Thursday February 7th:
Pey Chi exhibition at The City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Throughout the whole festival. The poster for The Festival of the Photocopier 2019 was designed by Pey Chi. See more of their work throughout the whole library throughout the whole festival.
Queer Pals - (un)socialites. 6pm to 8pm. The Back Room, 787 Nicholson Street, Carlton. This is an official side event of Festival of the Photocopier 2019 entirely organised and hosted by Brisbane’s wonderful QueerContent Comix + Zines. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/274474576564186/
Friday February 8th:
Feed The Animals - Sticky Institute Zine Fundraiser. 4pm to 5pm at Sticky Institute, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. Sticky has approached a stack of zinemakers and asked them to make a limited edition short run zine as a fundraiser for Sticky. All zines made as part of the project will be launched here with any left over from the launch being available at the zine fair. Once the zines are gone they are gone forever!
Failbook Zine Launch. 5pm - 7pm at Sticky Institute, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. The launch of a tiny zine about a big fantasy. A Sydney - Melbourne co-creation by Ania and Shamini.
Festival of the Photocopier Official Launch Party. 7.30pm until late at The Burrow, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. The full line up is: The Copy Copy Scams (USA), Alex Wrekk - zine reading (USA), Way Shit, Emma D (Sydney) - zine reading, The Night Before Tomorrow, Luke You - zine reading, Sticky Institute zine stall, Small Zine Volcano zine stall, Way Shit fanzine launch on The Great Auk Merch Stall. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/287739928764576/
Saturday February 9th:
The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair - Day 1. 12 noon to 5pm. 270 zine stalls at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2289444454621948/
Live stream of the zine fair by zinemaker and filmmaker David Mahler.
Sunday February 10th:
The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair - Day 2. 12 noon to 5pm. 270 zine stalls at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2289444454621948/
QueerContent Comix + Zines Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Zine Tour. 1pm - 3pm at The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. This is an official side event of the Festival of the Photocopier entirely organised by Brisbane’s wonderful QueerContent Comix + Zines in conjunction with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Q!C is thrilled to co-facilitate another visit to the ALGA Queer Zine Library. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/274885303205009/
Sticky Institute acknowledges that The Festival of the Photocopier 2019 is being held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
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.
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.
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.