Former Denver Zine Librarians!

The Denver Zine Library is now halfway through our online fundraising campaign and we’re thrilled to share some really awesome news so far…

Updates!

• So far, we’ve raised $1,735 of our $2,500 goal! Many thanks to our generous donors!
• The campaign was featured in not one, but TWO articles in the Westword! Denver Zine Library’s non-crisis campaign: Book it! by Josiah Hesse and Denver Zine Library IndieGoGo campaign continues: How can you say no to this? by Susan Froyd
• The campaign was featured on IndieGoGo’s blog: Perk Power
• We’re one of IndieGoGo’s featured campaigns!
• We’ve uploaded videos from 12 different people from Denver, Berkeley, the Bay area, New York City, Amsterdam, Denton, TX, Albuquerque and Colorado Springs!

Many thanks to our donors so far!

Kelly, Kyle, Delaine, Nicole, Kelly, Alycia, Carrie, Tran, Mitra, Tomas, Sean, Angela, Lisa, Remigio, LB, Spencer, Nia, Kelsey, Lina, Kelsey, Shannon, Robin, Jamez, Brian, Jill, Marya, Jenna, Bianca, Erica, Leon, Laura, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mandrake, Abel, Steve, NewLights Press, Hillary, Jessicah, Josh, Tonya and our generous anonymous donors!

Many thanks to our video stars so far!

Kelly Shortandqueer, Tomas Moniz, Annah Anti-Palindrome, Anna Inazu, Jenna Freedman, Kristy Fenton, Spencer Keralis, Billy the Bunny, Marya Errin Jones, Jerry Maguire and Rod Tidwell, and Jessy Randall and Steve Lawson! Check out all of the videos on the Gallery tab of the campaign website: http://www.indiegogo.com/Keeping-zines-in-our-hands.

An additional perk for donors!

Donor and former Denver zinester, Nia, suggested that the Denver Zine Library display the favorite zines of donors at the Denver Zine Library. What a great idea! Feel free to send us up to three titles and if we have them, we’ll put them out to show off our amazing collection!

The Denver Zine Library is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit!

Does your work have an employee gift match program? If so, you can double your donation! We’ll send a receipt for your donation to submit through your employer. Please contact us with any questions.

Please spread the word! Repost your favorite video!

The success of this campaign is in your hands! Please continue to spread the word by passing around this link: http://www.indiegogo.com/Keeping-zines-in-our-hands. We’ll still be uploading a new video every day through the rest of the month, so keep checking back to see them all!

Two upcoming events at the 27 Social Centre!

Join us for these two events held at the 27 Social Center, which houses the Denver Zine Library. It’s located at 2727 W. 27th Ave, Denver CO 80211 and the entrance is around the right side of the building, through the alley.

• Annah Anti-Palindrome, On a Clear Day and Kelly Shortandqueer
  Friday, February 17 at 7:30pm, $5-10 suggested donation

An evening of queerly antagonistic performances featuring Denver’s Kelly Shortandqueer (www.shortandqueer.com), Bay Area’s Annah Anti-Palindrome (annahantipalindrome.com), and Seattle’s On a Clear Day (http://www.myspace.com/stefonaclearday)!!!

• 27 Social Centre Secret Café
  Saturday, February 18 from 11:30am-2:30pm,
  $5-12 sliding scale for food, drinks available for additional donations
  The menu: waffles (GF), egg & veggie quiche with a quinoa crust (GF), biscuits and gravy (V), oatmeal w/ topping bar (V/GF), banana breakfast sundae (V & GF)The 27 Social Center is home to P&L Printing, Denver ABC, Sent(a)mental Studios, Buildup Books, Denver Zine Library, Bread and Roses Workers Cultural Center, Colorado Street Medics, Denver Community Health Collective and Comite Defensa Pueblo. Our collective projects and events include Printing, Art Showings, Meeting Space for Activist Groups, Film Showings, Political Speakers and Readings, Local Radical Labor History.

The DZL's original zine collection, 2003

The Denver Zine Library is 11 days into our online fundraising campaign and we’re incredibly grateful for the generous donations that have already been coming our way! So far, we’ve raised $1,410 towards our goal of $2,500

Check out our campaign, Keeping Zines In Our Hands!

