The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer

This event is on Monday, July 5, from 7-9pm. Please come!

"The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer" chronicles the life and work of Richard Hunt, a central puppeteer on the international blockbusters Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. Hunt performed characters such as Scooter, Statler (in the balcony), Janice, Beaker and even Miss Piggy in her early drag queen days. He was also an out gay man, dying of AIDS-related causes in 1992 at the tragically young age of 40.

A multimedia event presented by Jessica Max Stein, the author of the zine (and soon-to-be full-length biography) The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer.

As with all TZL events, it is free and all-ages, but space is limited!

The library will be closed for CANZINE 2009

The library will be closed tomorrow November 1st, 2009... because we will be at Canzine 2009. If you're at Canzine, stop by our table!

CANZINE 2009
Canada's Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture

Sunday, November 1, 2009
1pm - 7pm
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto

$5 admission - comes with a free copy of Broken Pencil Issue #45

Hallowzine

The Toronto Zine Library invites you to come and celebrate the Toronto launch of the newly revised & reprinted Stolen Sharpie Revolution with an afternoon of readings by:

ALEX WREKK -- Portland, OR. (Stolen Sharpie Revolution, Brainscan Zine)

JEFF MILLER -- Montreal, QC. (Ghost Pine Fanzine, Negative Capability)

TERI VLASSOPOULOS -- Montreal, QC. (Melt the Snow, The Second Part, Cement. Flour. Saints)

CHRIS LANDRY -- Toronto, ON. (Kissoff Zine)

AMBER FORRESTER -- Montreal, QC. (Culture Slut, Fight Boredom)

MARANDA ELIZABETH -- Lindsay, ON. (Telegram Ma'am, Little Acorns, Edith)

SUZANNE SUTHERLAND -- Toronto, ON. (My Bad)

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Saturday October 31st
2pm
@ the Toronto Zine Library (2nd floor of the Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto.)

this event is FREE!

zines & books by the readers will be for sale, as well as TZL memberships, resource zines, & other merchandise

snacks & hot apple cider will be provided! costumes are strongly encouraged!

Queen West Art Crawl - Call for Submissions‏

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Independent Press
The Queen West Art Crawl is pleased to announce that we are currently seeking submissions for ‘Independent Press’. This new section of our Parkdale Crafters Market is focused on casting the spotlight on Toronto’s left-of-centre independent publications.

This includes, but certainly is not limited to; ZINES, COMICS, SILK-SCREENED POSTERS, SHOW POSTERS, AND PRINT BASED ART IN GENERAL.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your work to a wide audience and meet like-minded individuals.
The Independent Press will be located at the Green P Parking lot (1325 Queen St. West, Parkdale) from 11-6PM, September 19 & 20th.
Table Fee: $25.00
To apply go to: www.queenwestartcrawl.com and
click the Independent Press Icon
For more info contact Geoff: geoff@parkdaleliberty.com or call 416-516-8301.

Sackville zine fair!

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Dear Happy People Zining and Writing and Crafting and otherwise Making: You are cordially invited to show/sell your stuff at the most lovely
SappyFest small press/zine/and craft fair this Aug 1 of 2009, 12 - 4 pm.

We are looking for crafters, zinesters, and small press type folk to make this weekend really nice. This event is presented in collaboration with Conundrum Press and the Anchor Archive Zine Library. Special guests include Andy Brown, Dusty Peas, Elisabeth Belliveau
and a bunch of other readers.

Tables cost $15 per day (you can share).
Deadline is July 17th.
(please note that the cost for the table does not include a ticket to
the music festival)

please contact zinecrafter (at) sappyrecords.com to book a table or to
ask questions.
We sincerely hope you can make it!

xoxox
-team sappy

EVENT THIS SUNDAY

The newly-formed Zine Library Outreach Committee presents its first event!

We'll be screening the yet-to-be-released expanded version of Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island DIY Punk Scene. The new version includes deleted scenes, extra live footage, and follow up segments on Latterman, scene members, and women in punk.

After the film, Anna will be facilitating a sewing workshop so bring an article of clothing that needs mending! We'll have needles and thread and everything you need to sew on your new patches and fix that hole in the crotch of your jeans. There may also be vegan baked goods but no promises!

