The Paper Trail Dossiers: Interview with Zinesters by Ciara Xyerra, courtesy of Barnard Zine Library
Event Title: Tour of Barnard Zine Library, Archives and Special Collections
Date & Time: Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 5:15PM (Tour begins promptly at 5:30PM)
Duration: 90 minutes
Capacity: 20
Admission: Free! (ART Members and Non-Members)
Location: The Milstein Center, 2nd Floor, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Meeting location: The Milstein Center (2nd Floor Zine Library)
Join staff from the Barnard Zine Library and Archives for a behind-the-scenes tour of the zine and related ephemera collections! The tour will begin with a walkthrough of the circulating zine library space, flip through a selection of their favorite do-it-ourselves publications and talk zine culture in the open stacks. The tour will continue with a look at their special collections zines which share a climate-controlled basement with their close collaborators in the Archives department, and rifle through the doodled envelopes, copy scam tools, original zine flats and riot grrrl memorabilia of the Zinester Ephemera Collections in the Archives’ reading room. We will also have an opportunity to tour the current Surviving Barnard: Student Disorientation Guides at Barnard and Columbia reading room exhibit, alongside the zine library’s disorientation guide display, center networks of student solidarity and collective self-publishing power, and demonstrate the throughlines between the zine library collections and the Barnard Archives.
This is an in-person event limited to 20 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An A.R.T. staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
Meeting location: The Milstein Center (2nd Floor Zine Library)
Directions:
When arriving at the front gates of campus on 117th and Broadway, attendees must give their name to public safety and show their ID. Then, turn right and enter the Milstein Center building immediately in front of the lawn. Turn right in the Milstein lobby to get to the elevators.
Valid identification is required for this event. Please be sure to bring this with you to be granted access to the campus.
ABOUT
Barnard Archives and Special Collections
The Barnard Archives and Special Collections collects and makes accessible materials that document campus and academic life at Barnard, as well as broader feminist histories.
Barnard Zine Library
Barnard's zines reflect the Barnard College student population with regard to gender. We have zines by women, nonbinary people, and trans men, with a collection emphasis on zines by women of color and a newer effort to acquire more zines by trans women. We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on a wide range of topics, broadly addressing gender, feminisms, identities, political activism, and popular culture. Frequent topics include, for example, teenage girlhoods, punk cultures, COVID-19, riot grrrl, LGBTQIA experiences, BIPOC identities, travel, comics, physical and mental health, body image, gender nonconformity, discrimination, DIY and crafting, cooking, friendship, and much more. Our zines are at the lower end of the production level scale and typically cost $10 or less, with most of them in the $1-$5 range. We welcome visitors from everyday zine lovers to international scholars. Come by yourself or bring a friend, or bring your class in for a workshop. Contact zines@barnard.edu. We affirm that Black Lives Matter — in our zines and in our hearts.
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