Agency - Make Your Mark

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Agency – make your mark This zine project is part of Arnolfini’s Moving Targets, a punk rock extravaganza with no time for nostalgia, taking place over the summer of 2016.

Agency – make your mark is conceived & facilitated by me, Rachael House, artist/zinester, & made & edited by visitors from Bristol & beyond.

I was lucky and unlucky enough to come of age in the punk era. I carry with me from that time a belief in DIY, if you want something to happen you can make it happen. From dyeing your hair, forming a band, customising your clothes to making a zine.

In 2016, in times just as difficult as the late 1970s, zines are still a way for us to connect with each other, to have a voice. We don’t have to be ‘experts’, zines are for all of us, we all have something to say & a need to be heard. Small lo-fi publications, we can use zines to reach out to others, to campaign, to find our people, locally, nationally and internationally.

It’s important to remember that we have some agency in the world, that our actions have consequences.

I intended Agency - make your mark to be a zine to talk about how we survive, to pass on ideas of how we can make things better, for ourselves, other people and the planet. In tiny ways- or thinking on a BIG scale. In some ways it is that, but it is also a zine where people bear witness.

Where they show their discontent, without offering a solution. Expressing our anger can be cathartic. It is also a zine made by contributors of all ages, which may not be suitable for some of the children who have made pages… Perhaps it needs a ‘parental guidance’ sticker…

There was a great deal that we couldn’t include in this zine for reasons of space, but we hope you find something within these pages to amuse, engage, challenge, enrage or support you.

Thanks are due to Arnolfini Moving Targets Project Team : Bryony Gillard, Elizabeth Graham, Sam Francis, Daisy Moon, Lucy Condon & the wonderful Volunteer team, who all did exceptional work.

Thanks also to everyone who took part in zine making over the summer. The enthusiasm & skill shown has been more than I could have imagined. I want to do it again now. I’ll just have to make a new zine of my own.

Rachael House, September 2016 rachaelhouse@me.com

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This page is from our zine entitled A Austerity Adventure. Inspired by the closure of our local library we felt a story about the importance of stories needed to be told.

As parents this seemed to be a positive way to voice our disillusionment at yet another attack on creativity and education in the name of austerity.

By Betsy Peach and Bella Plum.

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