Roll in the Hay and Open House!

Join us for two awesome events!

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Roll in the Hay 3
Saturday, 8/25/2012
7pm-midnight
3250 E. 6th Ave, Denver

FUNdraiser for the Denver Zine Library
$10 suggested donation
7pm-midnight
Water, soda and light snacks provided

Join us for an evening of two-stepping and (mostly) country/western line dancing. Dance lessons on the half-hour!

* 7:30pm – Two-step lessons
* 8:30pm – Bread and Butter to the song Shortenin’ Bread by The Tractors
* 9:30pm – Let’s Get It Poppin’ to the song Get it Poppin’ by Fat Joe feat. Nelly
* 10:30pm – Irish Stew to Tell Me Ma by Sham Rock

Check out the event on Facebook! Invite your friends!

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Join the Denver Community Health Collective and the Denver Zine Library for our open house in our beautiful, shared space!

Thursday, September 6, 2012
7-9pm
2727 West 27th Avenue
Denver, CO 80211

Denver Community Health Collective
The DCHC is a group of folks dedicated to providing holistic, accessible and affordable health care to our communities through our health clinic. Our clinic aims to be a safe space to all people through anti-oppressive and mutually supportive models of care. We offer sliding scale and at-cost services (including Massage Therapy, Herbal Medicine consultations, and more!) from our volunteer staff of practitioners. For more info, check out www.denverhealthcollective.com or contact denver.healthcollective@gmail.com

Denver Zine Library
The DZL houses a lending collection of over 10,000 zines from all over the world. Opened in 2003, the DZL is all-volunteer run nonprofit organization that provides access to materials and voices that aren’t always found in mainstream media, and conducts workshops about zines. Open Saturdays and Sundays from 11am-3pm, or by appointment. For more info, check out www.denverzinelibrary.org or contact denverzinelibrary@gmail.com

July 2012 Updates

It’s been a little while since you’ve heard from us and we have some exciting news and upcoming events!

* Sunday, July 15 – Help us move (to a new space in the same building)
* Saturday, July 28 – Secret Café to benefit the 27 Social Centre
* Sunday, August 12 – Zine Making Workshop
* T-shirts and Tote Bags for Sale!
* Looking for volunteers!
* Visit during open hours!

********** Sunday, July 15 – Help us move (to a new space in the same building) **********
Sunday, July 15, 2012
11am-3pm

For those of you who have visited us in the past couple of years have seen the incredible space we get to share with several other projects, making up the 27 Social Centre. Recently, we’ve been able to expand into the front part of the building and the Denver Zine Library is excited to move up to the front space, shared with the Denver Community Health Collective (check them out here: http://www.denverhealthcollective.com/). What’s better than an afternoon massage and reading zines? I can’t think of anything either.

We’d love some extra help moving the DZL, especially since we have to bring everything outside and around the corner to access the new entrance to our space. If you have some time, even 30 minutes, please come by between 11am and 3pm on Sunday, July 15. We’ll be moving boxes, shelves and our other furniture. It might take us a week or two to start getting settled, so please be patient while we get the zines back on the shelves.

********** Saturday, July 28 – Secret Café to benefit the 27 Social Centre **********
Saturday, July 28, 2012
11:30am-2:30pm
2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building, through alley)

Join us for a delicious start to your weekend at the 27 Social Centre’s Secret Cafe.
Food is $5-$12 a plate
Kids always eat free!
Gluten-free and vegan options for sure!

The monthly Secret Café benefits the 27 Social Centre, a radical community space committed to providing Denver with a location for our organizations, meetings, classes, art, music, history, libraries and much more. Several organizations call the Centre home, including the Denver Zine Library, Sent(a)mental Studios, the IWW, Bread and Roses, Backroom Editions, the Denver Community Health Collective, Denver ABC, Build Up Books and P&L Printing.

