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Zine Camp at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, July 21st

Published on June 29, 2024 0 Comments
Jul ’24
21
1:00 pm

Zine Camp 2024 presented by Zine Club Chicago

1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  Sunday, July 21, 2024

Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library

3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport

Free!

Zine Camp, the annual summer camp-style hangout for folks who love zines presented by Zine Club Chicago, returns this July at a new location in Bridgeport!

Zine campers, get ready for a fun day of zinemaking, workshops, zine trading, socializing, snax, and more! Newbies and Zine Club Chicago regulars alike are welcome at Zine Camp 2024, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 21 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Free!

Camp activities include:

*Fortune teller zine workshop led by Larry Wolf!
*An impromptu rhyming zine appreciation jam led by Ayun Halliday!
*Mixtape-themed zine workshop led by Cynthia E. Hanifin!
*Zinemaking stations for adults and kids!
*All. the. snacks! (s’mores and more)

Zine Club Chicago also be hosting a pen pal station so you can strike up a correspondence with an out-of-town zine friend! Can’t make it to Zine Camp and want a pen pal? Sign up here: tiny.cc/ZineCamp2024PenPals

Feel free to drop in anytime between 1-5 p.m. and stay for as long as you like. Zine Camp homebase will be the indoor Community Room at the Richard J. Daley library branch, with activities around the fountain outdoors as weather permits. Make sure to visit the brand-new Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library while you’re in the Community Room, too!

Need a map, directions to help you get there, accessibility information, and details about our afterparty? You can find all the info about Zine Camp 2024 (including where we’re going for the afterparty!) at zine.camp + @zineclubchicago + quimbys.com

Zine Camp is made possible by the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library and branch manager Jeremy Kitchen; Quimby’s Bookstore and shop manager Liz Mason; and zinemakers Lucinda J. Williams and Johnny Misfit.

Shoutout to the Zine Camp Counselors: Aim Beland, Michael Verdi, Ayun Halliday, Liz Mason, and Cynthia E. Hanifin.

Thank you to Aim Beland for designing the Zine Camp 2024 logo and poster!

Facebook Event Link is here!

Image description

A blue flyer with the illustration of an orange tent made out of a stitchbound zine and a tree branch, with this text: “Zine Camp 2024; A (free) meetup for those who love zines!; Brought to you by Zine Club Chicago; 1-5 p.m. July 21th; Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. (Bridgeport, Chicago); for more info, visit zine.camp”

Note: this event is not at Quimby’s!

Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition, June 25th

Published on June 1, 2024 0 Comments
Jun ’24
25
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25 on Zoom
Free!

Happy Pride Month! In June, Zine Club Chicago will be celebrating zines created by LGBTQIA+ zinemakers, so bring your favorite self-published perzines, diary comics, radical treatises, how-to guides + more to discuss during the conversation! Queer zinemakers are especially encouraged to share their own work.

Grab your fave queer zines to share, BYOG(ushers) and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25!

** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5 p.m. CT Monday, June 24 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers, created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events.

More info at the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event invite link here.

P.S. Thanks to everybody who came out to the May Zine Club Chicago meeting at Quimby’s with Alex O’Keefe of DnA Artists! Download the zine that everybody contributed to so that you can print and assemble it HERE!

Image description: A rainbow version of the Zine Club Chicago logo, which features an illustration of a lightbulb with a zine inside of it.

South Side Zine Library Launch Party in Bridgeport, June 9th

Published on May 17, 2024 0 Comments
Jun ’24
9
1:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago is thrilled to announce the launch of a brand-new South Side Zine Library! This free community resource, stocked with zines of all kinds, will be permanently housed in the Community Room at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library in Bridgeport.

To celebrate, Zine Club Chicago is pairing up with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club to host a launch party featuring the intermittent reading and performance series Three Songs, plus an open mic and zinemaking!

All are invited to the Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library Launch Party featuring Three Songs with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club on Sunday, June 9 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Zinemaking begins at 1 p.m.; the Three Songs readings and performance will start at 2 p.m. Free!

For the Three Songs performance, a trio of featured readers will each share a story about one of the songs in the BRGC punk a capella repertoire, and then the group will sing it. The readers are:

More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago socials: @zineclubchicago

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the monthly flyers and created the logo, and she also created the visuals for the South Side Zine Library.

