2009 Format Festival

The return of the hugely successful Adelaide Zinester Walking Tour: Famous for getting kicked out of Borders, breaking into Adelaide Uni, trying to pass as a Christian Gathering and launching the smash hit single ‘Emoticons’.

Taken to new heights at the 2008 TINA festival with a midnight metal zine launch which terrified the local teenagers and saw at least one of Adelaide’s finest indie publishers leave their underpants behind a bush after an ill fated attempt to shit in public.

This year’s walking tour features, direct from the USA, the author of the award winning ‘On Subbing’ Dave Roche,  Arlene Texta Queen, the mysterious Luke You, Lisa ‘Muscles’ Dempster of Vignette Press, Tom and Lou from Breakdown Press, Joel Catchlove, Sydney socialite Amanda Baird, Sam Rodgers, Stan from Excitement Machine/Urtext, low fi super star John Stevens and Maddy Phelan. And I’ll be launching my ‘long awaited’ 30,000 word cycling zine.

If you have zines you’d like to launch, get in touch – we’d love to have you. The idea is to go to a bunch of interesting Adelaide locales and give people 30 seconds to launch their publication whilst standing on a milk crate.

More info: kanbara@senet.com.au

Presented by the Format Collective
Friday, March 13, 2009
Time: 5:45am – 8:45am
145 Hindley Street
City/Town: Adelaide, Australia

From Queerpunk Zombies on the Rampage to Emmett thee girl…

Themes: queercore, punk, riot grrrl, gender, poetry, prose, photography, collage, fancy dress, street art, vegetarianism, feminism, mental health, celebration of the self, urban life, city life, isolation, connection…

More at Emmett thee girl>…

Electroringe 2009 – Call for new co-director

Electrofringe is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with the current Co-Director, Somaya Langley, on the 2009 festival and on to 2010.

The Electrofringe festival showcases digital, electronic and media arts with a particular emphasis on emergent forms and techniques, focusing on encouraging interaction between emerging and professional practitioners, Electrofringe aims to create an open environment of exchange and peer-to-peer mentoring. Presenting workshops, panel discussions, installations, exhibitions, screenings and performances, the festival brings together artists, musicians, media makers, technicians, scientists, academics, cultural commentators, critics and enthusiasts working with a broad range of media. Electrofringe is part of This Is Not Art and happens annually for 5 days over the October long-weekend in Newcastle, NSW.

If you are interested in applying, please download the application guidelines from the Electrofringe website (www.electrofringe.net) and submit your application before the deadline of COB Monday 5th January 2009.

We Make Zines

We Make Zines is an online community for zine makers and readers. Although there are many social networking sites out there, there is little that focuses on zines. We all have our myspace or blogs, but those accounts are filled with friends from work, from the third grade, people who don’t know what a zine is and some who probably don’t care.

This space creates a place that focuses on the zines. I want this place to be less about personality and friends and more about the zines – what we produce and read.

You can create a profile, list your zineography, post images of zines, partake in the forums, find other zine writers, read about new releases, read reviews from your favorite zine writers and leave comments about the zine you just read on the actual zinesters profile.

http://wemakezines.ning.com/