ALSO

FRIDAY NIGHT

2008 ZINE READING & VEGGIE POTLUCK!

everyone is welcome!

*if you would like to read,please email us!

When you enter the venue you will be greeted by a Zine Fest Volunteer who can point you to the WORKSHOP ROOM which will have free workshops throughout the day.

Here is the schedule (subject to change)

10:30 am – 11:00 am: Megan Quinn - How to do a conduct an interview: “I am a reporter for The Golden Transcript, a small newspaper in Golden, CO. I've learned a lot about how to do a smooth, enjoyable interview with cool and interesting people... but not before I had a lot of embarrassing experiences. This workshop offers some tips on how to approach and interview that band, writer, activist, artist, etc for your zine. It also covers what types of questions to ask, how to follow up with people after the interview and how to print the sucker up afterwards (all without feeling like a total idiot.) Comments, suggestions and tips from your personal experiences welcome!”

11:20 am – 12:20 pm: Galen Shoe - Let’s make comix: A super friendly workshop where people of all ages and skill levels explore the joy of drawing comix! Come by and participate in various playful activities such as the Scribble Game, the Onomatopoeia Game, Exquisite Corpse, and Jesse Reklaw’s famous game Shuffleupagus. Casually rub elbows and learn helpful tips from some of Denver’s coooolist cartoonists as you join forces to defeat the enemy of boredom!

11:20 am – 12:20 pm : Anna & Jerrilyn - Go gocco! the basics of gocco printing: Learn the basics of gocco printing. The print gocco is a small desktop printing machine from Japan. It is simple to use and is like a combination of screen printing and stamping. In this workshop you will learn the very basics of gocco printing and make your very own postcard sized print to take with you. It’s easy & fun!

12:40 pm – 1:10 pm: Shannon Perez Darby & A. Crewe - Emotional Life Cycle a Zine : Have you ever felt overwhelmed about self publishing your work or putting your zine into the world for others to read? Well, if so this workshop is for you! Shannon and Amelia Crewe will talk about some of the ups and downs of the perzine writing and publishing process. Ways to bust through those fears and concerns, ways to get support from other zinesters and give support too! Recommended for folks who have written zines and have wisdom to share as well as those who want to write zines and want some advice. This workshop will be perzine specific but everyone is welcome!

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Jacob Richards: "How to organize and run an underground newspaper."

2:20 pm – 3:20 pm Amy Reeder Hadley - Drawing Faces : Come watch and learn as Tokyopop and DC Comics artist Amy Reeder Hadley demonstrates how to draw faces. Be sure to bring questions! She can teach anything from the basics of drawing facial features, to how to draw faces at various angles and expressions. Paper and pencils provided!

3:40 pm – 4:40 pm Growler Distro/Molly - Zines & Music

3:40 pm – 4:40 pm Justin Simoni - How to Screen Print Almost Anything : Learn the basics on how to screen print Almost Anything. Workshop comes with a free zine full of ideas to start you off! Workshop will be slanted on techniques in screen prints using cheap/found materials that don't cost an arm and a leg, but still looking pretty darn smashing.

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Zachary Kopp - Counterclockwise : "A discussion of L.I.Y. or "Live It Yourself" tactics like indie publishing, hijacking social networking sites to get interviews and more. Today's zinester is reclaimaing his or her creativity from political, religious or scientific censors in defiance of today's profit-dominated publishing industry which clearly value saleability over quality or substance."

All Day Demonstrations

* Screen printing by Austin with Ink Head
* Old fashioned letter press with Tom Parson

Due to capacity being reached on table space (64 zines) we have secured an additional room and now can accommodate 20 more zinesters. So if you self publish make contact now, register online.

NOTICE:

Vendor registration is currently closed. we are trying to rearrange space to accommodate more vendors and may open registration again. Please check back regularly if you are interested in vending. If we are unable to provide additional tables, you are welcome to bring your zines with you for trade or sale while walking around the zine fest.

