Canzine 06 in Toronto this Sunday

Canzine '06 is taking place this weekend in Toronto (last weekend, the East and West versions took place in Halifax and Vancouver). It's at the The Gladstone Hotel,1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin) from 1 to 7 p.m. A $5 admission includes a copy of the latest issue of the magazine about zines, Broken Pencil.

There will be readings, workshops, installations and more than 150 zines on display and for sale.

Broken Pencil launched the zine and book fair to promote small, independent and alternative publishing in Canada, and it seems to have worked a charm. Zines are sometimes, though not always, the seedbed for the development of full-fledged magazines. You can find out more about the participants and the event itself at this page.