Check out upcoming zine-related events!
View the calendar below for upcoming local zine-related events.
If you’ve got a zine, DIY or art related event you’d like to share with us, please email us details at akzinefest@gmail.com
Make a Mean Zine
Get amongst the zine scene! As part of Auckland Writers Festival we will have a making station on Level 5 of Aotea Centre for you and your whānau to get creative and make your very own zine. A one-of-a-kind array of zines from the 2023 Best of the Fest Awards collection will also be available for reading and as sources of inspiration.
Free and no registration needed.
We Make The Space Work
You are invited to Marijke van Schaardenburg’s first solo exhibition and community space ‘We Make The Space Work’. Marijke is part of our volunteer committee and organiser of the Auckland Zinefest pop-ups at the Mid-Town Streetparty events of 2023!
‘We Make The Space Work’ is Marijke’s first solo exhibition culminating years of producing sapphic queer work. The exhibition features mixed media artworks, installed objects and an accompanying zine.
The exhibition works are boldly queer, reflecting on the intimacy of queer relationships, and discussing how we as queer people navigate and make the spaces around us ‘work’ when our identities often fall outside of the framework of society's expectations.
On the upper level above the exhibition is a small community space with a ‘community table’ selling queer zines and prints, as well as a reading area with a selection of queer zines, graphic novels and books. We hope you’ll be able to make it to the opening night, closing day, or swing by during opening hours to enjoy the space.
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/6ckxyfEeF
Insta: @five_stitch_printhouse
Calling Home - ScatterGun Zine-making Workshop
Join a free workshop inspired by the themes of home in Silo Theatre's new play ScatterGun: After the Death of Rūaumoko created & performed by Ana Chaya Scotney.
Make your own perzine (personal zine) using collaging materials, black-out poetry and old-fashioned pen and paper to answer what makes a place feel like home. All materials will be provided and, in the true DIY-spirit of zines, no experience is required!
Register Email akzinefest@gmail.com to register. Capacity is limited to 15 participants.
See the show See the 5PM performance of ScatterGun after the workshop. Tickets start from $30 and can be purchased from silotheatre.co.nz Use code TECTONIC at checkout to get 15% of A-Reserve tickets!
f.stop Photo Fair
Come along to the first f.stop photo fair – a day of talks; activities; stalls selling photo zines and books, photo prints, cameras, film and photography equipment; and a photography exhibition with submissions from around the world!
2024 AGM
Join us in Room 5 of Studio One Toi Tū for our 2024 AGM.
We will go over our Chair's and Treasurer's reports, review and make amendments to our constitution and welcome new members who would like to register and contribute to the Aukland Zinefest kaupapa.
Summer Zine Zone Pop-up
Artwork by Josh Nelson @joshprobably
Summer is coming! 🌻🌴🐛Come celebrate the start of it at our Summer Zine Zone Pop-up at the Midtown Street Party! 🌼🐠
What to expect.
Immerse yourself in the zine scene in one jam-packed night of zine fun and creativity!
👀Read zines from the 2023 Best of the Fest entries.
📚Buy zines from over 30+ zinemakers and grow your collection!
☀️Get into the summer mood with our ‘Summer Dreams’ art exhibit.
✂️Get creative with our badge making, add to our collab zine, and fill out a zine template – all for free at our activity area.
All materials and tools provided for free along with our friendly team to guide you. Our space is children and introvert friendly.
Thursday 30th November
From 6pm – 9pm
Strand Arcade, 227 Queen Street (enter from Elliot St)
See you there folks! 🫡
Check out the full Midtown Street Party programme below.
Zine Zone Pop-up
Experience a slice of Tāmaki Makaura’s zine scene with our Zine Zone Pop-up!
Read and buy zines from Aotearoa’s best zine makers, get inspired, make a badge or two, and contribute to our collaborative zine! All materials and tools will be provided for free along with our friendly team to guide you. Our space is kid and introvert-friendly.
➜ WHEN: Thursday 29th September from 6pm – 9pm
➜ WHERE: Strand Arcade, 227 Queen Street, Auckland
➜ ENTRY: Free!
Enjoy the best of Auckland CBD!
Our Zine Zone Pop-up is part of the Midtown Street Party, so Auckland CBD is gonna be ALIVE with a range of art installations, food stalls, performances, activities, prizes and more! Check out the full programme with the link below to see what else you can do alongside our Zine Zone.
Hosted by Auckland Council and supported by the city centre targeted rate.
A preview of the zinemakers at our Community Table 📚
If you missed out on the Market Weekend, this is your chance to support local zinemakers and grow your collection! Our Community Table stall will be filled with a range of zine genres, topics and styles from these zinemakers.
