Entries from October 2008

October 29, 2008

Twilight Zine Fair

Penrith Regional Gallery is hosting a Twilight Market/Zine fair on November 29th from 5 – 9pm!
The market will feature jazz band Bill Dudley and The New Orleanians, Santa photos for the kids and BBQ food will be available, with a vegetarian option.
Amanda and I attended the Alien Love Markets that were held earlier this year at Penrith [...]

October 24, 2008

Little Fish Zine Fair

Strap on your snorkel gear and dive into Little Fish Galleryin Newtown which will be holding a Fish market (zine fair) on the 2nd of November! Word on the street is that you should come trade, sell and read zines as well as other D.I.Y crafties.
Details:
Sunday 2nd November 2008
1 – 5pm
Find more info here:
Little Fish [...]

October 17, 2008

Live Art + Zines + music = This sunday

Sunday will hail the main event of ST2K at Pine St creative arts centre. Come and watch local graffiti & D.I.Y artists work there magic right before your eyes, as well as poke around the stalls which will be full of zines and hand made crafts.
The Details:
ST2K LIVE ART JAM: SUN 19th OCT, 11am [...]

October 14, 2008

Zine trade: Carboard Collective!

Dear readers,
Another zine trade from our friends over at Cardboard Collective! The fetus and I were checking our PO Box, resigned to the fact that we would only find junk mail and dust bunnies when lo and behold, we discovered an envelope stuffed with cardboard goodies. Each issue contained a double-sided fold-out A3 sheet with [...]

October 13, 2008

We make zines

Didn’t you know? Chuckle chuckle.
Anyway, We Make Zines is an online zine community for zine makers. So if you are zine maker why don’t you make a profile so we can all keep in touch.
This is our page:

You should also check out the Australian Zinester group on We Make Zines for info on upcoming zine [...]

October 13, 2008

Hey there campers!
In all the hustle and bustle leading up to T.I.N.A., the fetus and I forgot to mention that we had finished new zines! The fetus’ zine I’m a little nothing had it’s debut at the ST2K launch and being the amazing kid that she is, she finished two more mini zines for T.I.N.A. [...]

October 7, 2008

Zine trades = yay!

I just wanted to add my two cents to our experience at T.I.N.A. 2008. I have to say that it was one of the most friendliest, busiest zine fairs I’ve been to since we started last year and I was so glad that we swapped so many zines, with first timers and old hands alike [...]

October 6, 2008

T.I.N.A Zine Fair Wrap up!

After only getting an hours sleep the night before T.I.N.A Zine Fair I’m pretty happy to be writing this blog the day after it, in bed, somewhat rested. The zine fair was pretty amazing, so many zines and zine makers! We had a really busy day and between Amanda and I we sold and traded [...]

October 2, 2008

This Is Not Art Zine Fair 2008

This sunday is there will be a buzzing hive of creative activity located in Newcastle’s Civic Park. This Is Not Art Zine Fair will include Artists Market, Zine and Independent Publishing Fair, solar powered outdoor stage with special guest performances, other performances and readings at the National Young Writers’ Festival Super Picnic. So don’t be [...]

October 2, 2008

Here Comes Trouble!

Last night was the opening of ST2K the month long Street art festival. It was marked by the art exhibition “HERE COMES TROUBLE” which I was lucky enough to be part of. It was a great night, very packed. Thank you to all who came! There is a really nice write up on the night [...]