
1 January 2020 Applications for zine stalls at The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2020 close on January 10th 2020. It is free to have a zine stall. Applicants will receive email confirmation of their zine stall on January 19th 2020. To book a zine stall at the zine fair go here: https://forms.gle/ZgRbZSzeTNEoegCv8
1 January 2020 Applications for zine stalls at The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2020 close on January 10th 2020. It is free to have a zine stall. Applicants will receive email confirmation of their zine stall on January 19th 2020. To book a zine stall at the zine fair go here: https://forms.gle/ZgRbZSzeTNEoegCv8
8 December 2019 Sticky Institute summer closing hours, summer 2019 - 2020.
Sticky Institute will close for the holidays at 6pm on Friday December 20th and will re-open on Wednesday January 22nd. See you all at Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne in 2020.
2 December 2019 Glom Press launch at Sticky Institute. Saturday, December 7th. 3pm to 5pm.
1 December 2019 Zine stall bookings for The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2020 open on December 1st 2019. Go to the online form here to book a zine stall: https://forms.gle/ZgRbZSzeTNEoegCv8
19 November 2019 Triple split zine launch at Sticky this Friday night. Plastic Rupert playing live in store. Free vegan muffins. Orange juice!
26 October 2019
YOU zine’s 18th birthday party and launch of issue #936 of YOU. Friday December 6th, 2019 at Sticky Institute.19 October 2019 Friday Night In West Ealing #250 zine launch at Sticky Institute.
26 June 2019 Sticky Institute will be at the Emerging Writers Festival Zine Fair this Saturday from 11am. We will have a table full of zines.
19 June 2019 Migrant Zine Pop-Up Library at Sticky Institute.
Sticky Institute is extremely excited to be hosting a pop-up zine library by Aotearoa/New Zealand based zine collective Migrant Zine Collective. Migrant Zine Collective aims to amplify, celebrate and share the voices of migrants-of-colour in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Their zines will be featured at Sticky Institute from July 17 to July 31 2019 with an in-store talk at Sticky Institute by Migrant Zine Collective on Wednesday 17th July from 6pm to 7pm at Sticky Institute, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne (right under Flinders Street Station). Great poster by Kim Anderson.

11 March 2019 Astounding as it may seem, Sticky Institute is turning 18 years old!!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday. Pease come to the party. There will be zines. And we are trying to figure out how to play “So Fresh The Hits of Summer 2001” between bands (Teenage Dirtbag, Let’s Get Loud, Life Is A Rollercoaster, Ugly, I’m Outta Love, Permission To Shine - yes 2001 was a long time ago, but what a year).
24 January 2019 The Festival of the Photocopier 2019 - Full Program
Thursday February 7th:
Pey Chi exhibition at The City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Throughout the whole festival. The poster for The Festival of the Photocopier 2019 was designed by Pey Chi. See more of their work throughout the whole library throughout the whole festival.
Queer Pals - (un)socialites. 6pm to 8pm. The Back Room, 787 Nicholson Street, Carlton. This is an official side event of Festival of the Photocopier 2019 entirely organised and hosted by Brisbane’s wonderful QueerContent Comix + Zines. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/274474576564186/
Friday February 8th:
Feed The Animals - Sticky Institute Zine Fundraiser. 4pm to 5pm at Sticky Institute, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. Sticky has approached a stack of zinemakers and asked them to make a limited edition short run zine as a fundraiser for Sticky. All zines made as part of the project will be launched here with any left over from the launch being available at the zine fair. Once the zines are gone they are gone forever!
Failbook Zine Launch. 5pm - 7pm at Sticky Institute, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. The launch of a tiny zine about a big fantasy. A Sydney - Melbourne co-creation by Ania and Shamini.
Festival of the Photocopier Official Launch Party. 7.30pm until late at The Burrow, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. The full line up is: The Copy Copy Scams (USA), Alex Wrekk - zine reading (USA), Way Shit, Emma D (Sydney) - zine reading, The Night Before Tomorrow, Luke You - zine reading, Sticky Institute zine stall, Small Zine Volcano zine stall, Way Shit fanzine launch on The Great Auk Merch Stall. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/287739928764576/
Saturday February 9th:
The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair - Day 1. 12 noon to 5pm. 270 zine stalls at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2289444454621948/
Live stream of the zine fair by zinemaker and filmmaker David Mahler.
Sunday February 10th:
The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair - Day 2. 12 noon to 5pm. 270 zine stalls at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2289444454621948/
QueerContent Comix + Zines Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Zine Tour. 1pm - 3pm at The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. This is an official side event of the Festival of the Photocopier entirely organised by Brisbane’s wonderful QueerContent Comix + Zines in conjunction with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Q!C is thrilled to co-facilitate another visit to the ALGA Queer Zine Library. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/274885303205009/
Sticky Institute acknowledges that The Festival of the Photocopier 2019 is being held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

30 November 2018 Sticky Institute is now accepting bookings for The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair 2019!
Book via the online booking form here:
https://goo.gl/forms/DOZ615TPgG30ssEj2The zine fair will be a two day zine fair at the new location of the historic Trades Hall on Lygon Street in Carlton. The zine fair is happening on Saturday February 9th and Sunday February 10th 2019. The zine fair will go from 12 to 5 each day. It is free for zinemakers to have a stall at the zine fair because you are zinemakers and we love you. We will provide you with tables and chairs too.
Please note - we are a zine shop organising a zine fair as part of a zine festival. We are expecting the zine fair to fully book out with beautiful zinemakers and there is not space at the zine fair for anything but zines. Thank you for keeping the zine fair a zine fair.
To allow as many zinemakers as possible to participate in the zine fair we are offering half table spots to individual zinemakers and full tables to zine distros. You will need to nominate which day of the zine fair you would like to participate. We are offering two day spots to distros, interstate visitors and international visitors. There will be a waiting list for individual zinemakers who would like to participate in both days.
Now get to work and make as many zines as you can as the clock is ticking down to 12 noon on February 9th.
Thanks to the City of Melbourne for their support of the event through their Annual Arts Grants Program. Their support allows us to keep the event free for all zinemakers.
Thanks to the amazing Pey Chi for designing the zine fair poster. Find more information on them here: https://www.peychi.com/
If you have any questions about the zine fair you can get in touch with the Sticky Institute coordinators by emailing: downstairs@stickyinstitute.com
See you at the zine fair!!!
All at Sticky.
22 August 2018 Hey zine fans,
As you’ll already know, the Festival Of The Photocopier is getting bigger and better each year we put it on. Last year the town hall was full to the brim - but what you might not know is we’ve reached capacity for how many spaces we’re able to offer. As a fix to this we’re trying for a two-day zine fair next year but we’ll need your help to put it on.
In a bid to get the funding we’d need to put on a two-day zine fair (and be able to offer twice as many spaces) we’re trying for a Pick My Project grant from the Victorian Government, you can find our project here:
You do have to register with the website to vote for the fair, and you will need to be enrolled in Victoria to register to vote. We understand that it’s a bit of a strange registration//voting process but we really want to be able to put on a bigger and better zine fair for you - and to do that we’ll need those funds.
The voting is only open for the next 4 weeks so please please please get in quick!
Much zine love, Sticky.

• • • • • • • • • • MORE AFTER THE JUMP • • • • • • • • • • 22 August 2018 HTML Flowers will be showing some of his prints in the window at Sticky Institute for the whole month of August 2018. Get on down to Shop 10, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne and you can purchase one for just $5! The exhibition is happening as part of Craft Cubed.









