Raise your hand if you make a playlist to listen to while you’re leaving/going somewhere! If you’re that person, well, we just made the next playlist, errr mixtape, for you. In honour of our sixth issue’s theme of Elsewhere, we decided to format this mixtape based on songs that mention other places. Now get daydreaming!
Our sixth issue is full of 25 amazing contributors so we wanted to give a little introduction to them and their pieces. Meet our team, where they’re from and find out a few words about their piece in Elsewhere, out in March for Chicago Zine Fest on March 9 and mid-month throughout Toronto.
Jessica Lewis
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Current City: Toronto, ON
Elsewhere: other people’s postcards, 1 of my own
The description: collection of memories, not mine
Melody Lamb
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Current city: Toronto, ON
Elsewhere: New York City, NY
The description: the most non-romantic romantic story
Aviva Cohen
Hometown: Thornhill
Current city: Thornhill
Elsewhere: Swamp Magic, NB
The description: everybody knows this is nowhere
Marta Chudolinska
Hometown: Hard to say…
Current city: Toronto
Elsewhere: Nature, wild & weird places
The description (about the cover): Moments between departure and arrival.
Isabel Salazar
Hometown: Lecheria, Venezuela
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere: around the world in 35 mm
The description: Cinematic spark for globetrotters
Garry Tsaconas
Hometown: Brampton, ON
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere: around the world in 35 mm
The description: Cinematic spark for globetrotters
Gilles LeBlanc
Hometown: Mississauga
Current City: Concord, Ontario (Vaughan)
Elsewhere: Chicago
The description: Elvis. BBQ. Lolla. Good times!
David Solomon
Hometown: Brandon, FL
Current City: Brandon, FL
Elsewhere: Minnesota, Vermont, South Carolina, and Georgia
The description: Outdoor experiences from 4 states
Paige Sabourin
Hometown: Toronto
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere(s): parts of Europe and Africa
The description: I brought back some things
Elaine Kelly-Canning
Hometown: Erin, Ontario
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere: Dublin, Ireland
The description: Maple Maiden Misadventures in Dublin
Robb Mirsky
Hometown: Richmond Hell
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere: In the sky
The description: Dreaming my life away
Nicole Bazuin
Hometown: Toronto
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere: Chalk River, Ontario
The description: Madeleine Collective blanket fort bonding
Carly Maga
Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario
Current City: Toronto, Ontario
Elsewhere: Desert outside of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
The description: Worst physical experience to date.
Carmela Ferro
Hometown: Waterloo, ON
Current city: Toronto, ON
Elsewhere: Wilmington, NC
The description: Worrisome, Beautiful, Awkward, Amusing, Memorable
Ricky Lam
Hometown: Hong Kong
Current city: Toronto
Elsewhere: New Orleans
The description: Ricky Eats Food in N’awlins
Amy Lam
Hometown: Toronto / Calgary
Current city: Yellowknife!
Elsewhere: Georgia (the post-soviet country, not the state)
The description: Jetsons meets Trump meet post-communism.
Bhairavi Thanki
Hometown: Porbandar, Gujarat AND Dubai, UAE (It’s a long, emotional story)
Current city: Toronto, Ontario
Elsewhere: London, England
The description: Finding myself in the rain
Holly N.
Hometown: Halifax
Current city: Toronto
Elsewhere: The internet.
The description: Hi stranger. Here’s my life.
Linda Paolucci
Hometown: Woodbridge
Current city: Uh…Woodbridge ):
Elsewhere: Trois-Rivieres
The description: Loud mouthed Anglo takes Quebec
Brian Cauley
Hometown: Whitby, ON
Current city: Toronto, ON
Elsewhere: Portland
The description: A romantic, eye-opening trip.
Claire Moshenberg
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Elsewhere: Tokyo, Japan
The description: Scotch and music create conversation.
