Clubs for more information and get in touch via coinoperatedpress@gmail.com

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An example of how we run a typical Mini-Zine Workshop:

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Set-up: It takes us about 30 minutes to ensure the space is set up for participants (we usually try and have a space set up with one large table for us all to work around together - this is the best for creating conversation and creative collaboration) and for us to unpack our zine-making supplies. This also gives us time to meet you and go over any information we need before the workshop begins.

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Introduction: We welcome participants and go over any house rules as well as giving a little introduction to Coin-Operated Press. During this time we will go over our safer spaces policy, and ask for photo permission from all attendees - if they don't want their pictures to be taken/put on social media, that is absolutely fine. We are happy to email you with any photos we take after the workshop.

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Inspiration: We introduce the theme of the workshop and provide a prompts list. We will also bring along example zines from our library collection that best fit the theme for participants to browse for inspiration.

 

Demonstration: We will introduce the materials we have on offer and give a step-by-step demonstration of how to fold a Mini-Zine. We also provide a Mini-Zine for people to take home with printed instructions on how to create this folding technique again. 

 

Time to create: This is the most important part of the workshop and the majority of the time is given to creation time! We like to create a calm, safe, and accessible environment for people to be creative. We are always available to ask questions about zines and give our input and instruction where needed but this can also be a quiet time for people. We may play music during this time if attendees are happy for that. 

 

Wrap-up: We like to give time for participants to share what they have made at the end of the session, and have space to discuss the creative process. We will also take photos to document the finished zines if participants are happy for us to do so.

 

End of the workshop: It takes us a maximum of 30 minutes to pack down and clean up at the end of the workshop.

 

We try to keep our workshops as accessible as possible. We encourage the use of stim tools and have a selection available if people would like to use them. We also like to have a breakout space if people would like to come and go. If another space isn't available, people can just walk around the space or step outside for a few minutes. With permission, we play relaxing music to set the mood, but if people would prefer a quiet environment, we can also try and keep the noise to a minimum. We try to provide gender-neutral toilets if the venue is set up in such a way that allows it. 

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If you have any further questions and would like to enquire about a booking, please don't hesitate to get in touch! We can be contacted via coinoperatedpress@gmail.com