Sticky Institute will be hosting an Australian Zine Showcase this year at the National Gallery of Victoria to coincide with Melbourne Art Book Fair 2017.

This rotating zine fair, positioned in the NGV International Gallery Kitchen, will include over one hundred zinemakers and zine distros between Friday March 17 and Sunday March 19.

Participating this year will be:
A Zine Thing / Aaron Billings / Adrianna Mammino / Alex E Clark / Andrew Li / Ben Hutchings / Black Book Shoppe / Bloomurder Zines / The Boob Zine / Broadzine / Chasing Pavements - Comic / Cheerio Paper Co / Chowder / Chris Gooch / Chronic Illhouse / Clea Chiller / Concrete Queers / Creep Spine / Danni McGrath / David Witteveen / Dennis Grauel / Eat If You’re Hungry Zine / Elloise Mae / Esther and Howl / Eloise Grills / Females for Equality Making Stuff - FEMS / Field Study Publications / Frances Cannon Artist / Fulsome Prism / Funny Ha Ha / Gemma Flack / The Girl Fridas / Glom Press / Grace Taylor / Hard Rubbish Projects / HAUNT / Helio Press / Hello, Hallo / Hiro Mcl / Hundreds and Thousands / Incase of Dystopia / Jellibat / Jennifer Wu / Jess Kitty Parker / Jess Knight / Jini Maxwell / Katherine Pigott / Kathy Sarpi / Keep Brave zine / Keith McDougall / Khale McHurst / Lava / Leonie Brialey / Liblionomy / Lillian Bell / Lillian Cuda - Art & Design / Love and other indoor sports / Mandy Ord / Marlo Mogenson / Melbourne Artists For Asylum Seekers / Melissa J Stewart / Mervin Heers / Milk Shadow Books / Miranda Costa / Moss Piglet / Moth Woman Press / Nicky Minus / No Frills Art / Nope Club / Pikitia Press / Piss Factory / Plastic Knife / Psychic Hysteria / Rachel Ang / Rawdays / The Refugee Art Project / Room Press / Sam Wallman / Sarah Catherine Firth / Sarah Tan / Savannah Ferguson / Sea Green Zines / Sensitive Adult Daily / Small Zine Volcano / Soph Parsons Cope / Spacey Spice / Squishface Studio / Stef Luhrs / Still Nomads / Strine WHINE / The Suburban Review / Suburbophobia / Susanna Rose Sykes / Take Care Zine Distro / Tegan Iversen / Thistle Be Nice - Sophie McPike Illustration / Tom Eccles / Tough Titty Committee / The Voice of West Papua / Wild Tongue / Writing Through Fences / Yippywhippy / Yonder Art Space / Zenobia Ahmed / Ziggy Firth / Zoe Steers

For more information on the Melbourne Art Book Fair visit www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Sticky will be at RACK OFF! 2017, the annual weekend fundraiser for YWCA Victoria, taking place Saturday March 4th and Sunday March 5th at The Tote. 

Have a look at the Facebook event here, a short video of last year’s event here, and buy tickets here. 

Illustration by Phoebe Paradise.

Sticky will be at Hobart Small Press Zine Fair on Saturday March 25th, between 1-5pm, at Visual Bulk on Argyle Street. 

Facebook event here. Artwork by Tom O’Hern

Full poster for Festival Of The Photocopier Zine Fair 2017 by Zoe Steers. 

Zinemakers, find out how to apply for a stall here. 

NEW YEAR OPENING TIMES 

Sticky will be closing for the holidays on
Thursday 22 December at 6pm.

We will be opening again in 2017 on
Wednesday 11 January at midday.

We are now taking applications for zine stalls at the #FOTP2017 zine fair.
Find out how here.

Facebook event here.
Artwork by Zoe Steers.

Sticky will be at Mess The West II on Sunday December 4th at Footscray Park, have a look at the whole weekend of events here. 

fawnographie: i - Zine Launch
Friday December 16, 6-7pm. Free entry 

fawnographie is a new poetry chapbook series by melbourne based poet, scholar, artist and musician alice belle. her project aims to anthologise her ongoing notebooks as a way of completing poetry for archival.

alice has also curated a collaborative poetry chapbook series under the title ‘A Sharp Knife’, a project born from frustration towards the homogenous Australian poetry scene, by collecting and publishing more of the work she wished to see in circulation. she has plans to relaunch an expanded iteration of the project in the near future.

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hosts would like to acknowledge this launch is being held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation and that Indigenous sovereignty has never ceded.

Compulsory Poses: The Bodybuilding Biography Book Club For Men
First Thursday of every month, 6-7pm.

Next meeting: Thursday December 1st 2016 (last meeting until February) 
Next book: Ernie Frantz’s Ten Commandments of Powerlifting (Second Edition (Success By Design, 2014).

Make your choice, beautiful muscles or raw power! 

Perth-based artist Anna Dunnill will be revealing her new collage installation Prayers, Incantations in the Sticky Institute window space on Saturday 19th November, between 3-5pm.

The launch will feature live music from Caroline J. Dale and Shae Bird.

Anna Dunnill’s practice investigates the nature of language and communication, with forms including drawing, text, embroidery, small sculpture, zines and tattoos. ‘Prayers, Incantations’ will look at tattoos in the context of ritual, ceremony and magic.

Facebook event here. 

Sticky will be at:

VOICEFEST 2K16 2.0
at Trades Hall, Saturday December 3rd, 12-6pm. Free entry! 

Find out more about Voicefest here. 

Sticky will be at: 

I.P.F. Photobook & Zine Fair 2016
at The Good Copy, Sunday November 20th, 11-5pm

Find out more about this year’s Independent Photography Festival here. 

Concrete Queers #6 Zine Launch
Saturday November 5, 3-5pm, at Sticky Institute

The launch of Concrete Queers #6 (the ‘Smut’ issue) and the official Melbourne launch of CQ #5 too. Featuring readings from contributors and live acoustic performances TBA. 

Illustration by Kitty Chrystal

Sticky will be holding a zine stall at Abbotsford Convent’s Open Spaces: Print Space market on Sunday November 6 between 12-6pm. 

Entry to all Open Spaces events is just $2, see the full program here. 

Other stallholders on the day will include: 5 Press, Accidental Discharge, Alien She Zine, Cameron James Cope, Chris Gooch, Females for Equality Making Stuff (FEMS), Helio Press, Jess Parker, Marian Crawford, Monash Art Design Architecture, Negative Press, Particle Books, Peril Magazine, Ramona Magazine, Room Press, Silent Army Collective, Sleepover Club, Sticky Institute, Telephone Publishing and The Good Copy.

Compulsory Poses: The Bodybuilding Biography Book Club For Men
First Thursday of every month, 6-7pm.

Next meeting: Thursday November 3rd 2016
Next book: Brother Iron, Sister Steel: A Bodybuilder’s Book, by Dave Draper (On Target Publications, 2001).