Denver Zine Library is running a VERY SUCCESSFUL IndieGoGo campaign called Keeping Zines in Our Hands.Kelly Shortandqueer is doing an AMAZING job of promoting this project by getting zinesters and organizers from all over the world to submit video content in praise of the DZL. Local zinester Marya Errin Jones and Chicago transplant Billy the Bunny have submitted videos, as well as guest ABQ Zine Fest artist Annah Anti-Palindrome! The Denver Zine Library houses more than 10,000 zines– its archive. Let’s help keep it going!
Gotta run– more stuff to get done. Tomorrow’s our Lip Service Dirty Zine Reading! Can’t wait!
ABQ Zine Fest presents another dirty, DIRTY zine reading at Winning Coffee 111 Harvard SE. Don’t let Valentine’s Day get you down! Spend it with us and a shit-load of dirty words turned into filthy stories! Bring your lover(s) too . . .
LIP SERVICE is going to be a full evening of music and zines– just the way we like it! A favorite of our first zine fest, and currently on a tour of the South West, Annah Anti-Palindrome is coming back to thrill us again! Annah Anti-Palindrome is an Optical Sound-Smith, and queer/femme antagonist from Oakland, CA. Annah performs using a variety of different mediums including a Line 6 (DL4) looping system, kitchen utensils, gas-masks, raw eggs, blood pressure cuffs, found objects, her body (mostly her throat), and more!
Joining Annah on this SW visit is On a Clear Day– (Seattle). Get ready for micro-ballads & poetic pleas, for accordion and voice!!
On the local front, The Jeebies are playing a set! Acrobats, dancers, puppets, bright lights, flower eating, the mating cycles of praying manti, costumes, revival– you just never know with The Jeebies– but you better know it’s going to be awesome! DJ Mello is spinning dirty rekkids between the zine readings, and there might be a little puppet performance thrown into the mix! $5-$10 sliding scale (no one turned away) but we want to send these artists off with money in their pockets! They are on tour, after all!
And of course, local zinesters will be on dick . . . uh deck delivering some dirty, erotic, sexy, ridiculous zine selections. Readers include: Anita Margarita, Major Rainy Sneer, Billy the Bunny and a few surprises!
$5-$15 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds) but we do want to send the traveling artists off with money in their pockets! They are on tour, after all!
Lip Service: A Dirty Zine Reading ::: February 14th from 7pm-9:30pm Winning Coffee :::: 111 Harvard SE :::: $5-$15 sliding scale — no one turned away due to lack of funds!
See ya there!!
(Image #1: Annah Anti-Palindrome. Image #2: On a Clear Day)
RAD DAD ::: Sunday ::: December 18::: Winning Coffee 111 Harvard SE ::: 3:00pm :::
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood ABQ Zine Fest and Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery proudly host a reading on Sunday, December 18th @ 3:00pm at Winning Coffee, featuring Tomas Moniz, the founder, editor and writer of Rad Dad , a zine about parenting! Tomas is in town to read from the new anthology, Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood. There will be some local zinesters reading their work as well!
Books will be available for sale. Donations for ABQ Zine Fest 2012 will be gladly accepted as well.
About Rad Dad:
“Rad Dad combines the best pieces from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and from the blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory. Both of these projects have pushed the conversation around fathering beyond the safe, apolitical focus most books and websites stick to; they have not been complacent but have worked hard to create a diverse, multi-faceted space in which to grapple with the complexityof fathering.
Rad Dad belongs to all of us: the papas and mamas and tíos and tías and grandparents and allies and babysitters. It kicks and screams to create community, to be a place to share ideas and experiences, and to build bridges between parents, new and old. Despite the mainstream representation of parenting as largely white and middle class, Rad Dad works to reflect the broad spectrum of parenting: parents of color, poor parents, queer parents, young parents; the zine strives to create a space for those voices. Rad Dad imagines a world in which all children and parents are welcomed in activist spaces as well as workplaces. It recognizes the rights of all children and parents regardless of gender or biology or living arrangements. Rad Dad is dedicated to social justice in the streets and in our homes, and knows that men need to take responsibility for fighting patriarchy, and simply being a stay at home dad or splitting the house work isn’t enough. Rad Dad is what we aspire to be, not necessarily what we are. But Rad Dad wants us to get there together.”
Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award-winning zine Rad Dad. He has helped raise three children and has been making zines since the late nineties. He teaches basic skills classes at Berkeley City College and works with the National Writing Project.
Get Ready for the first ABQ Zine Olympics, dreamt up by the one and only Billy McCall, Chicago transplant and Renaissance (Zinester) Man. This guy can do anything. Change his own transmission, deal Black Jack and write a zine that will break your heart. Invest in the fest and help realize Billy’s dream of the first-ever Zine Olympic Games, complete with gold, silver and bronze medals (spray painted staplers)!
We know . . . people have been speed stapling for . . . a while. But it’s precision that matters in these games. ABQ Zine Olympics elevates stapling to an art. Check out the link to Billy’s video below:
We know . . . people have been speed stapling for . . . a while. But it’s precision that matters in these games. ABQ Zine Olympics elevates stapling to an art.
(((FIVE DAYS REMAIN))) to support abqzinefest via Kickstarter! Please pledge to the first organized zine fest in ABQ, NM!! Invest in the Fest! Indie Publishing! There are lots of pledgelevels left, and we’re adding a few, so GO FOR IT! Support the zine fest!!! Thanks!!!
By the way . . .
Many of you are wondering just what to expect from the zines that come with your pledge ($10 or more, unless specified). You will receive tales of travel, scandal, humor and fun. You’ll receive very personal tales, music reviews of bands you’ve never heard of, and a feast of art collages to lose yourself in. If your pledge included one or more zines, ($10 or higher unless specified) your zine (or zines) will come tucked in one hand made pouch like ones in the picture (color and design may vary). The collection of zines you will receive were written by the following ABQ Zinesters:
+ Exquisitely written stories and perfect collages made from vintage images, “Oh Dear No” is a new series by Lisa Barrow.
+ Erik Gamlem writes “Korrupt Yr Self,” a sine that follows the life of Erik outside of chronology, time and space. It is a zine not just of experience but of the mind as well. http://korruptyrself.bigcartel.com/
+ Marya Errin Jones writes “Electric Voyager,” a new zine series about her travels. You’ll get a copy of Warp & The Woof– about her trip to Wales and Scotland. http://maryaerrinjones.tumblr.com/
+ Billy McCall is a lover of life, and his zines exude this. Consider yourself lucky to know him, and you know if him if you’ve read his sine “Proof I Exist.” There a tons more. Why not start here? http://iknowbilly.com
+ “The Nightly Noodle” isa monthly, Basquiat-like circus of stories, lists, tales, rants and reviews always weird, always wonderful. The Noodle is edited and written by Eva Avenue.
JUST A FEW DAYS LEFT! Thank you for your pledges. Thanks you for helping us reach our goal!!
We OWN September. There are so many pre-zine fest events! You won’t want to miss not even ONE!
FIRST UP: abq zine fest presents a zine-raising event, leading up to the FIRST EVER abq zine fest (((September 30, October 1-2))) @ THE PROJECTS
a new warehouse theater @ 3614 High Street NE (East of Edith, and just North of Candelaria). SATURDAY, September 3rd, 7pm — 11pm.
@ The Projects
3614 High Street (East of Edith, and just North of Candelaria)
$5-$10 Suggested donation
+ RESONANCE (Mark Weaver & Patti Littlefield)
+ RAMONA KING
+ BIGAWATT
+ CORINA SUGARMAN
+ A CAVALCADE of Zinesters!
+ DJ MELLO
+ more More MORE!
((((Calling all zinesters, librarians, poets and wordy-wordsmiths!)))))
