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Your voice and expression are power. Creating art as a form of community-driven activism is more important than ever. Join us TOMORROW for the first-ever Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival 華埠小巷手作書誌節, featuring an incredible lineup of BIPOC, queer, and independent artists sharing their work and their voices!

📍 Ross Alley, SF Chinatown
🗓️ Saturday, November 9 | 12-4PM
🎟️ Free to all

FEATURING:
✨ Our Artist-in-Residence Ho Tam @hotampress
✨ CCC Design Store @cccdesignstore - 35+ BIPOC artists!
✨ RE/Search and Search & Destroy @vale_research
✨ Unity Press @unitypress
✨ Floss Editions @flosseditions
✨ Sming Sming Books @smingsmingbooks
✨ Wasted Books @wastedbooks
✨ Everything Matters @everythingmatters.press
✨ lab94107.cca @lab94107.cca
✨ Lisa Hsia @lisa.hsia.art
✨ Inky Fingers Printshop @inky.fingers.printshop
✨ With beats by @lowergrandradio

No matter what happens in this world, art will always be a medium to share our stories of collective liberation.

Don’t forget to pick up our limited edition tote and festival keychain!

#41Ross #SFChinatown #CommunityPower #ArtistsResist #QTAPI #BIPOC #AsianAmerican #ZineFest

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In times of uncertainty, our communities rise together. This Saturday, CCC and a team of incredible queer and BIPOC artists claim our space, amplify our voices, and celebrate our collective power.

The first-ever Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival 華埠小巷手作書誌節 is more than an art fest—it's a declaration of our presence, our resistance, and our joy.

CCC has always been here, fighting to create spaces where our stories are told, where queerness is celebrated, where our collective power shines.

This Saturday, we invite you to join us in this celebration of intersectional joy and resistance!

Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival
📍 Ross Alley, SF Chinatown
🗓️ Saturday, November 9 | 12-4PM
🎟️ Free & open to all

🎨 With Artist-in-Residence: Ho Tam @hotampress

Featuring:
✨ CCC Design Store @cccdesignstore
✨ RE/Search and Search & Destroy @vale_research
✨ Unity Press @unitypress
✨ Floss Editions @flosseditions
✨ Sming Sming Books @smingsmingbooks
✨ Wasted Books @wastedbooks
✨ Everything Matters @everythingmatters.press
✨ lab94107.cca @lab94107.cca
✨ Lisa Hsia @lisa.hsia.art
✨ Inky Fingers Printshop @inky.fingers.printshop
✨ With a special DJ set by @lowergrandradio

#41Ross #SFChinatown #ArtistResidency #aalf #cccsf #asianamerican #literature #sfartist #chinatownSF #contemporaryart #zine #festival

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Welcome ✨Wasted Books✨ to the first-ever Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival on Nov 9th!

📖 Wasted Books is an independent publisher co-directed by Vanessa N and Steven Trull specializing in language-based art, conceptual writing, and long-form essays that describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, it focuses on ambitious, imaginative, and generative writing.

✨ @wastedbooks
✨ wastedbooks.org

Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival:
📍 @41.ross Ross Alley, SF Chinatown
🗓️ Saturday, November 9 | 12-4PM
🎟️ Free to the public

Presented by CCC @cccsanfrancisco
Inspired by Artist-in-Residence Ho Tam @hotampress

#ChineseCulture #ZineFest #SanFrancisco #SFChinatown #Chinatown #ArtistsOnInstagram #AsianArt #IndiePublishing #CommunityArt #SFArt #BayArea #41Ross #ArtistResidency #cccsf #asianamerican #literature #sfartist #chinatownSF #contemporaryart #zine #festival

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Join us for the inaugural Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival on Nov 9th! 📚✨

@cccsanfrancisco presents a groundbreaking celebration of print media and independent art in the heart of SF Chinatown. This festival creates an innovative platform for BIPOC artists while celebrating the vibrant cultural fabric of the Chinatown community.

📍 Ross Alley, SF Chinatown
🗓️ Saturday, November 9 | 12-4PM
🎟️ Free to the public

🎨 Artist-in-Residence: Ho Tam @hotampress
Our festival inspiration! Experience Ho Tam's transformative installation at @41.Ross, featuring a bookshop, gallery, and pop-up performances, inviting visitors to discover how print culture interweaves with Chinatown's rich heritage.

Artists:
✨ CCC Design Store @cccdesignstore
✨ RE/Search and Search & Destroy @vale_research
✨ Unity Press @unitypress
✨ Floss Editions @flosseditions
✨ Sming Sming Books @smingsmingbooks
✨ Wasted Books @wastedbooks
✨ Everything Matters @everythingmatters.press
✨ lab94107.cca @lab94107.cca
✨ Lisa Hsia @lisa.hsia.art
✨ Inky Fingers Printshop @inky.fingers.printshop
✨ With a special DJ set by @lowergrandradio

Join us in creating connections across diverse communities while supporting independent artists and publishers. Come experience the power of storytelling through print!

#41Ross #SFChinatown #ArtistResidency #aalf #cccsf #asianamerican #literature #sfartist #chinatownSF #contemporaryart #zine #festival

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Off Register: Santa Barbara Art Book and Print Fair is Nov 16th! Mark your calendars!

Welcoming our print vendors, thank you for exhibiting with us! Here is work from @wastedbooks

Wasted Books is an independent publisher co-directed by Vanessa N and Steven Trull specializing in language-based art, conceptual writing, and long-form essays that describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, it focuses on ambitious, imaginative, and generative writing.

