30 November 2018 
Sticky Institute is now accepting bookings for The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2019!
Book via the online booking form here:
https://goo.gl/forms/DOZ615TPgG30ssEj2The zine fair will be a two day zine fair at the new location of the historic Trades Hall on Lygon Street in Carlton. The zine fair is happening on Saturday February 9th and Sunday February 10th 2019. The zine fair will go from 12 to 5 each day. It is free for zinemakers to have a stall at the zine fair because you are zinemakers and we love you. We will provide you with tables and chairs too.
Please note - we are a zine shop organising a zine fair as part of a zine festival. We are expecting the zine fair to fully book out with beautiful zinemakers and there is not space at the zine fair for anything but zines. Thank you for keeping the zine fair a zine fair.
To allow as many zinemakers as possible to participate in the zine fair we are offering half table spots to individual zinemakers and full tables to zine distros. You will need to nominate which day of the zine fair you would like to participate. We are offering two day spots to distros, interstate visitors and international visitors. There will be a waiting list for individual zinemakers who would like to participate in both days.
Now get to work and make as many zines as you can as the clock is ticking down to 12 noon on February 9th.
Thanks to the City of Melbourne for their support of the event through their Annual Arts Grants Program. Their support allows us to keep the event free for all zinemakers.
Thanks to the amazing Pey Chi for designing the zine fair poster. Find more information on them here: https://www.peychi.com/
If you have any questions about the zine fair you can get in touch with the Sticky Institute coordinators by emailing: downstairs@stickyinstitute.com
See you at the zine fair!!!
All at Sticky.
22 August 2018 Hey zine fans,
As you’ll already know, the Festival Of The Photocopier is getting bigger and better each year we put it on. Last year the town hall was full to the brim - but what you might not know is we’ve reached capacity for how many spaces we’re able to offer. As a fix to this we’re trying for a two-day zine fair next year but we’ll need your help to put it on.
In a bid to get the funding we’d need to put on a two-day zine fair (and be able to offer twice as many spaces) we’re trying for a Pick My Project grant from the Victorian Government, you can find our project here:
You do have to register with the website to vote for the fair, and you will need to be enrolled in Victoria to register to vote. We understand that it’s a bit of a strange registration//voting process but we really want to be able to put on a bigger and better zine fair for you - and to do that we’ll need those funds.
The voting is only open for the next 4 weeks so please please please get in quick!
Much zine love, Sticky.
• • • • • • • • • • MORE AFTER THE JUMP • • • • • • • • • • 22 August 2018 HTML Flowers will be showing some of his prints in the window at Sticky Institute for the whole month of August 2018. Get on down to Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne and you can purchase one for just $5! The exhibition is happening as part of Craft Cubed.
2 July 2018 For the month of July Sticky Institute has taken over all the display cabinets in the City Library and filled them with zines (and staplers). The exhibition is titled Zine Enclosure and can be viewed during all hours the library is open.
11 June 2018 
Sticky Institute and The Emerging Writers Festival proudly present The Melbourne/Tokyo Zine Translation Project. A launch of five Melbourne zines translated into Japanese with zines by Ashley Ronning, Luke You, Gemma Flack, Bianca Martin and Rachel Ang. Thursday 21st June 2018, 9pm to 11pm at Loop Project Space, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne. Free entry. Poster by Thee Ashley Ronning.
24 February 2018 
We’ll be at Halfway Print Fest in Wagga Wagga, hosted by the fantastic Salad Days Zine, and featuring a presentation by our Luke.
23 February 2018 
Natalie Michelle Watson of Drongo Press has made this brilliant poster for the Save Campbell Arcade campaign, feel free to share it!
22 February 2018 David Mahler’s documentary Save Campbell Arcade is now online, to follow the campaign visit this Facebook page, and sign the petition here.
20 February 2018 
Did you miss out on an official Sticky tote bag at #FOTP2018? We now have them available in the shop or online for $10
17 January 2018 
Sticky Institute presents:
Festival of the Photocopier 2018 Launch Party
Upstairs at The Tote Hotelwith live music from:
Eat-Man
Bogano
Tina Growls
Made Austria (launching their new album Lick The Cream)…plus some zines probably. Facebook event here.
Festival Of The Photocopier (#FOTP2018) is a weekend celebration of zine culture, taking place between Thursday 8 - Sunday 11 February. For more information visit www.stickyinstitute.com
Sticky Institute acknowledges that Festival Of The Photocopier is being held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations, and Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded.
18 December 2017 
Sticky will close for 2017 at 5pm on Saturday 23 December.
We will be taking a break to prepare for Festival of the Photocopier 2018 and work out what the hell we’re going to do if our shop gets demolished.
Sticky will open for 2018 at midday on Wednesday 24 January.
15 December 2017 
Thank you to everyone who gave their feedback to MetroTunnel regarding the proposed changes to Campbell Arcade that would involve the demolition of Sticky. We understand the survey had over 1,500 responses!
There are still things you can do to help protest the development plans. Ellen Sandell MP has created this petition asking Labor’s Planning Minister Richard Wynne to consider the impact of the planned tunnel on Melbourne’s heritage.
Sign here: http://www.ellensandell.com/campbell_arcade
13 December 2017 Here’s a short video by Kaylene Tyler and Brodie Marchant about the #SaveSticky campaign and proposed development plans in Campbell Arcade.
You have until Friday December 15 to give feedback on these plans to MetroTunnel here: http://tinyurl.com/SaveSticky
Here is further background on the current zine emergency.
11 December 2017 
The tenth issue of the zine CHOWDER is here!
Featuring works from -
Ari Fisher
Aaneke Fitzgerald
Chloe Sheppard
Sabine Evans
Pink Bits
Martino Passi
Lizzi Morris
Ashleigh Pollard
& Renee KypriotisCome along for the launch party!
Friday 15th December
5:00-7:00 PM
At Sticky!
With Special Guests:Nicholas Bentley-Mackinnon / 5:00 PM
Plastic Rupert / 5:30 PM
Cracker La Touf / 6:00 PM& some delish vegan cupcakes!
- This is an alcohol free event -
Facebook event hereHope to see you all there! ♥
6 December 2017 
Here is the poster for Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2018 by Renee Kypriotis, creator of Chowder zine.
Zinesters! Over half of the spaces have already been allocated, don’t delay if you want one! Find out how to apply here.
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