The Incredible Broken Pencil Holiday Gift Sale!!!
Our first ever Holiday Sale features great discounts on Broken Pencil subscriptions plus the Ultimate Indie Culture Gift Pack! A great gift for the disaffected hipster in your life! As they say on TV...for a limited time only...This holiday, go indie! (http://www.brokenpencil.com/gift/) (subs@brokenpencil.com) (More)
december 16, 2004
Spacing magazine issue 3 release party
covering Toronto's urban landscape... Thursday December 9 2004 El Mocambo 464 Spadina (@ College + Spadina) doors open at 9pm $10 cover - gets you copy of new issue $5 if you are a subscriber musical guests: Reid Jamieson Audible Spacing's third issue, Work and Play in Public Space, hits the streets this Thursday. You can find it in independent book and magazine stores starting Friday Dec. 10. For a list of stores in Toronto visit: http://www.spacing.ca/stores.htm (http://www.spacing.ca/) (More)
December 8, 2004
EXPOZINE!! This Weekend in Montreal!
Montréal's 3rd Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair Salon de fanzine, BD et petites presses à Montréal Sunday/dimanche 28 novembre / November 28 11h00 - 18h00 / 11 am - 6 pm Station C 1450 rue Ste-Catherine St. E. @ Plessis (metro Beaudry) FREE Admission Entrée GRATUITE http://www.expozine.ca +++++++++ (voir en fran¢ais plus bas) This day-long event brings together over 140 creators of all kinds of printed matter -- in English and in French -- for one of the great culture fairs of the city. Expozine was born in 2002 to provide a place where publications outside the mainstream media can reach the reading public. It is also a place where members of the small press community and local writers and artists can make new connections with each other. So far, it has been a huge success: thousands of people have discovered hundreds of publications, and more and more people take part each year. Montreal is rich in small press activity, with an internationally renowned comics scene and a thrivi... (More)
November 26
TRADE: Queer Things launches its SEX issue
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 Bring a pillow or share one Featuring screenings of clips from Dirty Pillows' Pornograflics and Mayhem North Also, special performance by Helene Ducharme And DJ Triple-X will throw down 60's tunes, 70's hits 80's new wave and street beats as part of On the QT, B Sweet, 1279 Queen Street W., Toronto, 9pm doors, $4 cover gets you the SEX issue Featuring: Todd Klinck, Angela Phong of Dirty Pillows, Carrie Gray, Hamilton's Women's Bathhouse, Allyson Mitchell, The King Cobra, Triple-X contact jon@tradequeerthings.com for more info (jon@tradequeerthings.com) (More)
November 19, 2004
BP in America Delayed One Month. Bush Re-elected. Coincidence?
Just kidding. There is no shadowy conspiracy (yet). Our distributor has reorganized itself and BP's U.S. distribution got delayed in the process. Expect Broken Pencil issue 26-- the Teenage Wasteland special-- to be on shelves within the week. To our American readers: Sorry for any inconvenience ! (More)
November 16th
Calling all small and micro-pressers
are you Going to Press? The Scream Youth project is launching Going to Press, a youth small press fair and mini-conference, Thursday, November 18th, 10:30 -- 3:30, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, and we’d love for you to be part of it. For years, my colleagues and I have been bringing back armfuls of small press items to our students who hungrily pounce on them, and you see the sense of possibility forming in their eyes as they begin to consider what it might mean to publish on your own, or what it might mean to publish on something other than paper. This year, we want to bring more to them, and we just don’t have enough arms. So the Scream Youth Project and Marc Garneau Collegiate are working together to create a small press fair inside the familiar space of a high school library. We are inviting students and teachers and teacher-librarians from all across Toronto to attend. If you would like to book a table, please contact parrishka@thescream.ca with the following information: 1) ... (More)
November 7, 2004
Saturday, Nov. 13 1-3 p.m. Toronto Public Library, Maria A. Shchuka Branch 1745 Eglinton Ave. W. Toronto, ON M6E 2H4 An Afternoon in Zine Land with the Broken Pencil Team, including editor Emily Schultz, fiction editor Hal Niedzviecki and resident illustrator and cartoon genius Marc Ngui. Join a trio of self-publishing experts from Broken Pencil and learn the creative, theoretical and practical aspects of putting together your own independently created, handmade periodical, also known as a zine. Using forms as diverse as comics, collage, autobiography, essay and poetry, the zine crosses the lines between journalism and free expression. For youth (beginners and zinesters alike). No special skills are necessary. Free event, but registration is required. Please call 416-394-1052. (lheggum@tpl.toronto.on.ca) (More)
october 22, 2004
Canzine and launch of Hello, I'm Special: Two Giant Fall Events!
Canzine, Canada's largest festival of zine culture and the indie arts will be Sunday October 17 at the Gladstone Hotel (Queen and Dufferin, downtown Toronto). 1-7 pm, it is free and open to all. The biggest Canzine ever, featuring 150 zines, plus book launches, readings, all day underground film and video screening, erotica cabaret and more! Check out Canzine webpage for complete details! Hello I'm Special Gong Show Book Launch! BP Fiction editor and founder Hal Niedzviecki launches his new book Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. Thursday, October 21st, 7:30 to late. At the Rivoli (Queen and Spadina, downtown Toronto). Free and open to all! Hal will read from the book: 8pm. Gong show featuring Niedzviecki, Louise Bak (Sex City) and the masterminds of Hoax Fashion as judges will start at 9:30. Featuring the incredible How To Be Special info-mercials! For more info on book and launch, and details on events across Canada, visit www.helloimspecial.ca (http://w... (More)
September 27, 2004
Toronto: Broken Pencil at Word in the Park
Come by and visit the Broken Pencil booth at Word in the Park this Sunday! Sunday, September 26, 2004 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Queen’s Park -- between Bloor and Wellesley (Nearest subway: Museum or Queen's Park) Admission is free! Meet Broken Pencil editor Emily Schultz, zine editor Audrey Gagnon and fiction editor Hal Niedzviecki. Avail yourself of the incredible Word-in-the-Park-only subscription special: 4 issues for $10! (50% off the newsstand price!) Also: Discounts on books written by BP editors! Canzine preview! Plus fiction editor Hal Niedzviecki reads from his new book Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity (www.helloimspecial.ca)at the Word on the Park Must Read tent. Hope to see you at the BP booth! (http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/toronto.php) (More)
september 18, 2004
BP Film Editor Zev Asher All the Rage at TIFF
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival next week, Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat, is a documentary on the infamous cat-torture-slaying that rocked Canada's art community two years ago. After an intense two weeks of media coverage and Taliban-eque outrage from animal rights activists who remain convinced--without having seen the film--that it condones the slaughter, Casuistry is Canada's most controversial and, until it screens next week, unseen film. The film is directed by Broken Pencil film editor Zev Asher-- a talented shit disturber we are proud to employ. (www.brokenpencil.com) (More)
September 4, 2004
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