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That's a wrap on #ZineFestHouston2024! Thank you t

That's a wrap on #ZineFestHouston2024! Thank you to the over 1200 who attended today's festival, our biggest ever!! We are proud to serve our community and grateful to everyone who stepped up to help when we needed you! We love you Houston! Stay tuned for more happenings soon and in 2025! DIY OR DIE, Y'ALL! Thanks to @theorangeshow, especially Curator of Programs Pete Gershon (@jazzooo) for being amazing supporters of ZFH ❤️

HOW TO PARK AT THE VENUE!! Lots of spots and vendo

HOW TO PARK AT THE VENUE!! Lots of spots and vendor parking too. ✌🏼✨

UPDATE: we got it covered, thank you everyone!!!!!

UPDATE: we got it covered, thank you everyone!!!!!!! 💯💯💯💯💯💯

URGENT!!!! VENDORS: somebody broke in and destroyed a buncha tables. BRING A TABLE IF YOU HAVE ONE

We are READY FOR YOU, HOUSTON!! We'll see you TOM

We are READY FOR YOU, HOUSTON!!

We'll see you TOMORROW at @theorangeshow from 12-6pm for #ZineFestHouston2024! Browse and buy zines, prints and more from almost 200 vendors, enjoy good food from @knives_in_water and @moonroostertx, and coffee from @thousandmilecoffee.co! Be sure to bring your seeds to swap at the @dept.__ table, explore the @moonpapasart installation onsite, and catch some of the awesome programming we have planned throughout the day!!

Let's celebrate our community and the power of DIY - we are STRONGER TOGETHER 💪🏼 check our website for more fest details and we'll see you soon!!! 😘

Left to right: ZFH organizers Ruben Ramires('s head) (@rubenramires), Patrick Brooks (@eitfan2), María Heg (@ohdonteven), Anastasia Kirages (@k.llages), and Sarah Welch (@welch_wich).

Photo by @jazzooo

The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Decline

The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Decline of Techno Utopianism

Growing up as a Space Age kid I could feel the techno utopian dream in full force. The Green Revolution would end world hunger, the personal computer would put consumers in the driver’s seat and help us to work smarter rather than stealing our jobs through automation, the Macintosh was “a bicycle for the mind” and 1984 was not going to be like “1984”.

The early days of mass use of the Internet were similarly techno utopian in a seemingly progressive direction. The possibilities seemed endless.

BUT... somewhere along the way, things changed drastically and the progressive spirit of techno utopianism is hard to detect these days. This talk and panel discussion will go over this history and try to analyze how and why we ended up here.

All ZFH programming is free to attend and will be located in The Orange Show classroom.

Poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan.

#ZineFestHouston2024 #ZineFestHouston #ZineScene #ZineFest #DIYorDie #DIY #Zines #Zine #HoustonZineScene #Technoutopian #TechHistory #technohistory

Don’t miss out on the following panel at 3 PM on

Don’t miss out on the following panel at 3 PM on Saturday: Resources and Digital Safety for Community Care featuring...

Carmen Hernandez - Book club facilitator/founder of Feminist Reading Group and cyber literacy enthusiast (@frg_htx)
Sim Kern - author, activist, and online content creator (@sim_bookstagrams_badly)
Julia Barbosa Landois - artist, performer, and co-creator of Tía Sabiduría zine (@jblandois), and Edith Valle - artist and Art Director for Deeds Not Words (@deedsnotwords, @edithvalledesign)

This panel will discuss finding alternative routes to resources/info, safe ways to access said resources, and how to exist in the online space as a way for targeted communities to help each other and keep movements going.

#digitalresources #digitalsafety #onlinesafety #cybersecurity #communitycare #onlinecommunitycare

In the spirit of optimism and envisioning utopian

In the spirit of optimism and envisioning utopian futures, Zine Fest Houston and Houston-based landscape architecture studio Dept. @dept.__ bring you the first ever ZFH SEED TRADE! Stop by Table 124 to donate or trade your very own seeds! Vegetal, Herbaceous, Perennial, Annual, Endemic Varieties, Good Ol' Garden Center Stuff: All Seeds Welcome. Paper envelopes will be available for the easy trading of seeds. Feel free to package and label your own seeds if you wish to donate. Start envisioning future gardens now! Plant seeds! Share abundance!