Many thanks to our donors: Kelly, Kyle, Delaine, Nicole, motel, Alycia, Carrie, Tran, Mitra, Tomas, Sean, Angela, Lisa, Remigio, LB, Spencer, Nia, Kelsey, Lindiana, Hortense, Shannon, Robin, Jamez, Brian, Jill, Marya, Jenna, Bianca, Erica and Leon!

Also, thanks to the folks who have made videos so far (with more to come throughout the month!): Kelly, Tomas, Annah, Anna, Jenna, Kristy, Spencer and Billy!

And… check out this awesome article in the Westword by longtime friend of the DZL, Josiah Hesse: Denver Zine Library’s non-crisis campaign: Book it!

Please help us spread the word and check out our videos for the campaign!

The DZL's current collection, photo from 2010

• Kelly Shortandqueer’s Intro to DZL and Campaign
• Tomas Moniz (Rad Dad, Berkeley CA)
• Annah Anti-Palindrome (musician, sound artist, writer, Bay area)
• Snowball Fight
• Anna and Kelly’s top lists (Denver, CO)
• Jenna Freedman (zinester & librarian, New York City)
• Kristy Fenton (Drippy Bone Books & Modern Witch, Amsterdam)
• One-week update!
• Spencer Keralis (Laughing Mouse Press, Denton, TX)
• Billy the Bunny (Albuquerque, NM)
• Kelly’s Nightmare

The Denver Zine Library has launched a one-month online fundraising campaign here:

http://www.indiegogo.com/Keeping-zines-in-our-hands

Please check it out and donate!

8 years and going strong!

The Denver Zine Library (DZL) first opened its doors on December 5, 2003 thanks to the hard work of some dedicated volunteers. Since then, the DZL has moved locations a few times and is now housed in the incredible 27 Social Centre. We are an all-volunteer run, 501(c)(3) nonprofit lending library with over 10,000 donated and cataloged zines on our shelves! We’ve been grateful for the amazing support over the years from zinesters, community members and rad touring folks who have come through and really promoted the power and importance of zines. Read more about the DZL’s history!

An evening of queerly antagonistic performances featuring Denver’s Kelly Shortandqueer (www.shortandqueer.com), Bay Area’s Annah Anti-Palindrome (annahantipalindrome.com), and Seattle’s On a Clear Day (www.myspace.com/stefonaclearday).

See you there!!!

The Denver Zine Library is thrilled to host a family friendly reading featuring Tomas Moniz, the founder, editor and writer for the incredible zine, Rad Dad! We’ll have some local readers as well. There will be crafts, kids’ books and zines, and the Nurturing Liberation playroom for kids too. Bring some money to buy your own copy of this awesome book. Donations to the Denver Zine Library are also gladly accepted.

“Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood” combines the best pieces from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and from the blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory. Both of these projects have pushed the conversation around fathering beyond safe, apolitical focus most books and websites stick to; they have not been complacent but have worked hard to create a diverse, multi-faceted space in which to grapple with the complexity of fathering.

Today more than ever, fatherhood demands constant improvisation, risk and struggle. With grace, honesty and strength, Rad Dad’s writers tackle all the issues that other parenting guides are afraid to touch: the brutalities, beauties, and politics of the birth experience, the challenges of parenting on an equal basis with mothers, the tests faced by transgender and gay fathers, the emotions of sperm donation, and parental confrontations with war, violence, racism, and incarceration. Rad Dad is for every father out in the real world trying to parent in ways that are loving, meaningful, authentic, and ultimately revolutionary.

Described as “startlingly bold and provocative” by Howard Zinn and “a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda” by the Austin Chronicle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will be in Denver on Saturday, July 23 to read from her newest novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly. The event is a benefit for the Denver Zine Library and Sent(a)mental Studios, and books will be available for sale. This is Mattilda’s first appearance in Denver, so join us in a warm welcome!!!

Praise for So Many Ways to Sleep Badly:

“A gender-bending novel [that] unearths subjects still relatively untouched in popular culture… you’re not going to be reading anything similar elsewhere.”
–The Times (London)

“When I read the first chapter of the newest novel by San Francisco poster child for surviving-and-thriving gender/queer punks everywhere, I felt like I was being yelled at by an excited, manic friend who was pacing around a roach-infested kitchen, occasionally breaking into a runway walk while wearing hot pants made of burnt rainbow flags… The rapid-fire, honest glimpse into the post-gay ruins of San Francisco will likely break even the toughest punk heart.”
– NOW Magazine (Toronto)

“Like William S. Burroughs meets David Sedaris, offering a sort of surreal urban grit with poisoned-arrow that stings and sometimes reveals.”
– San Francisco Chronicle

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco — battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night
epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine.

