November 2009
9 posts
Letter Writing Club →
Bird in the Hand will be hosting its first Letter Writing Club on Friday, December 4 and we’d love it if you came.
To give you a quick rundown on what will occur:
We welcome you in…
Renew Newcastle Kudos! →
Tonight I joined Marcus & Marni of Renew Newcastle at the City of Newcastle community awards ‘ceremony’. Renew have been recognised for their Community Service in setting up a dynamic urban…
What Bird in the Hand looks like.. →
If you’re from out of town and wondering what our zine shop looks like, I’ve made a little (very lofi!) video spanning most of the shop. You might catch a glimpse of your zine or someone you…
Zine Swap! →
I’m supposed to be writing away at my business plan and some specific arts funding applications tonight but hells bells./ I’m Greading and listening to My Morning Jacket instead. I came across…
Holy Smokes! There’s a new zine distro about town →
Sometimes you wish for something so hard that it comes true. Emma D of Flying Machine (brilliant) distro fame & her friend Tim are setting up a new distro in Sydney-town called Take Care. Pop…
Harmony No Harmony →
In a wonderfully horrid twist of fate, Bird in the Hand’s computing facilities have been thieved. Yes, you heard it right. Over the weekend we were robbed (during the day!) of our Macbook, iPod,…
Z is for →
I’ve been having pangs of guilt recently. I haven’t been reading enough. There’s a little worm inside my head coaxing me back to words on screens and words in books and words in zines. The…
Canberran Times →
There’s a pretty excellent article about Renew Newcastle going about. It’s written by a Canberran blogger, Useless Lines.
More and more frequently these days, it feels as though Canberra is…
Call-out: Themes for Zines →
I’ve been hearing a lot lately from people seeking out particularly niche zine subjects and so I thought I’d put them up and see if we can get people who’ve made zines on these themes to send…