MARK YOUR CALENDARS- Two of our favorite stores in the Mile End are throwing a sweet craft fair and it should not be missed! They’ve been featuring a few of the artists that will be in attendance on their blog and we’re pretty excited! And to end those 2 days of craft madness, 3 of [...]
As the Fringe Festival draws a close, I’m on the hunt for new projects and fun artsy activities to get excited about that aren’t part of my regular life. So far, so good — I scored big time discovering the 24-Hour Zine Thing!
In short, the 24-Hour Zine Thing is a loosely-defined “event” where by the [...]
Amy Johnson from Atelier Woodenapples and Tom Devlin from Drawn and Quarterly are teaming up to put together a brand new craft fair at La Sala Rossa in Montreal on July 12th-13th.
Pomme-Pomme Craft and Zine Fair is now accepting applications! If you make something lovely, head on over to their blog to find out more [...]
Almost every one of us got our first lessons in style from our mothers. Whether by practical advice or in setting an example, how (and with whom) we grow up has a huge influence on the evolution of our aesthetic tastes. Hell, even the complete absence of fashion effects us somehow.
Do you have a story [...]
Straight from the producer’s mouth…
Please mark your calendar for December 1st and designate it ‘Craft Fair experience of a life time’ day.
From 11am - 6pm local designers of all varieties will be selling their craft to the public:
Jewelry, Fashion, Culinary Design, Zines, Publishers and much much more…
After the arty madness Quel Damage will be [...]
We at Indyish want to bring you reviews and highlights from Expozine 07. Unlike theatre and music reviews, ‘zines take a little time to ruminate (read: read) but we promise to blog as we consume our Expozine purchases over the next few days.
Grab onto your anal beads cuz this issue’s gonna be wide open! Open format, open relationships, body openings… you name it we want it, over and over and over again.
So send us your words, photos, art, sweaty bodies and faces and all your freaky personalities. Think big – in the multiples issue, more is more!
Content
In [...]
We are dedicating a full day to zine’s and other indie publications for the art markets that are part of our Indyish @ Fringe events.
Zine makers and other indie publishers face special challenges - their production costs are high and profit margins low, and so getting involved in fairs like the Fringe Fairs [...]
Remember Sex Ed? Everybody has a story of wooden penises, condom jokes, STI villains and awkward silences. Some might even have vivid memories filled with clinical details of genital anatomy or a really hot sex ed teacher. Since sexual education mysteriously vanished with the 2005 educational reform, how will it be remembered? How will it [...]
In the blur before the 5th Anniversary Expozine, Louis Rastelli generously sat down to scribe some answers to quick questions about the annual epic zine fair he founded; how it happened and what makes it heroic…
- What is your role in Expozine and how did you get involved?
I founded the fair with a [...]