WNY Book Arts Center Announce Zinefest 2025
Zinefest 2025 will be held on all three floors of 468 Washington Street
Buffalo, N.Y. – July 21, 2025 – WNY Book Arts Center (Book Arts) is excited to announce ZineFest 2025. Sponsored by Gutter Pop Comics, ZineFest will be held on all 3 floors of 468 Washington Street on Saturday, August 16th from 11pm-4pm. This event is free and open to the public, for all ages.
At ZineFest, local zine-makers will gather to distribute, trade, & sell their creations. The organization invites attendees to get lost in a photocopied sea of zines, to conspire with fellow artists, and to peruse our pop-up zine library featuring local classics. Adding some hands-on artmaking to the day, Book Arts will also host letterpress and screen printing demonstrations in our lower-level studio - print your own zine, or screen print a commemorative t-shirt!
Zines defy definition but here are some words you might see associated with them: handmade, self-published, DIY, underground, cheap, hyperlocal, radical, queer, feminist, photocopied, misspelled. Inside a zine you might find poems, comics, manifestos, recipes, collages, gardening advice, lyrics, & handy tips for your neighborhood activist.
In addition to the ZineFest event on August 16th, we will also be hosting a number of zine-making workshops and zine-related events, open to the public, the week of the event. Pop in for our Zine Factory week, August 9-15 during Book Arts open hours, sponsored by BXI Consultants! Please visit the event site for details.
For more information about this event, please visit: https://wnybookarts.org/zinefest/.
We are grateful for our sponsors: Gutter Pop Comics, Bags Unlimited, Just Buffalo Literary Center, BXI Consultants, Lindenmeyr Munroe, The Lavender Room, Casa di Pizza, Evening House Books.
About WNY Book Arts Center
The Western New York Book Arts Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of printing and book-related arts through education, creation, and exhibition for a broad and diverse community. Book Arts is located at 468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. For more info visit www.wnybookarts.org, email curious@wnybookarts.org, or call 716-348-1430.