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Title:
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Aboveground Zine Library
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START DATE:
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2/25/2006
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START TIME:
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12:00 AM
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Duration:
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7 Hours
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Location:
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Bywater/Marigny
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Location Details:
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Iron Rail Bookstore, 511 Marigny St. (At Decatur St.)
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Event Topic:
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Event Type:
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Lecture/Teach-in
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Contact Name:
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Robb
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Contact Email:
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Abovegroundlibrary@yahoo.com
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Contact Phone:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Help rebuilt New Orleans… with zines.
Hi, People have written me and asked me, how they can help out with the zine library in New Orleans. Here are two suggestions I have. The first I am having a Mardi Gras paraded on bikes. The throws will be grab bags of zines. If you do a zine and would liked to participated in this? I am asking if you could donate 30 or less of your zine you do?
The second, I have acquired more space at the zine library for more donations. If you’re interested in donating zines you have obtain and would liked to see your zines in a zine library. The zine library accepts zines, political magazines, political newspapers, political newsletters and political pamphlets. If you’re wondering I do take much care or the zines. They are just not thrown on the ground and say lets see if I can find a zine I might liked in this stack. Every zine donation goes into a plastic seal bag and it’s put on a bookshelf. Every zine is catalog and I go to great lengths to preserve the zine collection at the zine library. The zine library barley made it dry from that storm. Next time if there is a storm treating New Orleans. I will bring the zine collection some floors up as I did last time when the storm hit. You can send as many zines you want to Quickdummies // 107 East Lakeshore Drive // Carriere, MS 39426. The library can’t pay for shipping of your zines and I am sorry about that. We only have funds for supplies towards the library. Thank you very much for your donations. Remember to send the zines media mail so you can get a discount. The library only happen because of donations.
Aboveground Zine Library opening and more on Saturday, February the 25th @), New Orleans at 12:00 am.
In celebration of 5,000 more zines added to Aboveground Zine Library collection. Aboveground Zine Library, Iron Rail Bookstore and Hot Iron Press are doing a free day long zine related event. It will have workshops, zine readings, live music, movie showing, tabling and even a Mardi Gras, paraded on bikes. There will be tables to buy trade or give away your zine. Free snacks and drinks through out the day.
12:00 am - Aboveground Zine Library crew parade on bikes that starts at the 600th block of Marigny Street (Next to the bar.). The parade route will go to Decatur Street and end at Plan B Bikes. A marching band will perform and the throws will be grab bags filled with zines.
Workshops.
12:45 pm - What is Aboveground Zine Library? What’s the purpose and what does it do?
12:45 pm - What is the Iron Rail Bookstore? What’s the purpose and what does it do?
1:15 pm - How can you start your own zine? What to write and not write about? What do other zines write about? How to get inspired to write do your own zine? Overcoming writers block. How to do an interview?
1:15 pm - Different techniques on binding your own zine from staples, rope, tape and rubber bands. You will make your very own diary, scratch pad, organizer, phone book and zine or whatever to fill in the pages.
2:00 pm - Zinesters from New Orleans will bring their own master copy of their zines and explain how they layout their zine.
2:00 pm - Make an 8 page zine from one sheet of paper. Just fill in the pages with the supplies of markers and pens. After you finish your zine, you can copy your zine from a copier. Note: Two more workshops might be added.
Readings, Music and Movie.
2:45 pm - Zine readings from local zines. TBA on who will be reading from their zine.
3:30 pm - Local zinesters will play music. TBA on who will be playing music.
4:00 pm - A second showing of the movie “Hundred dollars and a T-Shirt”. It’s a documentary movie about zines in the Northwest. This is the second showing of the movie at the zine library. This time it’s a different version of the movie.
5:20 pm - Go to the real Mardi Gras parade.
Local zinesters, I need your help very badly. Come to the meeting on Thursday, January 26th at 6:00 pm at the Iron Rail Bookstore. If you have suggestions or want to help out with doing a reading or getting the bike parade organized or helping out with a workshop. The zine library has been over a year in the making. More info, contact Robb at Abovegroundlibrary@yahoo.com or 250-9543. Visit the website at http://www.geocities.com/abovegroundlibrary Coming soon: The An Idea Like No Other Mix Tape Library.
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