On Your Mark! Get Set! Workshop Proposals!

A huge part of the SF Zine Fest's ethos is captured in our wide range of stimulating panels and hands-on workshops. In past years, we have hosted everything from film screenings and group discussions on creative conflict resolution to classes on watercolor, screen printing, and bookbinding. We believe that SFZF's dedication to learning, conversation, and creative exploration are central to our position as one of the biggest and best small-press festivals in the nation, and we are already working hard at filling out our weekend with tons of great programing.

That's where you come in! Do you have a brilliant idea for a panel, workshop, or skill share? Well, please let us know via out handy Workshop Proposal Form! If you can organize a panel or teach a workshop, we'd love to get you on board! Furthermore, exhibitors who run a workshop get a significant discount to their table fee! It's a win-win!

Each year we have more proposals than we have room for, so get your ideas in soon!

First Person Launch Party @ Levi's Workshop

The folks at First Person mag have been busily printing up their first-ever letterpress issue in-store at the Levi's Workshop for the last three days, and now they are about to unveil their fourth issue this Saturday with a big launch party. Musical performances by Laurel Halo (Brooklyn) + Honey (SF). The issue itself (really the most important thing at any release party!) features some big-name contributions from the likes of Lynda Benglis, Daniel Arsham, Bonnie Prince Billy, Yoko Ono, Ryan McGinley, and the late Louise Bourgeois.

First Person Launch Party • Saturday, July 17 7:00-9:00pm • Levi's Workshop • 580 Valencia Street

Kyle Ranson: Portraits @ Adobe Books

SF art scene stalwart Kyle Ranson will be setting up shop at (the equally stalwart) Adobe Books for a month with a live, in-house portrait studio. Mixing the traditional elements of painted portraiture with his own very modern style, this is sure to be a very interesting show! Adobe Books will also be exhibiting a plethora of already completed pieces. Well worth a look! Portrait sittings dates are July 19 to August 5 on Monday afternoons, 1-4pm and Thursday evenings, 7-9pm.

Opening reception: Friday, July 16, 2010 7-10pm
with music performances by Little Wings and WR/DS

Kyle Ranson : Portraits • Adobe Books • July 16 - August 14

SFZF 2010 Exhibitor Tables Sold Out!

We are now sold all of our exhibitor spots for the 2010 SF Zine Fest! Our big thanks to the creative community for signing up in droves to sell, trade, or otherwise share their work with the public! With well over 100 zinesters, cartoonists, printmakers, and other creative types in attendance, this is sure to be the best show in the Zine fest's nine-year history!

For those of you who did not get a table, we have made every effort to include everyone, even adding tables to the main exhibit hall. We hope that you will still be able to attend the Zine Fest and enjoy our many workshops, panels, readings, and other special events. We are happy to take names for an exhibitor wait list as well, just send in your completed application (no need to pay the registration fee) and we will contact you if anything opens up.

Please email us at sfzinefest@gmail.com with any questions.

ALIEN/ATION: An Illustration Show 7/10

Our good pals at Paper Hat Productions are teaming up with the editors of HYPHEN Magazine to host an awesome art show, featuring the work of illustrators who have appeared in HYPHEN over the years. With tons of art, a bar, live painting, DJs, and even vegan cupcakes, this is one art opening that you'll definitely want to mark down on your calendar! Oh, and the first 25 paid guests (after 7:00pm) get a free swag bag including an issue of Hyphen!

Featuring art by: Danny Neece, Eve Skylar, Jon Stich, Jorge Mascarenhas, Joseph To, Kim Herbst, Rick Kitagawa, Rob Sato, and Yoko Furusho.

ALIEN/ATION: An Illustration Show • Saturday, July 10th 5:30 pm (Artist's Reception), 7:00 pm (Art Riot Extravaganza) • $5 (free before 7:00pm) • Space Gallery • 1141 Polk St.

SFZF Reading Room Preview at Levi's Workshop

The SF Zine Fest is very excited to be a community partner with Levi's at thier first Workshop, an interesting hybrid retail/community space on Valencia Street in the Mission. This is the first in a series of Workshops that will be opening up across the country, and this inaugural effort is a celebration of printmaking in a wide variety of formats, from letterpress and screen printing to photocopiers. Throughout July and August the Workshop will be presenting a wide variety of events, from a talk by designer Stefan Sagmeister (7/30) to a film screening of three documentaries on the beloved silk-screen artist Sister Corita (8/5). The Workshop is working with a wide array of local artists and organizations, including 826 Valencia, The Small Stakes, Mission Grafica, and many others, including the San Francisco Zine Fest!



For our part, we are doing an extended "library loan" of zines and comics from the SFZF Reading Room. Folks at the Workshop are encouraged to read and enjoy this sampling of Bay Area DIY creations, and to seek out the creators at the upcoming Zine Fest or online to purchase the works. This is just a small preview of the much more extensive Reading Room which we will have at the Zine Fest itself, which is going to be a great opportunity for the public to be exposed to all sorts of amazing small-press work in a quiet, relaxing environment!

We'll post here (and even more often on Facebook) again regarding some of the upcoming Workshop events that we think will be particularly interesting for Zine Fest fans, (we're esp. excited about the three-day in-house production of local art mag First Person from 7/15 - 7/17)but more info is available online at the Levi's Workshops website.

Levi's Workshop - Print • 580 Valencia Street, San Francisco• 7/1/10 - 8/28/10

SF Politics and Art Release - 7/1 (Tonight!)

We're pretty excited by this new zine, which comes to us via our pal and man-about-town Antonio Roman-Alcalá. This free newspaper has been in the works for quite a long time, and we can't wait to check it out! The release party looks fun too, with performances by Thrips, Quite Polite, and Translators plus Political Puppetry by Emily Butterfly... The whole thing is free but donations are accepted for the newspaper available to all who come.

San Francisco Art and Politics Release Party • Thursday, July 1 at 8:00pm • FREE! • Sub-Mission Gallery • 2183 Mission Street (between 17th and 18th)