ABD Centre

Free drop-in crafts workshops to create a magazine together

Dates: Saturdays 22 Nov 2025 & 10 Jan 2026
Time: drop-in whenever you like between 10-16 h
Location: the Rose room of the ABD Centre
Costs: FREE

No need to sign up, just turn up!

This is a workshop for people in/around Bacup to create a zine together about/for Bacup. A zine is a small, handmade, and self-published booklet or magazine made at a low cost, often using a regular photocopier. This workshop is for adults, and for children age 10 and older (under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult).

Participants of this workshop can explore Bacup's history, current events, ambitions, heritage, and dreams in the works they create whether this is by making sketches, illustrations, paintings, using watercolour, acrylic paint, or collage, digital photography using your own smartphone or your own camera, scrap booking, writing poetry or prose.

This is a fantastic workshop for people to try their hand at something they may not have done before or not in a long time, to meet new people, to learn from others, and to contribute to something they can feel proud of. I will provide lots of ideas in case you need some help to get started, but please feel free to bring your own idea(s)!

All tools and materials will be provided, and there will also be refreshments. This is a FREE workshop, and you are welcome to attend one or both sessions.

Just come along, have a snack, and do some crafting and/or writing. Do not worry about your skill level, everyone is welcome! 

Printed copies of the zine will be available within 3 weeks after the second session, to be picked up for FREE from The ABD Centre and the Bacup Museum. A digital version will be accessible online for FREE, check back on this website to find a link to it.

Contact
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Website: https://almalauha.com/workshops.html
Facebook events:
22 Nov: https://fb.me/e/3jaYBPaCZ
10 Jan: https://fb.me/e/7o7tvoeQw