********** Sunday, August 12 – Zine Making Workshop **********
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12-3pm
$5-15 suggested donation
At the Denver Zine Library: 2727 W 27th Ave, Denver

Haven’t you always wanted to learn how to make a zine? Are your ideas ready to go on paper? Well, here’s your chance! Check out this 3-hour workshop to learn about zines, check out different styles and formats, and get started on your very own! Of course, we’d love to add a copy to our collection when you’re finished! RSVP to denverzinelibrary@gmail.com

********** T-shirts and Tote Bags for Sale! **********
As you know we had a hugely successful online fundraiser last February, raising over $3,500! We finally filled the perks for our generous donors and have some brand designs for DZL t-shirts and tote bags. They’re $10 each and we currently have t-shirts in size S, M, L, XL and 2XL.

********** 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 11am-3pm at the 27 Social Centre (2727 W. 27th Avenue). After July 15, we’ll be located through the street entrance with the door marked 2727!  Come check us out, read some zines on our comfy couch and borrow some zines to read at home!

Awesome April Events at the DZL!

We’re excited to share awesome news about our recent fundraising campaign and some upcoming events!

* Online fundraiser was a HUGE success!
* Friday, April 13 – Seasonal Velocities: reading with Ryka Aoki
* Saturday, April 21 – Take Flight: reading with Marya Errin Jones
* Looking for volunteers!
* Visit during open hours!

 

********** Online fundraiser was a HUGE success! **********

The Denver Zine Library had a 30-day online fundraiser and we’re proud to announce that we made $3,592 – over $1,000 more than our goal of $2,500. We have so much appreciation and gratitude for all of the love and support we received last month. There was a new video posted every day of the campaign and you can still watch them all at http://www.indiegogo.com/Keeping-zines-in-our-hands

If you’d still like to make a donation, the fundraising page is no longer active, but you can either mail a check made out to the Denver Zine Library to PO Box 13826, Denver CO 80201 or send us money via PayPal at denverzinelibrary@gmail.com.

Many thanks to our generous donors:

Kelly, Kyle, Delaine, Nicole, Kelly, Alycia, Carrie, Tran, Mitra, Tomas, Sean, Angela, Lisa, Remy, Jeff, LB, Spencer, Nia, Kelsey, Linda, Kelsey, Shannon, Robin, Julia, Brian, Jill, Marya, Jenna, Bianca, Erica, Leon, Laura, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mandrake, Abel, Steve, New Lights Press, Hillary, Jessicah, Josh, Tonya, Judy, Jessy, Sarah, George, Jim, Alexandra, Kyler, Megan, Sarah, Steph, Rachael, Sherry, Morgan, Hayley, Gabi, Eduardo, Alana, Dylan, Michelle, Daryll, Jamie, Carrie, Marianne, Hung, Becka, Billy, Christi, EJ, QZAP, Barry, Robin, Todd, Radym, Erin, Tanya, Lani, Jamez, Teddy, Karen, Jenna, Lydia, Matt, Anna, LP, Andie, Nico, Loran, Katie, Hannah, Alicia, Josh, Cristina, Gus, Robert and our fabulous anonymous donors

Many thanks to the folks who made the incredible videos:

Kelly Shortandqueer, Tomas Moniz, Annah Anti-Palindrome, Anna Inazu, Jenna Freedman, Kristy Fenton, Spencer Keralis, Billy the Bunny, Marya Errin Jones, Steve Lawson, Jessy Randall, Chris Wilde, the QZAP Chief Donation Monster, John Porcellino, Adhamh Roland, Josh Burford, Kyle Harris, Angela Daniels, Jordan Garcia, Robert McGoey, Nicole Hurt, and Hillary Jorgensen

 

 

***** Friday, April 13 – Seasonal Velocities: reading with Ryka Aoki *****

Friday, April 13, 2012

6:30pm

At the Denver Zine Library, 2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building, through alley)

https://www.facebook.com/events/301512959914204/

You won’t want to miss this incredible reading by the amazing Ryka Aoki!