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📣Announcing - SF Chinatown’s first ever zine festival! 📚

Join us on 11/9 for an unforgettable afternoon showcasing a diverse lineup of independent artists and zine publishers. The festival aims to uplift BIPOC artists, celebrating the dynamic communities and cultural vibrancies of Chinatown.

Featuring:
@hotampress
@cccdesignstore
@vale_research
@unitypress
@flosseditions
@smingsmingbooks
@wastedbooks
@everythingmatters.press
@lab94107.cca
@lisa.hsia.art
@ studio.trieu

Let’s celebrate print media together!

🔗Learn more (link in bio).
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Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival
11.9.24
12pm-4pm
Ross Alley, SF Chinatown

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SF Art Book Fair 2024 haul! Hope I tagged everyone.

#zine #sfartbookfair #zinehaul #artistbook #smallpress #smallprintshop

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San Francisco Art Book Fair presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, July 18-24, 2024
#sfabf2024 #sfartbookfair #sfartbookfair2024 #sanfranciscoartbookfair #minnesotastreetproject #keepartalive #keepindiebookstoresalive

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hoy hace un sol radiante en #madrid, casi pareciera que estamos un poco más cerca de la costa oeste de los estates, un poquito más al sur de #sanfrancisco (#frisco para los amigos), cruzando al otro lado de ese puente rojo y vibroso.

y la cartera, porque en este barrio es miss postman y no #mrpostman la que nos acerca las alegrías, nos ha traído una cajita de maravillas con cuatro #libros, dos #librettos, tres #postales y dos #chapas.

vente a la biblio a conocer a @wastedbooks una editorial independiente codirigida por #vanessan y #steventrull que se especializa en arte basado en el #lenguaje, #escrituraconceptual y #ensayos extensos que describen líneas de discurso crítico en torno al #arte, la #cultura y la #teoría contemporáneos. fundada en 2018 y con sede en san francisco y oakland, california, se centra en la escritura ambiciosa, imaginativa y generativa en inglés.

#marcablanca #bibliotecas #publicaciones #editoriales #wastedbooks #california #califas #us

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hoy hace un sol radiante en #madrid, casi pareciera que estamos un poco más cerca de la costa oeste de los estates, un poquito más al sur de #sanfrancisco (#frisco para los amigos), cruzando al otro lado de ese puente rojo y vibroso.

y la cartera, porque en este barrio es miss postman y no #mrpostman la que nos acerca las alegrías, nos ha traído una cajita de maravillas con cuatro #libros, dos #librettos, tres #postales y dos #chapas.

vente a la biblio a conocer a @wastedbooks una editorial independiente codirigida por #vanessan y #steventrull que se especializa en arte basado en el #lenguaje, #escrituraconceptual y #ensayos extensos que describen líneas de discurso crítico en torno al #arte, la #cultura y la #teoría contemporáneos. fundada en 2018 y con sede en san francisco y oakland, california, se centra en la escritura ambiciosa, imaginativa y generativa en inglés.

#marcablanca #bibliotecas #publicaciones #editoriales #wastedbooks #california #califas #us

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Wasted Books attended the CODEX Foundation's (@codexfoundation) 9th International Biennial Book Art Fair at The Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center (@hjkcenterforarts) in Oakland on Monday. Imagine an entire arena filled with book-related stuff, all made by hand. It was that kind of paradise. What you see here is just a sliver of what bedazzled us.

Some cool people we met (and almost met) who are pictured here (in order):

1. Tabú by Bela Limenes
2. mystery person looking
3. More porn (in sonnet form)
4. Bela Limenes with Tabú
5. Codex Mexico, Fernando Ondarza
6. Michelle Ho beside her deliberately empty black box (@mmmichelleho)
7. We enlarged this picture and still couldn’t find Mr Romero in the catalog.
8. Anne Covell discusses her girdle book, In the Dark, which excises the redactions in the Mueller Report (@annecovell)
9. This artist reprinted an Obama speech onto t-shirts. The speech was lengthy, so it had to be printed on many shirts. Then she photographed people wearing the speech in order of its delivery. A cease and desist letter from the White House arrived shortly after.
10. another mystery person looking

Some cool people we met (in person and/or through their printed matter etc) but who are not pictured here:

@cavepaper
@bookclubofca
@redthreadletter_press
@emcadams
@ximenaperezgrobet
@alphabetishist
@animalesdelorca
@sarahmhulsey
@amandinenabarra
@_heidi_neilson_
@barbaratetenbaum
@blackmasspublishing
@arionpress
@catherineclarkgallery
@letterformarchive

#socal #tumblrgirl #preppyaesthetic #dojacat #darkacademia #twilight #cosmetics #taylorswift #makeup #fairycorefashion #outfits #fashion #aesthetic #whispermemes #oldmoney #books #barbiecore #punk #grunge #coquette #wastedbooks #moneyforeveryone #softgirlaesthetic #elegantstyle #angelcore # #deathtotheinternet #chic #collage

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#Repost @wastedbooks
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Blanca Sotos (@marcablanca.press) has created Marcablanca, an independent space for resistance, reflection, and editorial production in central Madrid. It houses a community library and a printing workshop that privileges experimentation for artistic research.

Wasted Books is stoked to have its books join the resistance alongside other super cool collaborators in Marcablanca’s community library.

(It would be great if, for one year, all book covers were painted black.)

#marcablanca #ceasefirenow #preppyaesthetic #taylorswift #darkacademia #spam #cosmetics #kennethgoldsmith #makeup #fairycorefashion #copy #bookasartwork #aesthetic #semina #bookbansarefascist #wallaceberman #barbiecore #punk #sweet16 #coquette #wastedbooks #vanessan #postcards #hack #uncreativewriting #germanocelant #deathtotheinternet #giveupart #collage

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