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! 

thanks stubbs letter press!

On the night of the zine reading at Silence Mark from Stubbs Letter Press donated some of is canzine finds to the archive. Thanks Stubbs! I'll have them at the library on monday!

Zine Reading!

Thanks to Ben and Silence (46 Essex st) we had a super rad event last night! byron opened the night by reading from his new released zine and ambient noise album called 'distance' than Stubbs Letter Press hit the orange chairs, Dad, Mark shared from his own creations explaining a bit about his and his daughters, Emily and Alice creative process. Emily and Alice followed reading individually from their rhyming zines. Silly, fun, and profound! Next members of the HZC gathered on the stage and told us about what they do how they do it and why. About five members read from their work and then answered questions. The Night was ended by the Zine Queen* herself, e.stan gifting a zine postcard book to each person in the whole crowd! wow!
Keep and eye on us, the zine library is planning other rad zine events!

Few New Reviews!

Hey Ya! Just wanted to let you all know that there are a few new reviews on the review pages. And if you have never been to the review page ch-ch-check it out! Just click on the link that says reviews in the grey bar below the Arrow Archive image at the top of the page.

Zine Reading!

Canzine!

OOOO.... I had the fun at canzine. I spent most of the time sitting at my own distro table (look mum!) and felt that I left the confines of the table I would end up spending money that I don't have. I did leave the table and I get some really cool stuff. I got the new Yard Sale! from the creator Harley you can see his stuff at his etsy store.  I found a zine all about dead pro-wrestlers, very cool! I ran into an comic drawing friend from Hamilton, Josh Rosen who donated some of his work to the library.  I got a few other this there, like way too many arty postcards and some other neat zines that I plan on reviewing here on this blog. yeah! oh and BP gave away little paper bags at the door filled with flyers, and stickers, and buttons. The one price of advertising material that most folks found strange and kinda dumb was a shoe horn..... OMG I have been wanting one for such a long time!

ACT Dinner!

The Arrow Archive was invited to table at the 9th annual Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving Dinner. So we will be there with info about the library and and a box of free zines for folks to dig through. 
The Dinner is on Friday Oct 18th Guelph Youth Music Center 75 Cardigan St. at 5:30

If you don't know about the ACT dinner here is some info from their Face Book Page:

The ACT dinner brings together native and non-native people to share food, stories and deepen a political analysis of Canada’s ongoing legacy of genocide and exploitation of Indigenous people and the land. The dinner hopes to serve as a venue where attendees can continue to explore the life long process of decolonization on an individual basis, in the relationships we share and this land base known as Guelph.

https://www.facebook.com/events/636463543052212/

Giving Thanks

This popped up on the Hissing Goose twitter feed. thought it was right for today.