Hamilton Youth Zine Library

The Hamilton Youth Zine Library is looking for zines for their collection. Wanna send them yers? here's the details: 

Hey!
We're looking to start a zine library for youth in downtown Hamilton,Ontario and we need your help!We have a fair amount of zines already, but we're looking to broaden ourselection, especially with zines that would be relevant and interestingto the people who will be using the library.The library will be hosted by the NGen Youth Centre, a communitycentre for people between the ages of 13 and 24 that is home to adiverse array of events, projects, and programming.While all zines (personal, political, poetry, art) are welcome, it wouldbe especially sweet to get titles by zinesters with experiences similarto those who come through the centre, which includes migrants, youth ofcolour, hip-hop heads, youth experiencing homelessness, slam poets, andothers.If you've got something that might be up our alley, you can mail thingsto:Youth Zine Library35 Florence StHamilton, ONL8R 1W5
or if you've got a pdf file, we can handle the printing if you contactus at hamiltonyouthzinelibrary@riseup.netIf you want to help spread this around on social media, please sharethis page rather than this email (doesn't have a mailing address):http://youthzinelibrary.tumblr.com/

$100 and a T-shirt film screening!

If you missed it the first time we screened this doc we will be showing it again at the Kazoo Print Expo  up on the stage in Mitchell Hall behind the curtain. There will be two show times, 12 noon and 2pm.
Here's the IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430861/
Hope to see you there!

Micro Grant for BIPOC Zinesters!

Arrow Archive is proud to present  a Micro Zine Making Grant for BIPOC ( Black, Indigenous, Persons Of Color) Zinesters.

It is our goal is to provide a small monetary supplement ($100) to a successful applicant to use to make a zine on any topic they wish. The purpose of this micro grant is to provide resources to marginalized voices to express themselves in the self publishing (zine making) format.

This micro-grant is for zines not published yet. Submissions will be reviewed by a small collective of folks from the BIPOC and Zine making community.

In your application please state the title, theme, size, distribution size of your planned zine and anything else important to the creation of your zine. Please send any questions and applications to: thearrowarchive@gmail.com

deadline: APRIL 3rd 2015!

Stubbs Strikes Again

Our pal from Stubbs letter Press dropped off some Comix from 'Oily Comics'. They were printed on a Risograph and they look great. They soon will be added to our archive!

Zine SWAP!

So I didn't know this happened.....I heard about it via a twitter post, i guess it's in it 8th session... deadline is Jan 27th and its an England thing so the post maybe alittle expensive but well worth it if you can afford it!

here's the link check it out!
www.zineswap.com

Fall Archive Submissions

Here are a few of the zines submitted to the zine library this fall, giving How To Sleep a read right now, watch for a review soon!

Free Popcorn

Summer send ins

here are the lastest summer send ins, okay they were sent in earlier like in June but it's been a busy summer! Keep'em coming!

three new ones from Alanna Why in Ottawa
and a few issues of Ataraxia and Rasasvada

Hamilton Feminist Zine Fair

this is happening! check it out! if you wanna table they are accepting applications: http://takebackthenighthamilton.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/hamilton-feminist-zine-fair/

Reviews

Just posted a few more zine reviews that have been sitting in my notebook for a while. Hey, if you wanna review zines for the archive that'd be swell! drop us a note via email or snail mail!

Kazine!

Kazine 8 and 9 from 2009!

Look at these oldies! they where donated along with alot of other Guelph made zines! I have just imput them in the the system and they are in the new zine box right now!

new zines!

Okay so I spent more time behind the table then out looking at zine type things this kazoo! Print Expo. These two zines are from the folks that tabled next to me. Radical Self Healing was from Thigh High Club house who tabled next to me. Its a great zine made by Jessica Montebello. The other is a zine I got from Gillian Manford (you know her from the dwtn public library where she works as a clerk) and is about Canada and all its glimmer and glammer, long roads, roads that lead to the north to the west and to the east.  Look fer reviews of these zines soon! all in all Kazoo! Print Expo was alright, it wasn't shitty and well it wasn't amazing I am glad to have met the folks I tabled next to and as a result my personal disto "Look Mum!" made some sweet trades! Oh, and the Arrow Archive had a lollipop pull to raise funds which it did, mmmm sweets

See Us on Saturday!

