PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
6th Annual Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (BAQZF)
✨ September 16, 2023 @ 11am-5pm
📍 924 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA
A Very Queer Collaboration! Virtual Poetry Reading with Ouch! and Beyond the Veil Press
Ouch! Collective and Beyond the Veil Press invite you to A Very Queer Collaboration, a virtual poetry reading and celebration of our recent releases!
Beyond the Veil Press was founded by two SCAD graduates in March 2021 and publishes poetry & art for mental health awareness. They publish creators all over the world, especially LGBTQ & BIPOC, and seek to build a global community. Most recently, they launched a ClubQ benefit anthology featuring queer & trans voices, with proceeds going to Victims First: ClubQ Victims Fund.
Donations from this event will be split between the two presses. Event info and tickets can be found here. If you’re interested in reading at future events, please contact us here!
✨ April 6, 2023 @ 6pm-7:30pm PST
📍 Virtual Event
✨ March 18, 2023 @ 12pm-5pm
📍 Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
Quartz Art Market
Quartz Oakland presents “A Siren’s Tale”! Featuring art, music, crafts, and wellness, come out to support your local queer makers and shakers at this month’s Quartz Queer Arts Collective Market on March 18th, from 12-5pm in the heart of the Temescal District neighborhood. Ouch! Collective will be vending our recently released first issue, as well as personal projects from members. Event flyer can be found here.
✨ February 24, 2023
📍 East Bay Community Space, 507 55th Street, Oakland, CA 94609
Ouch! Launch Party
We will be tabling at this year’s BAQZF! It will be held in-person at the iconic 924 Gilman. This event is free and all-ages. Come hangout ~ we’ll have copies of both Vol. 1 and 2, as well as stickers, photography prints, poetry books, and paintings by collective members. More info can be found here.
Ouch! Collective presents our first ever community event! In celebration of the release of our inaugural publication and our first year as a collective, this show features a killer lineup of 6 bands, local QTPOC vendors, live painting, community building, and a space to share and uplift queer & nonbinary creatives. Event photos can be found here.
Featuring: Mad Bark, That Band Frank, Jazz is Dead, Window, Crawlspace, Mars Kumari, Trieu Prints, Danni Blackman, Oak and Moon Candles, and Kim Mecate.