How to contribute:
- Donate seeds for sharing
- Give 1 pack of seeds & receive 1 pack of seeds in return

🌑🔧Moon Papas - Techno-Optimistic Resistance

🌑🔧Moon Papas - Techno-Optimistic Resistance Fortress🔩🌑

Join us this Saturday at Zine Fest Houston to experience the Techno-Optimistic Resistance Fortress—a unique, post-apocalyptic found-object installation by Moon Papas!

A sanctuary in the dystopian void, where knowledge and creativity become the ultimate forms of resistance!🛠️

#zinefesthouston2024 #zinefesthouston #moonpapasart
#DIY #happeninginhouston

Where are all of our fashionistas at?!? What’s a

Where are all of our fashionistas at?!? What’s a Zine-topia/Dystopia without super cool bad-a** outfits??? Organizers @welch_wich and @k.llages were inspired to put together some fits over the weekend. We would love to see your take on this theme in ZFH’s first ever FASHION SHOW PARADE starting at 5 PM on Saturday, November 16th! Slay away and slay all day!

#fashion #fashionshow #utopia #dystopia #utopianfashion #dystopianfashion

Zine Fest Houston is coming up next weekend! On Sa

Zine Fest Houston is coming up next weekend! On Saturday, November 16th from 12-6PM at The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art to be precise. We made this promo film to get people in the right mood to explore this year’s theme: ZINE-TOPIA/DYSTOPIA. We hope you enjoy it and we hope you can join us at the fest.

#ZineFestHouston2024 #ZineFestHouston #ZineScene #ZineFest #DIYorDie #DIY #Zines #Zine #HoustonZineScene #HoustonEvents #HappeningInHouston #OnlyInHouston #SelfPublishing #LetsMakeAZine #ZineMaking #CommunityEvents #HoustonCommunityEvents #Utopia

Next Saturday, in addition to all the wonderful am

Next Saturday, in addition to all the wonderful amazing vendors, we will also have a full day of programming, which you can check out here. Peep the times before next weekend and make note of what you want to attend! There will be food and drinks at the fest so you can take a break for that and then head back to all the day’s activities!

#ZineFestHouston2024 #ZineFestHouston #ZineScene #ZineFest #DIYorDie #DIY #Zines #Zine #HoustonZineScene #HoustonEvents #HappeningInHouston #OnlyInHouston #SelfPublishing #LetsMakeAZine #ZineMaking #CommunityEvents #HoustonCommunityEvents

A message from the Zine Fest Houston Organizing Te

A message from the Zine Fest Houston Organizing Team:

Hey. If you’re anything like us, you’re probably having a rough day. It might feel tough to look ahead and imagine a brighter future after waking up to this morning’s headlines. It’s important to take some time to grieve, catch up on self care, and breathe – you can’t pour from an empty cup, as they say. But soon, very soon, it’ll be time to stand up and take your fighting stance. The work of creating a better world never ended, never lessened, never stopped being essential, no matter which party holds the reins of power. After election day 2016, we were still standing, still coming together in mutual support. After election day 2020, we were still standing, still coming together in mutual support. And now, after election day 2024, we are going to do exactly the same thing: stay standing, and come together in mutual support.

If there’s one thing zines have been doing throughout even darker days and years in history, it’s CREATING COMMUNITY and MAKING SPACE for people. Our commitment to one another is a nourishing, powerful, and ENDLESSLY RENEWABLE resource! ZINES ARE A TOOL FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT: LET’S USE THEM!

We hope you will join us at #ZineFestHouston2024 November 16th @theorangeshow, to celebrate our beautiful community, to hold each other in the light, and to make space for the beauty and strength that still flourishes in the carefully tended and cultivated pockets of the world. We love you. We will win.

Media: Video of Zine Fest Houston 2023 by Michael Mayer (@dehdlast)

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