Join us for our fourth elemental zine-making gathering where we’ll honor the season of Metal in TCM.

Metal is connected to the experience of grief. We’ll explore grief through embodied metal-inspired sound, writing and art-making practices to acknowledge, express and shape our grief. You’ll leave with metal-inspired art to place on your altar or in other areas of your life.

Please arrive with aluminum foil and/or a pencil. By participating in this gathering, you have the option to contribute to our collective analog Metal zine and you’ll be sent a free copy once it’s printed!

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