Workshop: Memory Re-Used How to Build a Magazine with Reused Paper Using your Memories

The Brooklyn Public Library (New York City) is hosting the University Open Air Winter Semester from February 24 to March 7th, they invited me to participate for the second time since they started to do the University Open Air (UOA) in 2019. 

On this semester I will do a workshop that I developed since I was living in Colombia, it workshop was named for me Sursystem 3R (Reused, Recycle and Rethink), but for this event, I changed its name, now is called: Memory Re-Used, and the goal is that the participants in the workshop bring their old memories from their life in the neighborhood where they are or were living (old pictures, postcard, letters, posters... etc) and create a new page for the content of the magazine with that memories and, on the same time, they learn how to build a magazine with reused paper and reused shoebox, also, they will make the decoration of the cover and the back cover of the magazine using different techniques.

The workshop will be split into two parts, I will leave below the links to the UOA webpage and the links to my workshop.

Also, there will be more classes and lectures through those two weeks, feel free to explore it and I hope you can participate in this fantastic idea from the Brooklyn Public Library.

  UOA Webpage with all the curses and info

>Click on the image to go to the UOA webpage<

See you around and enjoy it!

Marcelo Arroyave

FROM JAPAN: TRAVELER'S FACTORY

The last November my friend invited me to an event in Ace Hotel in Manhattan, there was a Japanese collective who have a company called Traveler’s Company. They were there to do a workshop with their product Traveler’s Notebook. Meet to them there was a great surprise to me because I am a producer and editor of fanzines, magazines and books and long time ago, when I started to do my first fanzines and magazines, I dreamed with my own publishing house where the people could buy my fanzines, magazines, and books and also they could make their own fanzines or books with the material that the company offered to them. In my dream, everything would be handmade and the work process inside the editorial would be horizontal. Unfortunately, sometimes the life shows you that your dreams couldn’t be real due the life itself. But, I was so happy in that workshop looking how my dream became real through other people from the opposite side of the world -regardless their project is too Hipster to me. Due to my special relationship with the Japanese culture, I checked that it project went far from just made notebooks and books, they developed all kind of accessories in order to decorate and personalize the traveler notebook. The experience with Traveler’s Company from Japan was fantastic and totally amazing. I am very grateful to my friend for taking me there. 

A promotional newspaper and a little fanzine from TF that I took in their workshop in Ace Hotel.

Different kind of papers offered by TF in the Ace Hotel workshop

A table in the Ace Hotel lobby with Different kind of papers offered by TF in the Ace Hotel workshop

Travel notebook offered by TF in Ace Hotel workshop

Travel notebook offered by TF in Ace Hotel workshop

More info: https://www.travelers-factory.com

By 
Marcelo Arroyave

THE FIRST SIX SURSYSTEM 3R

Almost one month ago, I went to visit my friends taking advantage of my vacations. Before started my trip I thought about what kind of gift I needed to buy to gave to my friends, and I didn't found anything nice made in New York City and I didn't to want to buy the regular souvenir from this city, however, the problem to me was to get a good present for my friends which I didn't see between 6 and 4 years ago. I wanted to erase years of ungratefulness Caleña (I don't know if it has some sense in English).

After weeks of search different kind of presents in Hipster stores, regular gift shops and walks on the stupid malls, I decided to make the gifts with my own hands, also, I decided that I don't wanted to spend a single dollar to buy these presents. On that way, I made the six first Sursystem 3R for my friends, totally handmade, with reuse materials and with special features just for them.

I wanted to show it here and say to the people that still visit the Blog that it is my new project called Sursystem 3R (Reuse, Recycle and Rethink), and I wanted to start to make that Fanzine on my own but also in workshops and art classes in the schools and add to it new material about the 3R subjects.

By last, I want to say thanks to Frahy who helped me with the cover and back-cover of two of the six Sursystem 3R; anyone can see the difference between what I made and what she made. Enjoy.

COVER AND BACK COVER SURSYSTEM3R 1/6
CURRENTLY IN MADRID, SPAIN.

COVER AND BACKCOVER SURSYSTEM 3R 2/6
CURRENTLY VALENCIA, SPAIN.

COVER AND BACKCOVER SURSYSTE3R 4/6
CURRENTLY COLONIA, GERMANY.

COVER, BACKCOVER, INTERNAL COVER AND INTERNAL BACKCOVER SURSYSTEM3R 3/6
CURRENTLY IN BARCELONA, CATALONIA.

COVER, BACKCOVER AND INTERIOR BACKCOVER SURSYSTE3R 5/6
CURRENTLY IN BARCELONA, CATALONIA.

 SURSYSTEM3R COVERS

 SURSYSTEM3R BACK COVERS

By, Marcelo Arroyave.