Cork Zine Fest (CZF) is back for 2025 and bigger than ever before! This year we will be taking part in a residency in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 5 to 30 November. Partnering with Sample-Studios and the Crawford Art Gallery, we are excited to deliver a series of free workshops and events with community groups and the zine-making public throughout the month, concluding with a week-long CZF Exhibition and Library showcase and our 2025 Cork Zine Fest Market on 29 and 30 November at the South Parish Community Centre.

We are grateful to Sample-Studios and Triskel Arts Centre for the residency opportunity and for giving CZF a home for November. We also want to thank our partner the Crawford Art Gallery for supporting the workshops. We look forward to working with CATU, TENI, Crawford Support Studio, Rainbow Library Writers and Illustrators, Follow Your Nose, The Friends of the Crawford Gallery and Éist Radio throughout the month.

You can find all events and details on our website corkzinefest.ie and our Instagram @corkzinefest. We will also be sharing when we are in the Project space, so come in for any impromptu zine chats and making!

Cork Zine Fest (CZF) was initiated in 2018 by artist and event producer Oriane Duboz and is now organised and overseen by artists and zine makers Annie Mar Forrester, Cassiel DuCharme, Elize de Beer and Justine Lepage. Since the first CZF hosted in St Peter’s Cork in partnership with The Friary, CZF has been focused on bringing together and promoting the Zine community in Cork and across Ireland, facilitating a platform for zine makers to not only share and sell their publications, but to foster a supportive community, have valuable discussions about the role of zine making and their power to create wide reaching dialogues of people’s lived experiences.

Early editions of CZF hosted talks with Bloomers Magazine, Cork Community Art Link, Cork Zine Archive, Sukie Zines and artist Kate O’Shea as well as a live comics reading from Stephen Morton. Since 2022, CZF has run two successful weekend festivals with its current core team and hosted various events in collaboration with The Living Commons, Good Day Cork, Dose Social, Creativity & Change, and MTU Crawford College of Art & Design. Each festival includes a weekend market with a series of engagement events including workshops, zine readings and panel discussions. CZF also runs a series of open zine workshops as part of Zine Club, creating an important space for people to learn from each other and grow the zine community within Cork. CZF is a zine-maker focused market and festival that runs an annual market and event programme, alongside a Zine Club that offers open zine-making sessions to the general public.

CZF will present an ambitious residency period to further develop CZF within the larger arts community in Cork City. Over the three-week residency period the CZF team will facilitate and oversee a programme that is focused around zine making and use it as a tool for community building and a platform to support and promote fellow zine makers. The programme will be called Zine Makers Month and will include partnered Cork City organisation/group workshops (e.g. Rainbow Writers and Illustrators and Sexual Violence Centre), Zine Makers Conversations Series with invited speakers, age-specific workshops, a focused workshop for fellow Sample-Studios Members and open zine-making sessions for the public.

The outcome of these programmed events will be exhibited within Triskel Sample Project Space and will include a Zine library to showcase the zines made by all the participants. The room will continue to have an open zine-making station for the general public of Triskel to interact with. The festival itself will include local and national stall holders, workshops, panel talks and a closing event. CZF has been developing and growing a strong and constant following and track record with a strong core team since 2018. It is their hope that with the opportunity of the residency that they could give CZF the focus it needs as a project and expand it even further.

“Working in Triskel Sample Project Space in 2025 will enable us to look to the future and the potential to invite international zine makers to host talks and workshops, expanding the community and adding to the overall skills development and zine discourse.”

Workshops & events

Event: Residency Launch with Drop in Zine Making

Date: Saturday 8 November
Time: 11:00 – 15:00

Join us in celebrating zines and the Cork zine making community! To kick off our TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space Residency we will be hosting an open zine session for drop-in zine making from 11am to 3pm on the 8th of November. We will also launch our 2025 CZF Merch including our new tote bags – the perfect Portable Zine Library, along with a set of CZF Stickers. All proceeds from the CZF Merch goes into the making of CZF and the zine community.

