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Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: Screens Edition! on Zoom 5/26
7 p.m. Tuesday, May 26 Central Time.
Free! On Zoom!
Movies, television shows, YouTube videos, Instagram Live, and oh so many Zoom events … we all like to watch, and we’ve all been looking at screens a lot more than usual since the coronavirus crisis began. We miss seeing your faces and sharing the zines we love, so in May we’re taking Zine Club Chicago ONLINE!
This month, we’ll be discussing self-published works about the moving images that keep us riveted to big and small screens alike. Grab your favorite zines, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for a fun conversation!
Email at zineclubchicago@gmail.com about the Zoom link (which will be available soon).
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.
* Zoom link info * We want to make sure that our online Zine Club events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. We’ll email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
Thank you to Zine Club member Anna Jo Beck for designing our flyer this month!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/949559022140588/
p.s. need a jpg because you’re posting this somewhere that only takes that format? Here ya go!
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Postponing Event Until a Undeclared later date: Zine Club Chicago: Food Edition
Zine Club Chicago is excited to announce that the April meeting will feature guest artist Sarah Becan, a local food fiend dynamo whose work has been a longtime staple at Quimby’s.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.
Sarah Becan is a comics artist, illustrator and designer, and the creator of “I Think You’re Sauceome”, a food-centric autobiographical webcomic. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Saveur Magazine, Eater.com, The Chicago Reader, and TruthOut.com.
She was awarded a Xeric Award and a Stumptown Trophy for Outstanding Debut for her first graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews, and her work has twice been nominated for the Ignatz Award. Becan’s second graphic novel, Shuteye, was funded with a successful Kickstarter campaign and released in early 2012. In 2014, she wrote and illustrated Luna de Cuernos, a long form graphic story for Fifth House Ensemble’s spring 2014 concert series.
Becan illustrated the cookbook The Adventures of Fat Rice (2016), and Let’s Make Ramen!, a comic book cookbook, published July 2019 by Ten Speed Press.
Zine Club Chicago: Food Edition, at Quimby’s with Sarah Becan
Tues, April 21st, 7pm
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
Free!
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Postponing March 24th Event Until a Undeclared later date: Zine Club Chicago: Screens Edition
*Until COVID-19 status has been changed, we are post-poning the March Zine Club meeting until an undeclared later date. Stay tuned to quimbys.com for info about the rescheduling.*
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Zine Club Chicago: Screens Edition, at Quimby’s!7 p.m. Tuesday, March 24thQuimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker ParkFree!Movies, television shows, YouTube videos … we all like to watch. This month at Zine Club Chicago: Screens Edition, we’ll be discussing self-published works about the moving images that keep us riveted to big and small screens alike. Bring your faves and join us for a fun conversation and snacks!Due to member requests, we’re also bringing back the Mystery Zine Swap this month! If you’d like to participate, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot.Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/213680916502554/Thank you to Zine Club member Anna Jo Beck for designing our flyer this month, including a mesmerizing gif version!
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Postponing March 16th Event Until a Undeclared later date: Isabelle Rizo Reads Tarot
*Until COVID-19 status has been changed, we are post-poning this event until an undeclared later date. Stay tuned to quimbys.com for info about the rescheduling.*
Last month’s tarot readings went so well with Isabelle Rizo that we’ve invited her back for another night!In this evening of exploring Tarot with Transylvanian Mystic, Hypnotist, and Artist Isabelle Rizo learn what the tarot cards will tell you. Having used tarot since 2014 as a way to ground herself on her travels she found the collective unconscious easily mirrored through her own experience.You can bring a simple question and we have a conversation with the cards, or bring something that you need specific guidance on. Isabelle’s readings are inspired by her Romanian upbringing, using Eastern European folk stories, symbolism, and ethnographic influences to give nuanced readings and performances.“Isabelle witnesses and holds safe space wherever she goes.” –Emily Stroia, Author of Into the LightIsabelle has been featured in such places as: Atlas Obscura, Prague College, The Whoroscope Witch Podcast, and was hired by GOOP as a resident tarot reader. Way Cool Magazine. She is the resident tarot teacher at Inner Sense Healing Arts where she teaches every Wednesday night in Chicago. Her work and workshops have also been featured at Occult of the Bazaar, She Spoke International Art Exhibition, and Sideshow Gallery. She runs her hypnosis practice with a group of amazing diverse and queer therapists at Art of Balance in Chicago as well Head Facilitator of The Coven which is an online and offline group of artists, healers, and liminal space dwellers with international and local members.Readings $5 – $25For more info visit isabellerizo.comMonday, March 16th, 6-9pm -
Postponed: Nic Collins: Handmade Electronic Music, 3rd Edition Release Event
Nic Collins returns to Quimby’s for the release of the third edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge) on Saturday, June 20th!
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making – as well as creatively cannibalizing – electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion boxes, mixers, and unusual signal processors cheaply and quickly. At a time when computers dominate music production, this book offers a rare glimpse into the core technology of early live electronic music, as well as more recent developments at the hands of emerging artists.
