The 2009 North of Nowhere Expo: A Festival of Independent Media & Underground Art is a non-profit activist-arts festival and runs Oct. 16-31 at the Edmonton Public Library and Metro Cinema. Check out the new website for details at Edmonton Small Press!

Our core programming themes this year are:

The Molotov Rag is an independent quarterly publication of radical local activism and life-style anarchism. It celebrates life and those who fight against that which restricts it. 

Catering will be made possible by Food Not Bombs.

In it's third year, DIY fest will still feature fun Do-It-Yourself workshops, but it also joins forces with the Winnipeg Anarchist Bookfair. So you can expect a bookfair with vendors of radical and alternative publications, some workshop discussions on anarchy and activism in Winnipeg, and fun evening events.

Most events will occur at the Broadway Neighbourhood Center but evening events will be at 91 Albert or the Ellice Street Theatre.

Self publishing amongst activists has a colourful, jaggedly cut and political history. Zines have been scattered around in one form or another since words were written on paper, but for activists and political artists, zines really took off in the pre-online world of the 1990s. Popularized by the riot grrrl movement, a product of feminism and alternative rock in North America, zines quickly became an invaluable vehicle for manifestos and sharing lived experiences. Nowadays, zines can be found online and in print. This guide will go over how to put together a zine cover to cover and include:

What's a zine?
Creating content
Figuring out formatting
Distribution

Whats a zine