Collage Your Way into the New Year!

Facing Giants, an organization focused on trauma-informed prevention and resilience for mothers and children, is hosting a monthlong zine-making workshop for the local community to enjoy. Saturday’s workshop is the first of four sessions in the Facing Giants’ Zine! into the New Year series. Each workshop explores a new theme — and Jan. 10’s is “Thresholds.” Facing Giants’ website describes this as “moments of transitions, becoming and standing between what was and what is next.” Apart from the theme, Facing Giants will host Chrisi Morrison, a Eugene-native artist. “Zine making helps her through some of her challenging times, just kind of navigating adversity where traditional healing like going to therapy or going out and doing things in the community — she found that zine making just spoke to her soul a lot differently, so she wanted to give back to her community in that way,” says Caroline Fithen, family advocate at Facing Giants. Fithen adds that Morrison will help promote “intergenerational healing” to moms and kids. “Facing Giants is about supporting modern motherhood and so we really do want to create more spaces for moms and kids to do life together and do some artistic healing through adversity, and this was one way that Chrisi thought she could take the reins on that.”

The first session of Zine! Into the New Year is noon to 2 pm, Saturday, Jan. 10. $20 for adults 18-plus and $10 for children ages 4 to 17. Children 3 and under get in free. Proceeds provide supplies. For tickets and more information about workshops, visit Facing-giants.com.

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