We’ll be at Short Run comix and arts festival on November 15th. We will debut our third collaborative zine, Xenographic #3, themed FOOD. Please say you’ll be there, too!
**Short Run will also host a number of events, in addition to the fest at Washington Hall, from November 10th-20th. Check it out because it’s going to be rad.
The next Xenographic coming soon, and the theme is Food. Yum! Gross! No holds barred in this collection featuring stories, comix, and other doo-dads by Emily Wittenhagen, Jon Horn, Evan Peterson, Gabriela Ooh, and many, many more! This is a particularly special zine because it will be presented in conjunction with Dallas/Portland/ Internet/all around the country-based collective (wo)manorial on October 25th, and will debut in Seattle at ShortRun in November. Proceeds will help support ZAPP!
After a brief break from our open hours at Black Coffee, we’re relaunching our open hours at Hollow Earth Radio, the third Sunday of every month from 4pm-6pm, following our appearance on the Buoy and Bellow show at 2:30pm.
ZAPP members will be there to answer any questions you have about the organization. Come check out some zines, listen to good music, and work on your newest screed, compare binding tips and what not.
Much thanks to our own Hannah Fischer, DJ Dusty Mantle and Hollow Earth for helping make this happen!
Here’s a round-up of stuff we’ve been up to:
Events
Publications
Administration
ZAPP asked, and you gave—more than $2,000 to our Give Big campaign. Thanks to everyone who donated and helped us take advantage of a great opportunity! And thanks to Shunpike for acting as our fiscal sponsor and making it possible for us to take donations.
It’s an awkward thing, fundraising for an organization that has most of its physical assets in storage for the time being. We’d love to have you over to browse our archive of 30,000+ zines! We can’t wait to invite you back to use our lightbox/typewriter/photocopier to make your next project!
Why is ZAPP so awesome and worthy of your financial support? Well, we can’t have you visit us so we can show you, but for now let us tell you what we love about ZAPP.
Emily, our fundraising chair, loves that ZAPP is “a killer resource for celebrating and developing experimental ideas.” One of the main reasons we’re in serious fundraising mode right now is so that we can afford to have our own space again — or, as Emily sums it up, “to ensure that there is a safe space for these ideas to be preserved, created, and accessed by the public.”
Were you there for our big Sasquatch exhibit in January 2010 at Hugo House? Nora, our coordinator at the time, remembers intern Owen putting that together. “So many people started to reveal their call to Bigfoot” — like participating artists Kelly Froh, David Lasky, Darin Shuler, Greg Hoffman, Mare Odomo, Curt Waller, and Max Clotfelter. “And Steve Willis, zine-maker and librarian, donated his Sasquatch zines stories — told us some whoppers too.”
Kelly McElroy tweeted today:
I was sitting in @zappseattle when I realized I wanted to become a librarian, so if you’re glad I did, mebbe donate? https://t.co/I1rgr1XTF3
— Kelly McElroy (@kellymce) May 6, 2014
Chris (that’s me!) was there when ZAPP hosted the first ever Zine Librarians (un)Conference — I’ve been trying to apply librarian standards to my personal zine archive at home ever since. And Jon, our legal/governance chair, enjoyed the ZL(u)C zine reading where Zach Mandeville brought down the house with a reading from his zine, “Funwater Awesome.”
What have you loved about ZAPP? Have you been to one of our workshops? Did you make a zine at ZAPP? What amazing zines have you read in our archive? How has ZAPP inspired you? Leave your stories and reminiscences in the comments! And, if you feel moved, pop over to the GiveBIG tip jar (specify “for ZAPP” in the comments field) and leave us a few coins.
Join us this Tuesday, May 6th, for The Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG!
GiveBIG is a one-day, online charitable giving event to inspire people to give generously to nonprofit organizations who make our region a healthier and more vital place to live.
On Tuesday, May 6th, donate to ZAPP for GiveBig! This is a wonderful day to show us your support because a percentage of your gift will be enhanced by the Seattle Foundation’s matching pool, making your donation go even further!
When you GiveBIG, you protect a cultural resource and you contribute to preserving a historically significant and unique archive:
Help us spread the word! Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, and use#GiveBIG when gabbin’ about why you love ZAPP.
Click here to donate to ZAPP on May 6th. **Make sure you specify ZAPP in the comments field
(For more information on the Seattle Foundation and the GiveBIG event, peruse their FAQ page.)
ZAPP’s collections may be in storage, but ZAPP is still out and about town. We hold regular Open Hours at Black Coffee Co-Op
(501 East Pine Street) “on the 10s” of every month — the 10th, 20th, and 30th — usually 4-8p.m. Come hang out with the ZAPP community to work on your current zine project or just chat. Bring your own supplies, because ours are in storage, too!
Always double-check our event calendar to make sure Open Hours are still on! Occasionally we have to cancel if we have a conflict.
On a rainy Sunday this past March. the Vermillion bar was chock full of weirdos: zinesters, comic artists, poets, performers and other awesome folks. The beer flowed almost as much as the poetry, our high school correspondent made led collage-making in the front galleries, and we all were there to celebrate the long awaited, glorious independence of the Zine Archive & Publishing Project.
Only a few weeks prior to the move of the collection to our temporary storage through Seattle Public Library, we thought a party would be in order for a couple reasons. One was that we were working so hard on behind the scenes business that some people assumed ZAPP had shut down, an assumption which clearly could not stand. We also had been so busy on behind the scenes business that we hadn’t seen our ZAPP buddies in a very long time… and of course, we really just needed to throw down and have a huge party. And luckily, all of ZAPP’s alums are hugely talented and equally generous, so the entertainment was great.
Mark Campos gave a short and hilarious presentation on his favorite zines, including the infamous “Frrr without Fear” about, you know, furries; Emily Wittenhagen came with a haunting sound and poetry performance; Bryan Edenfield took us on a winding journey through the mythical Southwest and the world of professional writing; Graham Issac shared some fierce and powerful readings; Kate Lebo took us through a road trip through rural Washington.
And the EMTs only had to come once.
If you were there, you know it was amazing. If you missed it, well, you’ll just have to come to one of our upcoming open hours at Black Coffee Coop. So far we’ve been treated to marching bands and free feasts, so they’ve been pretty magical themselves.
Busy times for us! Here’s a quick accounting of recent and upcoming ZAPP happenings (‘zappenings’?).
And here’s what it looks like when you box up a zine archive. This is 100 boxes, which is not at all the full collection:
100 boxes of zines on the floor, 100 boxes of zines…..