MICRO-PUBLISHING SUMMER RESIDENCY

2025 SUMMER MICRO-PUBLISHING RESIDENTS

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Possible Worlds Micro-Publishing Residents for Summer 2025.

AYSHA WHITE

Aysha White is a multimedia journalist, graphic-designer and artist. She is the Associate Editor of Maisonneuve Magazine, a Canadian print periodical. In her spare time, she operates Pink Heart Press, a micropress and creative studio dedicated to the intersection of art and journalistic publishing. With the support of grants she has published Montreal Smoked Meat: A Secret History (2023) and The Alt Muslim Scrapbook (2025). 

During the residency, Aysha will explore her experiences growing up Muslim after 9/11 in Ottawa, creating a print-work that interrogates the notion of belonging and memory. She will combine techniques from her work in journalism with her artistic practice, bringing together collage, ephemera, typography, and experimental poetry sourced from documentary research materials.

>Instagram: @aysha.white
>Website

MACY SIU

Macy Siu (she/her) is an artist and design researcher who is driven by expression and empowerment tied to the hyphen of in-between spaces. Working at the intersection of art, law, and design, she brings a systems lens to understanding change and shaping more society-centered design approaches.

During the residency, Macy will explore soft bureaucracy as a community practice – offering herself as a notary pop-up that asks: what might a creative legal service feel like as a way to rethink how we witness, sign, and move through official processes? Entangled with her own histories, places, and politics, this is an experiment in grounding ephemeral notary interactions into a tactile, shareable zine of reimagined artifacts and rituals. Macy hopes to challenge herself to work more in draft, showing the mess and fragments usually edited out of official documents, and to let form be shaped by the people she witnesses.

>Instagram: @_macysiu_

COMMUNITY INTERVENTION: JOIN A SOFT BUREAUCRACY EXPERIMENT

What truths do you wish to declare and record?
What do you hope to make official?

As part of artist Macy Siu’s residency at Possible Worlds, community members are invited to explore bureaucracy as a form of ritual through two interventions, and the strange intimacy of having a record (e.g. a document, a memory, a hope) witnessed.

Participate in two ways:

*Important Details about Notary Services:

1. What notary services are offered?

At this pop-up, a licensed Notary Public and Commissioner of Oaths authorized by the Province of Ontario, can provide two services:

• Certify true copies of original documents (e.g. passports, IDs, transcripts, diplomas)

• Commission a sworn declaration (you swear or affirm that the statements in your written document or a completed form are true)

These may be requirements when applying for government services, school registration, job applications, or professional licensing. 

2. What services are NOT offered?

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer notary services for the following:

• Corporate or business and tax-related declarations

• Real estate documents

• Family law proceedings

• Affidavits used in litigation

We will try our best to support you at the pop-up, but may have to refuse a request if deemed out of scope.

Please note that notary services do NOT include providing legal advice. 

3. What to bring?

We cannot print or make copies on your behalf, so please come with all necessary documents:

• Two valid government-issued photo ID

  One of which must be a photo ID with your address (e.g. passport, provincial driver’s license, permanent resident card). Your photo, address, signature, and date of birth on the IDs are used to verify your identity. Please ensure these details in the IDs match.

• The original document(s)

  If you are requesting certification of a true copy, you must bring the original document with you (e.g. your actual passport or diploma).

• Photocop(ies) of each original document

  Bring the exact copies you want certified. We cannot make copies for you.

• A completed statutory declaration or affidavit (if applicable)

  If you are making a sworn declaration, you must bring a fully written document. This could be:

• A form that was provided to you, or

• A document you wrote yourself that includes your full statement.

Do NOT sign your statutory declaration beforehand, it must be signed in front of the Notary Public.

Please double-check that your documents are complete before arriving.

Questions? Feel free to email in advance: soft.bureaucracy@gmail.com