Graham Robertson
Hometown: Chester, England
Current city: Toronto, Canada
Elsewhere: Bangkok, Thailand
The description: Love, life, and past
Dylan Baldi
Hometown: cleveland, ohio
Current city: cleveland, ohio
Elsewhere: tour memories
The description: hot and steamy
Cameron Harding
Hometown: Toronto
Current City: Toronto
Elsewhere: Touring around the US
The description: Good times had between shows
We’ve all been elsewhere, we’ve all thought of anywhere but here. But here we are, announcing Issue 6′s theme! In honour of Static Zine making its first trek outside Toronto to the Chicago Zine Fest in March, we’ve decided to form this issue around your tales of yonder.
What we’re looking for:
Interesting, hilarious and thought-provoking stories of when you’ve been somewhere else. Love, adventure, loss, being lost, chaos, seeing something with your own eyes (are just some examples).
We want you to tell your stories through a unique way to what kind of story it is. For instance: did you get really drunk in London? Maybe you’d want to draw a map or a game of all the places where you puked. Did you have a one night stand in the Caribbean? Maybe play it out like an erotic novel. Did you climb a mountain? Maybe give us a time recap. Did you run away from home as a kid? Maybe let us know what was going through your mind at the time. Did you study abroad? Maybe write or draw out or compile some photos of an interesting time you had. (These are also just some examples!)
We love the written word in its many styles, drawings, comics, photography, lists and games. Check out our previous issues to get an idea of our style before you submit.
Criteria to keep in mind:
A “Static Zine page” is a half of an 8.5×11 sheet of paper. Again, check out our previous issues to see how much space you’d have. Sometimes we decide to split a zine page in half as well, depending on how many pitches we get and if we think it’d work to that size.
We print in black and white.
If your pitch is accepted, you can either complete it on your own and send it to us or come make it with us at our HQ. We employ a border of white space around the zine pages as well to make sure your piece doesn’t get cut off in photocopying.
Please also know that if you want your page to look the best in its photocopied form, it should not be too light or too dark. Keeping things close to even toned seems to work out the best and we want you to be happy with how it comes out.
Here’s what to do now:
Interested? GREAT! Email a short pitch of your idea and how you would want to do it to info @ staticzine . com.
You must email us by MONDAY, JANUARY 28!
Other important dates to keep of note if accepted:
Your submission (if doing it on your own) is to be due no later than Monday, February 11.
If you would like to do your page with us, then you would have to work out a day with us to come by during our production schedule between Monday, February 11 and Monday, February 25. We intend to print by Friday, March 1.
Static heads out to CZF on March 6 so we’ll be celebrating in Toronto later in the month around CMW.
We’re looking forward to hearing your pitches! Happy Nostalgia-ing!
Many thanks to our sistahs in the Madeline Collective, who put on a fantastic exhibit at Nuit Blanche last weekend. Their 12 Hour Zine Machine featured a different artist group each hour with the task to make a zine in that hour. We were very lucky to be invited to the 2AM time slot, we had so much fun! And we all stayed awake! Also, thanks to artist Marta Chudolinska joining the Static eds, and everyone who sat down at the table for the fun.
The zines were based on themes that any passerby could write on a chalkboard. We chose:
This is the cover of our Nuit Blanche zine. By Marta Chudolinska.
This Saturday, Static’s going to feel like rock stars. Very, very newbie rockstars, in which we are under the spotlight for 50 minutes with everyone watching us do what we do. (The picture above explains it pretty darn well.)
We’ll be part of an awesome Nuit Blanche exhibit called The 12 Hour Zine Machine, run by the lovely Madeline Collective. Basically, different groups will each have an hour to create an entire zine based on ideas anyone watching (or even tweeting at) can write on a big Idea Board. Anything. Your idea can be the theme we write and draw to. People can even jump in and work on it with us! Once we’re done, the Madeline Collective will upload our pages and make our zine.
So! The Deets:
The Gladstone Hotel
This Saturday, the 29th
Static’s on from 2AM to 3AM
The Static team is Jessica Lewis, Melody Lamb, Aviva Cohen and Marta Chudolinska.
