Author: DZL

The 5th Annual DZL Superbowl Chili Cookoff was a delicious success. It was the closest competition in years with five incredible entries:

• 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.

5th Annual DZL Superbowl Chili Cookoff!
Sunday, February 6 · 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Denver Zine Library
2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building)

ENTERING YOUR CHILI
* Please e-mail denverzinelibrary@gmail.com if you would like to enter your chili and let us know if you’ll be providing a vegetarian or a meat chili
*If you enter the competition, you eat for free
* Be prepared to bring your cooked chili to the Denver Zine Library for the start of the event at 1pm
* There will be prizes for the chili that receives the most votes (one in the vegetarian and one in the meat category)
* Kevin, one of the Denver Zine Librarians, has been the reigning champ for the last few Chili Cookoffs – bring your best recipe to challenge him for the DZL Chili Crown!

Last Sunday, the DZL was excited to kick off 2011 with a zine reading. The event kicked off with some Denver locals: Kelly Shortandqueer read from his newest issue of shortandqueer zine and Josiah Hesse gave us some original fiction. The night closed up with featured traveling zinester, Enola Dismay, reading from her zine, No Gods No Mattress, and playing accompanying songs on her ukulele. The crowd filled up the Denver Zine Library with love for these fabulous zinesters.

We’re excited about 2011 and have a few events to kick off the year. Check them out and come visit the library!

* 2010 Silent Auction Update
* January 16 – Zine Reading with Enola Dismay
* February 6 – 5th Annual Superbowl Chili Cookoff
* February 21 – Drugs and Daydreams (co-sponsored with DABC)
* Community Zine Workshop Series
* Visit during open hours!

********** 2010 Silent Auction Update **********
Many thanks to all of the generous donors and bidders at the 4th Annual Silent Auction to benefit the Denver Zine Library and Sent(a)Mental Studios. We raised a whopping $1,640 to support the general operations of both projects! For more information about Sent(a)Mental Studios, check out www.sentamentalstudios.com or visit Dylan’s studio at the 27 Social Centre.

********** January 16 – Zine reading with Enola Dismay! **********
Sunday, January 16 • 4-6pm
At the Denver Zine Library, 2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building)

Join us for the first zine reading of 2011 with touring zinester, Enola Dismay! Local zinesters will join the lineup as well (including Josiah Hesse & Kelly Shortandqueer). E-mail Kelly at shortandqueer@yahoo.com if you’d like to read too!

Enola Dismay is a transient crud goth imperfectionist and writes personal zines that include many things in them, such as body image issues, the patriarchy/consent/rape culture, train stuff, squatting, activism/politics, homelessness, hopelessness, and health. She’ll also be playing music!

********** February 6 – 5th Annual Superbowl Chili Cookoff **********
Sunday, February 6 • 1-5pm
At the Denver Zine Library, 2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building)

Can you cook up a mean chili? Enter to become the DZL Chili Champion by bringing your homemade deliciousness to the Denver Zine Library during open hours (between 1 and 5pm) for folks to sample. Vegetarian and/or meat entries are both accepted!

********** February 21 – Drugs and Daydreams **********
Monday, February 21 • 7pm
At the 27 Social Centre, 2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building)
Co-sponsored with the Denver Anarchist Black Cross

Drugs and Daydreams – The Book! is out!
It’s finally done – after 24,000 scammed photocopies, individually relief-printing each cover, hours upon hours spent stitching page blocks, and countless paper cuts… A handbound hardcover book compiling the zines, Drugs and Daydreams, Here Civilization Ceased, and Bring On The Dancing Horses. 280 pages in length.

For more info, check out www.drugsanddaydreams.net

********** 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 is working on setting up a zine workshop series where people can come and work on writing, share ideas about formatting/binding and more! Interested? Contact denverzinelibrary@gmail.com so we can pick some dates that work for the most people. Maybe we can even have a big release party to celebrate the zine-y goodness we’re bringing to Denver…

********** 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!

Zines on Toast Tour
Coming up on Tuesday, September 14 at 7pm at the Denver Zine Library!
(2727 W 27th Ave – entrance around right side of building)

Zines on toast is a month long tour with zinesters from the UK (Rumlad, Last Hours, Hey Monkey Riot and Morgenmuffel) travelling with Portland’s Alex Wrekk (Brainscan and Stolen Sharpie Revolution). Join us for tales of the London Zine Symposium, failing to punch Tony Blair, ideas for radical health, creating a UK social centre, bike punks, regional dialects and much more!

More info at http://zinesontoast.org/

Many thanks to everyone who came out to the Denver Zine Library’s grand re-opening!

It was an exciting day, showing off our fabulous zine collection to long-time supporters of the DZL as well as first-time visitors. We connected with community members, the curator of an upcoming zine show the DZL is having, a teacher who wants to bring her class to the DZL and future volunteers.

Please come and check us out! Open hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5pm or by appointment.

It’s only two days away and we’re ready!

Today, B, Brian and Kelly worked for hours to get the Denver Zine Library in tip-top shape and the DZL looks better than it ever has! We emptied the rest of the boxes, made lots of signs (for the awesome merch that’s for sale, for the lending policy, for the zine categories, etc), rearranged furniture, and decorated the walls. We found homes for all of the recent donations (including 5,000 straws, 2,000 sugar packets, scented candles and a second coffeepot).

Some of our favorite zines are on display…

The donations waiting to be cataloged have been pulled out of their envelopes…

The tote bags and calendars from previous years are ready to be yours…

The zines are anxious to be in your hands!

In addition to the grand re-opening, Brian and Kelly pulled zines for an upcoming zine display at Kaladi Coffee in November. We’ll be sending out more information as it gets close.

Dylan and Kelly also started brainstorming for the upcoming Denver Zine Library Silent Auction scheduled to take place on Monday, November 8. We’ll be posting more info about that as well, but in the meantime, if you or anyone you know has anything to donate to the auction (goods, gift certificates, services, etc), please contact Kelly at shortandqueer@yahoo.com

Check out these sneak preview photos of the Denver Zine Library. And don’t forget to come check out the grand re-opening this Monday, September 6 from 1-5 at our new location: 2727 W 27th Ave, entrance around the right side of the building.