RISE is an artistic zine celebrating creativity in the face of climate change bringing together artists, poets and writers. Published in collaboration with InTandem Publications the second edition of RISE is going to be published at the beginning of December 2019. Each edition of the zine is celebrated through a cut and stick session as well as a launch event which are both open to all.
If you would like to order the first RISE or have any questions about submitting to the latest edition, please get in contact with us - rise.ocs@gmail.com. We also sell RISE at our regular Monday events from time to time, so keep a look out!
If you would like to order the first RISE or have any questions about submitting to the latest edition, please get in contact with us - rise.ocs@gmail.com. We also sell RISE at our regular Monday events from time to time, so keep a look out!
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RISE: 2019This issue’s theme will be 'Protecting the planet: politics and protest'. We want your personal responses - in the form of art, poetry, short stories (max. 500 words), music or drawings - if it can be printed, send it!
Keep in mind, we will be printing the zine in black and white, but your contribution will be displayed in its full coloured glory at our launch event hosted at Makespace Oxford on Monday 2nd December - put it in your diary! You are also all welcome to a cut and stick session at Common Ground on Saturday 23rd November to put the zine together… Email your submissions to: rise.ocs@gmail.com sometime before midnight on the 15th of November 2019! |
RISE: 2018RISE zine was created in 2018 as a collaboration with Tandem Collective, a local group whose mission is to influence positive change towards social justice and environmental sustainability through arts and creativity. The zine included a range of poetry, art, and writing inspired by the climate catastrophe, from students and the wider Oxford community. To assemble the zine, we invited members of the general public to come and design the pages of the zine themselves at Common Ground café, collaging the pages with magazine clippings and drawings of their own. The zine was launched in Spring 2018, at a celebration involving poetry readings and music from local artists.
The zine is printed on recycled paper using sustainable Riso inks by Oxford GreenPrint, an eco-friendly printing service based on Cowley road. Please e-mail rise.ocs@gmail.com if you are interested in purchasing a copy. |
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two degrees: 2017
OCS' first zine, two degrees, was, in the words of the creators, created to 'break down some of the barriers to dialogue on climate change, offering engaging pieces and considering where we and the natural world around us (and on which we rely) stand as the world warms'. The 'writers, artists and poets of two degree demonstrate that climate change does not only exist within the scientific literature as a series of numbers, and it is not just something which happens to polar bears or people in far off places who you may never meet. [...] Climate change involves each and every one of us, and especially the world's most vulnerable communities, and the language we use to talk about it and its solutions must be inclusive and accessible to all.'