Date: July 19, 2009
Time: 1:30
Place: The Toronto Zine Library

CALL FOR ZINE SUBMISSIONS to tour Eastern Canada!

Our friend Ryan at Methinks Presents, which runs the gallery Project 165 in Kensington Market, has organized a traveling art show, called We Made a Deal with the Devil that will tour between Toronto and Halifax in August. The show has a zine component, and Ryan is looking for zines to be included in the tour!

If you have multiple copies of a zine you would like to see distributed across Eastern Canada, please get in touch with us or with Ryan. Our email address is torontozinelibrary@hotmail.com or Ryan can be reached at methinkspresents@gmail.com. Any zines left at the end of the tour will be shared between the Toronto Zine Library and Project 165.

For more information, check out the Methinks Presents website:: http://www.methinkspresents.org/

Hamilton Anarchist Book Fair

The Toronto Zine Library Collective will be at the Hamilton Anarchist Book Fair on June 6th (this Saturday). Come check it out!

Hamilton Anarchist Book Fair

Westdale High School
Street:
700 Main St. West
Hamilton, ON

10 A.M. - 4 P.M.

Common Cause presents Hamilton's 2nd Annual Anarchist Bookfair.

Free Lunch by Food not Bombs.
Free Child Care Provided.

For more information on vendors, workshops, etc. : http://linchpin.ca/events/Hamilton-Anarchist-Bookfair

Fundraiser

Thanks to everybody for coming to our fundraiser on Saturday. It was a big success.

Thanks especially to Cognate for organizing it!

Zine Library FUNdraiser

Come to our fundraiser next Saturday, April 18th, at 69 By the Pound (1234 Bloor Street West).

This is being organized by our friends at Cognate.

Featuring Performances by:

We Were Former [EP RELEASE!]
http://www.myspace.com/wewereformer

Tonnn
http://www.myspace.com/tonnnrules

André Thériault [resurfacing from hiatus]
http://www.myspace.com/andretheriault


There will also be vegan baked goods, art, drinks and TZL merchandise for sale throughout the night!

All Ages, Doors at 8pm, $5.

www.cognate.ca

TZL presenting ¨Zinemaking & Social Change Workshop¨ in WATERLOO

The Laurier Students´ Public Interest Research Group has invited the Toronto Zine Library to facilitate a workshop on Zinemaking & Social Change as part of the LSPIRG´s Community Innovation Certificate program!

¨This program is geared towards Laurier students, social innovators, sustainable entrepreneurs, change agents, enterprising non-profits, anyone who is interested in learning about being an effective change agent and applying creative problem-solving to their organization and their community. Over a period of three years, this pilot project will offer various sessions on issues ranging from grant writing, community organizing to strategic planning, financial planning, social entrepreneurship and other more innovative training opportunities.¨

Danielle and Suzanne of TZL will be presenting at Laurier University in Waterloo on Thursday, March 12th at 5:30 PM!

TZL @ Ladyfest 2008!

Sunday, September 21st. 1:30pm

Danielle and Tara of the TZL Collective will be facilitating a workshop titled Zinemaking for Social Change at this year's Ladyfest Toronto! In this open-format workshop/discussion, we will talk about the history of zinemaking within countercultural movements from the 1920 to the present, methods of making and distributing zines and pamphlets as well as the Toronto Zine Library and it's activities.

Ladyfest 2008 Workshop Venue:

St. Stephen's In-the Fields Church
103 Bellevue Avenue at College Street
North of Kensington Market
Toronto

From Ladyfest Toronto's website:

"Ladyfest Toronto is a four-day arts, culture and music festival. We are a non-profit, grassroots, do-it-yourself collective who seek to promote urban feminism. We work from a framework that is pro-feminist, trans-inclusive, pro-diversity and anti-oppressive. We seek to build community among Toronto's feminist businesses, artists, activists and academic community. We believe that art is a powerful form of resistance and hope to incite dialogue about contemporary feminist issues in our city. We will be providing a venue for women to express themselves and showcase their work free of sexism, classism, racism, and homophobia; as well as other forms of oppression.

We believe that politics can be fun and hope to facilitate political action and create tools for feminist networking at our annual event. We will proudly showcase the talent and actions of both local and international women. Ultimately, we hope Ladyfest Toronoto inspires women everywhere to organize themselves and create similar spaces that allow women's creative works to be seen and heard, as other Ladyfest's have for us."

