San Francisco Zine Fest 2025
Schedule
Sun Aug 31 2025 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
City View at METREON | San Francisco, CA
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Welcome back! Our 24th annual SF Zine Fest will be at City View at Metreon, 135 4th St #4000, San Francisco, CA 94103--the top floor of the building..
Features: ADA accessible, large enough for COVID-safer spacing of exhibitor tables, patio access, ventilated with doorways to the outdoors, air conditioned.
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Masks REQUIRED for all guests and exhibitors.
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Entry to SFZF is always free!
www.sfzinefest.org
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Support zine creators from the Bay Area and beyond by purchasing their zines. If you make zines or art, bring them to offer as trade! Many vendors take electronic payment through Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, etc. and some take credit/debit cards.
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The Aug. 31 fest will include:
💜 A kid-friendly section
💙 Screen printing
💚 Artists in conversation in the panel "Oh, the Horror!" featuring Avy Jetter, Harry Nordlinger, Tara Benhudjiriras, and Nico B. (exhibitor name: SKELEHIME) in SOMA Room from 1-2 p.m.
💛 A roundtable talk with the Guest of Honor Thien Pham and artists Gene Luen Yang, Briana Loewinsohn, and Jason Shiga in SOMA Room from 3-4 p.m.
🧡 Make buttons with SF Public Library; read from hundreds of zines in the SFZF Zine Library; and make zines at our zine workshop
🤎 230 rad exhibitors who make / sell / trade zines
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EVENTS BEFORE THE MAIN FEST:
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🖤 Thinking Captions Zine Reading, Aug. 23, 6-7:30 p.m., with Thien Pham and 3 featured guests:
--Briana Loewinsohn, https://www.instagram.com/brianabreaks/
--Wahab Algarmi, https://www.instagram.com/wahabalg/
--Julia Wertz, https://www.instagram.com/juliajwertz
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❤️ Zine Picnic, Aug. 24, 1-3 p.m. at Yerba Buena Gardens to hang out outdoors, make / trade / read zines, eat snacks and meet folks before the fest.
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💓 SFZF Kickoff Party, Aug. 30, 6-9 p.m. at Mission: Comics www.instagram.com/missioncomics to play bingo, win prizes, and eat food!
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Come celebrate after the fest:
💘 SFZF After Party, Aug. 31, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Silver Sprocket www.instagram.com/silversprocket
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More info about our Guest of Honor:
Thien Pham is a graphic novelist and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Sumo and the illustrator for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang. His latest book, Family Style, a memoir about his family's immigration to America, told through the lens of food, came out in June 2023. Family Style has been on numerous best-of lists, including the Washington Post’s “Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2023” and Publishers Weekly's “20 Books We Love.” Family Style was a finalist for the ALA YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction and Won an Eisner award for Best Memoir Graphic Novel. Currently, Pham is working on his next graphic novel, teaching, and eating. A lot.
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The 11"x15" poster (riso printed by Tiny Splendor), a tote, and stickers created by Thien will be available for sale at the in-person fest on Aug. 31. You'll also be able to order a t-shirt designed by our guest of honor.
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Visit more of Thien's work at:
instagram.com/thiendog/
linktr.ee/thiendog
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linktr.ee/sfzinefest
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Where is it happening?
City View at METREON, Sharetea, 135 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