Along side "Look Mum!" distro The Arrow Archive will be kicking at the Kazoo! Print Expo on Saturday! We will be tabling the newest issue of The Arrow and an exciting Lolli-Pop Pull where for just 2 bucks you have the chance to win an assortment of zine prizes. So come find us at the Kazoo! Print Expo, 11am to 3pm at Mitchell Hall (99 Woolwich St.). Mitchell Hall is a physically accessible space.

Long Awaited Arrow Spring 2014

So its finally here! It has interviews with Mark Stubbs, Zine Club Hmailton, reviews of new ontario made zines and lots of other cool shitza!
If you can't swing by the library to get a copy, send us an email and we can post you one.....
thearrowarchive@gmail.com
or you can write us at:
The Arrow
box 183
Guelph, Ont
N1H6J6

New addtions to the Archive & a New Blog For "Look Mum!" distro

Distro based in Guelph sister to the zine library, "Look Mum!" finally has a web home for you to order all yer zine needs. The site is under constriction and still needs a few things added but have a look:
www.lookmumzinedistro.blogspot.ca

I have finally catalogued the new zine that have been sitting in the box for like almost 7 months, and just as I putting those ones away in to their new homes at the archive I spyed a whole other pile of new zines! wow!  anyhow here is a potato of the new zines!

long time no post

It's been a very long time that I have posted anything here on the Arrow Archive blog, since December. Over the winter break I had all these dreams of catching up on inputting zines in to the library data base, organizing the boxes and creating anew blog for my own distro (Look Mum!) and now that it's almost mid February I gotta get back on track. Over the Winter break we had lots of donations and I'll get them catalogued soon and if there are any real goodies I'll post them here. 

What the heck have I have been up to? Well other then getting The Hissing Goose back on track, a few pals and I have organized a Zine Club, evey month we hangout share a zine we made that month and eat snacks. It's pretty fun and a great way to scare away the winter blues. Zine Club!

Kazoo! Print Expo 2014!

Just received a a call out for Guelph's Kazoo Print Fest. If you wanna table that day drop them a line:

Anarchism and Hope

Anarchism and Hope is new writings from Aaron Lakoff who I had the pleasure of meeting at this years Toronto Anarchist Bookfair.  I'll be adding this tresure to the archive in the new year and it will hopefully be reviewed here soon! keep an eye out! Here is alittle about Aaron:

Aaron is the author of the zine “Anarchism and Hope”. He is a radio journalist, DJ and community organizer living in Montreal, trying to map the constellations between reggae, soul and a liberated world. His writings, radio reports, and other musings are on his blog at aaron.resist.ca

Dear Zine Club

Dear Zine Club,
I love you.....
If you didn't know it but a few folks in Guelph have started a zine club. Members have decided to  challenge each other by making a zine a month for a whole year, pictured above are a few of the zines that were made for the first month including the Zine Club passport made by zine club member Sirens of a Violent Storm Press. The Passport is super exciting because Guelph zine club has added some extra challenges to making a zine a month and inside the passport you can keep track of challenges you have met. Zine Club Guelph was inspired by Zine Club Hamilton who have just about finished their first year of zine making, will they continue to make zines for another year? I hope so!

Hamilton video-zine

When the punks in Hamilton do some thing, they do it big. Just announced this event will be celebrating the release of Hamilton's newest video-zine "Everywhere Else Makes me Sick" which documents Hamilton's Punk scene. Visit the blog to get all the details of who playing what show and where. 

The zine will be in analogue format with a DIY screen printed cover, yes kittens dust off your VHS players for some punk rock fun. 

If you like local punk scenes and DIY shows, Hamilton is the place to be this New Years. See you there!