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Sweet Release pop up stall

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We are having a one-day-only pop up stall at Sweet Release on: Saturday the 19th of December 10am - 4pm. Stock up on Christmas reading and gifting, then get some good vegan kai. Our stock will include: - Books: anarchy, anti-racism, decolonisation, radical histories, radical futures, climate action, veganism, you name it. - 'Plan B' 2021 diaries - Zines! So many radical zines - Badges and patches - Tote Bags  

SUMMER BLESSING: Creative Workshops and Market

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Wellington Zinefest presents Summer Blessing: a full day of creativity to manifest a season of inspiration and abundance. Summer Blessing is our last event of the year, a pagan / solstice / folk-themed day of workshops and a zine market. Come along from 10am to take part in our creation stations. You can learn to press flowers, make badges, screen print and harness the power of the sun with cyanotype. These sessions are low key, no reservations and they’ll be running simultaneously. At 1.00 as the sun is high we will have a small market where you can swap and buy zines, art and spells from local zine makers, get your image in ink from Arden and pull a card or two. Our market runs until 5. We welcome you with open sketchbooks and invite you to bring your best energy as we respectfully nod to the celestial factors that keep our ball of dirt spinning. Feel free to wear your special occasion robes and BYO drinks, runes, tarot cards and talismans. Artwork by Darcy Woods. Saturday, 12 Decemb

SUMMER BLESSING: Creative Workshops and Market

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Wellington Zinefest presents Summer Blessing: a full day of creativity to manifest a season of inspiration and abundance. Summer Blessing is our last event of the year, a pagan / solstice / folk-themed day of workshops and a zine market. Come along from 10am to take part in our creation stations. You can learn to press flowers, make badges, screen print and harness the power of the sun with cyanotype. These sessions are low key, no reservations and they’ll be running simultaneously. At 1.00 as the sun is high we will have a small market where you can swap and buy zines, art and spells from local zine makers, get your image in ink from Arden and pull a card or two. Our market runs until 5. We welcome you with open sketchbooks and invite you to bring your best energy as we respectfully nod to the celestial factors that keep our ball of dirt spinning. Feel free to wear your special occasion robes and BYO drinks, runes, tarot cards and talismans. Artwork by Darcy Woods. Saturday, 12 Decemb

Radical Zine Series - Volume 1 Launch

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Help celebrate and launch the first four Radical Zines re-designed and re-purposed in a collaboration between Wellington Zinefest and the Freedom Shop. When: Thursday, 10 December at 6pm Where: at the Freedom Shop - in Opportunities for Animals, 162 Riddiford St, Newtown We selected classic zines from our archives for a creative reimagining. With the help of donors from a Boosted campaign, four local illustrators were commissioned to reimagine these relatively simple, text-heavy zines into fully illustrated beautiful works! The radical zine redesign project has helped make the important ideas within these zines even more accessible. We'll be selling the redesigned texts and cheaply as possible so that we can share their learnings with as many people as possible. The four zines are: Are We All New Zealanders Now? by Dr Ani Mikaere, redesigned by Izzy Joy "The Problem With White Saviours" by Simone Kaho, redesigned by Kata Brown Rongoā by Emily Tuhi-Ao Bailey, redesigne

Plan B Diaries 2021

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The Plan B diaries for 2021 are here! For the third year, the Freedom Shop has produced a diary highlighting dates of Aotearoa's radical (or ignored) history.  Get yours from the shop or at Zinefest this weekend for $10 (the Freedom Shop will be there on Sunday). If you can't make it in person, send us an email and we will post one to you. We also have a range of new tote bags for $7.

Zinefest 2020

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This year's Zinefest is slightly earlier than normal - it's on the weekend of 10-11 October, 12-4pm with and accesibility hour from 11 to 12 on both days, and this time it is at the Vic Uni School of Design at 139 Vivian St. The Freedom Shop will have a stall on Sunday, 11 Oct. 

David Graeber

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2020 has been full of death and grief, and one more person has died. In the first week of September, David Graeber, anarchist, author, activist, anthropologist and historian, died suddenly.  Graeber's books included: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory , which first started off as an article in Strike! Magazine , Debt: The First 5000 Years , and Direct Action: An Ethnography , plus The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy . He was also one of the editors of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Transformation . Just one quick online search reveals so many journals and articles by Graeber, inlcuding in Rolling Thunder The Shock of Victory: An Analysis of Our Unclaimed Triumphs - there are also books due to be published later this year, including one co-written with his partner ' What are Kings '.    “Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations that are fundamentally based on violence and violent inequ