Signal Periodical

2009-05-21T21:54:00.002+10:00

The Degraves St underpass was transformed on Valentine's day to a hive of zine enthusiasts

Signal selling Volume I and II to happy connoisseurs and launching the the idea of Volume III

Stick Zine Fair in the Degraves St Underpass

2009-05-21T21:43:00.002+10:00

2009-02-13T11:51:00.001+11:00

We are calling out for submissions to Volume three of the Periodical!
This issue will be digital and contributions open to everyone! Look forward to seeing what you come up with. Keep your eye on this space or email to keep in the loop.

Sticky zine fair

2009-02-13T11:48:00.001+11:00

The STICKY zine fair is... tomorrow! 12-5pm underground at flinders street station. hope to see you there! signal will be having a stall.

2009-01-14T00:50:00.000+11:00

there is whispers about volume three... more information coming soon.

International Literary Conspiracy Week

2009-01-13T23:36:00.002+11:00

International Literary Conspiracy Week

A celebration of independent bookshop culture
9 - 15 February
the full program can be seen on facebook

"The first ever International Literature Conspiracy week will be held from Mon 9 – Sunday 5 February featuring zine launches at Sticky, insane creative projects to get involved with, and yes, a kick arse zine fair SAT 14 FEBRUARY 2009. What better way to celebrate your love for zines than on valentines day people. So mark this one in your diaries, and get ready to staple your heart out, because Sticky's zine fair this year packed the subway out, and it's going to be the same deal in 09, only bigger. "
Do support and check this out and get involved and immerse and make zines to swap and sell with other zinesters and get inspired. Yes go! Do it!

2009-01-13T23:17:00.003+11:00

How to direct from the inside is a new play directed by Clara Pagone, a co-collaborator on the Signal Periodical Project.
opens at La Mama on the 21st of January hope you can make it!

Yeah Write Zine Fair

2008-09-06T10:01:00.002+10:00

"Back with a vengeance" the infamous zine fair that happens in the beautiful old building of the Hawthorn Town Hall is on again this year.

Sunday October 26, 11-4pm

to register for a stall or to find out more infomation contact Mardi Nowak Mardi.Nowak@boroondara.vic.gov.au

TownHall Gallery blog

Volume two digitally

2008-09-05T10:58:00.001+10:00

Express Media workshops

2008-09-04T13:55:00.002+10:00

The Latest Express Media workshop schedule has been released and can be found here:
There are all manner of things happening including ones on publishing, blogging, spoken word, poetry, comics, zines, writing and editing.

Wed, 12 Nov, 6-8pm
Express Media Independent Publishing Workshop with Lisa Dempster
Independent Publishing is a workshop about the world of independent and small press publishing. In the workshop you will learn how to get involved, what it takes to set up your own press, planning what to publish, where to sell your publications and pitfalls to avoid.
Cost: $22 for E(x)_m members or $25 for non-members.

Talking about independant publishing...

2008-09-04T13:51:00.002+10:00

I just came across this really neat website called Locus, a melbourne based collaboration between aduki independent press and Vignette Press. Check it, there is lots of discussion and dialogue about what is happening and what could be happening in our local indep publishing scene.
"Locus believes in independent publishing, sustainability in the publishing and media industries, and above all, books and magazines that are interesting, diverse and distinctive."

2008-08-22T19:10:00.004+10:00

The last production session and celebration. Volume two is now finished and very awesome if you can find a copy to look at in its papered glory (check your local library or Sticky for a copy).

2008-07-09T14:06:00.002+10:00

Block printing

2008-07-09T13:49:00.004+10:00

The process of cutting lino, carving out shapes, inking it up and sliding through the rollers of the press. Hard lino, sticky ink, brisk paper. And then stacking up in the wire racks to dry. Multiples of things always look so poetic for some reason.

2008-07-07T10:00:00.000+10:00

Evolution

Ideas and untold tales dying
On hundreds of sheets
Of paper separate from

One
Another

Some lost
In train stations
Supermarkets
Trolleys

Others lie
Between random sheets
In books buckets
Cupboards old
Games and wallets
All waiting
To be remembered by

The mind that saw them

This mind comes
It remembers
Writing caring loving them

Feeding them new words
Every day
Holding them gently

Though it touches them
And sees

Unfinished
Raw sentences
Words
Wasted pages

That must all be thrown away

Maria Leonchikova

Digital volume one

2008-07-02T19:37:00.003+10:00

A digital version of Volume One is finally here. Click to open publication in full screen glory.

