B&D Press

Wow thank you so much to @melanie.yugo @jasonskilz @possibleworldsshop and the entire @objectprojectartbookfair team for putting together such an incredible art book fair this weekend in Ottawa! We had so much fun and met such inspiring people, attended some great panels and workshop, caught up with dear friends, and loved it all 🥰. I felt shy about taking photos of people’s tables for some reason or also thought I had taken photos of things but just imagined it in my head, but here are some photos I did actually take: 1. @jasonskilz DJing at the after party at Ten Toes Coffehouse & Laundry 2. @jasonskilz and @melanie.yugo the incredible organizers of the Object Project Art Book Fair 3. The Object / Project team having a group photo taken after the fair ended on Saturday evening. 4. An image on a flat screen of an artist book in the shape of a Jamaican patty by yuki kéké tam @yukitam_ who was leading a workshop titled “Epistolary Episodes: Letter-writing as Art Analysis”. 5 and 6. Photos of yuki kéké tam presenting the workshop and facilitating discussion. 7. A text-based slide on the screen at yuki’s workshop. 8. A view of the garden with the @bouquinistemobile project and music performance space being set-up. 9. Mel Yugo, Jason Skilz and Jamie Northrop at pizza dinner at Pizza Nerds on Friday night. 10-13. Photos from the panel, Holding it Together: Building + Sustaining Collective Publishing Projects, with Jonathan Rotsztain and Jon Iñaki (Pulping), Rita Godlevskis (photoED Magazine) and Izzy Poirier and Ariane Bédard (Ottawa Design Club)., moderated by Benjamin Woo. 14. yuki’s table at the fair. 15. Our B &D Press table 16. @yukitam_ and @spicybabycrab Le Lin after the fair. 17. Folks from the fair at the after party at Ten Toes.

We’ll be in Ottawa for the Object / Project Art Book Fair this Friday and Saturday, taking place at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. We’ll bring some copies of our recent newspaper project, The Scaffold! (Yes, it’s free!) Come find us at the B&D Press table. Also, check out the awesome programme of talks, panels and workshops that will take place on May 8 and 9th! @objectprojectartbookfair ID: image with olive and pink abstract background with text info about the fair and location. Image of a newspaper titled “The Scaffold” against a hardwood floor background, with text info about the art book fair.

@darkopacitieslab Nazar zine launch at @briquexbrique this evening! An intro by Sue Shon, and panel with Balbir K. Singh, Prathna Lor and Eloisa Aquino, followed by a workshop 🧿 ❤️

Jenny Lin et Eloisa Aquino (B&D Press) The Scaffold 2026 Espace + Village (933 rue Ste. Catherine Est) à l’extérieur The Scaffold (L’Échafaudage) est une installation et un journal gouine inspirée de magazines lesbiens historiques tels que The Ladder (San Francisco) et Treize (Montréal). Ces publications servaient d’espaces de rencontre et de lieux de rassemblement pour la communauté, ainsi que d’alternatives aux bars à une époque où les arrestations dans les établissements queer étaient fréquentes. The Scaffold is a dyke newspaper and vitrine installation inspired by historic lesbian magazines like The Ladder (San Francisco) and Treize (Montréal). These publications were community-building meeting spaces as well as alternatives to bars at times when arrests at queer bars were frequent.  https://banddpress.ca https://www.galeriedesglaces.ca/

We are excited to launch our zine on Thursday 26 February at Brique par Brique! If you are in Montréal, please join us for a panel discussion and kit-making workshop on our two-volume zine: Volume 1: Study in Nazar 🧿; Volume 2: How to Nazar. We will have speakers from the lab’s Nazar: A Theory of the Evil Eye Research Cluster as well as @banddpress —our fave collaborators and zine press. We will be disseminating zines, which include kits to imagine anew Nazar and its attendant modes of superstition, that we will spend the second half of our time together making. Details include: Nazar: A Theory of the Evil Eye Zine Launch Thursday 26 February 5-7pm @briquexbrique 633 Beaumont Ave, Montreal, Quebec H3N 1V7 In person only; masks 😷 strongly recommended We hope you will join us for what will be an exciting and celebratory launch! Poster credit: @setilism

Join Jenny Lin at MacEwan! Artist Talk with Jenny Lin February 11 | 2:00-3:00 pm Roundhouse (Allard Hall) Free Admission. All welcome. "Queer Looking" Zine Workship February 12 | 9:30-11:30 am Roundhouse (Allard Hall) Registration is required. Please email [email protected] @grumplingzinho @banddpress @studioartsmacewan

