voiceworks launch this friday

Cabaret Diablo Present the Special Editors' Handover Launch of Voiceworks Magazine #74 - The Innuendo Edition
FEATURING:

* Band Me and The Grownups
* VJ Marko Che-Gibbard
* Burlesque performer Maree Shefford
* Author Jasper Garner Gore
* Poet Jessica Alice

Join us as we say goodbye to Ryan Paine and welcome Tom Rigby as Editor.
PLUS: Win a Custom Voiceworks iMac!

Friday, September 12, 7:30pm.
Trades Hall – Bella Union Bar,
2 Lygon St (cnr Victoria St), Carlton.

Entry is free. Magazines and subscriptions discounted on the night.

Hope to see you there :)



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Octapod

Here's a listing about the Octapod Zine Library, and a brief blurb:

The Octapod Zine Library
The Octapod Association
3/231 King St
NEWCASTLE NSW 2300
Australia
podadmin@octapod.org
Tel: (02)) 4927 0470
Fax: (02) 4927 1475

Based at the Octapod Association in Newcastle, the Octapod Zine Library is one
of Australia's oldest, largest and most significant collections of zines. A
broad range of zines covering the past 15 years are included in the collection.
A project is currently underway to catalogue the zines. Octapod was responsible
for the publication of the New Pollution (1998) - an anthology of zines from
around Australia. These zines have formed the basis of our collection, which
gets added to each year via people attending the Zine Fair at the National Young
Writers' Festival (as part of the This Is Not Art Festival). The collection has
been classified as significant by the National Library of Australia and we are
awaiting the outcome of our application to the National Library for funds to
preserve and catalogue the collection and make it more accessible through
developing an online catalogue (fingers crossed!). A group recently started up a
weekly drop in arvo, to make zines together. There is also a cataloguing
workshop scheduled during TINA (at Octapod on the Friday and Saturday
10am-12noon).

FYI - Octapod will be open to the public during TINA: Thurs 2nd Oct - Mon 6th
Oct 12-5pm. So, people are welcome to drop in and check out the zine collection.

Harvest Magazine seeking Contributions

Calling all artists!


harvest magazine is cranking up for its second issue and we want to publish your work. Our latest theme is…


Travel

Physical, mental or metaphorical

The journey or the destination
Going places, moving spaces

The Amazon jungle or the local shop

The journey of a thousand miles, one small step for man, etc.

We are looking for art, illustrations, graphics, collage, photography - anything really, if it's roughly on theme. Submissions can be emailed to our art director at harvest.artwork@gmail.com by Monday 15 September.


harvest is Melbourne's newest literary magazine, featuring the work of artists and writers, both emerging and established. Featuring full-colour art and printed on thick stock, aesthetics is as important to us as good content. We're about cross-pollinating between writing, art and design, and being kind to the environment. We have a circulation of about 1000 copies around the country.


Check out our website (www.harvestmagazine.wordpress.com) to see what we do, or pick up a copy at Readings, magnation, Brunswick Bound, Brunswick Street Books, Metropolis or Sticky. Alternatively, order straight from us to help fund our next issue by emailing writetoharvest@gmail.com.
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in submiting work for issue two.

Story To... wants what you've got

After a very successful first issue, Melbourne’s only alternative commuter zine, Story To…, is once again calling for your work.

The theme for Issue Two is “Pod People”. So many people who travel on public transport bury themselves in their music and we want you to help us show them the train station life they are oblivious to. We want to see this reflected in writing (short fiction, poetry, film and theatre scripts, creative non-fiction and song lyrics) and in artwork (photography and graphic design).

Please stick to a limit of 300 – 500 words. The closing date for submissions is Tuesday 30 September 2008. All submissions need to be emailed to storytoproject@gmail.com. Please format text as Times New Roman / size 12 font / single-space with no other formatting.

If you want to discuss your submission ideas with us, or have any general queries, then drop us an email at storytoproject@gmail.com.

Check out our website to view a copy of Issue One, read interviews with previous contributors or just get a feel for what we’re about: www.storyto.wordpress.com.

Sticky Looking for Volunteers

Sticky is doing a shout-out for anyone interested in becoming a
volunteer, for 1 day a week in the shop. You don't need to be amazing at
maths or have retail experience, you just have to be confident with
people, like zines and be good with paperwork.
Please email elle at sticky
stickyshop@gmail.com or give her a call on 0421 479 153

Calls for work / opportunities

1. Digital Fringe 2008 Call for Submissions
2. Outpost workshop and jam @ Latrobe Uni
. Centre Pompidou Deadline for Submissions Extended

Calls for work / opportunities
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1. Digital Fringe 2008 call for submissions

*Digital Fringe* is now accepting entries (video, stills or audio).
Ferret around your hard drives, dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens. Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the world: from retail television display walls to huge urban screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public nooks and crannys. Artists retain full copyright of their works and have the option of utilising the Creative Commons licensing scheme.

