Portland Zine Symposium

The Dates for the 2012 Portland Zine Symposium!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:11:15 PST

The 2012 Portland Zine Symposium will be held on August 11-12 and will be at the same location as last year. Stay tuned for details about table registration!

Portland Zine Symposium wants your artwork!

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:06:46 PST

Hello Zinesters and PZS fans! The Portland Zine Symposium is looking for art submissions for the 2012 poster. This year's theme is "Sea of Zines." Your art submission should be your creative interpretation of that theme. We encourage artists to use any medium or style. We strongly prefer that the chosen artist is able to assist us in the process of transferring (resizing / cropping / etc) the image multiple mediums. The formatting guidelines are simple: - We are looking for a 11" wide x 17" tall poster that will also be used in other formats (the website, post cards, buttons, stickers, etc), so your design needs to be visible and striking at multiple sizes and resolutions (or have smaller, breakaway pieces). - Only 3 colors! The design will eventually be silk screened / screen printed onto t-shirts, so limit your colors to black, white and one other color. Your design should include (or be able to include once all details are finalized) the following: - the theme - Sea of Zines - the dates - TBA (for now) - the place - Refuge 116 SE Yamhill - the website - www.pdxzines.com - "12th Annual Portland Zine Symposium" and the year "2012" - "A conference and zine social exploring facets of independent publishing and DIY culture." Submission deadline is February 25th. Submissions can be emailed to pdxzines@gmail.com (most strongly preferred), mailed (to PO Box 5901 Portland, OR 97228-5901), or dropped off at the IPRC. We can't wait to see what you come up with! -the PZS organizers The Portland Zine Symposium is free conference and zine social exploring facets of independent publishing and DIY culture. The Portland Zine Symposium is a two day event held in Portland, Oregon every summer since 2001. It consists of two days of of workshops, panels, discussions, games and tabling of zines and independent media. The Portland Zine Symposium aims to promote greater community between diverse creators of independent publications and art. This fun and free event helps people share their work while exchanging their skills and information related to zine culture. Through workshops, panels and discussions, Portland Zine Symposium explores the role and effect of all types of zines.

11th Annual PZS is HERE!

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:27:39 PST

First, thank you so much for being apart of the Portland Zine Symposium for it's eleventh year. This year has been hard, moving locations across the river, getting a late start planning everything due to finding a new venue, having less workshop space, etc. We appreciate your patience in all of this.

Here's everything you need to know (hopefully) about the final and biggest stages of Portland Zine Symposium this year!

The Portland Zine symposium is FREE to attend and opens to all attendees at 10:00AM on Saturday until closing down at 5:00PM, then again on Sunday at 10:00AM until 4:00PM on Sunday.

During this time, there will be over 140 individual exhibitors showing off all their hard work for you to peruse, as well as workshops all day, each day. Here is the list of workshops for this year: http://pdxzines.com/workshops/

The remaining outreach events and parties are:

- IPRC Open House and Mic on Friday night (08/05/11)...

- Zinester's Feud at Floating World Comics on Saturday night (08/06/11), hosted by Marc Parker

- Zineter's Karaoke at Floating World Comics on Saturday night (08/06/11), hosted by Robin of Vox Populi Karaoke - A 21+ wrap-up party for The Organizers (though anyone is invited) at The Alibi

The events happening the next few days the IPRC Open House and Open Mic, the main symposium at The Refuge, theZinester's Feud and Karaoke at Floating World on Saturday, etc. (http://pdxzines.com/events/) -- this is everything that makes it worthwhile for us, as organizers, after all our work to put it togetehr.. To see everyone come together, trade/buy/sell zines, share ideas and information, and celebrate our community together! Please share as much info as you can about PZS via whatever means you can (fliers, facebook, twitter, blogging, etc) and let's have a great Portland Zine Symposium! In solidarity, The 2011 Sympanistas

A PZS 2011 General Update! (07/12/11)

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:44:07 PST

Hey zinsters, here's a general update, to keep you in the loop. Be sure to read until the end, where we thank you for being here!

