Partnering with Sample-Studios and the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Zine Fest delivered 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 their 2025 Cork Zine Fest Market at the South Parish Community Centre.

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 (Cork 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.

 

“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.”

They kicked off their Triskel Sample Project Space Residency by hosting an open zine session for drop-in zine making, where they also launched their 2025 CZF Merch including tote bags and a set of CZF Stickers.

CZF held a plethora of events including multiple free zine-making workshops, 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 were given the opportunity to have their zines duplicated to be added to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on the 25th of November. This residency also included hosting a listening party in collaboration with Éist Radio, a zine library showcase and exhibition, as well as a zine makers panel.