from the grrrlzinenetwork list

Hello friends!

As part of my research project "Young women as creators of new cultural spaces“ (at the University of Salzburg, Austria) we have created an
online survey to find out more about why and how people participate in or organize Ladyfests. Please take your time to fill out the survey and forward it to your friends. We really appreciate your participation!

Of course your responses will remain anonymous. If you are willing to do a longer interview, please indicate so in the survey. Many thanks!

Here you can find the link to the online survey.

For more information on the research project, please go to http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/48.

And if you have any projects you are involved in, you are more than welcome to list and publicize them at the grassrootsfeminism.net site (you just need to register first, let us know if you have troubles or questions)!

Many thanks and best wishes!
Elke

Elke Zobl and Anita Hammer
University of Salzburg, Austria
contact: elke@grassrootsfeminism.net
www.grassrootsfeminism.net

ZOMG How hot is this?!?


The Message Is in the Music: Hip Hop Feminism, Riot Grrrl, Latina Music & More

A Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York (15 minutes north of Manhattan)
Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

Keynote Speaker: Carmen Ashhurst, former president of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Communications and author of the forthcoming book Selling My Brothers: The Movement, The Media, and Me

Music has long served social movements as a soundtrack, as a means of communication, and as its own arena for activism. While multiple
generations of feminists have used music in these ways, it has played especially vital roles for those born since the 1970s. This conference will explore the ways in which young feminists have defined and expressed politics through music and musical cultures and communities. Among the questions we will ponder are: How does music reflect sites of agreement and conflict among different groups of feminists? How have movements like Riot Grrrl and Hip Hop feminism attracted young women to feminist activism? How do young feminists’ uses of music compare with those of earlier generations?

Conference Schedule
The Saturday morning plenary, "Intersections: Music and Activism" features zine hero Mimi Thi Nguyen (Evolution of a Race Riot and others), and that afternoon there's a panel on Riot Grrrl.

Register

Posting from an email:

Hello!

We have been invited to host an event at Bluestockings! Bluestockings is a bookstore, fair trade cafe and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Our event is scheduled for Friday the 19th, February at 7pm. Bluestockings is located at 172 Allen st. 

At the event we will talk about the origins of Not Your Mother's Meatloaf and how the project continues to develop. Past contributors have been invited to share their experiences of being involved with NYMM. There will be supplies available, for audience members to start working on your own comic during the event. Also, we will be deciding the theme for the next issue. Everyone at the event will participate in determining the third issue's topic, so start brainstorming now!

Hopefully, Bluestockings will have both issues of NYMM available for purchase at the time of the event. They are also available through Microcosm Publishing. Of course, you can also download the comics for free on our blog.

Hope you all can attend!

Love the NYMM editors,
Saiya and Liza

p.s. The release party at the Loft was incredible! Thanks to everyone who came out to support the project, we raised nearly $200! We posted pictures of the event on our blog, but if anyone else took pictures that night we would love to see them. Thank you!

We've found some cool zine news and events around town and on the interwebs. See what's going on:

* The Jacksonville Public Library held a zine release party at the February Art Walk, with many titles added.

* This Sunday, February 7 the Flying Squirrel Community Space in upstate NY is holding a Regional Zine and Craft Fair.  (A good pre-game activity.)

* Chicago hosts a Zine Fest, March 12-13, with zine readings, workshops and exhibit space.  They're accepting exhibitor registrations and volunteers.

* There's a new zine distro: False start, which first attempted to start up five years ago (hence the name).

* We noticed a call for entries for a zine about women in punk rock, featuring the "voices of girls/women/transfolk involved in hardcore and punk scenes around the country and beyond."

* Found in Brooklyn posted a documentary on zines called "D.I.Y. Publishing: Zines and Comics," available online in two YouTube videos.

Columbia Senior and all around amazing woman Linnea Hincks was featured in Teen Vogue for her work with Take Back the Night!  Check it out here

For a discussion of Barnard/Columbia in the 1990s and feminist action there, see Cupsize by Sasha Cagen, which can be found in the stacks!  A piece from Cupsize about Barnard can be found here

From Zine World:

We hope that 2010 is going to be a great year for zines, and a great year for Zine World. So, to start the year off right, and as a thank you for you readers who have stuck by us, we made a little calendar that you can download and print. The calendar features some of our favorite Zine World covers from throughout our years, including artwork by Jeff Meyer, Mike Tolento, Violet Jones, Shawn Granton, Jim Sumii, Bobby Tran Dale, and Susan Boren.

