Got Something to Say? Come to our Zine workshop!

 Zine, n. (zin): a small magazine that is produced cheaply by one person or a small group of people, and is about a subject they are interested in.

Books, schmooks. Here at Unbound we celebrate the written word in all its many and wonderful forms. Zines are becoming increasingly popular and are a great way for people to get their words and ideas into other people’s hands. Come and join zine artist Malaka Gharib and learn how to make your own publication. She is the founder of the food zine The Runcible Spoon and incorporates zines into her work as a science journalist at NPR. In this one-hour workshop, you will create an eight-page mini zine about your favorite book from start to finish.

The event takes place at Orr Street Studios on Saturday, April 23, between 3:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m.

Malaka Gharib is an artist and a journalist based in Washington, D.C. She is the author of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American. She is a writer and editor on NPR's science desk, reporting on global health and development topics such as humanitarian aid and gender and income inequality. She also writes for NPR on her experience as the child of immigrants, from talking to her Filipino mom about mental health to hosting an Eid feast for her Muslim father. Her art -- including a comic on the history of pimiento cheese in the Philippines and eating Chinese food in Paris -- have been published in Catapult, The Nib, Saveur Magazine, NPR, The Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The New York Times Style Magazine. She is the founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair and The Runcible Spoon, a zine about food and fantasy. She graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University with a dual major in magazine journalism and marketing.