We are super excited to have had our second zine launch’s poster placed as part of the immense Palestine Poster Project Archives. Our ongoing project was inspired by the archive, created and collated by Dan Walsh. He reached out to the lab to let us know, and we hope to have many of the postcard sized art created in workshops and in and out of the lab, archived on the PPPA website in the new year. Special shout out to our fave collaborators @banddpress , the flyer designer extraordinaire @setilism , our vitrine leader and Constellation member Marcela Torres Molano, and zine collaborator and Surrounds member @melinda.pierrepaul . Link to the PPPA entry in our bio. Until liberation, it remains, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be Free 🇵🇸

Find us again today at Expozine just below the stage (beside our pals @possibleworldsshop @melanie.yugo and @jasonskilz and @ehowwy , and @amyvxyz across from us! 💓) 1025 rue Bélanger , Paroisse Ste Arsène, 11:30-7pm, free admission. ID: a view from behind four people tabling their zines and a large room packed full of people selling and looking at zines in early winter attire.

You can find Eloisa and I near the melons! 🍈 across from the organic bananas! 🍌 Then find us at @expozinemtl this weekend! 📚 fair / salon : 15-16 Nov 2025 🌟11:30 AM - 7 PM Église Saint Arsène 1025 rue Bélanger ID: Image one: nine panel comic of graphite drawings and text of a zine fair happening in a grocery store, with panels showing different exhibitors through the fruits and veggies section. The text running through the panels reads “The zine fair is at this grocery store all weekend. You can find us near the melons, across from the organic bananas. Also check out the table near the cherry tomatoes!”. The comic is a page from Pandemic Dreams, a book of over 100 dreams I dreamt and drew throughout the pandemic, then compiled and published by @banddpress in the spring of 2024. It’ll be at our table this weekend! Image two: slightly cropped view of this year’s beautiful Expozine poster by Amery Sandford @amerypress featuring different animals tabling and reading zines against a red backdrop.

Come say hi! Volume book fair @volumemtl is here @casaditalia_mtl today and tomorrow. #bookfair #artbooks #artzines #zines #queerzines

This book will be making its first public appearance at Volume Art Book Fair @volumemtl this weekend, Oct 4-5 at Casa Italia, 505 Jean Talon East. 11 - 6 pm. Free admission. It’s a book of polymer plate relief prints, printed on a Vandercook Press at Concordia U, of drawings and text drawn with a laptop track pad. It’s a narrative, sort of, about people coming together and gathering after a long period apart, and gathering as performance and protest and also looking towards uncertainty as a focal point. The narrator is addressing a deceased person, and grief is a character or atmosphere or both… or interpret it yourself by coming and looking at it at Volume at the @banddpress table. Eloisa @hello_elooooooooo and I will be there with other B &D Press titles, too. ID: 1. A perfect bound book with a brown paper cover and a title, The Day of the Great Procession, and squiggly lines printed on the cover in white ink. 2. A copy of the book with red ink on cover 3. A video of flipping through the book from back to front. 4-10. Some process photos including 4. the pages laid out on a table for collating, that show black ink images and text printed in cream-coloured paper. 5. Relief polymer plates on a platform on the press bed, with black ink on them. 6. A group of polymers plates with images exposed and processed onto them. They are yellowish plastic plates with image areas elevated and blank areas recessed. 7. Plates in the yellow dark room. 8. The images for the book compiled together onto a long transparency printed from a large format ink jet printer, showing the images and text as clear and the surrounded spaces in black ink. 9. The book that is being bound and the spine reinforced with thread and mull (a strengthening material). 10. The book block (book without the cover attached), with focus on spine after excess thread and mull is trimmed off.

Scenes from our third session of Hypercolour Futures experimental publishing school Session 03: A Book as Theatre: Queer Gestures of Resistance with @banddpress // Jenny and Eloisa shared their practice grounded in experimental queer art publishing, discussing the multiple layers of resistance, particularly in the queer community, examples of puppets, resistance and performance, and the importance of gestures as "unofficial" records passed between generations. Participants were invited to envision and share scenarios related to resistance and learned to build 3D tunnel books as theatres, with accompanying puppets figures and text. Many thanks to Jenny, Eloisa and everyone who joined us! // Next Hypercolour Futures session is Thursday August 14 on Reimagining Institutions: Publishing as a Civic Practice - register through link in bio // #experimentalpublishing #artisttalk #workshop #bookastheatre #gesturesofqueerresistance #queerresistance #banddpress #tunnelbooks #artasresistance #queerartists #paperpuppets #queerpublishing