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Inside the Toronto magazine shop Issues, the shelves are stacked with beautiful indie publications, the kind that are so artful they become permanent fixtures on coffee tables. In a few minutes, older editions of those magazines will be ripped, snipped, X-Acto-knifed and hole-punched, then Frankensteined into one-of-a-kind paper collages.
Fifteen women sit at a hulking cobalt blue table, covered with the magazines, as well as vintage books, postcards, jewels, stickers and other ephemera.
Alanna Chelmick, the multidisciplinary artist who is facilitating the event this evening, offers some guidance before t