Happy 20th Birthday! Thank you so much for sharing! Watching the video conversation right now and feeling so much gratitude.
With love,Jessica
Jessica Fenster-Sparber pronouns: she/her/hers
On Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 05:24:43 PM EST, Amanda Stevens <write@lettertoamanda.ca> wrote:
The Anchor Archive Zine Library celebrated its 20th birthday this year! It's not easy for scrappy, volunteer-run zine libraries and archives to survive so I wanted to share the news. In October we had a birthday party with zine readings, zine trades, and cake. A local news outlet wrote an article about us. Anchor Archive founders Sarah Evans and Son Edworthy recorded a video conversation about how they started this special space. You can watch the full version and a short version with pictures that was screened at the party on YouTube.
Earlier this year, the DIY arts space called Radstorm that the Anchor Archive is now a part of successfully fundraised to buy the building it lives in, so we hope for at least another 20 years of supporting zine-making and zine community in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).
And a funny story about AI... a woman from Japan came to the party and I asked her how she heard about it. She said she typed into ChatGPT, "What can I do in Canada? I like writing, drawing, and making things" (or something like that) and Chat GPT told her she should make a zine! Then she searched "zines Halifax" and found the Anchor Archive. I guess zines really are getting popular again.
Warm regards,Amanda
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Happy 20th Birthday! Thank you so much for sharing! Watching the video conversation right now and feeling so much gratitude.
With love,Jessica
Jessica Fenster-Sparber pronouns: she/her/hers
On Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 05:24:43 PM EST, Amanda Stevens <write@lettertoamanda.ca> wrote:
The Anchor Archive Zine Library celebrated its 20th birthday this year! It's not easy for scrappy, volunteer-run zine libraries and archives to survive so I wanted to share the news. In October we had a birthday party with zine readings, zine trades, and cake. A local news outlet wrote an article about us. Anchor Archive founders Sarah Evans and Son Edworthy recorded a video conversation about how they started this special space. You can watch the full version and a short version with pictures that was screened at the party on YouTube.
Earlier this year, the DIY arts space called Radstorm that the Anchor Archive is now a part of successfully fundraised to buy the building it lives in, so we hope for at least another 20 years of supporting zine-making and zine community in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).
And a funny story about AI... a woman from Japan came to the party and I asked her how she heard about it. She said she typed into ChatGPT, "What can I do in Canada? I like writing, drawing, and making things" (or something like that) and Chat GPT told her she should make a zine! Then she searched "zines Halifax" and found the Anchor Archive. I guess zines really are getting popular again.
Warm regards,Amanda
---Amanda Stevens (she/her)Zine-maker | Zine Librarian | Indexer | TaxonomistKjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, NS)write@lettertoamanda.ca_______________________________________________
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