Cut on the lines to make it a mini-calendar, or don’t to have a 3-months-on-1-page calendar.

reposted from an email:

We at Anno Domini are resurrecting our Art of Zines exhibition (a former annual event) and we are contacting you because we are still in need of great zines. We believe zines are one of the last frontiers for freedom of speech and self expression and we need it now more than ever.

We are especially interested in art, music, poetry, photography and other creative disciplines but are open to all zines in any format and content. Current and past issues are accepted, one copy of each is adequate. (If you choose, you may send zine multiples and/or promo cards and we'll put it out on the counter for the taking.)

Our audience is very diverse at our openings, we typically expect 800+ people to come through and the exhibit will run for approximately 6 weeks.

Please note we do not return zines, nor will we sell them (they are just for exhibit and enjoyment purposes), but we do induct them into our zine library so they may live on.

The opening is on First Friday February 5th, 8pm 'til late. We'll have live bands and zine makers in the area are invited to be present to sell their zines (please let us know if you'd like to sell at the opening, there are no vendor fees nor commission on sales, but all spaces must be reserved.)

We'd like to have all the zines in hand by January 16th, 2010. Feel free to contact us should you have additional questions or would like to reserve vendor space.

If you are a Zine DISTRO (or have a collection you'd like to contribute) and can send larger quantities (100+) of various zines, we would be willing to pay for ground shipping and make sure your business cards are made available to our patrons.

Lastly, we would appreciate it if you could extend this invitation to other zine makers, forums and / or blogs so they may have an opportunity to exhibit as well.

We'd love it if you can contribute - please let us know!

peace, and thank you!
Cherri & Brian


SEND ZINES TO:

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
Attn: Art of Zines
366 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113

email: Cherri@galleryAD.com
website: www.galleryAD.com
phone: 408.271.5155

gallery hours:
Tuesday thru Friday, Noon - 7pm
Saturday, Noon - 5pm
First Fridays 8pm 'til late.

art • music • performance • life


"All Hail the Progenitors of Culture!"

Tweet us: @AnnoDomini or @Astrogirl (Cherri's)

From the grrrlzinenetwork list:

forwarded call:
English
German

ARTZINES
7 - 30 May 2010, Thurs - Sun 1 - 7 pm

In May 2010 the German non-profit art space D21 Kunstraum will host an exhibition of ArtZines – small artist publications that circulate in
astounding varieties of forms and shapes, in print and online versions, at more or less regular intervals. These periodicals often refer to the
DIY-approach of their predecessors, classic fanzines, which emerged from the ‘70s punk and underground music scene, mostly in the UK and the US.

The ArtZines show will shed light on an artistic medium that not only seems to have continuously gained visibility, popularity and presence in contemporary art institutions. It also addresses the ways in which its producers have adopted new channels of distribution, made possible by the Internet, that support interconnectedness and global coalescence.

In order to present a cross-section of publications that meet the outlined criteria, we have started a far-reaching and extensively communicated open call for zines, of which a selection will be shown in the D21 Kunstraum galleries. Focusing on issues of display and seminal exhibition design, students of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, class of Systemdesign (Prof. Oliver Klimpel), will develop a design concept for the exhibition. Furthermore, we are working closely together with mzin, a Leipzig-based gallery and bookshop for graphics, art and pop.

A symposium within the framework of the show will bring a number of zine producers, distributers, collectors, curators and readers together. These participants will connect and discuss different facets of their work, outline historical dimensions as well as influential precursors, and the impact of technological advance and digital culture for a traditionally paper-based medium. In addition to that, two workshops will be held, one by the Leipzig-based publishers of spector cut+paste magazine, the second as part of a school project. Both workshops will each explore different practical approaches and techniques in the production of ArtZines.

Contact: Regine Ehleiter

I haven't posted any Columbia-themed political discourse in a while, but this is totally worth mentioning in case you don't yet know! End Eminent Domain abuse all over NYC!

For gentrification themed zines, I'd like to point out the Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification Zine from 2007,
Columbia’s West Harlem expansion : a look at the issues, S344c, recently reshelved
and
Eleanor Whitney's Indulgence W44i

Also, if you can, catch the Bread and Puppet Show or circus this week! (if you come Saturday afternoon, you'll see me as a performance member!)

