Join us for our third elemental zine-making gathering, where we’ll meet in the season of Earth.

In this grounded gathering, we'll explore the cycles of life and the theme of impermanence while considering the element of Earth and its associated qualities: worry and trust, our spleen and stomach, and overthinking and empathy. We’ll bring a sense of balance and stability as we move through earth-inspired breathwork, meditation, and free-form art-making.

You’ll leave with a finished earth-inspired piece of art, with the option of contributing to our collective analog Earth zine (you’ll get a free copy when it’s printed)!

Please arrive with a piece of paper (or more), and art-making materials of your choice: magazines, random papers, pens, markers, paints, scissors, glue or anything that’s accessible.

All donations support the development of this programming and the production and printing of this zine. Please pay what you can.

Denise Shu Mei is bodyworker, movement creator, martial artist, and student of culturally-rooted practices. They approach the body as site and portal for play, regeneration, transition, and coming home; it is from this lens that they offer 1-o-1 sessions that pull from a variety of their embodied practices. Denise is interested in co-creating experiences and futures that center collective thriving and community care; most recently organized About Walking, an online series approaching walking from different modalities. They have also been part of the publication team for including collective terrain/s, Dancing While Black Journal: Black Bodies | White Boxes, and an upcoming project with Radical Evolution. @deniseshumei

SunDogs Studio is an independent micropress zine publisher and experimental production company. Using an intuitive working style, we make collaborative books, zines, and a monthly analog newsletter. Subscriptions and donations fund our operational costs, and provide stipends for participating artists and writers. @sundogs_studio

BACII illuminates the end-of-life while exploring our relationship to our mortality. By bringing awareness, creativity and healing to topics such as loss, grief and death, we can begin to integrate the inevitable and reimagine how we really wish to live. We do this through monthly gatherings, supportive services and offerings in service to our individual and collective wellbeing. @_bacii