{"id":6433,"date":"2020-03-27T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2023-08-06T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T21:44:32","slug":"2020-the-year-of-the-quaranzine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2020\/03\/27\/2020-the-year-of-the-quaranzine\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: The Year of the QuaranZINE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following is written by Rich Dana, Olson Graduate Research Assistant for Special Collections. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As librarians, we are engaged in service to our communities, and that service doesn\u2019t end when the library has to lock its doors to protect its patrons and workers. All of us are faced now with leveraging any tools at our disposal to serve those who need to continue teaching, learning, researching, creating and maintaining some continuity in their lives during the \u201csocial distancing\u201d of the current moment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mark Fischer adds Quaranzine #1 to a Chicago Little Free Library<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I was sitting in a comfortable weekend rental apartment above Rago\u2019s Funeral home in Chicago (famous as the location of Al Capones wake) with my family when the reality of the situation really set in. The Art Institute was closing. Concerts were canceled. Visiting a nearly empty Quimby\u2019s bookstore, manager Liz Mason and I discussed the cancellations of all upcoming zine fests, art book and small press events. It occurred to me that zine-makers would be dealing with the quarantine as they do many of life’s struggles; by making zines about it. Liz threw out a title for such efforts, calling them \u201cquaranzines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That afternoon I set up a Facebook group as a hub place for collaboration and as a collection point for these quaranzines. By the time I got back to Iowa the next day, cities across the nation were implementing \u201cshelter in place\u201d orders, and well over 200 people had joined the Covid-19 zine group.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From 5 Ways to Keep Busy (when you can\u2019t leave the house) by Kelly Wooten<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Members hail from all over the world, reporting on what they are seeing and making, sharing their work. Marc Fischer from Chicago prints a 2-page issue of Quaranzine<\/em> every day, posting them on light poles and bus stops around the neighborhood. Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam in Siem Reap, Cambodia is asking for people to send artwork and writing for her first issue of QuaranZINE<\/em>. She is working on it despite the high temperatures and the lack of air conditioning caused by power outages in the village. As I prepare the first issue of my own quaranzine, Dri-Koff Weekly<\/em>, another zine arrives in my mailbox. 5 Ways to Keep Busy (when you can\u2019t leave the house)<\/em> by Kelly Wooten in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all hope that quaranzines are a thing of the past soon. Until then- I’ve got another issue to put out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Social Distancing Festival<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Submissions are open to all, though the organizer is currently prioritizing work that was cancelled\/disrupted\/delayed due to the need for social distancing and COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submit and learn more about The Social Distancing Festival here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flatlands Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Flatland Press<\/a> invites you to submit pieces for Flat Space, a publication that will be created around this period of social distancing.Present themes orbiting around forms of communication, shorten the distance between us, and antiquated tech\/dead tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please submit ideas, images, writings at Flatlandspress@gmail.com
Please add: Flat Space to subject headings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE SPACE BETWEEN: a free PDF coloring\/activity book by PS1 & friends<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Local Iowa City group, Public Space One brings you Space Between: The PS1 & Friends (never ending) activity book<\/em> (vol. 2 could be with you!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here if you’d like to submit to the community coloring\/activity book.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Quarantine Times:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis project continues until the crisis ends, at which point all artists\u2019 contributions will be promptly compiled into a publication and released at a celebration. We’ll be together again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out more about this project here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quaranzine Fest 2020!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A viral safe-space for your zines!
Quaranzine Fest is simple. Post your work on the platform of your choice April 4th and 5th tagged #quaranzinefest<\/a>. There\u2019s more info on their website<\/a> including a funny \/ awkward tutorial on how to digitize your analog zine with an iPhone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 4th and 5th like, comment, and share the work of others! Be a good samaritan \u2013 do more than just browse and passively like. If you can afford it, mail order some zines \u2013 after all it\u2019s a zinefest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quaranzine:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Daily Riso zine by Marc Fischer is open to publishing work by others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies are posted in public places in his neighborhood in Chicago, left in some Little Free Libraries in the area, shared online on social media, and distributed more formally eventually when it\u2019s safe for people to get together in groups. Get in touch<\/a> if you are interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QuaranZINE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are fortunate enough to be in (self) quarantine, I would like to create a zine, aptly titled, “QuaranZINE”. In this work, I aim to collectively publish short writing pieces, poems, art, rants, and almost anything that is produced during quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information please contact a.dam@studenti.unisg.it with the subject heading: QuaranZINE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dri-Koff Weekly:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A one page mimeograph zine available by mail, or as a print-and-fold pdf. Coming out weekly until this is over. Art, writing, comics, helpful hints and observations about living and staying sane during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Send submissions or requests for copies to ricardo.obsolete@gmail.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downloads available soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social Distance Quara-zine! Collective zine-making in the age of Covid-19 Facebook Group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Social Distance Quara-zine is an online zinefest<\/a>.  The world was a lonely enough place before, and now this. While we are all in lock-down mode, maybe we can find a way to get together via pictures and words, to share ideas, make communal art and survive the madness together (while staying at least 3 meters apart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daily Schedule by Violet Crandall<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Want to learn more about zines, zine-making or the zine collections at the University of Iowa? Check out:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zine resources at Special Collections<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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And be sure to check out these other great sources as well! <\/div>\n\n\n\n
Zine Librarianship<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Making your own zines<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Zine lesson plans from Barnard College<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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