CANZINE

Giant Zine Fair!
Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale!
The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness!

Sun Oct 29, 2006 1pm till 7pm
 Gladstone Ballroom, Melody Bar + 2nd Fl
 $5/comes with a free copy of new issue

Launch of the New Issue of Broken Pencil “The Food Issue”
Featuring “Indie” Iron Chef
In celebration of the brand new Food Issue of BP that will launch at Canzine, we feature the never before done “Indie” Iron Chef – indie artists are pitted against each other in a frenzy of creative action. What will the secret ingredient be? Wait and see!!! Hosted by Friendly Rich, confirmed participants include artist/writer Darren O'Donnell, writer/comedian David Dineen-Porter (aka PDF Format) with more TBA plus special guest judges.

Hotel Room Installations
Canada’s brightest and weirdest will be creating environments to explore. Check out: Mark Laliberte - Pop Noir button series.
Jonathan Culp - Grilled Cheese Sandwich room.
Amy Lam - Funny Food/Bad Taste (a room about comedy and food).
Fabienne Good - Tree planting room – come see the hotel forest.
Jon Pressick - Trade Queer Zine memorial room. The death of Trade memorial service (open casket).

Radical Reading Series
In association with This Is Not A Reading Series, we present the launch of GOOD MEAT
Pages Books & Magazines, Broken Pencil Magazine, and Pedlar Press present a special Canzine edition of This Is Not A Reading Series: DANI COUTURE launches GOOD MEAT (Pedlar Press) Join Couture as well as several other food obsessed zinesters for interactive meat cooking lessons, zinester munchies, and more! Good Meat is a collection of poetry that revolves around the varying complex relationships we have with the things we eat.

All Day Underground Video Screening
Open Screening and Curated program by James King. Special food curated program. All are welcome to bring videos (VHS or DVD only, 10 minutes and under) to show to the world. Register in advance by emailing canzinevideo@brokenpencil.com. Or just show up with your video.

Workshop
Making Puppets Out of Junk
Indie puppeteer Mike Harding (famous for his Curtains person, host of the Brampton Indie Arts Festival) conducts a hands-on workshop. Learn how to make a puppet out of found objects and trash.

Hotel Canzine is made possible by grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Hotel Canzine also is supported by the following most excellent sponsors: Magazines Canada, The Beguiling, The Toronto Reference Library, Insomniac Press, Pages Books + Magazines, Eye Weekly, CKLN 89.5, CIUT 88.1, Torontoist.com, the Goethe Institute, and The Gladstone Hotel

Canzine is an annual event organized by Broken Pencil, the Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts. Broken Pencil, PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S7, email: editor@brokenpencil.com, phone 416 204 1700
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