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NorfolkZinefest '26 Returns! September 12, 2026 12p-4p
at the Chrysler Museum of Art

Join us for a celebration of DIY publishing and grassroots creativity!

Norfolk Zinefest supports and further cultivates the local, independent, and personal expression of experience and ideas in the printed form. Our goal is to provide a place for people from all areas but especially Tidewater a place to share. We want you to participate! If you have one issue or ten, we have a space for you. This year's location is [coming soon] and the date is Saturday, September 21st 2024 from 11a-4pm. Please share this page with others. This event is specifically for zines.

08/14/2026

Tony made art, and he also made space for everyone else to make it, too. His presence was a generous current running through Norfolk’s creative community. He was an open hearted supporter who showed up for others with genuine enthusiasm and left every room, table, and conversation a little brighter than he found it.

To have someone so vibrant taken away so suddenly is a shattering loss for the community, for everyone who shared a zine table or a gallery floor with him, and for anyone who was ever lucky enough to catch his spark. His work, his fierce encouragement, and his imprint on Norfolk’s independent spirit remain woven into the community he cared for so deeply.

Rest, Tony.
Tony Lorenz Camarillo

06/15/2026

Flawless monuments will eventually fall. Our honest scraps will survive.

And on Saturday, September 12, 2026, the honest scraps are taking over the marble floors. Norfolk Zinefest ‘26 is officially returning to the Chrysler Museum of Art. Our vendor applications are now open.

We are looking for the photocopied confessions, the inky manifestos, and the exhaustive catalogs of everything you're trying to understand. Bring us the late night artifacts, the zines folded on kitchen counters, the comix drawn in the margins of work hours, and your radical ephemera. Bring us the unpolished truths. We want the short print runs and the single issue subcultures. We want your highly specific obsessions, your personal narratives, and your quiet poetry. We want the loud noise. And we want the jagged illustrations.

*shoutout to Norah for the flyer
Link in bio.

05/06/2026

Consider this an open invitation to the strictly libertine and always macrophenomenal Norfolkzinefest ‘26.

When: Sep 12, 2026
Where: Chrysler Museum, Norfolk VA

Style is not a veneer; it’s the argument. Let’s see your zines.

.va

03/17/2026

Finally something to do in VB besides get pulled over.

Norfolk Zinefest is heading to the Virginia Beach Public Library for the Bayside Zine Mini Fest on Saturday, April 18, 2026. This event celebrates the local launch of the library’s new zine collection and features a variety of hands on creative activities including Zine Making with us 😉

From 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, join us for an analog only session focused on the fundamentals of zine creation.

See you there 👋

02/04/2026

A community zinemaking session for the folks who still value the tactile and the true.

We’re populating the taproom with two hours of focused, honest effort. The kind that settles in, stays a while, and keeps the taps flowing from start to finish. This is Drawing Words and Writing Pictures for the makers who know that real work happens by hand.

Norfolk Zinefest is taking over the taproom. No simulation. Just craft.

2/23. 7 PM. It’ll be a hootenanny.

01/28/2026

NORFOLK ZINEFEST X HAMPTON TATTOO EXPO ✨

Proper news everyone! Norfolk Zinefest is heading to the Hampton Tattoo Expo, and we’re bringing the whole community with us.

We’re setting up a Community Table, and it’s open to absolutely everyone: tattooers, attendees, and local legends alike. It’s all about getting your work into new hands while you enjoy the show.

Here’s the score:
• Arrange to get your zines to us before the expo starts.
• Every zine needs your Title, Price, and Epay handle.
• We handle the hustle all weekend. You get your sales revenue disbursed within 7 days of the event.

Message us to coordinate your dropoff.
Stay groovy.

.justis757

12/28/2025

We’re not really the joining type.

But we’ve officially put our name on the Folk Union Charter.

People tend to think of “folk” as something dusty—a collection of rules for people who lived a hundred years ago or a museum exhibit behind glass. But for us, folk is the dirt under our fingernails right now. It’s the zines we trade, the stories we tell in the back of bars, and the quiet, stubborn way we hold each other up when the world feels indifferent.

Folk is the Public Sphere. It belongs to all of us, or it belongs to no one.

By signing this Charter, we are committing to a culture that is open, fair, and free of gatekeepers. We’re rejecting the idea that tradition is something used to divide people or something that can be bought and sold for a profit. We’re here to protect the shared inheritance of our stories and our land.

This isn’t just about the past; it’s about the present. It’s about making sure that when we gather, we’re building something thoughtful, ethical, and imaginative. It’s about treating our collaborators with respect and keeping the doors wide open for anyone who wants to pick up a pen and add their voice to the pile.

Unite and Unite! The light is coming back, and we’ve got work to do.

⛓️ thefolkunion.com

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