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How to Haunt Your TownIntergenerational zine workshopsEnterprise, Oregon2023

I was invited by Haunt Camp founder JR Rymut to co-lead a two-part workshop for participants ages from 5 to 70. Together with artist and musician Sean Francis, I designed a zine-making workshop around the theme “How to Haunt Your Town.”

Sean began by teaching the technical process of making an eight-page zine from a single sheet of letter-size paper. In my 1.5-hour session, I focused on helping participants generate content by exploring the idea of who has inhabited their rural town and how their own experiences are connected to place. We approached haunting not as something spooky or supernatural, but as a way to imprint memory and presence on familiar spaces. (After all, you can’t haunt an entire town—just the places you return to again and again, like your dentist’s office or your home.)

I developed an easy-to-follow and playful framework with prompts for each page of the zine, while still leaving room for participants to follow their own ideas. Together, we wrote and illustrated small magazines detailing ways to “haunt” our everyday environments.

Haunt Camp is an extracurricular program in Wallowa County that teaches design and fabrication to high school students as they collaboratively build an avant-garde haunted house each fall. Students work with Rymut and community volunteers to develop a theme, design concept art, construct sets, sculpt large props, make prosthetics and special effects makeup, and create light and sound design.

At the end of our workshop, we gathered all the completed zines into a “shoebox library”—a display that formed a community-created collection of haunted places. Our hope is that readers and participants will be inspired to notice the charmed and suspenseful aspects of everyday life in Enterprise and beyond.

This workshop was generously supported by the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture.

©2025Laura Glazer@helloprettycity

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