RISE is an artistic zine celebrating creativity in the face of climate change bringing together artists, poets and writers.
If you would like to submit your projects or have any questions about submitting to the latest edition, please get in contact with us - rise.ocs@gmail.com.
If you would like to submit your projects or have any questions about submitting to the latest edition, please get in contact with us - rise.ocs@gmail.com.
RISE: 2021
Submissions are still OPEN for RISE zine’s 4th edition. RISE is an oxford climate society publication bringing together creative responses to the climate crisis – imagining alternative futures and collectively mobilising for environmental justice.
We’re gathering poems, manifestos, drawings, photographs, scientific papers, comics, music (+ anything else you can think of!) in a collaborative zine. The teams picked 3 themes from work in previous zines to spark thoughts, but feel free to ignore them.
1.tread gently on the earth
2.the turning drop
3.each new face is a gentle weapon against brutal weapons
Email your submissions or any questions to rise.ocs@gmail.com (or dm @risezine_) and hopefully see you next Michaelmas for a cut and stick!
Love, the RISE team.
We’re gathering poems, manifestos, drawings, photographs, scientific papers, comics, music (+ anything else you can think of!) in a collaborative zine. The teams picked 3 themes from work in previous zines to spark thoughts, but feel free to ignore them.
1.tread gently on the earth
2.the turning drop
3.each new face is a gentle weapon against brutal weapons
Email your submissions or any questions to rise.ocs@gmail.com (or dm @risezine_) and hopefully see you next Michaelmas for a cut and stick!
Love, the RISE team.
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RISE: 2020
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RISE: 2019This issue’s theme was '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!
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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. |
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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.'