Saturday, December 5th @ 7PM - Free
Bluestockings bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center
172 Allen Street

Reading: Alison Piepmeier "Girl Zines"
With Victoria Law, Jenna Freedman, and Lauren Jade Martin

East Village Inky… Mend My Dress… Dear Stepdad… I'm So Fucking Beautiful… In the past two decades, women have produced 1000’s of unique zines which serve as engaged and tangible evidence of the third wave feminism. Join Alison Piepmeier for a reading and discussion of her book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, which explores these quirky, personalized booklets and the meaning of being a revolutionary girl.



Piepmeier did some of her book research here at Barnard, and zines by all three guest zine publishers are held in our collection and says this of her visit.

"I had a wonderful time at the Barnard Zine Library, coming back to Charleston with stacks and stacks of photocopies of zines by girls and women. The collection there is delicious, and librarian Jenna Freedman went out of her way to help me with my research. She not only drew my attention to zines I didn't know about and let me look through zines that hadn't yet been cataloged, but she kept in touch with me after my visit and connected me with other scholars who are studying zines. Many of the zines featured in Girl Zines--including most of the Mimi Nguyen zines I discuss, old issues of The East Village Inky, and old issues of Doris--were from the Barnard Zine Library collection."

Stay tuned for a book review!

Another reason to love San Francisco!

You Are Her: Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990s

Opening Friday, November 20th 2009, from 7-9pm
766 Valencia between 18th/19th, San Francisco

Goteblüd salutes an incredible period of self-publishing. On display are nearly 700 creative and inspiring publications that shook the world, including Riot Grrrl zines, Riot Boy zines, Not Riot Grrrl zines and mainstream magazines. Also available is a listening station devoted to cassettes.

The entire contents of "You Are Her" are available for reading and listening. This show is interactive!

A photocopier is onsite.

The show is open during store hours - Saturdays and Sundays (only) from 12-5pm, 11/21/09 through mid-January 2010.

The Beehive Collective is one of my favorite groups.  They're so fantastic, and their art and presentations are brilliant.  I got the chance to see them this summer, and I'm super psyched to see them again!  Details below

Posted for Ayun Halliday:

I’ve been tapped to midwife the ZINESTER’S GUIDE TO NYC, an illustrated guidebook with special appeal for DIY creative types like us. To be published by Microcosm Publishing in September 2010. I need your help! In return for which, you get the glory of seeing your name and your zine's name in a book (and info on how readers can order your zine, if you fall in the first category listed below)


IF YOU LIVE / Have lived / or spent a lot of vividly remembered time IN NYC:

1. Let us pick your brains by completing our survey! Share your favorite NYC places, events, flavors, sights, sounds and inside tips! Email me at ayun [!at] ayunhalliday.com and I will send you a copy by return email or snail mail. Deadline is fast looming, so let's do it ASAP
2. Illustrate some of your favorite NYC landmarks, places (exterior and interior) and events. I can email you the illustration wish list, ifyou like. Reprints are fine - in fact - they're great!
3. Turn us on to your favorite songs, movies, and books about New York City, especially those deserving, but undeservedly obscure ones.

IF YOU DON’T LIVE IN NYC
Ask us some questions. What would YOU like to know if you were coming to NYC?

The more specific the better!

This a low budget publishing venture, so I can't pay contributors anything as bourgeois as cash money. The book will have a contact list so readers will know how to order the zines of all who contributed illustrations and listings via the survey (all listings will be credited to the individual authors). The glory of seeing your name and your zine's name in an actual book! The gratitude of all who use this guidebook, but especially me!

Deadline is fast approaching. I'd like to have all outside contributions in by Thanksgiving 09. Scratch that. I'd like to have them today! Don't let that NYC grass grow under your feet!

CONTACT:
By email: Ayun@AyunHalliday.com
By mail: Ayun Halliday – Zinesters Guide
PO Box 22754
Brooklyn NY 11202 USA

Please help spread the word by passing this message on to fellow zine publishers.


x Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of The East Village Inky zine

The Zinesters Guide to NYC
An offbeat,illustrated resource for intrepid DIY-spirited visitors!
An inspirational assignment! Turn your travels into a creative project!
A little paper friend to keep the solo traveler’s courage up!
A funky tool for prying unique experience from a big, bad city!
A wholly subjective Valentine to New York City and everything we love about it!
Something to savor before, during, and after your trip!
Costs less than a NYC movie ticket!!!