Zine Club Chicago would like to thank the South Side Zine Library sponsors: The Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library + branch manager Jeremy Kitchen, Quimby’s Bookstore, Lucinda J. Williams, and Johnny Misfit.

Want the Facebook Event Post for this? Go here!

Want the CPL listing? Go here!

Image description

A flyer with an image of the Chicago skyline viewed from Palmisano Park in Bridgeport and this text: “Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library Launch Party! Featuring Three Songs with Blue Ribbon Glee Club; Readings by Nikki Roberts, Liz Olney, and Cynthia E. Hanifin; Punk a capella performance, open mic + zinemaking!: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 9; Richard J. Daley Branch, Chicago Public Library in Bridgeport; 3400 S. Halsted St.; More info: quimbys.com; Instagram: @zineclubchicago; chipublib.org

Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe, May 11th

Published on May 2, 2024 0 Comments
May ’24
11
3:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives –
A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe
3 p.m. Saturday, May 11
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome special guest Alex O’Keefe of DnA Artists as we each share personal narratives to form a group perzine!

Alex will walk participants through the process of creating a small auto-bio work (writing, drawing, collage — anything goes!) She’ll gather those stories to create an anthology zine, which everyone on the Zine Club Chicago Google group email list will receive for home printing after the event. A limited number of free print copies will also be made available at our shop (first-come, first-served).

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe, 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park. Free!

We’ll provide zinemaking supplies and snacks. Zine Club Chicago is a mask-supportive environment; we’ll have masks available if you’d like to wear one. Please note that seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Alex O’Keefe (she/her) is a Chicago-based artist, librarian, and storyteller. Her creative work often takes the form of comics, drawings, fiber arts, zines, and book arts. She is 1/2 of DnA Artists, who make bite-sized, humorous, and often informative zines, prints, and paper goods with an illustrative and comics aesthetic.

 

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers, created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info at the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Flyer design by Anna Jo Beck, featuring an illustration by Alex O’Keefe.
Photo of Alex by Jamie Kelter Davis.

Facebook event link is here.

Image descriptions

A red-and-blue infographic flyer featuring an illustration by Alex O’Keefe of a person wearing glasses and holding a zine, with text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe,; In Person! Free!; 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, 2024; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park”

A headshot of Chicago-based artist, librarian, and storyteller Alex O’Keefe.

Zine Club Chicago Online: Return of Zine Bingo Edition, April 23rd

Published on April 8, 2024 0 Comments
Apr ’24
23
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: Return of Zine Bingo Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23 on Zoom
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is bringing back Zine Bingo! Our twist on the classic game will give everyone an opportunity to go on a scavenger hunt through your own zine collections.

Check out our bingo card, grab your zines, BYOS(nacks) and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Return of Zine Bingo Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Here’s how our version of Zine Bingo will work: We’ve created a zinecentric bingo card that you can find in this post and at quimbys.com. (We’ll all be using the same card for the game; feel free to print it out or download it). Each box on the card represents a category of zines that you might have in your collection; for example, a how-to zine or a zine about cats.

Before we meet, search your collection and find one zine that corresponds to a category in one box from each vertical row on the card. The rows are marked with the letters Z-I-N-E-S. Each box also has a number in the corner. (Y’all are welcome to bring zines that correspond to more or fewer than one box per row, or to not bring zines at all and join us just to hang out.)

During our event, we’ll randomly pull bingo balls marked with the letter and number of each box on the bingo card. Folks with a zine that fits the category in the box we’ve called will then tell us about the zine they brought. We’ll keep going until we get a collective bingo! (Everyone is a winner at Zine Club Chicago.)

** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5 p.m. CT Monday, April 22 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23.

-> Please note that we’ve changed the RSVP cutoff to 5 P.M. CT on the evening before our online event! <-

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info at the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event link is here.

Image descriptions

A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with an image of a round wire receptacle filled with bingo balls, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Return of Zine Bingo Edition; Online! Free!; Zoom info + bingo card on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23, 2024”

A handmade Zine Bingo board with a description of a different category of zine in each square.