In case you missed it, back in April we hosted our very first game jam at Evergreen Brick Works. We brought together six participants over a span of three days to brainstorm, build and submit a game project based on the interconnected networks of natural and urban systems at the space, and it was a great success! But now, there’s more!

The final game concepts have been documented and transformed into a printed and digital zine that has been designed by Chris White and illustrated by 6 local artists from Toronto!

Cost: The zine will cost $5 for the greyscale version and $20 for the full-colour version. A Pay What You Can initiative also available for the greyscale zine. All proceeds will go towards supporting the creators.

Please come celebrate, mingle and support us as we celebrate the conclusion of our first quarter of our Game Curious program at Evergreen Brick Works. Also, if you missed playing the games from the previous game jam, the participants and their creations will be back for your playing pleasure!

See you next month!

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Evergreen Brick Works, Pavilions

June 16th

11am – 3pm

The birds are tweeting, the trees are budding and winter is taking its very last breath. Hurray! Winter is dying! Now that winter is (almost) gone we can really get to the good stuff. You’ve had the pleasure of meeting our game jammers, and now it’s time to meet our talented artists who will work alongside our jammers to create a zine through our programming with Evergreen Brick Works!

These participants will be paired with our jammers and release a zine booklet, which will be released on Sunday June 16th! More details on that coming soon~

Without further ado, our illustrators!

Lina Wu

Instagram/Portfolio

Lina Wu is an artist, illustrator, and storyteller from Toronto. She is figuring out how to be soft and strong at the same time.

Pree Rehal

Personal Instagram/Art Instagram

Pree (pronouns: they/them) is basically a trans Batman (except not rich, also not a white dude), they are an Account Manager by day, artist by night.

Vincy Lim

Portfolio/Instagram

Vincy Lim is a Chinese-Canadian illustrator whose work revolves around their queer, disabled, and abused identity. Their work focuses on self-love, humanizing disability, and creating an understanding around abuse. In addition to supporting survivors through shared experiences, and telling them the importance, and the fact, of healing.

Shel Kahn

Twitter/Instagram/Website/Comics

Shel Kahn is an illustrator, cartoonist, game designer and educator. Her work in tabletop RPGs includes art, writing, self publishing, GMing and mentorship; she also self-publishes comics and teaches art, games and more with local Toronto community organizations, museums and schools.

Hayden Maynard

Twitter/Website/Instagram

Hayden is an illustrator and cartoonist. He grew up in Kingston, Ontario and currently lives in Toronto. Nowadays he mostly sit in his apartment and draw pictures.

Alejandra Paton

Instagram/Website

Alejandra is a designer and administrator based in Toronto. Her illustration work has been published by Creative Quarterly, Format Magazine, Broken Pencil, and Applied Arts Magazine. She is a graduate of OCAD University with a Bachelor’s in Illustration, and a Graduate degree in Arts Administration from Humber College.

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The issue I’ll have with me is the second edition of the issue I sold at Canzine (next to the Torontron, see here) and completely failed to announce at the time, so if you already own a copy, huzzah! and you don’t have to bother picking it up again (unless all the original spelling mistakes and grammatical errors annoy you.)

Anyway, if you see me around and want a copy, just ask (I am the dude next to the magazines in the previously-linked coverage). And if you want one but aren’t coming to the social (for shame!) you can buy online here. Thanks!