Off Grid
8 April 2005 - 5 June 2005
Curators: Emily Falvey and Milena Placentile

Zine Fair at the Ottawa Art Gallery
Saturday 14 May 2005, 2 to 5 pm

Exhibition info>

Off Grid zine cover

Off Grid is an exhibition and program series dedicated to exploring the margins of urban culture. For this exhibition, the Ottawa Art Gallery has decided to produce a zine, a choice that was inspired by our confidence in the relevance of zines as a forum for some of the most interesting and independent thought about today's social climate and culture.

In the context of Off Grid, the Ottawa Art Gallery is organizing a zine fair on Saturday, May 14 from 2 to 5 pm. The fair will feature the latest zines that express ideas about cities and anything else concerning life in urban environments.

Come by on Saturday afternoon to look at/collect/buy zines and explore the best of what Ottawa has to offer in terms of zine culture! OAG will also be distributing its own zine. Sounds will be provided by Ryan Stec.

Anyone interested in reserving a table (no fees) can contact Milena Placentile at resident@ottawaartgallery.ca or (613) 233-8699 x 246.

Come and meet these zine-makers:

>Cindy Deachman
Burnt toast is all about food.

>Brendan McNally (desdechado productions)
Artbreak is an interview zine about urban music.

>Chris Landry
Kissoff Fanzine #10 is mostly about a trip Chris took to Sydney.

>Margaret Boyle
Various zines made by her grade 11 photography students.

>Sean Zio
Electric Mayhem is pretty much little outbursts that record Sean's present life situation.

>Jennifer Whiteford
Matilda Zine is a personal zine full of comics and creative non-fiction about living in Ottawa.

>Jess Carfagnini 
"Slightly More Than Sound Bytes" is a zine that reaches out to other lesbians, feminists, queers and activists, and lets everyone else know that we're here.

>Defiance Not Compliance
Defiance Not Compliance has addressed poverty and homelessness and imperialism in their first two issues. Issue number 3 will be about work (or lack there of).

>Adam Tomlinson
Two fiction zines "Set Sail and Crash" and "45 Degrees of
Love" are stories of failed love that are as much about the cities in which they are set as the characters whose stories the they tell.