Call out for Submissions

Voices Against Violence Zine is accepting submissions for our next issue.  Please send in your essays, poetry, letters, personal accounts, artwork & photography to be included.

What is the Voices Against Violence Zine? A small zine-diy style, with work from people of color, indigenous folks, trans people & queer survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and sexual assault.  Included topics can be:  healing from trauma, transformative words used as a healing mechanism, enabling healing, life after trauma, self-help guides/resources, self-healing, dancing as means to healing, healing through narration, forgiveness (do we need it?),  & collective trauma.

Voices Against Violence zine is to be used as a community teaching tool, as a jump off for discussion and creative outlet and for conversations that need to happen.

Voices Against Violence is part of  Café Revolución, with help from Philly’s Pissed. Check out their downloads.

Send submissions in English, Spanish, tex-mex, spanglish or any combination* via email, either in text in the body of the email or attached in .txt format to noemi.mtz (at) gmail dot com.

In the subject enter voices against violence submission. Include a brief bio, your mailing address, website if any.  Mention your zine or any upcoming projects you’d like. If you prefer to remain anonymous, let me know or include a pen name.   Email any photos, artwork as an attachment.

deadline: Oct. 31st           *translations would be cool but not necessary.

forward and repost! thx

**this is a zine. What’s a zine?

Zines are customarily created by physically cutting and gluing text and images together onto a master flat for photocopying, but it is also common to produce the master by typing and formatting pages on a computer. The end product is usually folded and stapled. Zines can be printed and bound in any manner.

The zines I produce are not glossy though some are, this is a diy zine.

Here is another attempt at an explanation:
zines are cut-and-paste, “sorry this is late,” self-published magazines reproduced at Kinko’s or on the sly at work and distributed through mail order and word of mouth. They touch on sex, music, politics, television, movies, work, food, whatever. They’re Tinkertoys for malcontents. They’re obsessed with obsession. They’re extraordinary and ordinary. They’re about strangeness but since it’s usually happening somewhere else you’re kind of relieved. You can get to know people pretty well through their zines, which are always more personal and idiosyncratic than glossy magazines because glossies and the celebrities they worship are so busy being well known

My name is Katie- I'm interning at Barnard's Center for Research on Women (BCRW) and the zine library for the Fall semester. BCRW has asked me to help them set up an online catalog for their ephemera collection. After fretting for a bit because I've never done this sort of thing before I got really excited to find the coolest software to work with their amazing stuff. This is a paper I wrote about a workshop I went to on September 11 to learn how to use Omeka, a cataloging program that is really cool and worth checking out.

A few weeks ago I joined the Metropolitan Library Council and signed up for a workshop on Omeka, the software I’m considering to create a database for BCRW's ephemera collection. The workshop was held in the conference room on their Manhattan office off Broadway on East 11th. I just squeaked in the door because I had been on the waiting list, but thanks to the soupy weather a few people never showed leaving just enough room for me and my dinosaur laptop.

To get us acquainted with the program, our instructor (Omeka developer Jason) showed us some Omeka-built sites. They were visually stunning, with pictures and video and clean design. One site created by the Newberry library featured an exhibition on Lincoln that was by far the coolest we looked at. By clicking on pictures of the president users can navigate to different materials, choosing their path according to their interests. From the main page, I meandered through the online collection and looked at materials on slavery, the Civil War, and Lincolns assassination. I thought BRCW could benefit from something like this because they already have students making online exhibitions using materials from the archive.

Next we covered the basics of getting started with the program. Jason immediately mentioned the issues with the server requirements, specifically with larger institutions. While the program itself takes up little space on a server, once filled with thousands of records the files can grow to be enormous. He suggested working from hosting services such as Dreamhost. When I researched Omeka several weeks ago this issue came up frequently on message boards. However, Dreamhost seems to work well and costs a small amount of money (about $8 a month). The set-up process is fairly straightforward. One must have all the basic server info (if going that route vs. using a hosting service) such as the password and location of the server. The program is then downloaded onto the server- it will show up as a single file with all the components inside. Then Omeka is uploaded from the server file onto the main computer that will be used for the project. When first installed, the fields are blank. The “superuser” is able to add information and tailor the site as they like. I’ll mention here that there are four levels of users in Omeka- the superuser who has total control of the settings and downloading plug-ins and installing themes (colors and design of site). Next is the administrator, who can’t change plug-ins or themes but can add new entries and pictures and exhibits. Contributors can’t do anything administrators can’t do, can add data but can’t delete any. Last but not least, researchers can only read data including metadata, but can’t fiddle with anything.