This revised and expanded third edition has been updated throughout to reflect recent developments in technology and DIY approaches. New to this edition are chapters contributed by a diverse group of practitioners, addressing the latest developments in technology and creative trends, as well as an extensive companion website that provides media examples, tutorials, and further reading. This edition features:
*Over 50 new hands-on projects.
*New chapters and features on topics including soft circuitry, video hacking, neural networks, radio transmitters, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, data hacking, printing your own circuit boards, and the international DIY community
*A new companion website at www.HandmadeElectronicMusic.com, containing video tutorials, video clips, audio tracks, resource files, and additional chapters with deeper dives into technical concepts and hardware hacking scenes around the worldWith a hands-on, experimental spirit, Nicolas Collins demystifies the process of crafting your own instruments and enables musicians, composers, artists, and anyone interested in music technology to draw on the creative potential of hardware hacking.
ABOUT NICOLAS COLLINS
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. He has been a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1999, and a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent) since 2016. From 1997 – 2017 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of homemade electronic circuitry and conventional acoustic instruments. His book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. nicolascollins.com -
Transylvanian Mystic Isabelle Rizo Reads Tarot at Quimby’s, Feb 11th
In this evening of exploring Tarot with Transylvanian Mystic, Hypnotist, and Artist Isabelle Rizo learn what the tarot cards will tell you. Having used tarot since 2014 as a way to ground herself on her travels she found the collective unconscious easily mirrored through her own experience.You can bring a simple question and we have a conversation with the cards, or bring something that you need specific guidance on. Isabelle’s readings are inspired by her Romanian upbringing, using Eastern European folk stories, symbolism, and ethnographic influences to give nuanced readings and performances.
“Isabelle witnesses and holds safe space wherever she goes.” –Emily Stroia, Author of Into the Light
Isabelle has been featured in such places as: Atlas Obscura, Prague College, The Whoroscope Witch Podcast, and was hired by GOOP as a resident tarot reader. Way Cool Magazine. She is the resident tarot teacher at Inner Sense Healing Arts where she teaches every Wednesday night in Chicago. Her work and workshops have also been featured at Occult of the Bazaar, She Spoke International Art Exhibition, and Sideshow Gallery. She runs her hypnosis practice with a group of amazing diverse and queer therapists at Art of Balance in Chicago as well Head Facilitator of The Coven which is an online and offline group of artists, healers, and liminal space dwellers with international and local members.
Readings $5 – $25
For more info visit isabellerizo.com
Tuesday, February 11th, 6pm
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Zine Club Chicago: Fascination Edition, Feb 27th
Zine Club Chicago: Fascination Edition, at Quimby’s!
7 p.m. Thursday, February 27
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
Free!
What are you obsessed with right now? Chances are, someone has published a zine (or you’ve created your own) about your deepest passions, no matter how offbeat or obscure. This month at Zine Club Chicago: Fascination Edition, we’ll be discussing the most captivating titles about topics that make our hearts beat faster. Bring your faves and join us for a fun conversation and snacks!
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/866359927134323/
Thanks to Anna Jo Beck for making the flyers, who says this about this month’s AMAZEBALLZ flyer and gif: “The gifs I included are: ASL for the word fascinated, Spock from Star Trek TOS, and a snippet from the movie The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – all topics for very niche zines!”
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Postponing Event Until a Undeclared later date: Let’s Keep Selling Nostalgia!(!!) Pop Culture Historian Mathew Klickstein at Quimby’s
Mathew Klickstein has spent the past two decades chronicling and (for good or ill?) helping to kick-start the 80s/90s Nostalgia Industry via his prolific spate of books, documentaries, articles, podcasts, and live events across the country. SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age (Penguin Random House) presented the first exhaustive history of the “First Kids Network,” has become the ultimate resource for those following in Klickstein’s footsteps, and was re-released as an updated “Fifth Anniversary Edition” for Nick’s recent 40th anniversary. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons (w/ series writer Mike Reiss; Harper Collins) remains the only long-form “insider” story of the most beloved (and beforehand guarded) cartoon series of all time. Selling Nostalgia: A Neurotic Novel (Simon & Schuster) is an absurdist Fear & Loathing-esque coda to the now-waning “Nerd/Geek Culture” to which Klickstein has been a primary contributor. And the 80s sci-fi/horror inspired comic book series You Are Obsolete (AfterShock Comics) will be released in OGN/paperback edition April 21, exploring our current generational shift in a frightening, hopefully not too prescient way that left critics and fans alike glued to their pages and e-readers during the series’ initial five-issue Sept 2019-Jan 2020 run.
“Mathew Klickstein might be the geek guru of the 21st century.”
– Mark Mothersbaugh
The work of Mathew Klickstein has appeared in such outlets as: Wired, NY Daily News, Vulture, The New Yorker and countless regional and online publications worldwide. His two decades-plus of multi-platform storytelling has also led to: an impressive glut of non-fiction and fiction books authored for both major and independent publishers, podcasting (including his own series running for the past five years), guest lectures at various universities and arts/culture centers, as well as television and film work in partnership with such high-profile entities as: Sony Pictures, Food Network, National Lampoon, and Alamo Drafthouse.
For more info: www.MathewKlickstein.com
Saturday, April 25th, 7pm – Free Event
