Zine-Related Events
Ongoing: DIY Crafts
No matter what the season, your library is always hosting lots of fun craft programs. Classes, workshops, and get-togethers feature a wide range of crafty topics: knitting, jewelry making, scrapbooking, making holiday pop-up cards, decoupage, and many others!
You can find all the library's crafty events by searching Event Finder and limiting your search to "Arts and Crafts" under "Choose a PROGRAM TYPE."
July 14: Cut, Copy, Collate — A Zine Construction Workshop
Learn the practical aspects of self-publishing your zine — just in time for the Portland Zine Symposium. Skylaar Amann (Action Bookbinding) shows you tips and tricks for layout and design, paste-up and copying, and various simple binding techniques. Cut, Copy, Collate will be held at the North Portland Library on Tuesday, July 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m., and you can sign up in Event Finder starting June 23rd!
July 21: Shuffleupagus — A Collaborative Zine Experience
Think you can draw? Think you can write? Shuffleupagus doesn't care if you're an expert, an amateur or a hack! Join Jesse Reklaw (Bluefuzz the Hero) and Androo Robinson (Cryptozoa) and other creative types, and make some mini-comics together on Tuesday, July 21, 6-7:30 p.m. in the U.S. Bank Room at Central Library. Participants will contribute words and art toward the creation of several zines with a variety of themes. Finished zines will be debuted at the library's table at the Portland Zine Symposium.
July 24-26: Tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium
Are you going to be at this year's Portland Zine Symposium? If so, stop by our table! Multnomah County Library staff will be handing out free stuff including copies of our zine PDX Zines: Where to Find Zines in Portland, answering your reference questions, and will have zines from the library's collection on hand! We're trying to blow through the last of our Polaroid film, so come get your picture taken with the giant library card! And speaking of library cards, bring along your regular-sized one to get a special surprise!
As always, look for us at the table with the giant library card, Friday-Sunday, July 24-26, 2009, at the Portland Zine Symposium on the Portland State University campus. Free!
July 28: Bilingual Dream Zine (for teens)
Are you a teen ready to tell the world your story? An instructor from the IPRC (that's the Independent Publishing Resource Center) will help you tell your own story, real or make-believe, in the language you know best. The Bilingual Dream Zine workshop will be Tuesday, July 28th from 2-4 p.m. at Central Library.
. . . if you have an idea for a cool zine event you'd like to see at your local library, please let us know! See photos from some of our previous events on flickr!
