Independent's Day went really well! Thanks a million to everyone who helped out, did stalls, workshops and came down to support it! Hopefully it will be the first of many such events in Dublin/Ireland.
Interview with Anto and Barry about Independent's Day here.
Sarah has sent us some great photos from the event viewable here (photos 1-55). Anyone else who got photos from the day please send them in to us c/o: loserdomzine at gmail.com

Stalls were provided by:
Stitchy Press
Deserted Village
National Animal Rights Association
Niall Hope
The Richter Collective
Play The Song I Like
Baby BEEF
The R.A.G.
Anna Kaisa
The Handstand
Anna Felton jewellery
WSM
Dublin Community Gardens
Seomra Spraoi/Forgotten Zine Library
Rothar
Dublin Cycling Campaign
Silence of Noise
Sean & Holly's distro
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Julie & Baptiste's stall
Cardboard Press
Hideaway Records
Organise!
Loserdom zine distro
Dublin Food Co-op

What:
Independent's Day is a day long fair celebrating do-it yourself zines and independently released records by some of Ireland's independent labels. As well as info stalls by different social movement groups .
Zines are non-commercial, non-professional, small-circulation magazines which their creators produce, publish and distribute by themselves. There is a long history of zine production in Ireland, beginning in 1977 with Raw Power produced by members of seminal Irish punk band the Radiators From Space.
Today, even with the popularity of blogs and the internet, there is still a good number of Irish produced zines, their creators sticking with the print-format. These include Loserdom, The RAG, Night of The Locust, The Devil On 45 and many others. All will be available on the day along with other zines and radical books from Britain and the USA.
Why not create your own zine for the day and bring it along !
Many Irish independent record labels will have stalls on the day these include The Richter Collective, Rimbaud Records, Stitchy Press and much more .
Info stalls will also be provided by Animal Rights groups , Seomra Spraoi and the Forgotten Zine library plus much more.
Along with stalls there will also be workshops focusing on self-publishing and community media a film screening by young Irish film maker Dylan Haskins of his documentary about Do-It-Yourself culture: Roll Up Your Sleeves: The DIY Counterculture.
Refreshments on the day will be provided by the Amnesty Freedom Café.

Workshops: (projected times)
History of Zines by Willie (12.30-1.30)
Willie presents a history of zines. Willie for many years produced his own zine Non-Plastique (an early influence on Loserdom zine!). He also ran his own zine distro Ultra Red Star, before setting up with wife Natalia Red Ink radical books and zine shop (between 2004-2006), they now run their own publishing/record label Stitchy Press. He's one of the few Irish zinesters who can claim to have taken part in a zine speaking tour of the USA with a van-load of other zinesters. He also plays/played in numerous Irish Do-It-Yourself punk bands Bambi, Boneyard Witch and Oak.

Feminism and Publishing by The RAG (1.45-2.45)
The RAG (Radical Anarcha-feminist Group) is a Dublin-based collective who publish their own zine dealing with womens issues and discussions of feminism in the modern context. Here members of the collective discuss notable feminist press, experiences of publishing The Rag, why print-form rather other media/projects and more.
Their third issue is due out the week before Independent's Day so look forward to getting a copy as well as attending this talk!

Community Television as Autonomous media: Hacking the Cable or Co-opting Video Activism by Dublin Community Television (3.00-4.00)
DCTV is a non-profit co-operative that operates a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week ad-free television station broadcasting to more than ¼ million Irish households.
This workshop will look at the first year of DCTV, the structures that have evolved and strategies used to create an 'autonomous media space' and the key issues the station faces: technical barriers to production, professionalism vs. Volunteerism, localism and informal hierarchies amongst others.
While some of those who work with DCTV will identify with a zine / activist culture , is this relevant in an organisation with paid staff and a budget of 100s of thousands of euro.
Presented by DCTV members.

Film screenings: (4.15-)
ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES: The DIY Counterculture: A documentary about D.I.Y. music and culture by local film-maker Dylan Haskins. see trailer here.
Channel Zero (episode 2)
Public-access tv show about DIY, punk, anarchism and culture by Maximum Rock n'Roll columnist Erika Ransom. Episode 2 features an interview with Maximum Rock n'Roll zine co-ordinator Golnar Nikpour, and footage of bands.

When: 12-5pm, Sunday 7th December 2008
Where: at the Dublin Food Co-op, 12 Newmarket, Dublin 8.