In this workshop, participants will get to learn to make two types of zines, and be guided on basic design principle to make an effective zine. Participants will have access to hand carved stamps to decorate their zines, and embellish them with the decorative materials available.
What’s Included:
All materials are provided. Tools and stamps are available for use during the workshop. At the end of workshop, all participants will bring back their finished zines.
Limited to maximum 15 pax.
Workshop fee is RM125/pax, inclusive of one KLABF 2025 entry ticket worth RM25.
Entry tickets for KLABF 2025 will be sent to your email once your slot has been confirmed. Please send your workshop enquiries to littlesyam@gmail.com or @thestorytellerscaravan on Instagram.
About The Storyteller’s Caravan:
The Storyteller’s Caravan @ Fazlyn Malek is a graphic designer by training whose 20+ years in the corporate world pushed her to indulge her exreme curiosity. This resulted in art explorations in various disciplines from participating in anthologies and creating a planning journal to silkscreen printing, block carving and printing, watercolours, acrylics and quick dry clay creations.
She currently happily combines her love for writing and art in various creations from journals to zines to stamps and art.
Discover the joy of combining light, found objects and bookmaking in this hands-on cyanotype workshop. Participants will learn how to create unique blueprints using sunlight / UV light and assemble their prints into a simple hand-bound art book.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll take home a beautiful handmade booklet — filled with your original blueprints and personalised touches. No prior experience is required, just curiosity and a love for making.
What’s Included:
Each participants will receive a kit that makes 10 mini prints and other book making accessories. By the end of the workshop, they’ll take home a beautiful handmade booklet — filled with their original blueprints and personalised touches.
What to Bring:
Participants is advised to bring (i) small objects like flowers, leaves, film negatives, laces, stencils or any personal artifacts that cast interesting shadows or silhouettes (ii) writing tools such as pen and pencil.
Limited to maximum 10 pax.
Workshop fee is RM175/pax, inclusive of one KLABF 2025 entry ticket worth RM25.
Entry tickets for KLABF 2025 will be sent to your email once your slot has been confirmed. Please send your workshop enquiries to studiosunprint@gmail.com or @studiosunprint on Instagram.
About Studio Sunprint:
As a dedicated full-time artist and educator, Balqis from Studio Sunprint brings over a decade of experience in the art and design industry, with a focus on printmaking. Specialising in alternative processes called cyanotype, she intertwines her passion for nature with her work, incorporating foraging activities and visual storytelling to explore themes of biodiversity, resilience, and temporal beauty.
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In this special edition of the Voices to Power workshop, participants will be guided on the art of zine-making with a focus on creating zines about a cause of their choosing – whether it’s politics, human rights, or the environment. Participants will learn how to express themselves by creating a zine that will be both a piece of art and a tool for finding allies, fostering solidarity, and most of all, creating change.
What’s Included:
Zine templates and basic stationery will be provided.
What to Bring:
Participants are welcome to bring their favourite stationery items, their personal journal or diary (something that can inspire them ad the causes close to their hearts), and information on the cause that they’d like to explore in their zine.
Limited to maximum 15 pax.
Workshop fee is RM75/pax, inclusive of one KLABF 2025 entry ticket worth RM25.
Entry tickets for KLABF 2025 will be sent to your email once your slot has been confirmed. Please send your workshop enquiries to cameron.tjoe@newnaratif.com or @newnaratif on Instagram.
About New Naratif and Afi Noor:
New Naratif (SEA) is democratising democracy in Southeast Asia. Our mission is to create a region where ordinary people are fully involved and engaged in building democracy. Through our three-step process of Engage, Educate, and Empower, we’re creating a community of Southeast Asians who know, care, and act against tyranny, injustice, and oppression for the good of their community and all fellow Southeast Asians.
Afi Noor (MY) is a poet based in Kuala Lumpur. She has read and performed in Malaysia, Singapore, London and at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was part of British Council’s 2024 Cipta Seni Incubator and Rimbun Dahan’s 2019 Writer-in-Residence. Her publications include the chapbook Ten Poems (2012) and featured in Kisah Journal by PUSAKA and SVARA Journal. She was the programme lead for the Musawah Artists Collective and was the organiser of the monthly poetry workshop series called Spill the Ink Poetry Lab (2017-2018), connecting established Malaysian and international writers with homegrown poets.
What’s Included:
All materials and tools will be provided.
What to Bring:
Participants can bring any of their own stationery.
Limited to maximum 15 pax.
Workshop fee is RM175/pax, inclusive of one KLABF 2025 entry ticket worth RM25.
Entry tickets for KLABF 2025 will be sent to your email once your slot has been confirmed. Please send your workshop enquiries to littlesyam@gmail.com or @littlesyam on Instagram.
About Little Syam and The Storyteller’s Caravan
Little Syam @ Samsiah Jendol is a pioneer of book binding in Malaysia offering the exquisite handcrafted journal in various format and stitching techniques. Each journal she created is one of a kind and carefully curate with a combination of quality paper, fabric and hand printing techniques. She also passionately organise her book binding workshop from time to time.
The Storyteller’s Caravan @ Fazlyn Malek is a graphic designer by training whose 20+ years in the corporate world pushed her to indulge her exreme curiosity. This resulted in art explorations in various disciplines from participating in anthologies and creating a planning journal to silkscreen printing, block carving and printing, watercolours, acrylics and quick dry clay creations. She currently happily combines her love for writing and art in various creations from journals to zines to stamps and art.
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Participants will learn to stitch a book from scratch using an ancient binding technique: coptic stitching. The book will be completed with a stitch of chainlike patterns on an exposed spine, an assembly of quality cotton fabrics on its hardcover, and will be finished with embellishments of bookmarks, elastic bands, and metal corners.
What’s Included:
Material kits, tools and certificate of attendance will be provided.
What to Bring:
Participants can bring any of their own stationery.
Limited to maximum 15 pax.
Workshop fee is RM210/pax, inclusive of one KLABF 2025 entry ticket worth RM25.
Entry tickets for KLABF 2025 will be sent to your email once your slot has been confirmed. Please send your workshop enquiries to littlesyam@gmail.com or @littlesyam on Instagram.
About Little Syam
Little Syam @ Samsiah Jendol is a pioneer of book binding in Malaysia offering the exquisite handcrafted journal in various format and stitching techniques. Each journal she created is one of a kind and carefully curate with a combination of quality paper, fabric and hand printing techniques. She also passionately organise her book binding workshop from time to time.