Volume two is on the way

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

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

Independant Press Fair

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

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

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

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

Photograph and diagram by Pablo Alvarado



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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.