Guild Hall's Teen Arts Council is partnering with The East Hampton Star on a new publication called TIC-TAC-TOE: A Teen Zine, that will be produced by and for teenagers and will be published three times next year.
The zine, or small-print-run magazine, will offer a teen perspective on the exhibitions at Guild Hall through the year of 2021, and will include work by members of the council and teens across the East End. The council is seeking submissions of dystopian micro-fiction -- 50 words or fewer on a frightening future -- and poems of at most 20 words that reflect on the "past, present, and future" theme of this year's Student Arts Festival. The council is also seeking queries for an "Ask TAC" advice column.
Submissions are due by Nov. 23 and should be emailed to [email protected]. "Submissions will be judged blindly" by Teen Arts Council members, they said in a release.
In contrast to traditional magazines, zines take a more "do-it-yourself" approach and "are typically filled with hand-lettered prose and poetry with original art and photography," according to the Teen Arts Council. "TIC-TAC-TOE is an evolution of that history, looking at modern culture through the eyes of local teenagers."
The first issue will focus on Guild Hall's Student Arts Festival exhibition, which will celebrate the cultural institution's 90th anniversary and East Hampton Village's centennial. For the exhibition students will be called on to reflect on the community's past, celebrate its present, and imagine "a changed and hopeful future," the teen council wrote.
Content will be overseen by the council with guidance from Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall's Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts educator, Christine Sampson, the deputy managing editor at The Star, and Brianna Ashe, an Amagansett artist.
Guild Hall's Teen Arts Council, founded in 2017, is a collective of creative teens who work as employees of Guild Hall during the academic year to "curate public programming, advance their own creativity, and progress Guild Hall's outreach and relationship to our local teen community." Members commit to a yearlong position and meet weekly with Guild Hall staff and community members. Once accepted onto the council, members can continue with it through their high school graduations.