Once everything is set up and everyone is assigned their role in the hierarchy, adding items to create a collection is a snap. Simply go to the top bar menu and click on “add an item.” From there, you’ll be taken to a Dublin Core or MARC record data-entry template. You type in all the relevant info, add a picture, video, audio, whatever if you want, and click “publish.” All items are “parents” of the metadata- it is much easier to plug in metadata for the item if it is already cataloged. Once published on Omeka, all items are saved in a folder under “archive.” The main folder goes on the server, but should be accessible from the computer used for set-up.

After being walked through adding items, we learned how to add an entire collection. Apparently, this should happen first- before adding any items, establish a COLLECTION to house your items. In an archive like BCRW, the collection could possibly be derived from the system of alphabetical boxes they have going on there now. For my pretend collection at the conference, I created a collection of photographs of very small dogs and named it “Minky Boodle.” I Google image searched a bunch of photos of scary-looking teacup chihuahuas plus a goggle-eyed little pug and added them to Minky Boodle, complete with some (fake) metadata about the photos. This exercise helped me understand how completely foolproof this software is. You fill out only as much of the Dublin Core record as applies to your item, and from there you can add tags, keywords, pictures, links, and all kinds of fancy things.

I got somewhat lost during the part of the workshop that dealt with themes on Omeka. The software currently has about 10 or 12 different “themes” that you can use to spruce up the database and website you’ll be creating, like the readymade backgrounds for blogs. If you want to create your own theme you can copy one that already exists and stick it in the folder named “custom.php” in the Omeka folder on the server, or, you know, write some code or something and put it in that same folder. That is all I will say about that issue until I understand how to do it.

Overall, the workshop helped me figure out some of the basics of using the software. I did leave with the impression that it is a better tool to accompany an existing online database, but it is definitely capable of functioning as one as well. I am looking into setting it up for the BCRW, though for now I’m going to look into a tool that is already being used on the Barnard campus in their main archive: Archivists’ Toolkit.

If you can't make it, there are lots of sister events going on too! 

	Location	More Info
PRONK! October 12, 2009	Providence, RI	PRONK! Providence Honk Fest website
Brass Mayhem! October 13-14, 2009	Northampton and Amherst, MA	Brass Mayhem! website
BONK! October 15-18, 2009	New York	2009 Brooklyn HONK! Festival website

How amazing!  If anyone's leaving from New York and wants to come with me, let me know and we'll go.

from Phillipa:

 I'm looking for submissions for a one-off zine called I'm Not Like Other Girls.

 What I want women and girls to do is to complete the sentence,
"I'm not like other girls because..."

 I will make a zine of the responses.

 The sentence will appear randomly placed, with all credits at the end, so
 your sentence and your credit aren't linked. This may help you to be more
 open, and the zine will flow much better too.

 They may be categorised by theme, but that will depend on the submissions.

 If you want to contribute, email me at incurable.hippie@googlemail.com

 1) Put 'I'm not like other girls' in the subject line.
 2) Email me your sentence (I'm not like other girls because...)
 3) Tell me if you want to be anonymous.
 4) If you want to be credited, tell me how (name / pseudonym, name of zine,
 etc)
 5) If you want to receive a contributors' copy when it's ready, tell me your
 address too.

 I can't guarantee your words will be put in the zine, but it's very likely.
 I only want submissions from women and girls. Do pass the request on to
 other women and girls you know!

 Thanks!

 To see more of my zine stuff, go to
 rebelgrrlzine.co.uk.
 New ones to be added next week.

 ====
 http://www.hippieness.co.uk

Here is a wonderfully eloquent post by Kelly Wooten about the cons of digitizing zine collections, including privacy, print culture, and (gasp!) copyright.

For more on a related subject, here is Jenna's paper, "Zines are not Blogs."

Happy reading!