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.

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

Wednesday October 14, 7:00 — 9:00pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St., NYC

Panelists: Michael Carter, Jim Fleming, Fly, Billy Miller and Seth Tobocman

ABC No Rio invites speakers with a wide range of backgrounds in zines, comics, radical book publishing and independent social networking sites to sharetheir experiences and explore the role of DIY publishing. The five panelists will present their own experiences with independent media as well as consider its role for the distribution of political content in both the digital and print form.

Zines and Beyond is the final event of Hanging Out at No Rio, a 6-month project that invites nine artists to explore ABC No Rio, its history, and the changing face of the Lower East Side, curated by Erin Sickler.

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

Happy reading!

The Big She-Bang IV

A Celebration by Women, for Women

Contact: thebigshebang@gmail.com

FORTHEBIRDSCOLLECTIVE.ORG

myspace.com/forthebirdsnyc

The Big She-Bang, organized by For The Birds Collective, is being held on Saturday, August 15th at Judson Memorial Church, located at 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY from 10 AM to midnight.

The Big She Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women and women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome. Childcare will be provided.

THIS YEAR, our theme is – A How-To Guide for D.I.Y. Feminism!

Throughout the day, there will be an art show exhibiting different mediums of work created by various women in New York City:

Demostina

Heather Kelly

Caroline Paquita

Anna Sgherzi

Kristine Virsis

Workshops and panel discussions will also be happening throughout the day, covering topics such as:

Feminist Urban Mobility (presented by Right Rides, Safe Walk, & HollaBack NYC)

Women and Resistance in Prisons (presented by Victoria Law)

Queer Eye for the DIY (presented by For the Birds Collective, featuring Karen Soskin of Strength In Numbers)

Sexual Assault and Accountability workshop (presented by Support New York)

The event will end with performances by:

Full of Fancy

Zombie Dogs

Little Lungs

Ina Ina

Kate Ferencz

Inertia

We are asking for a $6 to $10 sliding scale donation, although no will be turned away. A tape and CD compilation of the bands performing, as well as many more, will be available for purchase.

The collective that organizes The Big She-Bang is called FOR THE BIRDS. For The Birds is a collective of New York women whose main intent is fostering the creative empowerment of women, as well as the dissemination of feminist projects: art, music, information, and scholarly work. A large part of this feminist info-sharing occurs in the form of a distro and a label imprint. In our distro, we carry writing, art, and music by feminists and women-identified folks. On our label imprint, we continue to publish similar work.

The Big She-Bang was previously a celebration thrown by the Long Island Womyn's Collective. Information on The Big She-Bang 1 & 2 can be found here: http://myspace.com/liwomynscollective
 

All information on The Big She-Bang 3 & 4 can be found here: http://myspace.com/thebig_shebang
 

DIRECTIONS

Judson Memorial Church is on the south side of Washington Square Park between Thompson and Sullivan Streets.

SUBWAY:
We are accessible by subway from the 8th Street/NYU R and W stop, the West 4th Street A, C, E, F and V stop or the Christopher Street/Sheridan Square 1 and 2 stop.

BUSES:
NYC Transit bus # 5, Southbound, stops at 8th Street at Fifth Avenue. Bus #? (Northbound, stops on 6th Avenue at W. 4th St. Check MTA bus maps for other possibilities.

AUTOMOBILE (FROM THE WEST):
If you'd like to drive to Judson, from the West Side Highway exit at 14th Street. Drive east on 14th to 7th Avenue, turn right on Seventh Avenue and go south to West 4th Street. Turn left onto West 4th Street and go about 6 short blocks. Judson is on the Corner of West 4th Street (aka, Washington Square South) and Thompson Street. On Sunday mornings parking can usually be found along West 4th or on Thompson Street.

AUTOMOBILE (FROM THE EAST):
Those coming down FDR drive should exit at Houston Street, drive west and turn right onto 6th Avenue. Drive north to West 4th and make a right. Drive 2 1/2 blocks and we are on your right, across from Washington Square Park, at the corner of Thompson Street and West 4th Street (aka Washington Square South).
 

• Images Have to Be Overpowered, not Suffered by Aglaia Cavasola
• Life and Death and Kitties by Juliana Strawn
• Now & Later: Symphony of the City by Tyler Barbarin
• Sunday's Clown by Hannah Holden
• Watching You by Marissa Lenti
• Wild at Heart by Shelby Schoensee

7 Queer Zinesters, 3 Days, 1 kick-ass weekend!