Portland Zine Symposium

If you were a tabler at PZS 2024, you should have received an iHealth Labs Covid-19 Rapid Antigen at-home test!

You may already be familiar with how to use this test— if not, check out the links in our bio for the iHealth Labs at-home Covid test instruction page, and PDF en español ✅ Also, iHealth Labs makes an app that walks you through the test taking steps, helps interpret results, etc…look for it in the App Store 🍎/ Google Play ▶️

We recommend taking your at-home Covid test(s) today and maybe another one tomorrow or Friday! Disclaimer: We are community organizers providing these through mutual aid, NOT doctors 😌 Please consult your medical / healthcare team for professional advice!

🫂Thank you ALL (zinesters, volunteers, organizers and attendees) for masking up last weekend and helping us keep PZS a Covid-safe community event ❤️

Test Details:
⭕️ Each tabler wekcome packet contains Test Set 1:
1x Prefilled (extraction reagent)Tube, 1x Test Card, 1x Swab

⭕️Test Expiration Date (Use by): 11/22/2024

⭕️ Manufacturer: iHealth Labs

⭕️ Lot Number: CVD2221206

Day 2 is HAPPENING! We’re here until 5! Come get your PZS ON! (let us know who to tag)

Some pictures from DAY 1!! What an amazing turn out yesterday- our hearts are full of joy (and zines!)💌💌
(Let us know to to tag)

Come by today 11-5PM
PSU Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom
Free to attend
Wear a Mask

⭐️Portland Zine Symposium is Almost Here!!!!!⭐️
Join us on September 21 & 22 from 11 AM - 5 PM at PSU’s Smith Ballroom

Where: PSU’s Smith Ballroom, 1825 SW Broadway
COVID Safety: Masks highly recommended! (We’ll provide masks at the event if you forget.)

Getting To PZS: We encourage using public transit (MAX, streetcar, & bus lines). Paid parking is also available nearby.

🌀 Bonus Events 🌀
 Zine Scramble at IPRC: Finish your zines at the IPRC on Friday, Sept 20 from 6-9 PM.
PZS Afterparty: Saturday, Sept 21 from 6-9 PM at Outlet PDX—come hang, make zines, trade, and relax!


Don’t forget to spread the word!!!

PZS is in 9 DAYS
Tablers, don’t forget to check your emails for important day-of info!

📅 PZS 2024 Information
September 21-22
11am-5pm
PSU Smith Memorial Student Ballroom

Did you know we also have two awesome satellite programs happening that weekend?

🌀 Zine Scramble 🐣🍳
September 20 | 6-9pm
IPRC (318 SE Main St. Suite 155, Portland)
Last-minute zine finishing? Check out the IPRC for printing, cutting, & stapling your zines before the fest!

🎉 PZS 2024 Afterparty
September 21 | 6-9pm
Outlet PDX (2500 NE Sandy Blvd Ste E, Portland)
Come unwind, meet fellow zine enthusiasts, and have a good time after Day 1 of PZS!

Covid policy for PZS 2024!

For the safety of our community, we ask that both tablers AND attendees wear a mask during PZS 2024. 😷❤️

Each tabler kit will include a COVID test (expires 11/22) and a KN95 mask!

We’ll have free surgical masks available and additional KN95s for sale at the PZS info desk.

We also recommend that tablers take a COVID test and confirm a negative result before the event. And if you’re feeling under the weather (even if it’s not COVID!), please stay home and rest up!!!

Thank you for being awesome and looking out for each other! Let us know if you have questions! PZS IS IN 11 DAYS

PZS 2024 IS TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!
Tablers be on the lookout for a email with day of information!!!

When: 9/21-9/22 11-5pm
Where: PSU Smith Memorial Ballroom
Free and please wear a mask!

Some more photos from !!! Can you believe PZS 2024 is in just a few weeks!!!???

If you want to get involved & volunteer, please email us at [email protected]

See you there!
PZS will be on September 21-22 from 11-5pm at Smith Memorial Ballroom at PSU.

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Hi sweet people of Portland, did you know that the 2024 Portland Zine Symposium is precisely TWO. WEEKS. AWAYYYY???!!🤯🥳

And we could use some more *very* glamourous, *very* demure boots on the ground this Saturday 8/24 for another fun flyering event! ! !