Yem Collective – @yem_collective
Kararua – @kararua_art
Amy & Lou – @aaajjjjmmm @louisematthews_art
Eli.jpeg – @eli.jpeg_
Blinking_icelashes – @blinking_Icelashes
咩What Zine – @blinking_icelashes & @oiimin_
Unconventional Void Axolotls – @unconventionalvoidaxolotls
Speck Comics – @speckcomics • speckcomicsnz.com
In a Bind – @inabind.bindery
The Love Zine – @thelovezine
Tidemarks – @rubeepj
Five Stitch Printhouse – @Five_Stitch_Printhouse
Autofus – @autofus
Overcom – @overcommag
Matt Joils – @mattjoils
Skeles – @skelesart
Gvnk –
Vish – @the.kun.manifesto
Closing Night Party
Come celebrate and close out another epic Auckland Zinefest with us.
There'll be Best of the Fest awards, live music and poetry readings. No need to RSVP, the more the merrier!
Creative Bookbinding Workshop
Get into the beautiful and gratifying world of bookbinding with this beginners workshop.
The AZF team will introduce you to the craft, teach you different creative binding techniques and support you to create your own booklet to take home.
24 Hour Zinemaking Challenge 2023
Test your creativity and skills by joining this year’s 24 Hour Zinemaking Challenge!
Join the AZF team for a fun yet strangely challenging quest where you’ll create a zine inspired by the randomly selected zine topic and genre within just 24hours! That means planning the content, creating the work and binding the zine!
Keep reading for essential
challenge information:
Start of the challenge online via Discord or in-person at the Auckland Central Library where we’ll explain the rules and you’ll get to randomly select one zine topic and one zine genre that you must base your zine on. Once everyone’s sorted, we’ll start the timer at 3pm and the making begins! The clock will run until 3pm on Sunday where you will have to submit your final zine.
All zines submitted will go into the ‘Best 24 Hour Zine Challenge’ category of the 2023 Best of the Fest awards.
This challenge is 100% free! All you’ve got to do is register to reserve your spot!
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is recommended for ages 13+
Zinemaking 101: Zine Binding Workshop
Bring your zines to life with fun and easy bookbinding methods. Join the AZF team for a cozy evening where you’ll learn about zine crafting tips and two easy yet beautiful bookbinding techniques. You can either bring pages you’d like to bind together or make your own blank booklet, and all materials will be provided.
Zinemaking 101: Blackout Poetry & Collage Workshop
Dive right into the world of zines by learning two fun, intuitive and iconic art forms used in zine making. Not only will you learn two new skills but also the history and significance of the art forms in zine culture.
Join poet and zinemaker, Hebe Kearney, who will help you get ‘unstuck’ artistically and let loose in a fun and comfortable group setting. Using books, magazines, and other found materials, you’ll create your own blackout poem and collage page(s). Your creations will then be scanned and turned into a collaborative zine to showcase the creations from the workshop.
All materials will be provided for free, all you’ve got to do is register to reserve your spot!
No creative experience required!
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is open to everyone and recommended for ages 13+
Draw Worse: A Cartooning Workshop
Join illustrator joshprobably for this workshop full of drawing games and exercises to help you get loose and sillier with how you draw, and improve your cartooning along the way.
Zine Talk #2: DIY Zine Printing
Join us for the second Zine Talk Session where we discuss the world of printing with makers.
The world of printing is big and scary, but these makers have dived right into it with a DIY-mindset to get their self-made work onto paper. Hear about their journey with different printing techniques, their recent print projects and tips for budding zinemakers to get into printing.
Zine Talk #1: Perzines as Activism
Join us for the first Zine Talk Session where we discuss perzines and their role in activism with local makers.
Perzines and activist zines are major zine genres, but often they intertwine. Hear from those using zines as a means to share their personal experiences as a form of activism. Learn about their recent projects, their zine journey and how they confidently create activist centred zines. Perhaps, it will even inspire you to make your own!
Auckland Zinefest Market Weekend
Auckland Zinefest is back with the annual Zinefest Market Weekend! ✨📚
Celebrate everything zines, small-press and DIY at the beautiful Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and experience the biggest zinefest of Aotearoa. Enjoy unique works from over 120 zinemakers, indie publishers and artists from all around the motu. From poetry to illustrations, travelogues to comics, fanzines to activist zines, you'll be sure to find one-of-a-kind creations that will inform and ignite your creativity!
Zines are a medium for people to express and share experiences and opinions that are usually underrepresented in mainstream media. This is why Auckland Zinefest attracts various communities and provides an interactive space to meet and share knowledge.
Speed Zining at East St. Hall
Get in the zine mood before our annual zinefest month with Speed Zining. Hosted with our friends at East St. Hall, you’ll make a zine and meet new people with this fun, fast-paced format.