Hi, Please be sure your table space is secured by May 15th to ensure you have space. First register online and then send $5 to Denver Zine Library, PO Box 13826, Denver, CO, 80201 or via Paypal

Denver Zine Fest announces 3rd Annual Gathering

Iron Feather Bookstore and Denver Zine Library two of Denver's most enthusiastic supporters of underground publishing in Denver are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Denver Zine Fest, May 31st from 10 am – 6pm at First Unitarian Church in Denver. The church will be filled with self-publishers vending their zines,comix and projects. Throughout the day, volunteers will run free workshops and demonstrations offering how-to instruction on cartooning, screenprinting and of course, zine-making.The Fest is open to the public and free to attend.

“Zine” is an abbreviation of magazine; any self-published small press publication often a photocopied and hand-bound booklet falls under this category. The Denver Zine Fest promotes the spirit of Do-It-Yourself publishing,as well as independent thought and expression. This event also serves as a gathering for an often disparate zine community that relies primarily on mail to communicate and distribute materials.The Denver Zine Fest aims to be a day of showcasing, selling, trading, and collaboration for zinesters,poets,comic book artists and readers alike.

Last year, the Denver Zine Fest was held in March at Andenken Gallery’s former location at 21st & Market. Over 700 people attended the fest, which featured zine writers and artists from Denver and beyond.

Some of this years’ vendors include local cartoonists such as Patrick Keck, Lonnie Allen and Stan Yan, Growler Distro: a local distributer of independent music & zines, John Porcellino of the fifteen year old King Cat Comix, The Project, a zine composed of writings by Denver youth, Ironfeather Journal, Mixto Distro and and many more to be announced.

Throughout the day, workshops and skillshare demonstrations will be led by volunteers on topics ranging from how to conduct an interview to silkscreening to cartooning.

Denver Zine Fest has also teamed up with the Underground Carrot, who will be selling an array of tasty vegetarian foods.

Zine Fests have been popularized in cities like Portland, Philadelphia, and Madison, and Denver is quickly becoming a central spot on the map of the circuit that draws zinesters away from their typewriters to swap projects and strengthen the underground community that they share.

Zine Writers and zine fest organizers are available for interviews on request.

Flyers for re-printing (hi-resolution versions)

1. Lonnie Allen : http://denverzinefest.com/dzf2008flat.zip
2. Patrick Keck: http://www.denverzinefest.com/images/denverzinefest08_PK.jpg

Questions? Feel free to call Stevyn @ 720-628-0097

Zine Fest Poster by Patrick Keck

Print this poster? Snag this higher resolution version, here.

Hey Friends - The Denver Zine Fest will be here before you know it!

Saturday May 31st from 10am to 6 pm at The First Unitarian Church on 14th & Lafayette in the Capital Hill Denver area.

Our space is LIMITED this year so please sign up ASAP to vend yer wares!

$5 gets you a half table, if you need more space or need special accommodations, please contact us to make arrangements.


If you are interested in hosting/teaching/doing a workshop sign up!

Want to help in other ways?? Many many volunteer opportunities for you to do so exist:
* Set up: Getting the space ready for vendors, setting up tables and chairs, etc.
* Clean up: General cleaning up of area at the end of the day, taking down tables and chairs
* Welcome wagon/Security: Helping direct folks around, tabling the front Welcome Table, etc.
* Street Team: Flyering and general spreading of word/advertising/etc
* Housing/Driving out of town zinesters!

To sign up for VENDING, WORKSHOPING, VOLUNTEERING and/or to contact the Denver Zine Fest Organizers with questions or comments just click this fancy link: http://www.denverzinefest.com/welcome/

Cant wait to see you all there!

The Denver Zine Fest Organizers

News Flash!

EVENT: THIRD ANNUAL DENVER ZINE FEST
DATE: MAY 31 SATURDAY 2008
LOCATION: FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH, 14TH & LAFAYETTE, DENVER, COLORADO
TIME: 10AM-6PM

Contact us to reserve your table :)