📍📜PZS VOLUNTEER EVENT: Flyering! 🔨💜🔨

Where: Meet at Shoofly Vegan Bakery
When: 11AM until we run out !! (Usually 1pm)
What To Bring: Good shoes, Water & Snacks!
Bonus item: Spare staple guns are SO HELPFUL! Plus tall friends with strong arms 💪🏼

Contact: Emily, PZS organizer 🙏🏻
Or email: [email protected] 🔮

Can’t make it but still want to help plaster the city? Email us! (No DMs please 💜)

Thank you again to our awesome volunteers who helped us earlier in August 🥹 And to Leland & Outlet team, who are tirelessly cranking out more posters as we speak. Special s/o to the rad workers at Shoofly who accommodated our chaos and fed us coffee + delicious treats 🥲

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📖🐛🪱🤗Woohoo! Get ready for Saturday, September 21 at PZS! We’ll have over 100 tablers showcasing amazing zines and art. It’s the perfect chance to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones!

👀 Keep an eye out for the Sunday tablers list coming soon!

(Note: List as of 8/13. If you recently got added and don’t see yourself, that might be why! We’re a volunteer-run organization—thanks for your understanding!)

✌🏼😍 We’re getting our posters printed this weekend - thank you to @ for your steadfast risograph wonders!!

💜Purple is involved, as always💜😭😛
We’d love to hand YOU a stack 📄 and unleash you onto the streets of Portland with a staple gun and a dream!
And maybe some caffeine!! 😈

Shout out to the rad volunteers who are already joining us on SUNDAY for our flyering event 🥰 and — the more the merrier!

If you wanna join, come on by Shoofly Vegan Bakery @ 2505 SE 11th Ave (Portland) (the Ford Building) between 11-12 on Sunday, August 11 to pick up some PZS 2024 posters and a staple gun.

You don’t have to fill out our interest form in bio, but it helps us contact you for more volunteer asks 😇
+ stay tuned for another volunteer flyering day before PZS! 💜👣

60 days until the !!! Hope to see you there.

Some awesome pictures taken by some lovely volunteers at ! Let us know who to tag:)

Some more photos from ! Only 71 days until this years zine symposium!! (Let us know who to tag in the comments.)

Another PZS meeting in the books! Expect tabling decision emails in the next week! Thanks everyone for your patience. We are a haggard crew but excited for next years fest!

Reflecting on and ! Applications for this year’s Zine Symposium are closing soon on May 15th! Get yours in! (Let us know who to tag in these pictures!)

who do you wanna see at PZS this year?? 👀 Tag them below in the comments and remind them to apply for PZS by May 15th!!

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! for the 2024 Portland Zine Symposium! Link in bio! PZS 2024 will be September 21st and 22nd at the Smith Memorial Ballroom at PSU. Applications will be open through May 15th. Review our Safer Spaces and Covid policies on our website before you apply. Questions? Email us at [email protected]

PZS is seeking new organizers to join our team! Do you live in the Portland area? Are you interested in getting involved with planning PZS? Come to our info session at the SE 12th & Division Los Gorditos at 6:30pm on Tuesday, March 5th. We will meet on the patio! (Or the Apex patio next door if it’s raining)

YO !!! We arise from our slumber to tell y’all the application for community spots to table closes this weekend for this very rad local zinefest!!! Who doesn’t wanna table at a zinefest?? In March??! In SE Portland!!!!

We’re not organizing this but we love !!! Check out what those college kids are doing !!! Show ‘em what weird art y’all’re making in other parts of pdx!!

Flyer by

Now’s a great time to take the free COVID test we put in each tablers welcome packet!

The exact test is Celltrion Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Nasal Test Kit (25 Tests Per Box) from rtmedhealth.com. It expires January 7, 2024! It also is a great deal at 25/$25! Thanks pdx masc bloc for the tip on this deal.

Here’s half of your PZS organizing team saying “Thanks for a cool first day of PZS! Let’s do it again tomorrow!” And reminding you that 1. There are more and different tablers on Sunday and 2. To wear a costume if you want! We love you!!

🕸️🤗📒✂️📝💜🧡💜🧡
It’s heeeeeeere!! Portland Zine Symposium 2023, baybeeee!
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We are so excited to see all of the incredible artists today and tomorrow. Come see us at the PZS info table! There will be plenty of costumes to see— y’all are going to SHOW UP right?!— and maybe some to borrow! 😛👻😈🎃🦇🕷️
HAVE FUN 👻 See you soon!

Did y’all know the is hosting a zine scramble the Friday before PZS from 6-10pm?? It’s a revival of one of our favorite events! The time to print your last minute zine in community!

This is also just a PSA that the IPRC is probably busy and we love the IPRC, so be nice to them! If you’re coming to PZS from out of town, make an appointment to check out their space!! It’s a real gem of Portland and a big part of why PZS is such a success!

That’s right!! It’s mostly different tablers on Sunday!! Sunday will skew Pacific Northwest local!! Come support the home zine team!!

Apologies if I made any mistakes!! Also this isn’t the most current tabler list because people constantly add and drop. Feel free to send an email if your concerned your name isn’t here: [email protected]