July 2019
Summer Drop-in Volunteer Zine Cataloging
Do you want to help The Soapbox catalog and organize our collection of zines, comics, and artists' books?
Find out more »Make a Zine! Workshop: History, Culture, and Creation
In honor of International Zine Month: Dive into the history and culture of zine making and punk community and then create your own zine. We’ll look at a wide variety of handmade publications from The Soapbox’s library for inspiration, then warm up with writing exercises and creative brainstorming. You will learn two simple but clever paper folding techniques that you can use that day and in your future zine publishing endeavors. All materials – glue sticks, stencils, clip art, colored…
Find out more »Summer Drop-in Volunteer Zine Cataloging
Do you want to help The Soapbox catalog and organize our collection of zines, comics, and artists' books?
Find out more »Summer Drop-in Volunteer Zine Cataloging
Do you want to help The Soapbox catalog and organize our collection of zines, comics, and artists' books?
Find out more »Summer Drop-in Volunteer Zine Cataloging
Do you want to help The Soapbox catalog and organize our collection of zines, comics, and artists' books?
Find out more »August 2019
Summer Drop-in Volunteer Zine Cataloging
Do you want to help The Soapbox catalog and organize our collection of zines, comics, and artists' books?
Find out more »Create a Comix Zine!
In this workshop cartoonist Dre Grigoropol will lead workshop in a picturesque zine project. Participants will have a chance to create their own comic zines, learning about layout, drawing conventions, and storytelling techniques. Participants will leave with their very own hand drawn comic zine, an educational background in the overlap of comics and zines, and knowledge on how to setup a project for self publishing. Dre will also share insight into zine distribution. Dre Grigoropol works as a freelance…
Find out more »Summer Drop-in Volunteer Zine Cataloging
Do you want to help The Soapbox catalog and organize our collection of zines, comics, and artists' books?
Find out more »November 2019
Philly Zine Fest
Sat & Sun, November 16 - 17, 2019, 12pm - 5pm The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 https://www.phillyzinefest.org/ Philadelphia’s oldest and largest small press festival spans two days this fall. Devoted to the self-published and handmade mini-magazine, Philly Zine Fest brings together zine creators and readers from the local community and beyond. Over 70 writers and makers will share their publications for sale and trade. Since 2002, Philly Zine Fest has created a space for a range of…
Find out more »Soapbox Philly Zine Fest Open House & Zine Reading
Join us in welcoming Philly Zine Fest participants to The Soapbox. The 7 - 9 PM event will feature hands-on screenprinting (7 - 8pm) and a zine reading (begins at 8pm). Read zines and art books in our library and hobnob with fellow zine makers and zine enthusiasts.
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