Hoopla – the world’s most revolutionary craft zine.
Hoopla began as a zine made for the Craft and Storytelling workshop at the 2007 TiNA Festival in Newcastle. And has now turned into a biannual publication, showcasing the world of radical craft and creative action. Each issue features theory and action, inspiration and ideas.
Hoopla is an created by a collective of creative people. If you want to get involved or make a submission for a future issue or get on the mailing list for future issues, get in touch.
A review! (by someone who hasn’t read it…)
“This is like an anarcho feminist revolution zine about crafts and
being radical and such like. I’m losing energy at this point but
without reading it, it looks pretty good. It makes cross stiching
cool.” – Sticky Institute.
A review – by someone who read it this time
HOOPLA – Issue #3
‘Interesting’ is the first word that comes to mind when I read this zine. It’s about craft and feminism, two areas of the world that I don’t really participate in so reading this zine was an educational experience. And one that wasn’t bad at all. Hoopla starts off with a quite interesting article about quilt making (did you know in Africa, men used to be the main textile producers as opposed to women) and includes other craft related items like a mosaic project outside a treatment facility, a personal tale about learning about suffrage and some pictures of Free Tibet cross stitches. The only thing that I couldn’t handle was the extremely open dialogue about menstruation. It was a little too much to read a comic that depicted women painting and gardening with their menstrual fluid. But that’s just because this zine was about issues and ideas that I had absolutely no idea about, so thanks Hoopla, you were definitely interesting.
-RED INK
Call for Submissions: Issue #4: MAKEing Love
Issue #3 December 2008: Radical Inspiration
Featuring:
Creative action inspiration
Quilting
Cross stitch
Mosaic
Menstrual pad pattern
Cross stitch pattern
Available here
Issue #2 June 2008
Featuring:
Fence Stitching
Melbourne Craft Cartel
Addington Women’s Revolutionary Craft Circle
No Spend Craft Month
Wild Earth Quilt Project
Two cross stitch patterns and a crochet pattern
plus more writing, pictures and fun!
Available here
Issue #1 September 2007
Featuring:
Radical Craft History
Craftivism
Cross Stitch
Sock Monkey
Knitting
Climate Change Craft
Available here
Places to find hoopla:
- Radical Rags
- Sticky, Melbourne
- The Freedom Shop, Wellington
- Lilmag Store, Tokyo
- Black Star Books, Dunedin
- Blackbird Corner, Newcastle, NSW
- Huon Valley Environment Centre
- Black Rose Anarchist Books, Sydney
- Papercut Zine Library, Cambridge MA
- Loophole Zine Library, Melbourne
- Marching Stars Zine Distro
- Elm City Infoshop
- Monkey Wrench Books, Austin
- Learning to Leave a Paper Trail Zine Distro
If you know any other zine distro/info shop/library or whatever that might be interested in having some copies, get in touch. And I’m interested in trading if you’ve got your own zine, or make patches, or badges or crafty stuff of any kind.
Hoopla elsewhere:
Read an interview about hoopla on the Grrrlzines Network.
