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
It’s 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 haven’t. Can’t 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 don’t 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 we’ll 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, we’ll only have two rooms to conduct workshops, panels and discussions in, so we’ll be having less of them this year than usual. If you’d 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 you’d like to volunteer, email us at pdxzines@gmail.com and we’ll 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.