Word Game Wednesday at The Waypost

The last one before PZS is tomorrow, July 13th, at 6pm! The event is free, but there is a suggested fee of $1 per game per player, as we are trying to fund-raise. However, with every game you play, your $1 fee also gets you a raffle ticket! Every week we'll be raffling off PZS shirts, PZS mugs, and that totally rad, 10th Anniversary Special Edition Zine Program. We'll also sell you extra raffle tickets, if you're so inclined, and have a donation jar as extra-giving zine-enthusiasts are always appreciated! http://pdxzines.com/events/wordgamewednesdays/

24hr Zine Challenge

Its only a few days away, starting July 16th at 10:00am at the IPRC! We only have about 8 spots left for challengers, so get on registering for it if you havent. Cant make it? Well, consider sponsoring someone who is going for it. $10 or more gets you a copy of the zine if they finish and you only make the donation if they actually finish! http://pdxzines.com/events/24hrzinechallenge/

Bike-In Movie

Movie TBA (vote here until July 13th: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MCB7HCN) and will be held at SE Division Pl and SE Grand (under the 99E overpass) on July 29th. Arrive at 8pm, movie starts at dusk. Zines are awesome and July is International Zine Month! Help us celebrate and support the 11th Annual Portland Zine Symposium while enjoying a nice movie in the great outdoors! To help support PZS, we'll be asking a $1-5 donation, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. There will also be Whiffies Fried Pies for purchase and a PZS raffle, so bringing cash if ya got it is definitely a good idea! http://pdxzines.com/events/bikeinmovie/

Tabling at the 2011 Portland Zine Symposium

Both Saturday and Sunday are now FULL! You dont have to have a table to enjoy the Portland Zine Symposium but If you want to be on the waiting list for either day, please go ahead and fill out the online registration (selecting none, as no tables are available), and well get back to you as soon as we can with your waiting list position. If you are registered and have table, but have not paid, please pay for your table ASAP so that we can confirm you and your information can go live on the website (we have your information in our database, but you are invisible until you are confirmed). http://pdxzines.com/tabling/

Workshops

At The Refuge, well only have two rooms to conduct workshops, panels and discussions in, so well be having less of them this year than usual. If youd like to host a zine-related workshop, panel or discussion, please submit a form for our review and probable approval. Past ideas have ranged from hands-on DIY workshops like bookbinding to panels and discussions about various zine topics. http://pdxzines.com/workshops/

Volunteering

We need volunteers! We have a variety of duties we'll be needing assistance with the upcoming weeks; some are as simple as grabbing a stack of posters from the IPRC and hanging them up at your favorite, people populated places, while other are more involved, like helping run the info table a couple of hours during PZS. Your involvement level is totally up to you and will be greatly appreciated! We'll even give you a PZS shirt! If youd like to volunteer, email us at pdxzines@gmail.com and well get you in touch with our volunteer coordinator for this you, Emily. http://pdxzines.com/pr/volunteer/

A Word of Appreciation

We want to thank all of you who write to us every year seeking to table or to be at all involved in the Portland Zine Symposium. As volunteer collective of organizers, we all have jobs and our own projects, so PZS crunch-time can be very overwhelming. We have meetings twice a week, a million emails a day, and hundreds of people we are in contact with to get PZS off the ground and happening every year. So, every compliment and all feedback that we receive is much appreciated, it helps keep us going and helps keep PZS about our zine community and fulfilling the needs of that community. Thanks for bearing with us every year and thanks for continuing to be involved.

Our 3rd Annual 24hr Zine Challenge!

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:10:53 PST

Calling all ambitious zinesters! You're invited to the 3rd Annual, 24hr Zine Challenge, presented by the Portland Zine Symposium and the Independent Publishing Resource Center... Who: The Portland Zine Symposium and awesome zinesters like you! What: The 2nd Annual 24hr Zine Challenge Where: The Independent Publishing Resource Center, 917 SW Oak St. #218 Why: To make zines and support PZS! When: July 16th at 10:00am until July 17th at 10:00am For more information, check out the event under our events section, found here: http://pdxzines.com/events/24hrzinechallenge/