East Village Zine Fair and Gone Fishing

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

And so it was that Printed Matter/St. Mark's and 8-Ball Community East Village Zine Fair on St Mark's place that I found myself at attempting to vend those #blacklivesmatter #nopolicestate #occupywallstreet #sh*tjustgotreal #washingtonsquarepark #unionsquarepark #morus #theshadow #yoga #brooklyn #eastvillage #lowereastside & #iloveny necklaces, magnets, key chains & pins for $2 each & #tompkinssquarepark t - shirts for $10 each next to Chris Flash of  Shows in Tompkins Square Park and The Shadow Newspaper last weekend with more than 70 exhibitors being:

2x2 Periodical
Aaron Krach
ABC No Rio
ACOMPI
Allied Productions, Inc. / Le Petit Versailles
bookdummypress (bdp) /dieFirma [PR]
Brain Washing from Phone Towers
Bullet Space
Christopher Currence
Clayton Patterson & Ray Felix
Cold Cube Press
DEATHBYSHEEP
deskarga groupo
Demystification Magazine
Desert Island
DIAGONAL PRESS
Dizzy Magazine
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Endless Editions
F.I.N.E. Editions
First Street Garden
Fugitive Materials
GenderFail
Heather Benjamin
HEINZFELLER
HOMOCATS
Hyperlink Press
Ink Cap Press
Inpatient Press
Interference Archive
Irrelevant Press
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON
Jo Rosenthal
Karma Bookstore
Khepri Press
Killer Dentist Press
Love Injection Fanzine
lucky risograph
Mega Press/Panayiotis Terzis
Miniature Garden
Mundus Press
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Nathaniel Matthews
NOAH LYON
Other Weapons Distro
P.A.D.
Papertown Nuts! & Company
Parkmart
Passenger Pigeon Press
Pat McCarthy
Quimby’s Bookstore NYC
Random Man Editions
Raw Meat Collective
Red Dust
Research and Destroy New York City
Sap Magazine & Blurring Books
Secret Riso Club
Small Editions
Social Species
Soft City
Sweetie Pea’s
Swiss Institute
the Phalanstery
Tony Tafuro
TQR
TXTbooks
UDLI Editions/Peace on Earth
Ugly Duckling Presse
Uranus Comics
Walter Million
Wendy’s Subway 

and 

WONDER PRESS.  

With a full schedule of programming at neighborhood community gardens East Side Outside Garden, First Street Garden, Green Oasis Community Garden, La Plaza Cultural and Le Petit Versailles as well.

And then it was the lakes and parks of Sussex County and Buttermilk Falls in Stokes State Forest near the Delaware Water Gap where I found myself in search of New Jersey's highest waterfall.

And as a result of going to that Zine Fair in that city of New York and that waterfall in that state of New Jersey, I found mself taking a bunch of photns and wind up posting them on this blog in an attempt to maintain web 2.0 user generated content for this blog and my other blagh whenever possible because, hey, it's less writing sometimes.

The Chinese Communist Party and the social credit score system has taken over the world  and We are still living in crazy times.

Loisaida Festival 2022

And in between reading about the corruption of The People's Convoy, there was a Loisaida Festival in that city of New York in that neighborhood of the Lower East Side or East Village for real estate marketing purposes, that I found myself at the other day, vending #flagsoftheworld & #iloveny necklaces, magnets, key chains & pins for $2 each and Tompkins Square Park t - shirts for $10 each in front of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - MORUS at 155 Avenue C, NYC, during the Loisaida Festival, Sunday, May 29th, 12pm - 5pm, an all-day festival of artists, activists, and vendors on Avenue C. And in all honesty, the only photos I took at this festival are those few that find themselves posted above.

" As a living history of urban activism, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) chronicles the East Village community’s history of grassroots action. It celebrates the local activists who transformed abandoned spaces and vacant lots into vibrant community spaces and gardens. Many of these innovative, sustainable concepts and designs have since spread out to the rest of the city and beyond."

"The 2021 musical lineup included: world-renowned Mexican singer & actor Fernando Allende; Afro-Caribbean/electronic music project ÌFÉ; Puerto Rican folk singer Chabela Rodríguez; Afro-Brazilian Samba Reggae All-Female band Batalá New York, and acclaimed local contemporary R&B Soul-Jazz artist duendita as well as pop-soul singer song-writer Linda Díaz, the winner of NPR’s 2020 Tiny Desk Contest. It also featured a short film by the Puerto Rican theater troupe Y No Había Luz, a Cuchifritos cooking demonstration by María Bido part of La Cocina de Loisaida, a monologue by Loisaida Artistic Residency recipient Haus of Dust, and much more… Last year’s theme, ¡Viva Loisaida!, celebrated the Lower East Side’s roots, and the elements that characterize the neighborhood, and its residents, their resiliency, creativity, unity and growth. The official artwork for the 2021, 34th Annual Loisaida Festival was created by João Salomão, a local Brazilian artist also known as PIXOTE, whose distinctive style is heavily influenced by the Brazilian Pixação graffiti tradition. The commemorative poster for the 2021 festival was inspired by the LES punk and hip hop’s NYC graffiti scene of the late eighties and nineties that helped form João’s artistic practice. With the 2021 design, the artist also payed homage to Loisaida’s documentary photographer Marlis Momber, well known locally as the co-producer of “Viva Loisaida”; a 1982 film documenting life in the late 70’s Loisaida neighborhood. 

Since 1987 the Loisaida Festival has been the largest community celebration festival event in Lower Manhattan, and grows annually in size, excitement, and impact. Produced by Loisaida Inc., founded in 1978 and one of the last remaining Puerto Rican community organizations in the neighborhood, the Loisaida Festival epitomizes over four decades of the struggle and success of the Puerto Rican/Nuyorican diaspora that settled in the Lower East Side as had thousands of immigrants and migrants over the 19th and 20th Century. This historic place – the Lower East Side— our ‘Loisaida,’ as poet, Bimbo Rivas, coined it in the 70’s, is still the ‘Gateway’ to America, a community that embraces diversity, welcomes difference, celebrates arts and culture, and preserves, in amber and performance, the voice of all that came through this LES portal to settle in this country."

Have a great festival day and more, (considering that we are living in crazy times.....).