Local Arts Council to House Spring Edition of Speak

04/21/2015

The May release of SUNY Cortland’s student opinion magazine will coincide with an appearance at the Tioga Arts Council in Owego, N.Y.

Speak magazine, which has featured anonymous and unfiltered student and faculty writing submissions each semester since 2008, is expected to be available on campus during the week of May 4. The 15th edition of the magazine is themed this semester on “Serendipity.”

The Tioga Arts Council features the three most recent editions of Speak — titled “’Merica,” “Wanderlust,” and “Freak Show” — in its new “zine” library. An abbreviation for magazines, zines are self-published, small circulation original works that can be too controversial for mainstream media. After its release, “Serendipity” will accompany the three other SUNY Cortland student publications on display at the council.

Approximately 200 zines from artists around the world are featured at the library. Blank books also are available for artists to create their own zines for display.

The gallery is open Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To submit a zine to the Tioga Arts Council, contact Abbey Hendrickson, its director, at tiogaartscouncil@gmail.com. For more information, visit tiogaartscouncil.org.