Watertown Free Public Library
Saturday, October 2, 2021
10am to 2pm Zine Marketplace
10am to 4pm Programs
New England Book Artists are excited to have our first table at a zine fest! WFPL will host the WFPL Zine Fest, a day-long celebration of zine culture and DIY publishing. Whether your are a die-hard zinester, or just want to learn more about zines, we hope you will join us to browse the market, try your hand at making a zine in the Zine Hive, and get inspired.
Throughout the day, a series of Zine Talks will expand the conversation with topics like identity, social justice, and DIY publishing. Zine Fest is free and open to all, but you must RSVP.
ZINE TALKS
10:30 – 11:30 AM | Mary Barba: Healing in the Zine Community
Mary Barba is the creator of Reflective Zines. She creates zines about mental health and writes poetry. This talk will be about the insight, validation, and support people with mental illness can get within the zine community.
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM | Celene Chen: My Identity, My Zines
Celene (she/her/hers) writes, draws, and publishes under the moniker Underwater Ventriloquist. In her written work, she explores love and burdens as a second-generation Hong Konger and lesbian. Her most recent publication, “Let Me Bother You” continues this exploration by charting the development of gay yearning from high school to the transition into professional life.
2:00 – 3:00 PM | Qadir Shabazz: Contemporary Arts & Literature & Zines
My name is Qadir Shabazz and I am an Afro Latino Author, Visual Artist and Organizer from Dorchester. I’ve contributed articles to the Boston Compass, Morton Digital and have published my own zine with a collective of diverse contributors called “The Negro Flowers Series”.
2:00–3:00 PM | Seth Deitch and Friends: Independent Publishing in Boston, Back in the Day
Seth Deitch, Watertown resident and a zine maker in his own right, will have a dialog with his friends who were involved in Boston’s zine scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
Watertown Free Public Library 
123 Main Street
Watertown, MA