The tireless Brent Ritzl of Zine Guide fame and the Chicago Self-Publishers Event Council will be heading down to help host another 'zine reading at the Urbana-Champaign IMC, 218 W. Main St., Urbana, on Saturday, April 17 at 6:30 PM. I think this will be the fourth reading at the IMC that Chicago SPEC has participated in, and each one has been a blast with some really great readings. I also will be reading a piece from the forthcoming mediageek zine #2.

Then, on the following Saturday, March 24, Chicago SPEC in conjunction with the WLUW Record & Zine Fair will co-host a Self-Publishing and Media Reform Fest at the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, 1419 W. Blackhawk in Chicago, from 10 am to 6 pm.

I think I'll be making an effort to attend, and maybe catch some audio (or even video) for the radio show.

The scheduled workshops and readings are:

10:00 - ­11:20 am: workshop How to make a zine: individual & group zine project, facilitators include:

Molly Gage (Art Institute graduate student) - moderator
Alicia Dorr (Random Life In Progress, Zine Guide)
Bradley Adita (READ Zine Making Party coordinator)

11:30 - ­12:50 pm: workshop - Workshopping zines: critical analysis of self-published media, facilitators include:

Aaron Cynic (Diatribe zine) - moderator
Keight Sandler (Backstabber zine)
Kari Lydersen (Washington Post, Lip Magazine, In These Times, Chicago Reader, Clamor...)
Brent Ritzel (Zine Guide & Tail Spins Magazine)

1:00 - ­1:50 pm: readings [featuring 5 to 7 minute readings], readers include:

Louis Silverstein (Columbia College professor in Liberal Education)
Emerson Dameron (Wherewithal zine)
Grant Schreiber (Judas Goat Quarterly)
Larry O. Dean (www.larryodean.com)
Leonard "The Ludic Kid" Pierce (The Ludic Log - www.ludickid.com)
Howard Schlossberg (Columbia College professor in Journalism)
Anthony Rayson (Thought Bombs)
Brandon Wetherbee (Foul Inc., WRDP Program Director)

2:00­3:10 pm: panel - The U.S.A. Patriot Act, Civil Rights & Teh Media - panelists include:

Aaron Cynic (Diatribe zine) - moderator
Barbara Iverson (Columbia College professor in Journalism)
Saher Selod (Loyola University graduate student in sociology)
Ed Marzewski (Lumpen, Version>04)

3:20 - ­4:35 pm: panel - The FCC: What's New? panelists include:

Emerson Dameron (Wherewithal zine) - moderator
Paul Street (ZNet contributor)
Mitchell Szczepanczyk (Chicago Media Action)
Hope Daniels (Columbia College professor in Radio/Sound)

4:45 - ­6:00 pm: panel - IPA Chicago panel: Transforming self-publishing into self-sustenance, (brought to you by Independent Press Association of Chicago) - panelists include:

Aaron Sarver (In These Times) - moderator
Daniel Sinker (Punk Planet, Bail)
Amy Schroeder (Venus)
Leticia Cortez (Hasta Cuando)

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