Writer, activist, artist, filmmaker and social critic Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and Pulling Taffy, and the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, most recently Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Utne Reader recently named Mattilda one of “50 Visionaries Changing Your World.” Her next anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, will be out just in time for Valentine’s Day 2012 – talk about romance! Say hello at mattildabernsteinsycamore.com.

* NEW OPEN HOURS!
* June 4 – 27 Social Centre Open House
* June 25 – Book Binding Workshop
* July – September: Community Zine Workshop Series
* July 12 – Multimedia Zine Reading
* September 11 – Craftin’ Carnival
* Looking for volunteers
* Visit during open hours!
* Set up an event or bring your class to the DZL

********** NEW OPEN HOURS **********
The Denver Zine Library will now be open from 11am-3pm each Saturday and Sunday! Come check out the collection and read some zines on our comfy couch!

We’re located at 2727 W. 27^th Avenue, Denver 80211 (entrance around the right side of the building).

********** June 4 – 27 Social Centre Open House **********
Join us between 6pm and 10pm at 2727 W. 27^th Avenue, Denver 80211 (entrance around the right side of the building) for a BBQ (meat, veggie and vegan options available), LIVE MUSIC and to learn about the awesome projects housed here!
The 27 Social Centre is excited to welcome you into our fabulous renovated location with the addition of several new, amazing projects! Check out www.27socialcentre.org

* Bread and Roses — www.workersbreadandroses.org
* Build Up Books — www.27socialcentre.org/bub
* Comite Defensa Pueblo — www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1703033812
* Denver Anarchist Black Cross — www.denverabc.wordpress.com
* Denver Community Health Collective — www.facebook.com/pages/Denver-Community-Health-Collective/144835032193890
* Denver IWW — www.iww.org/en/branches/US/CO
* Denver Zine Library — www.denverzinelibrary.org
* Improbable Pictures — www.improbablepictures.com
* P&L Printing — www.pandlprinting.com
* Sent(a)Mental Studios — www.sentamentalstudios.weebly.com

***** June 25 – Bookbinding 101 Workshop *****
Saturday, June 25, 2011 1-3pm
At the Denver Zine Library: 2727 W. 27^th Avenue, Denver 80211 (entrance around the right side of the building).
RSVP by June 20 at denverzinelibrary@gmail.com – SPACE IS LIMITED!

Learn a basic bookbinding stitch, and how to design miniature books. Use centuries-old technologies to hand-craft your 21^st century zine! In this 2-hour workshop, you’ll complete a half-letter album, a mini-notebook, and a toy book.

Taught by Spencer from Laughing Mouse Press, with Becky and Katy from the Denver Craft Ninjas.

******** July – September: Community Zine Workshop Series ********

Are you ready to take the plunge and make your first zine? Or have you been wanting to put out a new issue? Looking for some motivation? The Denver Zine Library has set up a zine workshop series where people can come and work on writing, share ideas about formatting/binding and more!

All sessions take place on Sundays (see dates and themes below). We’ll have structured time from 11am-12pm and then the zine library will be open until 3pm if you’d like to stay, keep working, check out the collection. All sessions are free and will be at the Denver Zine Library at 2727 W. 27^th Avenue, Denver 80211 (entrance around the right side of the building). We may even host a zine release/reading to celebrate, but there is no pressure to participate.

- July 10, Develop zine concept
- July 24, Writing
- August 7, Editing content
- August 21, Formatting
- September 4, Binding

You don’t have to come to every session, but it is encouraged, especially for first-time zine-makers. Please let us know if you’re planning on attending by e-mailing denverzinelibrary@gmail.com.

********** July 12 – Multimedia Zine Reading **********
Tuesday, July 12, 6:30-9:30pm
At the Denver Zine Library: 2727 W. 27^th Avenue, Denver 80211 (entrance around the right side of the building).

You won’t want to miss this fabulous multimedia zine reading featuring: Spencer Keralis, Mariette Papić (streaming live from New York), and Tim Davids!