“In the hands of Ryka Aoki, words can be everything – a tool, a fire, a gift, a weapon, a meal, a barricade, a refuge. I was tempted to ration this book, so I’d have some when I needed it, but found myself gulping it down and was so nourished by it the whole way along.”

–S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May be Behind You, and Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation.

Seasonal Velocities invites the reader on a fragile and furious journey along the highways and skyways of discovery, retribution, and resolve. Through her poetry, essays, stories, and performances, award-winning writer Ryka Aoki has consistently challenged, informed, and enthralled queer audiences across the United States.

For more information or to pre-order your copy, check out http://trans-genre.net/content/seasonal-velocities/

 

 

***** Saturday, April 21 – Take Flight: reading with Marya Errin Jones *****

Saturday, April 21, 2012

6:30pm

At the Denver Zine Library, 2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building, through alley)

https://www.facebook.com/events/278532275557820/

Albuquerque zinester and performance artist, Marya Errin Jones, is returning to Denver to wow us with her awesomeness.

Along with her, we’ll have several local readers, wowing the audience with some Denver-based brilliance.

See you there!

 

 

********** 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 11am-3pm 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!

 

Halfway through the fundraising campaign!

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!

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.

Support the DZL’s online fundraising campaign!

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

Online Fundraising Campaign! Keeping zines in our hands!

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!

The power of zines

Over the years, the Denver Zine Library has hosted events and workshops, teaching youth, students and community members how to give power to their own voices. When so many of us do not see ourselves reflected in mainstream media, zines give us the ability to tell our own stories and to personally connect with other people. This connection is what makes this medium so exciting! We can find folks who share our experiences and our interests.

We need your financial support to help maintain the DZL as well as give us the ability to plan the next Denver Zine Fest! The Denver Zine Fest has brought together local zinesters, artists, poets as well as folks from around the country to showcase, sell and trade their zines.

What We Need & What You Get

The DZL is asking for your financial support to maintain and expand what we can offer our community, both in the Denver area as well as the zine community at large. Sponsor a zine workshop (at community centers, libraries and classrooms) for $50. Cover the cost of one month’s rent for $100. Help us raise at least $500 towards the planning of the next Denver Zine Fest! Spread the word to your friends and pen pals!

For your fabulous support, check out the perks on the right of this page!

Want more information? Check out our website or e-mail us at denverzinelibrary@gmail.com to be added to our monthly e-mail list or find out how to volunteer!

Want to add your zine(s) to our collection? Send them our way!
Denver Zine Library
PO Box 13826
Denver CO 80201

Check out our videos for the campaign!

New videos are being posted daily and you won’t want to miss them!

Kelly ShortandQueer, Annah Anti-Palindrome, & On a Clear Day

Friday, February, 17, 2012 at 7:30pm
at the Denver Zine Library
2727 W 27th Ave, Denver CO 802011 (entrance around right side of building, through alley)
$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 (www.myspace.com/stefonaclearday).

See you there!!!

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood

ImageSaturday, December 17 at 1pm
At the Denver Zine Library
2727 W 27th Ave, Denver CO 80211 (entrance on right of building, through alley)

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.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reading at the 27 Social Centre, 7/23/11

Join us on Saturday, July 23 at 7:00pm at the 27 Social Centre -2727 W 27th Ave (entrance around right side of building)
$5-10 sliding scale to benefit the Denver Zine Library and Sent(a)Mental Studios

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.

Bookbinding 101 Workshop

The Denver Zine Library teamed up with Spencer from Laughing Mouse Press and Becky and Katy from the Denver Craft Ninjas to offer Bookbinding 101 on Saturday at the Denver Zine Library. The 9 participants had a great time making mini-notebooks, half-letter albums and toy books! We’re hoping to offer this workshop again in the future, so if you’d like to get e-mails about events in the future, e-mail denverzinelibrary@gmail.com to be added to our list (we only send out one e-mail a month).