This was an initial gathering for the migrant writer participants to meet the project team, to hear about the project, and to explore the form of zines and recipes. We browsed our mini zine library, tried our hands at making a quick A4 zine, and had lots of fun. This was also an opportunity for participants to ask further questions about the project, the expected commitment and remuneration available, and to decide if they would like to continue with it in the new year.

Over the course of several Sundays, we continued to gather to develop and create new recipe-zines, in response to different prompts each session. The shapes and forms of the zines created each session also started to vary in exciting ways: a zine made out of a calendar, a zine ‘omnibus’ in a chocolate box, and a zine experience in the form of a messages in a bottle!

Between our scheduled Sunday sessions, participants also often ‘tapao’-ed (packed as takeaway) materials home to work on the recipe-zines over the week.

As we approached the final official session, we also discussed how we might share the outcomes of these sessions with our friends, family, and the wider public. What would a collated zine look like? What forms could it take? What motifs, features, materials, and colour scheme did we want it to have? How do we share it in an accessible way?

After our final official session in March 2023, the participants worked to finish their final recipe-zines that they each wanted to showcase to the world.

For each of these recipe-zines, the participants also narrated an audio tour, taking audiences through the recipe-zines they had made, the videos of which can be found in the recipe gallery on this microsite!

The project team also worked on a collated zine, to showcase the different recipe-zines that were made by the participants in this project.

A printed edition of this collated zine is available for purchase at SGD25, but also available to view for free. Proceeds from sales go to covering the costs of this project.