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zinester residencies

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Among the organizations currently offering residency programs for zinesters:
* The Roberts Street Social Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has residencies each June to September. Residencies are two weeks long, and residents are provided with space, equipment, and support for their project, as well as living space in a garden shed in the backyard of the Centre. The Centre is interested in projects that embody the same sort of DIY spirit as the Centre; among the Centre’s projects is the Anchor Archive zine collection. For more information, visit www.robertsstreet.org/n/residency or email residency@robertsstreet.org.

* The Cyberpunk Apocalypse Visiting Writer Program in Pittsburgh is a one-month residency at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers’ house. The writers will be given a small bedroom at no cost and access to communal spaces used by long-term residents. Applications are accepted from “anybody with a writing project they are excited about and that they could complete if they had a month to devote themselves to it.” For more information, visit www.cyberpunkapocalypse.com/?id=html&page=residents or email cyberpunkapocalypse@gmail.com

Do you know of others?

And, somehow we missed posting this:
Noted musician and feminist Kathleen Hanna has bequeathed her papers—zines, correspondence, and material pertaining to her career in Bikini Kill—to New York University’s Fales Special Collections Library. The archive includes documents from the Riot Grrrl movement spanning 1989 to 1996. The Kathleen Hanna Papers seem to be the first major acquisition for the library’s brand-new Riot Grrrrl Collection. Find out more…


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  1. Don Baker on February 11, 2010 7:54 pm

    I link to your site in my mail art resources section. Will you link to my site as well?
    http://www.dserrino.com/merge/resources.html

    Thanks, whatever you decide, and best of luck.
    Don

  2. admin on February 24, 2010 1:26 pm

    Hannah was recently interviewed by GritTV (http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2010/02/19/week-in-review-kathleen-hanna/) and spoke about her donation to NYU:
    [The archive at NYU is going to include] flat copies of our zines, which is really important because it’s going to show people in the future that everything was not made on the internet… The zines were supposed to be historical… The thing that I sometimes don’t like about blogs or that doesn’t suit me for that kind of work is that it can seem really ahistorical.

    Quote Bitch Magazine about the interview:
    Hanna’s interest in archiving her own personal history, as well as contributing to the history of riot grrrl, allows others to see firsthand the accessibility of the movement’s zines and community-building efforts. In a way, this humanizes the riot grrrl movement by making the actions of people like Kathleen Hanna seem achievable and less shrouded by mystery and idolization (which seems like the most riot grrrl thing Hanna could do). Additionally, Hanna brings up the importance of carving out a space for zines at institutions like NYU, so that forms of communication and self-publication alternative to the internet can be given deserved recognition.