FOTP 2017
Sticky Institute’s Festival Of The Photocopier 2017 is happening on February 9-12, with the massive zine fair in Melbourne Town Hall taking place Sunday February 12th.
Yep, that means:
FOTP 2017 ZINE FAIR
MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
SUNDAY 12TH FEBRUARY from 12-5pm.Facebook event here.
Our allocation of zine tables is now fully booked. If you would like to be added to a waiting list for a space, please email downstairs@stickyinstitute.com with your name and the zine(s)/distro you would be representing.
Let us know if you have any questions. See you at the zine fair!
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#FOTP2017 EVENTS
Thursday February 9
6pm: Concrete Queers #7 Zine Launch
CQ7 is all about spec fic! Come down to Sticky and grab a copy for all your queer sci fi needs. Dress up if that’s your thing, or just come for some snacks and company.
Image by Frank Candiloro. Facebook event here.
7.30pm: Festival Of The Photocopier Launch Party at The Tote
#FOTP2017 opens with a party at The Tote with live music from Pearl Bay, Qwerty, The Night Before Tomorrow, Piss Factory and Heat Wave, plus zine-related delights.
Facebook event here.
Friday February 10
12 - 1.30pm: Create zines, not codependency!
In Bastian Fox Phelan’s popular zine series How to Be Alone they document their experiences overcoming codependency through creative expression. In this workshop, Bastian will share their process and guide participants through writing exercises designed to help you discover and express your unique voice. Bastian will also facilitate discussion around blocks to creativity and how to move past them, especially for those who struggle to make art while in relationships.
5pm: Jack Kirne & Aaron Billings, Discount Fabric, Volume One: The Campaign Zine Launch
‘We’re fucked. Totally screwed. And what are we doing? Buying at op-shops to protest sweat shops and campaigning for a party that pledges one-hundred and fifty billion dollars to public transport with full knowledge they’ll never win enough seats to deliver.’
Brunswick. It might be the hottest week of the year. A candidate smiles upon the pedestrians making their way to the litany of Organic grocers, the trams that clamour past and the students off to the pub. The Green Army has fought the good fight. And on Sydney Rd, a boy lives in an apartment atop Discount Fabric, a disappointing shop soon to pass in the steady tide of gentrification.
The Campaign is the first part of a triptych of graphic narratives written by Jack Kirne and illustrated by Aaron Billings, which together form the work Discount Fabric. It is above anything a queer love story, unsettled by the threat of a world under siege of environmental collapse, regressive politics and economic turmoil.
Aaron Billings is a Melbourne based Artist, illustrator and human bean bag. You can find him at @dillings. He lives with his partner, Jack Kirne in West Brunswick, where they spend most days writing songs for their Chihuahua, Spooky Sue. Jack and Spooky can be found at @spooky_sue_stories. Facebook event here.
Saturday February 11
9am: Small Zine Volcano zine distro launch
Small Zine Volcano is a new zine distro for free zines. It will erupt for the first time at #FOTP2017 with “The Feast Of The Photocopier”, a pancake breakfast party and free zine launch.
12 - 2pm: The Girl Fridas launch ZINES
Alice, Shannon, and Bianca all launch zines as part of Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier. Featuring a DJ set from Shannon, readings from Alice, art from Bianca, and a live set from our dear friend June Jones of Two Steps On The Water! Facebook event here.
2pm: State Library of Victoria zine collection tour
The SLV offers a select number of guests a tour of their zine collection as part of Festival Of The Photocopier. Having actively collected zines since 1999, the Library now has the largest public collection of zines in Australia. They receive regular zine submissions from Sticky and have recently accepted a 2,500-title donation from zine academic Anna Poletti. To book a space on the tour, please email: downstairs@stickyinstitute.com
4pm: Young Black folks creating, presented by Still Nomads
Join us - Mary, Ruth, Idil, Zack, Inez and Aisha - as we launch our recent work for Sticky’s Festival of the Photocopier 2017. Featuring readings, spoken word, conversation and tunes.7pm: G i r l h o o d
Sticky will be in attendance at G i r l h o o d, a night of music, spoken word, visual art, performance and zines at The Old Bar. As part of the event there will be new zines launching from Brisbane femzine collective Woolf Pack and Melbourne sci-fi collective Moss Piglet.
Sunday February 12
12-5pm: ZINE FAIR!
12-5pm: YOU #800 Zine Launch Exhibition
Weekly zine YOU launches its eight hundredth issue with an interactive exhibition in the Condell Room of Melbourne Town Hall, as part of the #FOTP2017 zine fair.