Utah Humanities Book Festival

Time again for the Utah Humanities Council’s Book Festival running roughly from September 17 to October 31, throughout the state.  Notable September events happening in Salt Lake City are:

Sept 18 (7:00 PM), 19th (12:00 PM) Frank Bidart at The Art Barn (54 Finch Lane)       Sept 25 @ 7:00 PM Anthony Doerr at the Viridian Event Center, 8030 South 1825 West, West Jordan                                                                                                             Sept 26 @ 7:00 PM Maggie Nelson at Westminster College in the Gore Business School Auditorium (1840 South 1300 East)                                                                    and Sept 28 @ 3:00 PM Michael Homer at the Mariott Library on the University of Utah Campus in the Gould Auditorium (295 South 1500 East)

for more information about the festival and to download a pdf of the program go to: http://www.utahhumanities.org/BookFestival.htm

Greetings from Japan!

If you’re following us on Facebook (and you really, really should be–just search for “Alt Press”), then you’ve glimpsed the inter-cultural amazingness currently displayed on Level 2 at the Main Library.

We’re talking about zines from Japan!

In a first-ever international outreach experiment, we shipped off some of our precious zine collection (via good old snail mail) to Kanda University of International Studies, about an hour east of Tokyo, Japan.

The City Library at Brewvies: Kick-Ass

 

Monday, June 10, 2013 – 7:00 p.m.

Enjoy a cool “B” while watching Kick-Ass kick “A.” Don your mask, slip into some spandex, and grab a baton or two on your way to a free screening of Kick-Ass in the first installment of The City Library at Brewvies. Lucky superheroes will win prizes, including copies of the Kick-Ass graphic novel written by Mark Millar and illustrated by John Romita, Jr.

About Kick-Ass (from imdb.com) Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Location: Brewvies, 677 South 200 West

Contact Information: (801) 524-8200

Alt Press Fest 2013 Call for Entries!

Calling all zine producers, printmakers, book artists, and DIYers of all stripes!

We are back! And this year we’ll have some awesome special guests….

So claim your spot at the Alt Press Fest (Sat, July 13, Main Library)! If you want to show off your wares or conduct a workshop, contact Brooke Young (byoung@slcpl.org) no later than Monday, April 22.

Valentine’s Mini-Comic Zine Workshop Pics

If you are an Instagram user (and really who isn’t these days amirite?) check out these great pics from last night’s Valentine’s Mini-Comic zine workshop courtesy of zinester/alt-girl bonniekayevargacooper.

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Or click here and look for February 2013.

If you like what you see (and live in the SLC area) we urge you to come on out to one of our workshops.  They are super fun.  Or maybe look out for or start Zine Workshops in your community.

Cool Vid for Sumi Ink Club

This is an awesome vid from our main man Patrick Weeks.  It also encourages folks to come out to the Sumi Ink Club Flashmob event on Saturday Jan. 5, 2013.  Deets can be found here and on Facebook here.

Get Up, Get Out & Go Vote!

Tomorrow will be the most important day in your life!  It’s the day you help decide who will be defeated in this year’s most epic battle!  It reminds me of The Incredible Hulk #340 when Wolverine gutted the Hulk in one of the greatest comic superhero fights of all time.  Like the Hulk, will the United States healing factor kick in just in time to continue the fight?  “HULK SMASH!”  Or like Hulk in part 8 of Old Man Logan, will the United States fall to the ground holding it’s guts in it’s hands after swallowing Wolverine only to have him rip the Hulk open from the inside with his adamantium claws?!?!  Only you can decide!

*Disclaimer: Wolverine did not ruin our economy or cause the economic / social inequality between the 1 and 99%.  But the Bush administration did help gut the United States like Wolverine gutted the Hulk…so you get the idea.

For voting locations and other important voting info click here.

-Strange

Happy Halloween!

We here at GNZAP and SLCPLALTPRESS would like to wish you a very SPOOKY Halloween!  We hope your costumes kill it, your fridge is full of beer and all of your trick-or-treaters leave with enough candy that they’ll drive their parents crazy for weeks!

-Strange

Alt Press Fest 2012 Returns

For most of us Alt Press Fest 2012 is now buried in the past, however every once in a while something comes back to remind us.  In fact it reminds me of this song.

Anyway, Heather House wrote up this delightful blog entry about her experience back in July.  Check it out here.

Thanks so much.  We are very happy that you had such a great time.

And feel free to relive Alt Press Fest 2012 by visiting our Alt Press Fest tag.

A Work in Progress

This time with yellow!

We had our second successful Sumi Ink workshop at Sweet branch library last Saturday. Here we present the photographic documentation of our (as yet unnamed) work, in progress:

It was a good time, all ages kind of day, with Michael Jackson on Pandora. Of course we love this sort of thing, but what about YOU, Salt Lake City Public?

Is this something you’d like to see more of?

-SC