Event: Treasures from the Crawford – Open Workshops 1

Date: Tuesday 13 November
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873659006/events

Two zine workshops will be devoted to works that you have missed seeing in person at the Crawford Art Gallery. We’ll be collaging, writing and drawing about them, pouring all our hearts onto the pages. The workshops are free, but booking is essential. Please join us for this zine making session where we will be using images from the Crawford archive to create a series of zines and learn a few new zine techniques and approaches along the way.

Participants will be given the opportunity to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on the 25th of November.

All materials will be provided, no previous experience needed. The workshop is free but spaces are limited and booking is required.

Event: Drop In Zine-Making

Date: Sunday 16 November
Time: 11:00 – 13:30

Zine-making is all about sharing ideas and building community! So join us in building that community by spending the day with us at our  Drop In Zine-Making session at the Triskel Sample Project Space from 11:00 until 13:30. We will have a range of tools and materials to use, but you are welcome to bring your own materials and zines that you are working on. All ages and experience levels are welcome.

Participants will be given the opportunity to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on the 25th of November.

Event: Zine Club

Date: Thursday 20 November
Time: 17:30- 19:30
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873659470/events

Our monthly Zine Club is here! Zine Club was created to provide a space for people to work on their zine practice and build a community of zine makers throughout the year. For our November Zine Club, we will be bringing the community together with an open zine making session to finish up our zines that will be available during the Cork Zine Fest Market. We welcome CZF stallholders as well as anyone who would like to create some zines to distribute on our “free zines” table during the festival.

Materials will be provided, no previous experience needed. The workshop is free but spaces are limited and booking is required.

Event: Treasures from the Crawford – Open Workshops 2

Date: Friday 21 November
Time: 11:00 – 12:30
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873659006/events

Two zine workshops will be devoted to works that you have missed seeing in person at the Crawford Art Gallery. We’ll be collaging, writing and drawing about them, pouring all our hearts onto the pages. The workshops are free, but booking is essential. Please join us for this zine making session where we will be using images from the Crawford archive to create a series of zines and learn a few new zine techniques and approaches along the way.

Participants will be given the opportunity to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on the 25th of November.

All materials will be provided, no previous experience needed. The workshop is free but spaces are limited and booking is required.

Event: Éist x CZF Listening Party and Zine Workshop

Date: Sunday 23 November
Time: 12:00 -15:00
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873659471/events

What goes together better than music and zine making? Maybe a collaborative makers day with CZF and Éist? Join us for an Éist listening party and zine making session at the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 12:00 until 15:00, where we will be listening live to Éist community radio and creating zines in response to the music and sounds.

Participants will be given the opportunity to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on the 25th of November.

All materials will be provided, no previous experience needed. The workshop is free but spaces are limited and booking is required.

Event: CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition

Date: Tuesday 25 – Sunday 30 November
Times: *Triskel opening times

Throughout our residency and from the series of public and community group workshops we are facilitating, each participant will be given the opportunity to showcase the zines they have made by adding a copy of their zine to the CZF Library Showcase and Exhibition.The exhibition will be celebrating the wide scope of zine making practices and how zines are a powerful medium to share ideas and build community.

During the week, we will have our CZF Resident Maker Oriane Duboz; visual artist, zine maker and photographer. Oriane was the organiser and producer of the first Cork Zine Fest in 2018 and we are excited to have her join CZF for the week while she works on a few of her current zine projects!

Event: Zine Makers Panel – the impact of zines and zine communities

Date: Saturday 29 November
Times: 18:00 – 19:30
Tickets: https://triskelarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873659472/events

To accompany our Cork Zine Fest Market we will be hosting a Zine Makers Panel conversation with our fellow creators discussing “the impact of zines and zine communities”. Join us for the panel talk followed by a Q&A session. Attendance is free but tickets are required due to limited seating.