March 22, 2025, 11am-6pm // 72 Harbour Dr // St. John’s, NL
HOLD FAST Zines is a community celebration of zinemaking, comics, stories, and small-scale paper arts in NL. Join us for hands-on zinemaking, tabling/merch fair, demos & more.
Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are booklets, usually self-published or DIY, often used by artists & marginalised creators to share content and tell stories.
2025 Zinefest Schedule
11am-6pm: Zine Market
11am-6pm: Zinemaking Table
11am-6pm: Oracle Cards with Christine Hennebury
11am-6pm: Collaborative Story with Christine Hennebury
12pm-2:30pm: Folding with Feeling: Artist Books with Amanda Penney (workshop)*
3pm-4:30pm: Mini Comics with Kevin Woolridge (workshop)*
*Thanks to our partners at Artforce NL, we are able to offer these workshops free of charge! However, due to space limitations, registration is required. Thank you!
Workshops & Programming
Read the full descriptions of our workshops & activities!
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- Folding with Feeling: Artist Books with Amanda Penney
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- Mini Comics with Kevin Woolridge
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- Oracle Cards with Christine Hennebury
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- Collaborative Storytelling with Christine Hennebury
Zine Market
The 2025 HOLD FAST zine market will take place from 11am-6pm on Saturday, March 22 in the Eastern Edge gallery space. See the full list of vendors and attendees!
- Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl
- August Carrigan
- Best Friend Zines
- Downtown Comics
- Eastern Edge
- Heavy Sweater Comics
- Karin Murray-Bergquist
- MUN Students 4 Palestine
- The Art of Being Black
- toothcut journal
Support the EE x Thrive Zine Fund!
People who are living in poverty face countless barriers to access the things that all people need to survive, leaving little time for creative expression or knowledge sharing. This month, Eastern Edge and Thrive are partnering up to support strategically undervalued community members in co-creating a zine!
We are hoping to raise $600 by February 20, 2025. This will allow us to compensate 10 zine contributors with an honorarium of $50 each, provide welcoming snacks at the workshop, and cover costs related to zine printing and production.
Donate via our CanadaHelps page to receive a charitable receipt! No amount is too small. Thank you so much for your support!