You’ll get to try your hand at making a zine in a unique Q&A style method while enjoying drinks and snacks that will ease those nerves.
At the end of the night, you’ll walk away with a quirky zine filled with answers from your newly made zine pals.
↳ When: Friday 16th June from 7pm to 10pm
↳ Where: East St. Hall – 5 East St, Auckland CBD
↳ Tickets: $15 (includes a drink of your choice on arrival)
Disclaimer: no speed dating involved if you were worried!
Kirikiriroa Zinefest
Kirikiriroa Zinefest bringing you the best of Hamiltons zinemakers and creatives. Hosted at the Hamilton Central Library.
Also featuring a make-a-page cryptid themed craft table!
In association with the Fair Enough Artist Market, usually the last Saturday of every month at the Hamilton Library, they’ll be out the front of the Library while we’ll occupy the main space. So meet the makers and fill your kete with art; the day will be full of creativity, talent, and some mean kōrero.
Closing Party
Come through to celebrate the end of Auckland Zinefest month with a banger party at Whammy Bar ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ
We've have a sick lil lineup for ya'll to boogie to (w/ more acts TBC!)
✿ Thinking Foxes
✿ Ray Leslie
𖦹 If you submitted your zine to Best of the Fest be sure to come thru! The winners of each category will be announced on the night 𖦹
Special thanks to Gordon Harris, Womens Bookshop, The Black and White Box and Crushes for supplying us with some amazing prizes for Best of the Fest
FREE ENTRY
DOORS 9PM
R18
Self-Care Saturday
A relaxing Saturday dedicated to self-care, DIYs, and how-to zines.
Start the day off with a workshop making paewhenua salve, to help treat things like cuts and cracked lips. It's one of the many healing balms in Rongoā Māori. Followed by a kōrerō about tikanga around foraging for Rongoā Māori and its impact on the environment. Bring along a container for you to take home your balm! Limited spots so sign-ups via our Facebook event page are essential!
Auckland Zinefest 2022 Market
Enjoy works from over 80 zine makers and artists from around Aotearoa New Zealand, ranging from poetry, travelogues and literature, to comics, illustrations and photography.
Zines are a medium for people to express and share their experiences and ideologies which are usually underrepresented in mainstream media. This is why Auckland Zinefest attracts various communities and provides an interactive space for them to meet and share knowledge.
Enjoy FREE entry to the Auckland Art Gallery and the market. Make sure to bring cash to purchase zines directly from stallholders, as well as a bag to carry them home.
Artwork by Kim Anderson @kimcandraw
Bookbinding Workshop
Bring your friends and whānau to learn how to book-bind and get your publications all set for our upcoming zinefest! 💖💖
We’ll have all the materials you’ll need for the binding workshop, just bring yourself! Snacks provided.
Learn to saddle-stitch or coptic stitch as ways to stitch together your own zine publications and meet other creatives on your journey! 🎉
24 Hour Zinemaking Challenge
The 24 Hour Zinemaking Challenge is back in July! ＼\٩( ‘ω’ )و //／
Participants will be given a random zine genre and zine subject to make an A3 folded zine in 24hrs. If you're participating in person, guidance and materials will be provided.
WHEN:
Saturday 9th July – Challenge Starts @ 3pm (Arrivals from 2:30pm)
Sunday 10th July – Making continues from 10:30am – Challenge Ends @ 3pm
WHERE: Central City Library Event Space on Ground Level OR Online via Discord
Register here to be part of the challenge!
Opening Party
Come boogie with us at SOAP Dance Hall as we kick off the month with some poetry readings, live music, a zine reading area, snacks and refreshments.
Closing Party 2021
Come celebrate the end of a wholesome jam-packed month of Zinefest by shakin ya tush at SOAP ∘˚˳°∘° ~( ‾▿‾)~ ∘˚˳°∘°
✼ If you submitted your zine to Best of the Fest be sure to come thru! The winners of each category will be announced on the night ✼
Special thanks to Gordon Harris, Auckland Unity Books, The Black and White Box, and Crushes for hooking us up with some top tier prizes for Best of the Fest <333
FREE ENTRY
DOORS 6PM
R18
Auckland Zinefest Market 2021
Auckland Zinefest is back in physical form, IRL, in the flesh, for 2021!!
CLICK GOING ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE (o˘◡˘o)
Our much loved market will be held at the Auckland Art Gallery North Atrium over Saturday 31st July & Sunday 1st August from 11am – 4pm on both days.
Enjoy works from over 80 zine makers and artists from around New Zealand and the world, ranging from poetry, travelogues and literature, to comics, illustrations and photography.
Entry to the Auckland Art Gallery and the market is free.
Bring cash to purchase zines directly from stallholders.
Zines are a medium for people to express and share their experiences and ideologies which are usually underrepresented in mainstream media. This is why Auckland Zinefest attracts various communities
and provides an interactive space for them to meet and share knowledge.
