For the first time ever our school’s students' zines have been displayed during the Zine
Festival!
Queer Zine Fest Berlin is a yearly celebration of zine culture, community, and diversity. This
year’s festival took place on Saturday 10th September at the Jugendclub Schloßstraße and
featured our students' work. The whole chill area was dedicated to zines made by our
students. The festival itself featured not only many zinisters selling their work, but many
workshops about zine history, screen-printing, zine crafting table and Berlin Mobile Zine
Library.
Visitors of the festival truly enjoyed discovering zines made by NMS students and learned a
lot from their unique perspective.
This is what some of NMS students had to say about the zines:
"I made my zines because kids don't always have a voice, but with zines other people can
learn from kids too!"
-Alice, 13 years old
”Zines are tiny books which contain two things: funny stuff and learning experiences. Zines
contain stuff that other people may have experienced. Zines can contain you."
-Livia, 11 years old
"I made my zines because I enjoy making them and I think that it is a good way of
enlightening people about important topics like anti-bullying and LGBTQIA+"
-Reedha, 11 years old
"I think it's cool to allow us kids to tell our knowledge by sharing zines. I like making lustige
zines"
-Ryan, 12 years old
"I hope others will read my zines and will be able to help themselves by using my tips"
-Sophia, 15 years old
We want to thank zine fest organisers for featuring our students' zines and can't wait for
more collaborations in the future.
Lex Kartanė