Registration for tabling has opened at the 10th Annual Portland Zine Symposium, which takes place on August 28th and 29th at Portland State University!
August 13, 2010: 
Stock is a monthly public dinner event and presentation series
based in Portland, Oregon which funds small to medium-sized artist
projects. You'll get to eat a delicious dinner, read event proposals from around 10 different artists/projects, and then vote for your favorite. The project with the most votes receives the proceeds from the ticket sales.
August Stock will be held Sunday, August 15th at PNCA, with Tressa Yellig from Salt, Fire and Time Community Supported Kitchen as guest chef. Email your RSVP: portlandstock@gmail.com. Dinners are often sold out in advance but cheaper tickets for the "peanut gallery" -- dinner not included -- are usually available at the door.
SF Zine Fest is a free annual two-day conference for independent and underground publishing.
Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on
zines, all walks of
DIY life are represented -- comics, arts and crafts, literary presses, and more.
SF Zine Fest was founded in 2002 by Jenn of
Starfiend Distro.
SF Zine Fest 2010 is brought to you by the hard-working folks at Family Style, New Lights Press,
Monkey & Seal,
Goteblud, StreetWorthy Zine,
SLAB Comics, and many other wonderful volunteers.
I was interviewed for this book quite some time ago ~ let's hope I still agree with myself! Dissatisfied with passive consumption, many residents of Portland, OR,
take matters into their own hands. Associate Professor of Urban Studies
Charles Heying noticed these local artisans prospering all over the city
and set out to study their thriving economy. Profiling hundreds of
local businesses, and with an eye on Portland's unique penchant for
sustainability and urban development, Brew to Bikes (Ooligan Press, 2010) is about
everything from bike manufacturers to microbreweries, from
do-it-yourself to traditional crafts. A treatise to local, ethical
business practices, Brew to Bikes positions Portland as a hub of artisan ingenuity worthy of admiration.
I'm so excited for Collateral Matters curated by our pals Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt! The Museum of Contemporary Craft invited them to create an exhibition
from materials often overlooked in museum collections. Using printed
materials and ephemera from the Museum archive, the exhibition reveals
stories about the history of printing and design in Portland, and
communicates how such printed materials construct institutional
identity.
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