About the project
CAM is creating a collection of zines by local artists and writers that celebrate the secret histories and overlooked stories of Seattle’s pocket neighborhoods. We’re looking for those hyperspecific tales from small, often overlooked pockets around the city - those things that don’t always get reported in the news or recorded in the history books. Think of those hyper-specific touch points in your community, a street corner, a local haunt, the parking lot that you spent your summers playing in, and the stories that surround them.
You are invited to interpret this idea in your own way - tracing threads of resistance, migration, industry, loss, celebration, and reinvention, and documenting the people, places, moments, and memories that give our city life. Secret stories! Hidden histories! Neighborhood lore! Hyper-local celebrities!
The collection of zines will be shared with the public through activations at King Street Station, at our brick-and-mortar bookstore, and at traveling zine workshops in neighborhoods around the city.
