Recipes, Zines, and Memory-Keeping
About the Event
Memories are often made around the dinner table, in the kitchen, and at our favorite neighborhood restaurants. How can we preserve those moments that shape us and share them with our loved ones? Join us for an afternoon of cooking and zine-making with an eye on storytelling as archival practice.
1:00pm: Dessert Dumplings with Chef Jess Wang
Celebrate a communal Chinese dessert tradition: preparing hand rolled sticky rice dumplings! Learn about their symbolic significance, and see how fruity and veggie QQ pearl dumplings are made! The cooking demo will include a hands-on activity and will be followed by a tasting. Gluten-free & vegan friendly.
2:30pm: Recipe Zine-making with LA Zine Fest
Make a zine with the Los Angeles Zine Fest! Learn the history of zines and how you can create your own eight page mini-zine to record a recipe to share or give as a gift. Participants will have the option to photocopy and exchange zines.
Throughout the afternoon, check out the collections and resources table where we’ll have neighborhood highlights from the LAPL Menu Collection, information about DIY archiving with LAPL, and a free raffle to win a personal archiving starter kit.
Photographs in banner from the Shades of L.A. Photo Collection.
The Los Angeles Public Library offers this program as part of a month-long series centering personal archiving, presented by CommUnity Archives, an initiative supported by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and funded by the Mellon Foundation.
For disability-related accommodations, please call (213) 228-7430 at least five business days prior to the event. The City will make every effort to accommodate requests received with less notice.
