HALIFAX
The Roberts Street Social Centre is hosting a 24-hour zine challenge this weekend! They’re hosting a ton of fun events to encourage experts and first-time creators to put together a zine in 24 hours.
On Saturday August 24, things kick off at 4:00pm with a musical kick-off show. At 5:00pm, you can attend a Zine Making Workshop, where Anchor Archive zinesters will introduces you to zines and zine making and give you some pointers to start making a zine of your own. At 6:00pm, hang out at a free BBQ (and bring your own dish if you want!) The zine-making will continue into Saturday night.
On Sunday, August 25th, fuel up for your last few hours of zine-making with a breakfast at 10:00am. At 5:00pm the weekend rounds up with a Zine Launch Party (with cake!) The Centre will launch its collaborative zine, and you’re welcome to bring the zine that you made, check out other 24 hour zines, trade, and have some cake to celebrate and wrap up another 24 Hour Zine Challenge.
This is a great crash course in zine-making with some fun and friendly folks. Don’t miss it.
OTTAWA
Help one of Canada’s longest-running indie poetry presses celebrate its anniversary! Featuring Monty Reid (Ottawa) Gary Barwin (Hamilton), Marthe Reed (Syracuse), Wanda O’Connor (Montreal), Marcus McCann (Toronto).
The event will also be the launch for the limited-edition chapbook I simply began: above/ground press at 20 [an interview with rob mclennan]. Conducted by Cameron Anstee, the interview chapbook will be produced by his Apt. 9 Press.
TORONTO
Tuesday August 20, 8pm, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Trivia, The Press Club, 850 Dundas West, free
Test your Buffy knowledge amongst your fellow obsessives. Includes a “Once More, With Feeling” singalong, prizes and TACOS.
“Think Outside the Ring”: A Shape Your Life Art Project is a collection of paintings produced by participants in Shape Your Life (SYL), a free recreational boxing program for female and transgendered survivors of violence at the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Gym. These paintings are completed on boxing canvases by SYL boxers as part of their journey to their own healing. The paintings also celebrate making new connections to themselves and others.
VANCOUVER
Tuesday August 20, 7pm, Dr. Sketchy’s: Let Them Eat Cake, HOT ART Wet City, 2206 Main Street, $12
This month’s installment of the sexy anti-art school features award-winning LGBT author and activist Amber Dawn.
MONTREAL
Wednesday August 21, 6pm, Art + Activism II, Le Cagibi, 5490 St Laurent Blvd, free
A panel discussion with artist/activist Shahrzad Arshadi, writer David Austin (Fear of a Black Nation) and writer Sean Mills (The Empire Within) on the relationship between art and social activism in Québec society today and over past generations. Critical reflections on the relationship between the arts and social justice movements. Presented by Howl! arts collective.