Folding, exhaling,

2008-06-25T22:12:00.007+10:00

The wheels are in motion, as we launch right in, all the way into the heart of book production, into this one we are making, without too much precision in our planning but a definite level of foresight. Printmaker Antonia Green has been helping out at headquarters with her playful ideas and huge expanses of knowledge and skill in the art of print - making (and origami!).

and then there was pineapples

2008-06-25T22:05:00.003+10:00

Exploring the surface textures of pineapples as a printing medium.
I sort of wish that we had made a video or sound recording of the inky pineapple rolling across the surfaces of paper.

Remember potato printing?

2008-06-25T15:17:00.020+10:00

The creative workshops are in session. The air alive with a subtle buzz, as we scribble and make notes, and start thinking about how volume two will look and feel.

Starting with a greylead line and ending in inked impressions of fruit dissected. Remembering cut out shapes in potatoes, dipped in paint and splattered on the pages of our childhood. Finding out that it is still fun, and that fruits (other than potatoes) already have amazingly intricate patterns designed into them.

Preparing for the lino print adventure.

The beginning has been moved

2008-06-10T14:32:00.002+10:00

Workshops haven't started yet, but they will, this weekend, Saturday the 14th of June. There is still time to register if you hadn't yet but wanted to.

Put these dates in

2008-06-03T15:21:00.008+10:00

...into your calendar as we launch headlong into the making of Volume Two of this periodical. Workshops are free and registration is essential. These are the sessions as follows, they may change depending on which way the weather blows, but this is a good starting point.

Creative workshops
Friday 6th June :: 4pm - 7pm This is a creative development session for the makers of volume one, to stimulate some new ideas and ways of working.
Saturday 7th June :: 4pm - 7pm This is a creative session for NEW participants
Sunday 8th June :: 4pm - 7pm This session is for everyone involved in Volume TWO. We will draw maps and come up with a new plan for how we are going to take this on, also introduction session with mentors.

Production workshops
The following sessions will be for layout, editing and production. we will experiment with different printing techniques and hopefully there will be an excursion otherwise we will at least talk about the beauty and wonder of excursions over cups of tea.
Saturday 14th June, Sunday 15th June, Friday 20th June, Sunday 22nd June, Friday 27th June :: 4pm-7pm
Monday 7th July :: 4pm-7pm Tying the last knots that need to be tied and celebrating!

Volume two is on the way

2008-05-30T18:34:00.002+10:00

Registrations are now open for the next program of workshops beginning 7th of June, there are nine workshops in the series, and the sessions are all from 4-7pm on different days. More information coming soon, or even better just email chayya.clancy@gmail.com for all the details and to register your space in this brilliant project. What will issue two look like and how are we going to fold it?

The EWF press fair

2008-05-30T18:13:00.004+10:00

A buzzing part of the Emerging Writers Festival every year is the independent press fair that happens in the Atrium at Federation Square. Black clothed tables lined with all manner of books, zines, and magazines ready for perusal, collecting and swapping. We had a stall for the Periodical and managed to send home quite a few copies with new friends. Adelaide and Karen brought down copies of their own book projects, and so our stall took over a few tables.

Karen's solo book, meticulously handcrafted, all five copies sold out at the fair.

Production

2008-05-29T16:54:00.008+10:00

Independant Press Fair

2008-05-05T14:14:00.008+10:00

The Emerging Writers Festival is on again this year, this weekend coming, even. To register and check out the program go to Emerging Writers Festival
As always the Press Fair is a highlight for any printer matter connoisseur, and this year we will be having a stall. This will be the first public outing for signal periodical and we would love for you to come down and flick through its pages whilst chatting to the makers. See you there.

SMALL PRESS & ZINE FAIR
in THE ATRIUM, Federation Square
on SUNDAY May 11th, 12 noon-5pM.
There will be over 30 stall holders featuring the best literary magazines, small press publishers, zine makers, poetry publishers, postering experts and everything in between

Friday

2008-05-05T14:02:00.005+10:00

This friday we will be finishing off the last of the books in preparation for setting them free to the world, so they may wander and find new hands and laps to curl up into.

Workshop on Friday 9th May, 4 - 6.30pm at ArtPlay. We will be gluing the last of the books into their spines, discussing distribution and... the next issue? Registrations will open very soon for the next program, keep your listening ears on.

Loops of hidden string

2008-03-31T17:42:00.004+11:00

The books lining up, neatly sewed and folded, waiting to be glued into their covers.

The infamous wax seal, keeping the contents of the book held in secret.

Printing Museum

2008-03-31T17:39:00.002+11:00

Photos taken by Karen Mezentef, on our excursion to the Melbourne Printing Museum in Footscray. We produced the title page for Volume One of the Signal Periodical with the letter press method at the museum, it took five hours to print nine words on a page two hundred times. See the book for the full story and to feel the imprint of the metal letters on the paper.