Come to Tuesday Word Play @ Winning Coffee for fun and games & support ABQ Zine Fest! Scrabble, Boggle, Apple to Apples & MORE!
Grab a coffee or a snack, and show off your word skills!
Who: ABQ Zine Fest (((Tuesday Word Play @ Winning))) What: Tuesday Word Play @ Winning Where: Winning Coffee, 111 Harvard SE Why: To support ABQ Zine Fest and have FUN! When: Tuesday, September 6th & 13th 7:00pm — 9:00pm
The ABQ Zine Fest organizers are so excited! It’s the first zine fest in Albuquerque and we’re squealing with delight! We can’t wait until the actual zine fest (September 30, October 1 & 2) to start having fun so
we’re having a few word game nights to raise some coin for the fest, and prepare for the ((ABQ Zine Fest Spelling Bee))) on September 27th!! (More on that later!)
How will Tuesday Word Play help ABQ Zine Fest? This event is free, but there’s a small fee of $1 per game entrance, because we’re trying to fundraise for the fest. BUT, each time you play, you’ll get a raffle ticket and a chance to win cool zine fest prizes!!
BIG THANKS to http://winningcoffeeco.com/ an ABQ Zine Fest sponsor, for hosting Tuesday Word Play, the ABQ Zine Fest Spelling Bee, and other ziney-weeny events! We zinesters really appreciate you. Really, we do!
We’re working hard on putting the ABQ Zine Fest together! Part of the first-ever ABQ Zine Fest: the ABQ Zine FEST ZINESTER OLYMPICS!!! Doesn’t that sound AWESOME?? Bad-ass ZinesterBilly is coming up with the games!
A phone message from Billy– the TRANSCRIPT: Hey what’s goin’ on??? “A long time ago I had an idea . . this is Billy by the way. A long time ago I had an idea. I totally forgot the idea and tonight while making copies I suddenly remembered my idea. Umm . . . I think it would be really awesome like, to have a zine olympics, okay? So you could have like five categories, or five events . . . cooperative collating . . . cover removal reversal replacement!”
END OF TRANSCRIPT . . .
We’re not sure what he’s got planned, but we know it’s going to be super fun! Oh, we don’t know! Something like this??
Practice your page order! Bone up on your speed folding! Details on the Zinester Olympics coming SOON!!!
ZINESTER OLYMPICS Saturday, October 1st @ Harwood Art Center 7th and Mountain
The Harwood Art Center is hosting our tabling, some workshops, and the first-ever ABQ Zine Fest ZINE OLYMPICS!
We’ll be spending day two of the fest at the Harwood, Saturday, October 1st from 11am–4pm. The Harwood is an old, giant, HAUNTED school at the corner of Mountain and 7th Street. We’ll be taking over what was once the school dining room for tabling, and the grounds outside, for the Zine Fest Olympic Games!
Practice your precision stapling techniques, folks!!
The ABQ Zine Fest is free festival about zines and the people who make them, read them and distro them. The ABQ Zine Fest is a three-day event held at Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery and Winning Coffee, both located on Harvard in the Bricklight District neighborhood of Albuquerque. The three days consist of tabling of zines workshops, panel discussions, informal gatherings and sale or bartering of zine-inspired DIY crafts.
abqzinefest 2011 september 30, october 1, 2 @ Cellar Door Gifts and Gallery & Winning Coffee
Denver Zine Library is running a VERY SUCCESSFUL IndieGoGo campaign called Keeping Zines in Our Hands. Kelly Shortandqueer is doing an AMAZING job of promoting this project by getting zinesters and organizers from all over the world to submit video content in praise of the DZL. Local zinester Marya Errin Jones and Chicago transplant Billy the Bunny have submitted videos, as well as guest ABQ Zine Fest artist Annah Anti-Palindrome! The Denver Zine Library houses more than 10,000 zines– its archive. Let’s help keep it going!
