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24 Hour Zine Challenge and Papercut Zine Library

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A few things:

Are you in Portland? Come to the 24-hour zine challenge at Cosmic Monkey this weekend! It starts at 10AM on Saturday July 18 and ends at 10AM on Sunday. It’ll get you all geared up for the Portland Zine Symposium, which is next weekend! July 24-26. Preregistration is REQUIRED as space is limited to 30 spots! Email pdxzines@gmail.com

Here are more details:In order to meet the challenge, the PZS 24hr Zine Challengers MUST make 24-page zine of an original, on-the-spot conception straight up to the final product in 24 hours straight. The zine should be of suitable size and technical difficulty so that this truly is a challenge for individual zinesters. The PZS 24hr Zine Challenge is brought to you by Portland Zine Symposium, the IPRC, and Cosmic Monkey Comics.

We will be providing some supplies (paper, glue scissors, a copy machine), snacks, and drink – anything you can bring will help! Bring any supplies you like to make zines with! Also, maybe pillows, snacks, and blankets..We are rivaling the 24hr Zine Challenge ZAPP is hosting in Seattle and a live video feed will be set up between our two events!

Cosmic Monkey Comics (5335 NE Sandy Blvd. – Next to the Bike Gallery)
July 18th (Saturday) at 10:00am and going until July 19th (Sunday) at 10:00am!

Thanks to those people who sent in new zine library and zine information! We’ll get that up on the Web site shortly, so check back soon for new listings. If you have any zine libraries, zine distros, or any information that you’d like to share, email us at wordofmouth@undergroundpress.org.

And a note from the Papercut Zine Library:

Dear loyal patrons,

After over four and a half years of being hosted at 45 Mt. Auburn (currently known as the Democracy Center), we are being asked to vacate the premises by August 15th.

Many of you know that the Democracy Center is in a very serious financial situation. The folks at the center are working very hard in order to not shut down, but unfortunately we don’t seem to fit in with the plan as the current public face of the center.

So we need your help! While we are being realistic and don’t expect that we can shift smoothly from one space to another, and understand that we will probably have to take a hiatus from being open for awhile, we also know that YOU, our patrons, are our best resources. You know people! You have connections! So please please please wrack your brains for contacts, spaces, and ideas that might help us out.

To give you a starting point, we need the following:
-at least 180 square feet of space for our shelving, operations desk and reading area
-a location somewhat accessible to subway, bus, car, bicycle and/or foot

We are open to either of the following:
-being hosted in an already existing arts/community/library/radical/activist/organizing space
-renting an available (LOW COST) commercial space

Our absolute requirement is that the freedom to make decisions about the library’s internal operation stay within our collective. That is, we are not interested in another library absorbing our collective if it means the collective will not be involved.

What Papercut Zine Library can offer to potential shared spaces is clear. Our greatest strength is in our phonebook: we have an enviable web of contacts glad to offer time, knowledge or networking to solve problems or enrich lives. We will also draw new users to the space over time simply by being in the space. The library itself contains useful information, entertaining reading and insightful commentary. The librarians at Papercut are highly principled and will not violate any space’s or organization’s ethical standards or attempt to evade practical responsibilities.Please let us know if you have any ideas. We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

the Papercut Zine Library collective


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