CALL FOR VENDORS AT ZINE ZONE!

This friendly message is brought to you by XPACE Cultural Centre:

XPACE is hosting Zone Zone, our second annual holiday zine fair. We are looking for vendors who want to sell their zines, comics, crafts, music, baked goods and any other hand made multiples. This is a great way to sell your stuff, find some inspiring gifts, and meet other artists. Best part of it all is tables are free!

Zine Zone will take place on Saturday December the 17th from 12pm-6pm.

If you'd like to participate, registration is free. It's first come first serve and there is limited space, so reserve your space now!
Email alicia@xpace.info to sign up for a table.

XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave
xpace.info
(416) 849-2864

Hey everyone! It's that time of the year again... Canzine! This year's event is taking place 918 Bathurst Center (near Bloor and Bathurst Station) and as usual it starts at 1p.m and finishes at 7p.m. This year's Canzine might just be the biggest and most exciting yet featuring hundreds of vendors, The Great Hollywood Rip-Off Piracy Zine Challenge and tasty food from The Toronto Underground Market!

The OCAD Zine library will be there too, and we're going to be asking for zine donations for our humble little library. Keep your eyes peeled for a bright coral box going around!

Truth

Check out this sweet article from the latest issue of Broken Pencil:

"Despite What You've Heard, Zines Aren't Dead" by Liz Worth

If you're reading this blog, you probably know pretty well that zines ain't dead. You should read this article anyway for its discussion of zines vs internet and its brief history of zines in Canada from the 80s to today. Zines forever!!

Collage Party!!

Hey all!

Things have been pretty quiet on the OCAD Zine front lately. We've gotten a few great zines in the mail. Thanks so much and keep 'em coming!!!!

We do have an event on the horizon which will be a MASSIVE collage party!!

Date: Wednesday June 15th 2011

Place: Learning Zone, 122 St. Patrick Street, 1st floor (Home of the OCAD Zine Library)

Time: 10am to 6pm

All day long we'll be collage-ing it up! Come by and contribute to a massive collaborative collage or just come do your own thing. We may have some movies or music going too.

~~~~ PRISM index ~~~~

The next issue of PRISM index, a handmade, mixed-media art book, through a website called kickstarter is in need of funding!! Nifty rewards are offered to funders, like PRISM index #2, original art from the compilation, metal plates from printing, etc. and if people want to help fund the project they pick a reward, or can opt to pick none. The project features 60 artists including Chris Johanson, Su Friedrich, Jo Jackson, Mel Kadel, Aimee Bender, Matt Furie, Phosphorescent, Guitar Slim, and many more. The first issue features Bill Plympton, Luke Ramsey, Michael Hurley, Lisa Hanawalt, Diane Cluck, Theo Ellsworth, Jeffrey Brown, and many more.

$7,200 is needed by June 10. You can see more information about it here, including a trailer for PRISM index:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103692945/prism-index-handmade-mixed-media-art-book

The whole book is completed, compiled, edited, and ready for publication. It features 60 artists in film, writing, poetry, music, art, and comics. The compilation includes an 88 page book printed offset, a 95 minute DVD of award-winning short films, an 80 minute CD of unreleased and rare music, and a mini-comic, all in a handmade, silkscreened cover.


SOUNDS AWESOMEEE - - see if you can help this guy out. His name is Jeffrey Bowers.

YEAR END!

THANK YOU to everyone who helped out this year with the Zine Library. As the year comes to a close, I can only look back with fond memories. Thank you again everybody. We won't be having any zine events over the summer, but keep a look out for upcoming events in the city:
TCAF - - May 7 & 8 at the Toronto Reference Library
Free Comic Book Day - - May 7th 2011 at shops around town
Zine Dream - - August at the Tranzac

Hooray!
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COLLAGE PARTY

The last zine event of the semester!


The OCAD Zine Collective is putting together one last hands-on, DIY fun-fest before the spring semester comes to an end. We will be visiting some of Toronto's wonderful thrift stores beforehand to amass a wild amount of colourful ephemera for you to cut up, destroy and re-create into beautiful artwork and zines. We will also be watching the documentary Beautiful Losers, which will lift your spirits and make you feel good about making art. Join us!