Canzine: Festival of Zines and Underground Culture

Saturday October 29, 2016, 1-7pm

Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas St. West

FREE Admission! Comes with the fall issue of Broken Pencil Magazine!

Hundreds of zines, books, comic, and small press vendors!

Canzine registration for zine and comics vendors is now full. Get on the wait list by emailing canzine@brokenpencil.com. There are a limited number of spots remaining for micro-press and magazine vendors. Check out brokenpencil.com/canzine-registration

Thanks to our national sponsors: The Beguiling Books & Art, Canada Council for the Arts, Seneca College

And to our presenting local sponsor, the Art Gallery of Ontario!

C A N Z I N E E V E N T S

12pm Early bird entrance for AGO members and Broken Pencil subscribers!

1pm Canzine opens to the public!

ALL DAY COMMUNITY GALLERY PROGRAMMING:

Walter Scott in the Community Gallery: AGO Artist-in-Residence Walter Scott creator of Wendy will lead a drawing workshop and a Q & A session.

Workshops Zine Machine for Kids and Teens: An all-day zinemaking workshop for kids led by kids! Coordinated by Broken Pencils Annie Wong.

2pm 1-2 PUNCH BOOK PITCH

Live on our main stage in front of a crowing crowd, you get two minutes to pitch your book to our panel of judges. They get one minute each to tell you why youll never get published in a million, billion years, or why they want to see your manuscript in their inbox ASAP. Featuring judges Hal Niedzviecki founder and fiction editor, Broken Pencil Magazine and Andrew Hunter of the AGO!

3:15pm BROKEN PENCIL LIVE IN JACKMAN HALL

For the first time ever, Broken Pencil the Magazine will come to life onstage in a one-hour extravaganza of interviews, readings, a live comic jam and a five-minute rant.

Featuring:

The Broken Pencil Zine Race: Three of Canadas best up and coming cartoonists will face the seemingly indomitable task of making a comic based on an audience suggestion in 30 minutes or less. The comic voted favorite by applause will win a prize pack! With Jenn Woodall, Trevor Henderson and Patrick Sparrow!

The Smell of Our Own: LIVE!

We will bring our popular new artist vs. artist interview

column to life, with a 10-min chat with Wowee Zonk zine impressario Ginette LaPalme interviewed by artist, teacher and activist April Aliermo Hooded Fang, Phedre

Radical Readers: Short readings by poet Jacqueline Valencia There is No Escape Out of Time and Soraya Roberts, who will be presenting from her new ECW book In My Humber Opinion about the 90s teen series My So Called Life. More TBA!

What is Indie Opera?: With Lindsay Michael, founding artistic director of the Liederwlfe Opera Collective, which recently presented Opera Peep Show, on why indie opera is the future.

Creative Politics: The Rant A five-minute opinion column comes to life. Presented by Erin Wunker, author of the upcoming BookThug essay collection Notes from a Feminist Killjoy, giving a rant you won't soon forget!

4:30pm PANEL: POC GENRE FICTION: A deeper look at Broken Pencils Canzine cover story on the growing movement of people of colour making waves in sci-fi, horror and fantasy writing. Panelists TBA

HELP PROMOTE CANZINE!

We are proud to announce that Canzine Toronto is being held in a wheelchair accessible venue. Please email assisteditor@brokenpencil.com with any questions.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: EMAIL CANZINE@BROKENPENCIL.COM

For questions and ideas, or to volunteer email: CANZINE@BROKENPENCIL.COM.

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About Canzine: The Canzine Festival of Zines and Underground Culture was first held in Toronto in 1995. Since its inception, Canzine events in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax have displayed thousands of zines and small press works and hosted hundreds of writers and performers.

Canzine is organized by Broken Pencil: The Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts.

For more information about Canzine, email canzine@brokenpencil.com

Canzine 2016 Poster by Jayesh Bhaghat