Zine Fair
Saturday, October 24, 2009, noon-5pm
St. David’s Church Hall, 1537 Brunswick Street, Halifax

Admission is FREE!

Brought to you by the Anchor Archive Zine Library and Strange Adventures.

For nine years running, this event has been an awesome annual showcase of all kinds of do-it-yourself projects and plans. This year has more vendors than ever, with folks coming from all over Canada and of course lots of locals! Expect to see zines, small press books, comics, chapbooks, records, CDs, cassettes, magazines, posters, postcards, t-shirts, buttons, crafts and other handmade bits and pieces. There will be a huge and eclectic variety of things for sale and trade; it’s not just a zine fair or a craft fair or a record fair.

Tables include:
Anchor Archive Zine Library, Conundrum Press, Noyes Records, Peer a Mid Printing, whostolemybike prints, little foible comics, Strange Adventures, Brainscan zine, Kyla Francis Pottery, Divorce Records and Distro, CKDU FM, Ink Storm Screenprinting Collective, Grey Scale Press, Art Art Craft Collective, Wa’Ou, Tindercmx, DadaPomo, Random Paper and Fabric, Punkasaurus zine, Pistacia Ink, Go It Alone (Together), Eyelevel Gallery bookstore and more more more!

Want a table or more info? Email Sarah at zineexplosion@gmail.com.

Audio and Video Zine Station
Check out this special A/V station created to showcase some of the awesome audio zines and short videos in the Anchor Archive Zine Library’s collection. The Anchor Archive has been open for four years and has more than 2,000 zines from all over the world that are slowly getting catalogued.

T-Shirt Station! with Ink Storm Screenprinting Collective
Bring a blank t-shirt from home and print your own Zine Fair t-shirt! See the basics of screenprinting in action. The Ink Storm Screenprinting Collective offers affordable studio access and teaches introductory and project-based classes, as well as workshops with youth and community groups.

Confession Concession Booth
For the second year in a row…Admit your secrets, serious or not, for inclusion in the Confession Concession zine while buying a burrito, cake or coffee.

Special Events:

Mini Comic Jam! with Colleen MacIsaac
Take part in this awesome comic jam. Learn to make a simple fold-up mini comic, and then fill the pages with collaborative comics whose stories and styles will go in a bunch of different directions.

Colleen grew up in Edmonton, went to school in Vancouver and is now living in Halifax. She enjoys comics, green vegetables, theatre, bicycling, drinking tea, trees, reading, autumn, knitting (poorly), rooftops and adventures. She makes mini-comics and crafts as little foible press, does illustration work and just finished her second short film.
So I made a zine… Now what? with Alex Wrekk
Tips and tricks for what to do after you have created your zine. This workshop will discuss conventional and not-so-conventional means of getting your project out there, from trading, getting your zine in shops, seeing distribution or leaving copies at interesting places around town! We’ll also discuss distribution terms and how to navigate the postal system.

Alex has created over 40 zines, including Brainscan. She wrote the DIY zine resource book Stolen Sharpie Revolution, which has sold 17,000 copies and is in its fourth printing. She helps organize the Portland Zine Symposium and volunteers at the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Alex lives in Portland, OR, and is in Halifax as part of the Roberts Street Social Centre’s residency program.

For more information, or to book a table, contact Sarah at zineexplosion@gmail.com .