it’s so so so so so so so soooooooooo incredibly exciting to be included in this amazing list of Incredibly Unique Bookmobiles around the World !!!! huge thanks to Alison Nastasi/Flavorwire — and EVERYONE who has supported this project since its launch last year!!!!
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at Actual Cafe, San Pablo and Alcatraz, 6-10. Your faithful zine mobile will be parked outside front with open library/zine-making hours. Inside the cafe: zines all over the walls!!! live music!!! zine-making station!
The show will be up all month long but tonight will be extra fun –
Come one, come all : )
Thanks to Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective, Tomas of Rad Dad, and Actual Cafe for organizing !
Pix from yesterday’s setup:
Even zines in the loo…
the zine mobile’s been sorta hibernating…
emerging in real life, maaaaaybe in online life…
this friday, March 9th, we’ll be at Actual Cafe in Oakland for the opening of Paper Trails: a zine show hosted by Rock Paper Scissors Collective in collaboration with Tomas Moniz of Rad Dad…
6pm-10pm open library hours outside! Inside will be readings and music and another zine library and a zine-making station! Funnnnnn…
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posts with no photos are kinda boring, no? here are some much-beloved zines donated to the zine mobile lately!
tomorrow, 12/12, in support of the west coast port shutdown, the zine mobile will serve as a branch of the Occupy/Decolonize Oakland Library. there’s also gonna be a BOOKS ON BIKES BRIGADE!
Here’s where we’ll be — any other updates throughout the day will be posted on twitter ; )
5:30am First march from West Oakland BART to port
:: 11am – 3pm Activities, workshops, speakers, teach-ins at Ogawa/Grant Plaza ::
3:00pm Rally at Ogawa/Grant Plaza
4:00pm Second march from West Oakland BART to port
5:00 pm Third march from West Oakland BART to port
See you there? Also accepting encouragements and well wishes to pass along from those of you far away!
And hey, do you read this zine? it’s so good! it’s one of the only ones i know that provides accessible honest information on our economic system. there’s a companion blog, too!
The zine mobile is excited to be participating in Lightfoot Post & Mail, a project about encouraging more personal, hand-created correspondence and establishing a delivery system of sustainably-minded traveling postal deputies. Nothing fast and urgent, just slow and easy (tho they’re in the process of setting up a higher-speed delivery system for when that’s necessary!)
Read more about the philosophy of Lightfoot here. Anyone can participate as a letter-writer and/or deliverer; Lightfoot mailboxes are already located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Spain, Italy, the Virgin Islands, Brooklyn, Toronto, Minneapolis, Madison (see here for the current Lightfoot Box list!) — and/or you can also set up your own!
I picked up three letters in Madison that were Westward bound… I haven’t yet made it to their destinations (which are intentionally blurred out in the photo for the sake of privacy) but will be soon!! And no, the typewriter isn’t part of the delivery; it’s just a prop ; )
Cooooooool huh??!!!!
A few pix from last weekend’s East Bay Zine Fest… thanks to Rock, Paper, Scissors for organizing and 924 Gilman for hosting!
jejune would make a zine if she had oppposable thumbs!!
And huuuuuge thanks to everyone who donated zines to the little zine mobile! We ♥ you!
I just found a few more photos I’d taken of the Oscar Grant/Occupy Oakland Library tent — these are from a few weeks ago, before it was moved to the periphery of the plaza. After it was moved, the camp was raided for the second time by police. Fortunately micro branches were already being set up before the second raid — Rock, Paper, Scissors and Brown Couch Cafe each have a selection of books that were donated to the Occupy/Oscar Grant Library; more to come!
I already posted these last week, but in the interest of keeping them all together…
kinda can’t believe it took me this long to do this…
let's go look at some cute zine mobile animal photos: http://zinemobile.wordpress.com/zine-mobile-animal-friends/
Yesterday was the zine mobile’s first youth-centered event — I parked outside the downtown Oakland Public Library and opened the zine mobile for reading room/library hours… inside we set up a table for zine-making. I brought two typewriters and the library had lots of awesome stamps and kids’ books bound for the recycling bin for clip art.
I feel I should confess that I was really nervous; the age group I tend to feel most comfortable around is at the other end of the age spectrum! But after some reassurance from lovely librarian Amy Martin (who set the whole thing up; thank you Amy!!!!!) and spending a few minutes with the kiddos, my anxiety vanished and I didn’t want the day to end, it was so fun and inspiring…
Some pix of what was created:
One little guy was so excited about the typewriter and asked if he could work on his novel and movie script!!
And thanks to dear friend and OPL teen librarian Amy Sonnie for bringing OPL’s teen zine collection for the afternoon!
Oakland Public Library's teen zine collection
Yay kids!!!! The zine mobile is (more) ready for you : )
Friends of the zine mobile! I’ve been rambling all about this in the zine mobile’s real life, but realize I’ve neglected to mention it in its online life: Along with nearly 1,000 zines that can be checked out (and/or taken for keeps from the free box!), the zine mobile also has a collection of small musical instruments for gentle use and borrowing! We had our first instrument check out and first donation in the same day (it happened to be the same person, but you don’t have to donate something to borrow something)!
The current collection includes:
We’d love more instruments donated to the collection — we just ask that they be in good condition, and — at this point because of space constraints — that they be SMALL!! We’d also love more how-to/resource music zines!!
