Amazing Summer Events!

Check out these amazing events (and updates) for Summer 2011!

* 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. 27th 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. 27th 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. 27th 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 21st 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. 27th 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. 27th 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!

Cristy Road at the Denver Zine Library, March 24

Cristy Road at the Denver Zine Library!

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/

5th Annual Chili Cookoff was a Delicious Success!

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.

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

 

5th Annual DZL Superbowl Chili Cookoff!

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!

JUDGING/EATING CHILI
* Come anytime between 1 and 5pm to taste the entries – come early to make sure you get to try them all!
* We’re asking for a $3-5 suggested donation for all-you-can-eat chili
* We’ll provide the sour cream, cheese, etc
* There will be both meat and vegetarian categories

THE SUPERBOWL
* For those of you who want to enjoy chili AND catch the Superbowl, kick off is at 4:30 Mountain Time. And it looks like it’s going to be an exciting game between the Steelers and Packers…

CHECK US OUT IN THE WESTWORD
http://www.westword.com/events/denver-zine-library-super-bowl-chili-cookoff-1727508/

Great kick-off event at the DZL last Sunday

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.

Kelly Shortandqueer reads from shortandqueer #16 with the help of two friends
Local author and zinester, Josiah Hesse, brings fiction to the lineup
Enola Dismay reads to us from No Gods No Mattress

January and February events!

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 Rocked Denver

Natalie, Steve, Alex, Edd, Tom and Isy in the Denver Zine Library

(post by Kelly Shortandqueer)

Last night, the Zines on Toast tour make us laugh, made us think and, most of all, kept us entertained with tales of the London Zine Symposium, creating a UK social centre, failing to punch Tony Blair, bike punks, greyhound rides and more!
On tour for a month, we heard from Alex Wrekk (Brainscan and Stolen Sharpie Revolution), Isy Morgenmuffel (Morgenmuffel, Last Hours), Edd Baldry (Hey Monkey Riot), Steve Larder (Rum Lad), Tom Fiction (Last Hours), and Natalie Last Hours (London Zine Symposium).
Alex Wrekk

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!

Edd Baldry
Check out the promo article in the Westword, “The Denver Zine Library brings an international tour into its new space“.
Isy Morgenmuffel

I was excited to get a chance to hang out with the travelers since they had some extra down time in Denver. We started with a delicious dinner at Mary’s house on Monday night. There was lots of rambunctious story telling and arguments about pronunciation or words.

Natalie Last Hours
Tuesday, I met up with Alex and Steve for hanging out in Cheeseman Park and then I took them to the awesome bathroom sink exhibit in the old art museum building (Denver folks, if you haven’t been, go wash your hands at the art museum…). We met up with the rest of the crew and walked from the library down to Sweet Action for some delicious vegan ice cream and stopped in Smitten Kitten to say hello to Riley. Mary met up with us for dinner at El Taco, trying to woo them all with the deliciousness of green chili.
Steve Larder

The show was fantastic and it was exciting to see so many new faces in the Denver Zine Library. And, of course, a pleasure to see John Porcellino, who is only in town for a week before heading back to Florida. Don’t miss his big Welcome Home / Going Away / King-Cat 71 Release / Happy Birthday John P. party at Kilgore Books (624 E. 13th Avenue, Denver). It’s this Saturday, 9/18 from 6-8pm!

Tom Fiction

After the show, we ended up back at Mary’s for a speakeasy – sipping on incredibly delicious drinks. Most of the zinesters went to bed at a reasonable time (since they had to be on the road so early this morning) but Alex and Edd stayed up with me until about 1am, talking about our families, relationships, traveling, and hula hoops (because, yes, I know hula hoops).

Chatting it up after the show

Zines on Toast, you’re amazing.

Interviewing some of the zinesters

Zines on Toast comes to the Denver Zine Library!

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/


The Grand Re-opening was a huge success!

Knuckles 'Mo Honey loves reading zines!

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.

Leah browses the collection
Brian shows off a zine donation
Darcie checks out the collection
Steph and Angela pose with some comic zines
As a fundraiser for the Build Up Infoshop, you could pie Devin for just $1!
Corey gets comfy on the couch
Raffle winners check out the prizes!
Nothing says "zines" quite like a Keith Sweat CD.
Dave proves that scented candles and Celine Dion are an anarchist's dream prize
More raffle prizes

We can’t wait for the Grand Re-opening

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

B, Kelly, Brian and Dylan pose in the awesome new DZL!

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.