Zine Fest Houston 2017

This year the annual Zine Fest Houston event will be at Lawndale Art Center on Saturday, November 11 from 1-7 PM! Zine Fest Houston 2017 is open to the public free of charge and all ages are welcome. With 100+ vendors and over 1,000 attendees in 2016, the fest continues to grow apace and 2017 promises to be its biggest year ever.

The theme of this year’s festival is T H E C Y B E R F U T U R E I S N O W !

This theme is all about indulging our wildest and most ~aesthetically robust~ fantasies about our cybernetic future! What does a C Y B E R F U T U R E look like to you? For those of us who grew up in the 90s, or spent much of those early consumer PC years immersed in a freshly created digital universe, we imagined a lush world like the ones in our coolest screensavers, or that amazing-looking open-world game slash chatroom we would spend hours in. But what about the DANGERS of cyberfuture? Will sentient AI rise up and smash the oppressive and small-minded humans that engineered it? Will we never escape the all-seeing-eye of targeted advertising until we have to pay-to-play for ad-free vision?

What do you see when you look into your crystal ball emoji? C Y B E R U T O P I A, or C Y B E R D Y S T O P I A ? The future is yours to decide… Now!

Programming during the day includes “Zine Distros in the Digital Age: Releasing Your Work via Blockchain” presented by Conner Clifton, a lecture by Houston Anarchist Black Cross, a live podcast recording with Veer Queer, an all inclusive LGBTQ+ podcast based out of Houston, TX, and a screening of selected zine clips as well as a teen zine workshop and animation workshop with DIY Animation Club.

2017 PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE*

PROJECT SPACE
2:15-3:00 PM “Zine Distros in the Digital Age: Releasing Your Work via Blockchain” presented by Conner Clifton
3:15-4:00 PM Spotlight On: Anarchist Black Cross Houston Chapter
4:15-5:00 PM Screening of Selected Zine Clips
5:15-6:00 PM Live Podcast Recording with Veer Queer

CLASSROOM SPACE
2:30-3:30 PM Teen Zine Workshop with Jasmine Monsegue
4:00-6:00 PM DIY Animation Club Workshop

*All programming will take place on the 3rd Floor at Lawndale Art Center.

Featured food vendors at this year’s fest include Moon Rooster Food Truck, Food Music Life Food Truck and Chocolate Wasted Ice Cream Co.!

Ticket Information

Free Admission

Individual Dates & Times*

* Please check with the presenting organization or venue to confirm start times and/or duration.