
The ReEntry Lab has been selected for a 2024-25 Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residency, in partnership with the University of Minnesota Department of English.
We’re excited for this opportunity to engage with the academic community to continue growing our work of finding and making pathways and bridges for writers and other artists leaving incarceration.
Justice-impacted artists face an array of obstacles to participation in a range of social spheres and activities even after they are released from prison. The ReEntry Lab – an organization designed to explore opportunities for connection between justice-impacted artists and the thriving network of literary organizations and institutions in Minnesota – will use their Hub residency to create an intentional, supportive space for justice-impacted artists to convene with one another and with members of the University of Minnesota community in order to help them navigate the difficult experience of post-incarceration.
This project, in partnership with the Department of English, will include three components. First, the ReEntry Lab will facilitate a monthly writing “workshop” that will be accessible to justice-impacted writers. Second, The ReEntry Lab will facilitate exchanges between justice-impacted artists and other faculty, departments, and programs within the College of Liberal Arts, many of which are focusing explicitly on criminal justice, the carceral system, and the social practices that marginalize and exclude the justice-impacted community. Third, The ReEntry Lab will facilitate a public reading at the end of the project period, in which justice-impacted writers will have the opportunity to share their work with a broad audience.
Zine Workshops!
The ReEntry Lab is hosting two free zine workshops next month as part of our 2024-2025 Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residency. Come join us and YOLOW Zines and make something cool!
- Workshops are free to attend, but registration is required and attendees must be 18 or older.
- Register at tinyurl.com/HubZines, or scan the QR code on the flyer
- Sign up for one or both! We’re making different styles of zines at each one.
Workshop #1 – February 7th, 6-8pm
Make an 8-page zine out of a single sheet of paper on a topic of your choice! Learn how to fold a “magic zine” and see how fast and easy they are to start. It’s up to you to fill it up. We will have some prompts to help inspire you. At the end of the workshop, we will make copies of your zine and you can show them to your friends.
Workshop #2 – February 21st, 11 am – 1 pm
Let’s make a zine together! We will collaboratively pick a topic, and then we will each create a page for our zine. At the end of the workshop, we will learn how to put our zine through the photocopier. Everyone will leave with a copy of our collaborative zine for you to show off to your friends.