Preview two

2008-03-04T17:04:00.005+11:00

Photograph and diagram by Pablo Alvarado

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by Karen Mezentsef

Very exciting

2008-02-27T10:38:00.005+11:00

I just came across something that has made me genuinely excited about the internet.

Check this: Issuu

A site where you can upload documents and magazines, that when you open them, flip open like a book, its really nicely presented and free to use. Perhaps when we finish the print version of Signal Periodical Volume one, we will upload a digital version too. The neat thing that I also discovered about it is you can post it on different sites and embed it in a blog.

Here are a couple of examples on the site:

Dumbo Feather issue 14

Lia's artwork

Preview

2008-02-23T23:20:00.005+11:00

Photomontage as part of works exploring the worlds of dreaming and being awake by Tess Lawrence

Wisdom

Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember my computer is sleeping

Somewhere in the back of my mind I believe I will wake up tomorrow

Somewhere in the back of my mind I see that I am both he and she

Somewhere in the back of my mind peace awaits the overcast eyes

Somewhere in the back of my mind is a space that cheers for me

Somewhere in the back of my mind exists a place that knows no hunger

Anger thirst or failure

A place

Where no voices speak

Only sounds

Which make dreams

hum beautiful songs

Somewhere in the back of my mind I do not expect it to all make sense

by Marsha Leonchikova

The next stage

2008-02-23T23:04:00.001+11:00

Thankyou to everyone for getting in your submissions for the periodical! There is an editing and layout session this monday 25th of february at Artplay from 5-7pm for anyone that is interested and the next lot of scheduled workshops are next weekend 1st and 2nd of March, 3-6pm, where we will launch headlong into the production side of things.

Also a few people have made audio submissions so we will be including a CD to be tucked inside the covers, if you are interested in adding some of your music, spoken word or noise bites, the cut off date is the 12th of March.

Open for contributions

2008-02-18T22:24:00.000+11:00

The gates are now open for contributions from artists and writers under 20 to add to the insides of the first issue of the Signal Periodical.

The page format for the book is A6 (148.5mm x 105mm) and the theme is DREAMS AND MYSTERIES.

Submissions must be received by Friday 22nd February

and can be sent digitally to chayya.clancy@gmail.com

or by post to: Artplay, City of Melbourne, PO Box 1603, Melbourne 3001

It has begun

2008-02-18T22:08:00.000+11:00

The first round of workshops ran last weekend and the one before. Participants engaged in ideas, inspiration, writing exercises, and discussion. We laid the plans and opened up the chanels for creating the first issue of the Signal Periodical.

2008-02-03T22:21:00.000+11:00

"Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough for us to set each other free."

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Dates pencilled in

2008-01-24T16:29:00.000+11:00

So the dates that we have pencilled in for the Signal periodical workshops are as follows,

Two creative workshops over two days. The plan is to run this program twice so we have a smaller group of people in each session. So depending on interest you will choose one set of the following dates:

Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February, 3-6pm OR
and Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 February, 3-6pm

and then Four production workshops over a few weekends in March where we will be putting together a collaborative book, taken home at the end to read.

Saturday 1, Sunday 2, Saturday 15, Sunday 16 of March, 3-6pm

Registrations are open, please email chayya.clancy@gmail.com to get involved.

Festival of the Photocopier

2008-01-22T15:08:00.000+11:00

The Sticky Institute, our beloved stockists of indepedant press from everywhere including the boy that wrote a zine that lives over the fence, are having a festival celebrating the photocopier in February.

click here for the full details

The Signal workshops

2008-01-22T14:26:00.000+11:00

A series of workshops tied together with string, investigating the process of ideas and development of practical skills in the realm of print production.
This project is about going beyond DIY, without losing integrity or the hands on, lived in approach to publishing.

Participants will initially engage in a weekend of creative workshops in early February. Exploring ideas punctuated with hands on activities, playing with words and experimenting with drawing. You will gain insight into producing content for publication and contribute finished pieces towards a collaborative publication.
Production will happen in March bringing together the work in a printed and bound form, the workshops will focus on the layout and print process, screenprinting, bookbinding and distribution.

All workshops are free and are open to 16 to 20 year olds with an enthusiasm for print expression and publication. Younger people will be considered.
Saturday and Sundays 3-6pm
Artplay on Birrarung Marr (behind Federation Square),
all details will be confirmed with participants.

To register your participation please contact Chay-Ya:
via email chayya.clancy@gmail.com or telephone on 0432 672 899
Registrations close on Wednesday 30th January

This will be an ongoing project.
Inquires on further programs are welcome.