CONCEPT Shift presents a platform for conversation, engagement and the sharing of ideas for the downtown community. Our goal is to create an incubator space where Birmingham’s disjointed creative communities can meet and discover common goals.

PROGRAM Shift will invite 2 hosts, a visual artist and another local creative, for the course of 5 months, to occupy and activate the downtown space.  Hosts will work together to present a project to the public on the last Friday of each month as well as creating a zine to document their ideas. Shift’s collaborative nature will encourage hosts to work outside of their creative comfort zone, creating opportunities to consider new ideas and concepts that we hope will resound with the larger Birmingham community. The set of 5 zines will be the documentary evidence of the project. We hope the connections forged will lead to new creative initiatives whose impact lasts much longer than Shift’s 5 month run.

MAKER SPACE SHIFT will also include a zine makerspace. The makerspace will be stocked with supplies for visitors to create their own zines as well as serving as the temporary home of the Birmingham Zine Library.

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