Spencer Keralis is the founding editor of Laughing Mouse Press, a small press specializing in hand-made books based in Littleton, Colorado. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Dry Crik Review of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry, and The Owen Wister Review. His poetry is collected in the retrospective Geography & Circumstance (2009). Spencer’s scholarly work has appeared in Book History and Texte und Töne, and he maintains an occasional blog on critical theory and digital humanities at www.researchanddestroy.net His interest in book history led him to the book arts, and he teaches bookbinding classes to DIY-minded crafters. He has received research fellowships from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Antiquarian Society, and was awarded the 2009 Tuttleton Prize for Research in American Literature by New York University’s Department of English, and the 2010 Book History Essay Prize. In 2011, Spencer launched the interview blogazine 12 Questions (www.12questions.us) with collaborator Becky Hensley.

Mariette Papić was born in Newark, NJ. She is a photographer and writer who expands memoir through an ongoing series of conversations focused on the conscious and subconscious experience. Her work focuses on currents in technology, myth and language. Brooklyn based, Mariette currently lives a semi-nomadic, cyber life while working on her projects, and her on-going series of disembodied poetics and mixed media, “The Life of Ruby Gold.”

Tim Davids’ parents got him a video camera for his fifth birthday, and in 1991 his grandma let him stay home from school to see The Last Boyscout, which effectively screwed them out of having a kid who was not a filmmaker. His films have shown at the Doorpost Film Festival, the Boulder Fringe Festival, the Oriental Theater, and in countless living rooms during house parties. In addition to making DIY films, ever since winning the Denver Young Authors competition with his story “Terrible the Bulldog” nineteen years ago, Tim has continued to write and, though he claims to not be very good, he does so for the Westword Arts and Culture blog “Show and Tell,” and for Popular Lemonade. A social media Renaissance man, Tim blogs, he tumbls, he tweets (as 2509), and he also dances (but only alone in his room).

******* Community Event: September 11 – Craftin’ Carnival *******
Friends of the Denver Zine Library are planning this awesome event! Check it out at http://craftincarnival.com/

Craftin’ Carnival is a community of crafters, hobbyists, artists and artisans. Our goals are to provide an opportunity for emerging and established artists to exhibit their work in a supportive marketplace, and to share skills with like-minded peers in a fun, inclusive environment.

Denver’s first ever Craftin’ Carnival will take place on Sunday, September 11th, 2011, from 10am to 6pm. It is being held at WorkBrite, 4120 Brighton Blvd., Unit A40, Denver, CO 80216.

********** Looking for volunteers **********
Do you have a few hours to spare once a month? The Denver Zine Library is looking for volunteers! Help keep the DZL open on weekends, learn how to catalog donated zines in our database, plan a fundraiser, or bring your ideas! E-mail denverzinelibrary@gmail.com to set up a 30-minute orientation.

********** Visit during open hours! **********
The Denver Zine Library is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5pm and is located inside the 27 Social Centre (2727 W 27th Ave – entrance around right side of building). Come check us out, read some zines on our comfy couch and borrow some zines to read at home!

********** Set up an event or bring your class to the DZL **********
Have an event in mind and are looking for a venue? Want to plan a fundraiser for the Denver Zine Library? Do you teach a class and want to bring them on a field trip to the DZL? Contact denverzinelibrary@gmail.com to chat with a zine librarian about making this happen!

Thursday, March 24 · 8:00pm
2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building)

We’re thrilled to announce that Cristy Road is coming to the Denver Zine Library for a reading. You won’t want to miss this amazing night. She’s the author of Green Zine, Indestructible, Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick and Bad Habits.

From her website: “Cristy C. Road is floating in a pool of her own blood, sweat, and occasional tears. Road is a 28-year-old Cuban-American artist and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and social justice- she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect.”

Read more about Cristy Road at http://aidandabet.org/roster/cristy-road/
And check out her amazing artwork at http://www.croadcore.org/

• Chili Cacao (beef chili infused with chocolate) by Michelle and Crustin
• Chicken Green Chile by Kody
• Veggie Chili by Kelly
• Chipotle Chicken Green Chile by Jimi
• Spicy Veggie Chili by Kevin

The winners of the day were Kody (in the meat category) and Kelly (in the veggie category). Many thanks to all the cooks, everyone who came out to taste the finest chili in Denver and special thanks to Leah for bringing the vegan, gluten-free cornbread.

Chili Cooks: Michelle & Crustin, Kody, Kelly, Jimi and Kevin (with special guest, Micah)