'Notes to Self' Zine-Making Workshop

'Notes to Self' is a creative invitation to pause and remember what matters.

Together, we'll create a pocket-sized zine manifesto filled with personal truths, values and reminders, something for you to return to on the difficult days, the hopeful days and everything in between.

Through collage, reflection and making, we'll explore creativity as a practice of self-care, connection and remembering.

Why A Zine-Making Workshop?

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 feels true to YOU.

Workshop overview:

• arrivals from 8:30am @ Studio 12 at Montebello Design Centre
• starting promptly at 9am and closing at 12pm
• brief intro to zines
• demo of basic folding method to create your own mini zine
• prompts to explore
• time to cut, paste, layer, write, experiment
• materials will be provided (but feel free to bring any of your own special supplies too!)
• tea + coffee station will be available
• Picnic Cafe and Deli is next door for yummy treats + drinks

Why this workshop matters:

It offers a space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the values, truths and reminders that help guide us through everyday life.

Through creativity, conversation and collective making, we will create pocket-sized manifestos that participants can return to on difficult days, hopeful days, and everything in between.

By joining this workshop, you're not only investing in your own creative wellbeing, but also supporting Julia Joy's participation in an international creative fellowship in Norway in September 2026.

Ticket Options:

• Community Ticket (limited amount) R250
• Standard Ticket R350
• Supporter Ticket R500

About Julia Joy, your facilitator:

Julia Joy is an artist, creative facilitator and founder of Creative Care Cult, a practice and process space exploring creativity as a form of care through journaling, collage, zines, storytelling and community arts.

Her work is rooted in the belief that creativity can support reflection, resilience, connection and self-expression. Through workshops and community arts programmes, she creates welcoming spaces where people can slow down, experiment, make meaning, and connect with themselves and others through the creative process. She currently facilitates arts-based programmes with teenage girls in Cape Town and is passionate about making creativity accessible, playful and deeply human.

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