Fort Worth Zine Fest 2026

We’re back! 💛 After a 5 year hiatus Fort Worth Zine Fest is back and we are excited to be hosting free art workshops, community presentations, & film screenings!!!
Come celebrate DIY culture and community with FWZF on October 17 at Southside Preservation Hall!!!
Southside Preservation Hall is split into 3 rooms: The Main Ballroom, The Salon, and The Chapel! We will be hosting art workshops, presentations, and documentary showings throughout the day!
The Main Ballroom at Southside Preservation Hall will Feature:
12 - 6pm
✨ 36 local printer artists/zinesters (all day)
✨ DJ Chineseknees (12:30 - 3pm)
✨ DJ 0RBIS9 (3pm - 5pm)
✨ It's Food: 100% Plant Based (all day)
✨ Ostara Coffee & Matcha (all day)
The Salon (middle room) at SSPH will Feature:
✨Local art and educational workshops
✨ Book Binding (12:30 - 1:15pm)
✨ Riso Misprint Journals (1:30 - 2:15)
✨ Collaging (2:30 - 3:30pm)
✨ Zine Club Drawing Jam (3:30 - 4:30pm)
✨ Kids Table (all day)
Sponsored by Play Nice Press
The Chapel at SSPH will feature:
✨ 12:30: Presentation on Zines by Political Prisoners
✨1:30: Film Screening of “A Place We Can Go” (about the DIY scene in DFW featuring 1919 Hemphill)
✨ 2:30pm: he Corner Orchard: A Presentation on the community garden in Stop Six
✨ 3:30: Film Screenings:
✨"Survival without Rent" (how a zine helped squatters in the 1970s)
✨"Pretty Vacant"(a 1996 coming of age story about a young Latina feminist in who expresses herself through her love of music & zines)
✨ 4:45pm: Collective Processing: A Grief Workshop for 2026
Screen Made Possible & Sponsored by: The Movie Mutant
✨FWZF After-Party at South Main Barber Shop 8pm - 12pm!
✨Puppy Mill
✨Nip Slip
✨Luke Chacko
✨TBA
More details will be provided soon!
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Other Sponsors: Acute Salon