Very exciting

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

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

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

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

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. 

"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

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

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

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.