Yazzabear provides space and time to flush out your ideas one-on-one, as well as a flexible timeframe molded to your availability. How can we help you produce and distribute your work? We work together on brainstorming a plan of action for publication.

Remote and in person meetings are available

Meet-ups in Berkeley, CA for artists to support one another while working on pending projects. Virtual meet-ups are possible, for those interested.

In person meeting will expand across the Bay Area soon.

We help in the self-publication of your project. Whether it is a zine, a novel, or an art piece, we provide direction, guidance, and support in the process.

Yazzabear posts flyers and promotional posts on a wall near you, instagram, Facebook, and through tabling events.

Yazzabear posts flyers and art on a public walls worldwide to call attention to our organization and publications.

We are looking forward to partnering with galleries, organizations, and bookstores in the near future to promote publications.

As Yazzabear grows, we have a goal in place to provide writers and artists with a fraction of their respective publication earnings. Overall earnings will be divided between our publishing team and our distribution team as a whole. This ensures that every aspect of the production process is compensated fairly for their efforts. In case of team building workshops, the fraction of earnings will go to their respective organization.

Yazzabear is a nonprofit organization that runs on donations and community efforts. We sell the publications we produce and invest it back into the collective, which includes our writers and artists. All our services are free and open to all regardless of experience or identity.

We lead team building workshops for employees or a group of friends to create a project with us. We provide the necessary material. Workshops will be a collective work published in a single project. We brainstorm themes and choose one to be the center of the project. Each member shares a story in relation to the theme chosen and we discuss the lessons that we learned by way of undergoing that specific journey.

This is an opportunity for folks to work together with familiar faces to self-publish a creative outlet. Sometimes we can go at it alone, sometimes we need our people standing alongside of us in order to build the courage to face ourselves and our stories.

This is an approximately 3hr workshop:

1hr - community circle

1hr30m - community production

30m - community debrief

This is a free service to the community. Donations are always appreciated.