The Wunderkabinet is on a bit of hiatus for the winter, but there’s something special happening in Berlin this weekend (November 26-27) that we want to spread the word about. Some really great people, including some Reading Raum contributors, have gotten together and organized Berlin’s very first Zinefest!
The list of zinesters and distros that will be showcasing their stuff are coming from all corners of Europe and there are tons of workshops and readings planned.
Get all the details HERE!
Some very good folks – including some Reading Raum contributors – are deep in the planning stages of Berlin’s very own zine fest this November! Having sat for many hours myself behind the event planning table, I can tell you this is a massive undertaking and help is always welcome. If you’ve got skills that you want to share to make this event amazing, you should definitely get in touch!
To keep up to date on what’s happening, join the facebook page and visit the blog.
Our summer inside the Etsy Labs is coming to close. Our final day is just over a week away. If you’ve been meaning to drop by, don’t delay! August 19 is the final day to peruse The Reading Raum. If you’d like to make an appointment send us a note.
Baby Fatso Urban Art Installation Map
Reading Raum contributor Karl Addison has assembled a hidden installation project deep in Berlin’s east. A room full of fat babies in a decaying factory that requires a map to find. How can you go wrong? We went searching this past weekend and I can say it’s a pretty great discovery among the ruins of the building.
Karl is working on a book and video on the project. We can’t wait!
There’s some blow-you-away lookers sitting on our shelves over here. My paltry photography skills doesn’t do them justice so you should really just come and take a peak. One rule: no drooling!
Here’s a tiny sampling with work from Tara Bursey, Robert Dayton, HLG, fox italic, Karl Addison, Faye Moorhouse, Pogobooks, naivsuper & nieves.
Wondering how far things have come since 2007? Maybe even what crafters in Montreal were up to in 2002? We’ve got some pretty great crafty crit, lit and know-how from the early-ish days of this movement here in The Reading Raum! Err…is it still a movement, or have we arrived?
Included here is CROQ #4 with a recap of the very first Craft Congress(!) and a few d.i.y. manuals from Church of Craft congregations in Montreal and Toronto. Special thanks goes to kabinet friend Jen Anisef for caring for many of these gems over the years.
zines by Faye Moorhouse, Tara Bursey, naivesuper books
zines on loan from the collections of Jen Anisef, Stephanie Wu, and Leah Buckareff
Tijuana Bibles from Renate! - modern versions of the classic comic smut.
The workshop at Etsy was great! Especially special was seeing how nuts everyone got with creating incredible little editions. Etsy’s posted how-to instructions for the secret message volume seen above on their site which you could find HERE! They’re in German, but there’s pictures!
This Monday night, as part of Monday Craft Night at the Etsy Labs, I’ll be teaching all who show up how to make a small accordion book. This is a little skill you could take with you to tiny-publishing heights! Make it your own, make a zine! Need a little inspiration? Peruse the artful stacks of the Reading Raum! The fun starts at 19 o’clock.
We opened last Friday with less a bang, and more a beer-in-hand, often-quiet, sometimes-crowded, perusal of some really great zines, tiny publishers, and paper ephemera from a few different corners of this globe. It’s just how we roll.
Due to the nature of this exhibition, we won’t have an online shop for all of you far from Berlin to peek at, but so many of our contributors have online shops of their own and we’re working on putting together a list of zine and comic libraries.
For more pictures of the raum and the opening, we have a little archive here.