Auckland Zinefest is funded by Creative Communities Auckland and proudly supported by the Auckland Art Gallery.
Speed Zine-ing 2021
Speed Zine-ing has returned! Join us at Strange Goods and zine like you've never zined before!
Speed Zine-ing is a fun way to meet new people and collaborate with fellow creatives. Walk away with a creation made by you and ...who knows.
How it works -
⭑ Pick up your Speed Zining template zine with prompt questions to get to know a fellow zine partner.
⭑ Sit down and exchange your booklet with a fellow ziner - you have 10 minutes to fill a prompt page in one anothers zine.
⭑ Move on to the next ziner and repeat with a different prompt page.
⭑ Bind your zine together with the tools provided.
⭑ Enjoy your collaborative zine forever!
Free entry and all material such as pens, paper, stamps, and stickers provided.
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Thanks to Strange Goods for letting us use your venue!
Draw Your Own Comics w/ Team 3000 Press & MDS Comics Club
Join Liam and Sergio of Team 3000 Press for this free workshop in collaboration with Media Design School’s Comics Club.
We will share knowledge, storytelling tips, and time-saving techniques, concluding with a comic jam where we all make some collaborative comics.
Don't have drawing skills? Who cares! All levels of ability are welcome.
We’ll have some food and drinks to keep your brain goin’ while you draw, draw, draw
WHEN: Monday 26th July from 6pm until 8pm
WHERE: Student Lounge, Media Design School
10 Madden Street, Wynyard Quarter (Entry from Tiramarama Way)
Registration not required :~)
Sunday Crafts: Linocut Workshop
Come by to MoveSpace on Sunday from 12pm to 4pm to wind down the end of the week and get ~crafty~
In this workshop we will be making linocut stamps + prints! ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶
Linocut printing is the craft of creating a stamp which you can then use to print on whatever you like.
☆☆☆ BYO t-shirt/blank page of a zine/anything you would like to print on. We will be providing paper supplies and tools.
MoveSpace is also in the process of putting together a Zine Library - if you have any zines to donate to this sweet lil up and coming project then bring them along!
Feel free to bring a pal! See u there cuties ✩‧₊˚
U·ᴥ·U
Book Binding Workshop ✰ AUT Zine Club
We're teaming up with the AUT Zine Club for a fun workshop that everyone envies to learn! Bookbinding! ( ´･ω･)っ
✰ Get the chance to learn or practice your book binding skills for your zines, uni projects or just for the lolz. We'll provide all the materials, all you need to bring is yourself, some pens, and a thirst to master binding! Well...you might not master it but you'll definitely improve!
✰ We will be focusing on coptic binding, but also have time to try out other forms of binding too. Other forms include saddle stitch and Japanese book binding.
✰ Wednesday 21st july from 4pm at the Makers Space inside the AUT Library on Level 3.
(｢• ω •)｢ See ya there folks! (⌒ω⌒`)
24 Hour Zinemaking Challenge 2021
Shake those writer blocks and unleash your zinemaking beast! The 24 Hour Zinemaking Challenge is back in July.
CLICK GOING ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE ⊂(･ω･*⊂)
Participants will be given a random zine genre, guidance and materials to make an A3 folded zine in 24hrs. Free printing and photocopying will be available at the Auckland Central City Library for reproducing up to 5 copies.
The challenge kicks off when genres are drawn at 3pm on Saturday. You can start working on your zine at the library until it closes at 5pm. The library will open again at 10am on Sunday and you can submit your final zines until the 24hrs are up at 3pm.
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All zines that make it to the finish line will be added to the library's zine collection and enter Auckland Zinefest's Best of the Fest competition! The winner will be announced at the Zinefest closing party and receive a special prize.
Email us at akzinefest@gmail.com to register OR register in person at Auckland Central Library on Saturday 10 July from 2pm.
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24 HOUR ZINEMAKING CHALLENGE
Saturday 10 July 3pm to Sunday 11 July 3pm
Central City Library Event Space on Ground Level
Opening Party 2021
‧⁺˚*･༓ Come along to celebrate the start of a month packed with zine-related events! We’ll be having some poetry readings, live music, a zine reading area, snacks and refreshments provided by our friends, Major Major ☆彡
CLICK GOING ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE (ง ื▿ ื)ว
Expect music from local acts to keep you on goood vibez:
✿ A.C Freazy
✿ Kenny Sterling
✿ Husband Material
( ˘ ɜ˘) ♬♪♫
Along with some killer poetry readings by:
✿ Nathan Joe
✿ Erin Ramsay
✿ Mikayla Renee
This event is free to attend! So bring your buds to kick it all off! ʕ •ᴥ• ʔ
R18+