Digital Fringe is also chasing *more screening venues* - so if you know of any idle screens in need of interesting art content in your area (in bars, shops, ....wherever) put them in touch with us or let us know at: people [at] digitalfringe [dot] com [dot] au

Visit www.digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works, and for more
festival info.

Digital Fringe is produced by *Horse Bazaar* as part of the Melbourne
Fringe Festival (September 24 - October 12)

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2. OUTPOST workshop and jam, La Trobe University Art Museum
17, 18, 19 September 2008, 7pm start each night

Join new media arts collective OUTPOST for a free open jam and workshop. The collective are accomplished sound engineers, musicians and artists who work with the mediums of film, video and audio. In this workshop OUTPOST will take the exhibition Neomorphics (Neugemüse), by local visual artist Vera Möller, and use her work as a stimulus to create new audio and visual work projected on to the walls of the gallery. Participants are invited to bring their own video footage, mp3 players, synthesisers, samplers and any other noise making device and a laptop to process the sounds and images live. Those without their own gear are welcome to come along and join in the experience. The OUTPOST crew will be there to provide a flavor of what a live audio visual jam looks, sounds, and feels like as well as offering the opportunity to talk about the hardware and software used in the performance. Melbourne’s OUTPOST are Lucy Benson, Eugenia Lim, Byron Scullin, Joe Talia and Dan West. They are part of Share, a support and infrastructure mechanism for new media communities worldwide, hosting open multimedia jams in public venues. Encouraging experimentation with sound and vision, OUTPOST work in the innovative realm of the new media artist. The collective creates work using technologies and software, the majority of which is unique to our current digital age and time.

La Trobe University Art Museum
Glenn College, Bundoora Campus
La Trobe University, VIC, 3086
Melway 19, carpark 7
T: +61 3 9479 2111
E: artmuseum@latrobe.edu.au

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3. Centre Pompidou has extended its call out until (postmark) 5 September

See link for more info: http://art-action.org/en_info.htm

Hoopla #3 call for contributions

Hoopla #3 is now in production and we're looking for more contributions. Hoopla is the world's most revolutionary craft zine and has a global audience and distribution network. After an initial foot in the water to see if there would be an interest in such a zine and discovering that there indeed is, Hoopla will now be offered quarterly. And it's gonna get a bit flasher!

Contributors get a free copy, website links in the zine and a 25% discount rate for all future issues. And yes, this applies to contributors to earlier issues, I'll be in touch to let you know how it works.

The theme of Hoopla 3 is 'Radical Inspiration'. We want to hear and see what it is that drives people to make political craft and participate in creative resistance.

Contributions are welcome in the following forms:
Opinion pieces
Craft action reports
Patterns and tutorials
Pictures of finished craft and other inspirational graphics

Contributions may be accepted in the following forms:
Poetry (completely over to editorial whim, don't get your hopes up)

Contributions are never accepted in the following forms:
Advertising (ick)

We'd also like to hear from anyone that wants to offer any of the following skills: graphic design/layout, distribution, proofing. Same deal goes for the contributor benefits.

If you have something that you want to contribute that doesn't fit in with the theme, get in touch and run it by us. It might still be suitable or it might be just perfect for the next issue!

Submissions are due by September by email. If you are planning a contribution, please get in touch and let us know so we can start planning space. The planned release date for this issue is September 30.

Please forward this email on to anyone you think may be interested in contributing.

Love + rage
The Hoopla Collective

This is cool

Check out the interview with one of the Story To… contributors, photographer Richard Ibrahim, here.

progress on zine 1

we had a productive session at the city library staff room last night (we were cast out of the seminar room by the double booking demon). we have about 20 pages of content from 8 people, which is awesome, and maddie and i struggled manfully with making a little model zine. everything looks fantastic; there are some super drawing and text submissions, and melissa's zinester map of melbourne looks good as in capital G-O-O-D. we are thinking of making about 50 copies and charging a little price to cover costs.

next week we will be finishing the original zine and maybe making copies, so come along and get paper cuts!

anyone can make a zine: the first!

The submission deadline for city library street press members' material for the inaugural city library street press (CLASP?) collaborative zine 'Anyone Can Make a Zine' (ACMAZ?) is August 13th, for collation by August 27th.

Story To... Hits the Streets

I know I only turned up to one of the meetings but I love being part of the City Library Street Press Google group because I get so much info and so many awesome links to check out. Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've recently co-founded and edited a new commuter zine called Story To... Check out www.storyto.wordpress.com and download a copy for free!

Kate x

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh