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April 2010 Blog Posts (64)

Gonna be at the page parlour, melbourne!

so melbournians or people from other places if you're coming, the emerging writer's festival event: the page parlour is on at the atrium, fed square next month! May 23, 12-5pm and i'll be there with my zines :P

feel free to drop by and chat and get a copy if you're around :)

Added by Hannah Rose Dostine on April 22, 2010 at 8:04pm — No Comments

About Sonia Dilla and her Distro!

Hello out there!

My name is Sonia and I used to work with a group of womyn from Maine called the Mimi Collective. For about three years, we dedicated ourselves to learning and providing resources and workshops about

reproductive and sexual health, consent, assault prevention, survivor

support, gender and queer and feminist hystory. The opportunity to

learn about our bodies, deconstruct oppression and grow in a safe space

will be an inspiration for my work for years…

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Added by sonia dilla on April 22, 2010 at 10:44am — 1 Comment

NPR Responds to My Conflict Of Interest Concerns in Page Article by Ombudsman

Zinesters, this is a music example, but note that zines are never talked about on NPR either.… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on April 21, 2010 at 10:08am — No Comments

1000th Monkey Submissions

Submissions Window Closing! April 25!

As many of you out there know, Lynn and I are working on the zine at

Outsider Writer's Collective, www.outsiderwriters.org, called 1000th

Monkey.

We are about to close issue 4 subs to have it out in May, but we wanted

to send out a quick note to remind you to send your materials in case

you have not done so but want to.

We have some good material, enough poetry really, but… Continue

Added by Madrea Marie on April 21, 2010 at 7:50am — No Comments

Podcast Interview with New FreRentCommunity and Freeschool Volunteers

Hello. Below you will find a new podcast and online radio broadcast of an interview with some new and some current Freeschool, Olympia FunCo-op, and Peace Communities volunteers and interns at a volunteer meeting on April 20th, 2010. We prepared to help with our Artswalk Art exhibit later in the day and…

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Added by Freeschool Community on April 20, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Junk Drawer zines in an environmental themed art show

A couple of my Junk Drawer zines are currently in an art exhibit about mass consumption and the environment. It's taking place at AE Studios LIC, in Queens, New York. If you can't make it to the show, you can still see most of the artwork on the site for Art for Global Justice, which is the group that organized it:
http://www.artforglobaljustice.org/exhibits/excess/excess.html

Added by Eric Bartholomew on April 19, 2010 at 10:33pm — No Comments

My inability to do anything that even vaguely pertains to my interests lately is crippling me in a lot of ways. Everything just sort of has this kind of dismal feeling hanging over it... and I'm not …

My inability to do anything that even vaguely pertains to my interests lately is crippling me in a lot of ways. Everything just sort of has this kind of dismal feeling hanging over it... and I'm not really sure what to do about it. Continue

Added by Weepy Gonzales on April 19, 2010 at 12:29pm — 2 Comments

Check your WMZ arts smarts with weekly quiz

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Name the world's largest display of art. Good Luck!

IS

The Nazca Lines, gigantic drawings carvwd into Peru's Nazca Desert floor by the Nazca people… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on April 19, 2010 at 11:41am — No Comments

It takes courage to grow up...

Hey my names Nicole, I live in Adelaide, Australia (for now). I’m a socially awkward person, I’m currently studing film photography. I collect Records and old cameras. I love music, mixtapes and mail art, baking cupcakes, taking photos, live music, and my typewriter. I keep a visual journal, I'm vegetarian, I have tattoos, a cat named Chetta-Bob and the best friends in the world.

I recently started a per zine called ‘It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.’ containing my… Continue

Added by Nicole on April 19, 2010 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Blogspot Frogstomp

that title doesn't relate a whole lot to what this blog is going to be about, but it should really just be a short note because it won't be long. anyway, i've finally got my blog up and going, it's connected to my everyday personal blog so i guess any peeps can look at that also and read into my angst and adventurs, haha. but yeah, this is the url for my zine blog!

www.chasehotairballoons.blogspot.com :)

Added by Hannah Rose Dostine on April 16, 2010 at 11:08pm — 2 Comments

submissions wanted for d.i.y. or don't we? #2

DIY or Don't We? is a zine about doing things together as friends, families, collectives and communities. Planning is underway for the second issue. Would you like to contribute? The deadline is June 30, 2010.

Ideas for contributions include stories about what community means to you, skill-sharing/how-to guides for collaborative activities, experiences with solidarity and allyship in working against oppression, and thoughts about do-it-yourself ethics as they relate to… Continue

Added by nicki sabalu on April 16, 2010 at 6:35pm — 4 Comments

Ning passing around the collection plate?

One of the other NING networks I'm on just send out a mass email saying that NING is planning to switch to paid membership only- I couldn't find any announcement in the NING blog though. Does anyone know if this is true?

ETA- Yep, it's true. NING is phasing out free service. Read about it here - http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-update

Added by Ro- The Apocalypse Girl on April 16, 2010 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Looking for artists to join us at our monthly contemporary art,craft,design and fashion fairs

We're looking for stall holders for our next creative fair as part of Salfords music festival Sounds From The Other City on May 2nd.

We're taking over the whole of Bexley square which is on the main road (Chapel… Continue

Added by Cheap Zine on April 15, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts and good luck

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

He was was both an actor in his family group, and their business manager. He was the first in Hollywood to get a percentage of a film's gross receipts as part of… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on April 14, 2010 at 10:17am — No Comments

Fanzine Ynfytyn 12 out

Fanzine Ynfytyn 12

24 page quarter-sized zine 50p/$1 + postage

Featuring:

*An interview with myself that soon turns into book recommendations

* Haiku ode to Papa Hemingway

* Guide to collective nouns for birds

* My days of selling software to the nuclear industry

* Monthly lists of small… Continue

Added by Emma Jane Falconer on April 14, 2010 at 5:30am — 2 Comments

My zine, mélange, and what the hell I was thinking.

Heh, I'm a turd. After doing not very much promotion of mélange #2, I've started work on mélange #3. Yeah, the mood found me. I feel more confident about, well... myself, what I want to say, and how I want to say it.…

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Added by sandy on April 14, 2010 at 3:35am — 2 Comments

Call for submissions to Absent Cause #4: Surviving

The new issue of Absent Cause zine will focus on surviving. Some possible topics are:

Your personal story of survival
The repercussions of surviving emotional, physical and sexual abuse
Surviving under a classist, anti-poor, racist, sexist, anti-queer and fat-phobic system
Sex work and survival
What should be the role of social-justice activists and organizations in personal survival issues?…

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Added by redguard on April 13, 2010 at 11:18am — No Comments

Call for submissions- Good Sex/Bad Sex issue 2

it's that time again.... i want yr sex stories! the steamy, the saucy,
the raunchy, the nasty.
i also want the sad, the messy, the ones to laugh off, the ones you want to forget...
basically, i want it all.

issue two is aiming to be twice as big as the first!
feel free to submit multiple stories!

DEADLINE- JUNE 1ST.

xo-miss nico.

Added by Nico. on April 12, 2010 at 6:17pm — 1 Comment