Safer Spaces

Grid Zine Festival is a safer space, which means we strive to create an environment in which all community members feel welcomed and can participate and connect. Grid Zine Festival or any other Grid Zine Fest events will not tolerate racism, queerphobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, fatphobia/sizeism, classism, threats of violence, or other hate speech.

Grid Zine Fest believes in the radical power of making art without permission. We believe in liberation for all peoples on a healthy planet. We align ourselves throughout time and space with all who fight for and demand justice, dignity, and joy for everyone. Save the Great Salt Lake. Land Back. Trans Rights Now. Disability Rights Now. Free Palestine.

Land Acknowledgement

Grid Zine Fest takes place in now-named Salt Lake City, which exists on Ute and Shoshone territories in Utah, in which Goshute, Paiute, and Diné peoples also have territories. We honor the land and those who have stewarded the land, even in the face of systemic adversity. We all live on stolen land.

Accessibility

Grid Zine Fest is dedicated to equity and inclusivity. Our venue will always be ADA accessible and with gender neutral bathrooms.

The sound in our venue can get loud, especially with so many people talking and the echo from the vaulted ceilings of the venue. We recommend and welcome ear protection if you are sensitive to sound. We will have free foam earplugs available to anyone who would like some.

To accommodate as many zine tablers as possible in the venue, everyone will be seated close, similar to other years. We will keep the aisles as wide as possible to allow easy movement for any mobility aids. 

The organizers monitor respiratory illness rates for Salt Lake and surrounding counties – as of right now, levels are low. We always encourage and request masking and testing prior to attending our events and will have masks freely available during the fest. The WHO Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment for our venue ranges from >1% risk if you wear a mask or maintain six feet distance from all participants, to 22% in a worst-case scenario of high local infection levels, high temperature and humidity, and the venue at maximum capacity with many infected people among them.

For any accommodations, for any reason, please reach out to us at gridzinefest@gmail.com

VENUE PARKING:

DO NOT PARK IN THE OASIS GAMES PARKING LOT, THEY WILL TOW! Church & State only has street parking. Saturday street parking costs are $3.50 per hour with maximum of 4 hours and enforced until 10pm. Parking is free throughout the city on Sundays. 

You can pay for parking in the Salt Lake City Public Library garage right across the street. Their underground parking can be accessed from westbound 500 South or eastbound 400 South between 200 and 300 East. It costs $1.50 per half hour (if you validate at the library you get the first 2 hours free!). Payment is accepted via credit or debit card only when leaving the garage.

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INFO FOR TABLERS

Grid Zine Fest will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday and Sunday March 28 & 29, 2026. The fest will run 12pm-5pm both Saturday and Sunday and be held at Church & State (370 S 300th E Salt Lake City, UT ). Tablers will chose ONE preferred day.

Registration fees are $25, and all tables are first-come, first-served; we do not jury applicants. Once you have registered and paid your tabling fee, you’re officially tabling!

To accommodate as many tablers as possible we are only offering half tables (36 inches wide by 30 inches deep). We also ask, for the comfort of those around you, that you have no more than two people at a half-table. Registration is $25 per day and all table fees go to help with venue and table and chair rental costs. If you cannot afford the tabling costs and would still like to table at Grid Zine Fest, please reach out to us: gridzinefest@gmail.com

Payments should be made to @gridzinefest using Venmo or gridzinefest@gmail.com via PayPal anytime before February 28, 2026. Your table is not guaranteed until we receive payment, and space is limited. Please email us at gridzinefest@gmail.com if you need alternate payment arrangements. Full refunds will be available upon cancellation until March 1, 2026. After that, no further refunds will be available.

Please note that we ask that exhibitors focus their tables towards zines. The majority (at least 75%) of your table must be zines. This is not meant to discourage folks who have never made a zine before or who only have one or two zines. We love new zine makers and believe zines are for everyone!

Grid Zine Fest prohibits the sale of AI-generated content. We believe that Generative AI is inherently unethical and antithetical to our mission and values. Our zine fest exists to to showcase independently created art and the human mind and spirit, not the result of stolen labor designed to replace artists.

We will not tolerate any harassment, inappropriate/unwelcome comments or behaviors, disrespectful or disruptive behavior, theft of money or property, physical, verbal, mental abuse or intimidation, or causing any participant or attendee harm during our zine fest.