For more information: http://www.ladyfesttoronto.ca

New Additions from August 19th, 2008

Ghost Pine, bees fanzine/quarter-size/Jeff Miller
Ghost Pine, blood fanzine/quarter-size/Jeff Miller
Ghost Pine, crows fanzine/quarter-size/Jeff Miller
Ghost Pine, wires fanzine/quarter-size/Jeff Miller
Ghost Pine, wolf fanzine/quarter-size/Jeff Miller

Thanks to Jeff Miller who donated these zines during the event at This Ain't the Rosedale Library tonight, with readings from Erick Lyle, Jeff Miller, Cathy Crowe, Dri, and Joey Comeau. The readings were all amazing and the event had a really great turnout. Thanks to everyone who participated and came out.

Another closure alert

The zine library will close early on Wednesday, August 20th. Well, the library will be open, but it will only be staffed from 5pm until 6pm.

In other news, remember to come to the event on Tuesday at This Ain't the Rosedale Library, and to Zine Dream, happening on Sunday, August 24th, at the Tranzac!

An event you should come to...

An evening of readings with a Q & A featuring Erick Lyle, Jeff Miller, Cathy Crowe, Dri and Joey Comeau.

6pm, on August 19, 2008
This Ain't the Rosedale Library (86 Nassau Street)

This is going to be amazing:

ERICK LYLE is the author of 'On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City' published by Soft Skull. Still proudly unemployed, Erick has been setting up punk shows and protests, touring with his various bands and editing his zine, SCAM, since 1991. His writing has
appeared on NPR's This American Life, in Raritan and the San Francisco Bay Guardian and various book anthologies. He is currently playing music in Black Rainbow and Onion Flavored Rings. He lives in San
Francisco. Erick will be reading with travelmate Jeff Miller, the creator of the Montreal/Ottawa zine Ghost Pine. "Everyone talks about 'guerrilla art,' but Lyle and his crew are the real deal, Viet Cong in the interstices of gentrification."- Mike Davis

CATHY CROWE is the author/editor of Dying for a Home. She wrote the book with homeless activists including Nancy Baker, Brian Boyd, Kevin Clarke, Dri et al. Cathy
Crowe calls herself a 'street nurse,' a term coined by a homeless man in downtown Toronto. She has been nursing and organizing with and for the homeless for about twenty years. 1998 saw Cathy's co-founding of
the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. Some years later Cathy played a key role supporting the hundred-plus homeless people at Toronto's TENT CITY - people who ultimately won housing. Cathy will be reading from Dying for a Home. Reading with Cathy Crowe will be the legendary homeless activist and artist/poet Dri., who's life story and creative work is featured in Dying for a Home.

JOEY COMEAU is the author of the novel Lockpick Pornography and the short story collection It's too Late to Say I'm Sorry both published by The Loose Teeth Press.

tzl open house

Come on out for our first annual TZL Spring Open House! Learn more about our collective activities and our collection, take time to read some of our fantastic materials, and find out about becoming a member with borrowing privledges. At the Open House, TZL-ers will be present to give tours of the collection and the library's other special features as well as answer any questions about what we do. There will also be a surprise Musical Guest, we'll be screening episodes of Our Hero as well as a short film about the Anchor Archive zine library in Halifax, and there will be snacks and drinks galore! Come out and show your support!

EVENT AT THE LIBRARY THIS SUNDAY

Dear all,
please come to a very special event this Sunday, February 3rd, at 1:30:

"Please join us for a talk with long-time zinemaker and vegan foodie extraordinaire Siue Moffat at the Toronto Zine Library. Siue is best known for her self-published masterpiece of a cookbook Lickin' the Beaters, a self-published vegan dessert book which will soon be re-pressed by PM Books, an imprint of AK Press. Her second book- of vegan chocolate and candy recipes- is due out this spring on PM Books as well. In her talk, Siue will talk about her various projects involving punk rock, zines, food, and self-publishing. Snacks will be served!! Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!"

CITY OF CRAFT

This Saturday, December 1, from 11am-8pm, join us at City of Craft at the Theatre Centre, at 1087 Queen St. West.

For more information, check out the City of Craft website.