On a beautiful sunny Wednesday afternoon, CoolTan participants and members of the public gathered around a large table in the gallery space, strewn with card, coloured paper, pencils, markers, magazines and other craft paraphernalia in anticipation of a one-off Zine workshop for Black History Month.  A Zine is a small, often homemade magazine written by people who aren’t professional writers about an unconventional or specialised topic.

This was to be facilitated by two members of Black British Girlhood  Bekke and Olivia, whose aim was to share and archive our stories as Black women as well as celebrate ourselves.  We were also … Read More »