Zine Workshop - Worlds Between Words

worlds between words is an intuitive and interactive world-building, creative writing & zine-making workshop hosted by Julia Joy

This is an invitation to follow your curiosity and explore the art of world-building and dreaming a future through words, images and creative play.

We'll begin by drawing two mystery words, using them as unexpected prompts to spark ideas, make connections and imagine new possibilities. From there, we'll bring our ideas to life through intuitive writing/poetry and collaging... creating our very own mini zines.

Zine-Making Workshop in the PURPLE room:

This workshop is a hands-on zine-making workshop rooted in DIY culture, creative freedom, and personal expression.

Zines have long been used as tools for self-publishing, storytelling, resistance, and sharing ideas outside mainstream spaces.

It is a space to explore voice, perspective, creativity and creative agency through collage, text, and intuitive making.

No perfection. No rules. No previous experience required. Just paper, process, and the freedom to make something that YOU want to express.

Cost to join: R180 per person and open to ALL!

Workshop overview:

• starting at 10am and ending at 11:30am
• brief intro to zines & DIY publishing
• demo of basic folding method to create your own mini zine
• prompts to explore voice, identity, and what matters to you
• time to cut, paste, layer, write, experiment
• materials will be provided (but feel free to bring any of your own special supplies too!)

Why this workshop matters:

This workshop is rooted in the belief that creativity is something we build and experience together. In a time where many artists and individuals create in isolation, spaces like this offer an opportunity to gather, make, and connect through shared process.

By joining, you’re contributing to a culture of accessible, community-based art-making, where creativity is explored, expressed, and exchanged collectively.

About Julia Joy, your facilitator:

Creative Care Cult(ure) is a creative process practice space by Julia Joy, devoted to creativity as care work, art as process and art as a tool for resilience and communal transformation. Rooted in slow-making, tending, and process-based art, this work centres analogue methods like collage, zines, poetry and storytelling to hold space for expression, experimentation, and presence.

Julia Joy is currently working with small, focused and intimate groups where teenage girls can explore art as a tool for healing, self-expression, and resilience. Through many medium explorations, they are able to explore emotions and experiences in a safe, caring space built on trust and relationship. Her role is to hold space, listen deeply, and guide the creative process as a pathway for empowerment. Proceeds of the workshop goes to supporting this programme.

Connect on IG: @creativecarecult // Email: [email protected]

Khamissa Art Festival: The Gathering of Artists & Dreamers is guided by an inspiring crew of all-round lekker creatives, change-makers, and social activists.

There will be an artist market, paint jams, sketch battles, live art making, exhibition space, music and food!