Program
Here’s the full program for Indiecon 2026. You will need a Conference Ticket to participate in talks and workshops.
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Conference Main Stage
Print as Editorial Idea: A Magazine You Move Through
Can you trip on print and paper? Elastic magazine thinks so. Founder Hillary Brenhouse talks about evoking a psychedelic experience through art, writing, design, and the physicality of the page — and explores how an integrated approach to print publishing could be employed elsewhere.With: Elastic magazine Stack
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Discovery of (Non)Memory: The Archive as Publishing Space
What power can a family photograph, a funeral portrait, or an image of an ordinary tree hold over the stories nations tell about themselves? Lesia Pcholka and the team behind VEHA talk about everyday images challenging official historical narratives and exposing the myth-making behind national identity.With: swamp.center VEHA archive
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Opening
We open the 13th festival edition!![Opening]()
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Blue Bodies: Shaping the Colours That We Are Seen Through
How can we create a new, more fulfilling language around identity? Esther Fatoye — co-founder of the literary arts community Black Tones in Dublin — will share her take on zines as a tool to reclaim and reshape language, cultivate community, and archive collective efforts.With: Black Tones Lubi Barre
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Why Zines Matter: Artistic Expression in Iran
Zines allow Iranian artists to bypass institutional rules — and showcase their work at home and abroad. Saghi Parkhideh, founder of Tehran Zine, will share a glimpse into this sphere as well as her own experiences and toolkit.With: Lady Liberty Press & Library Tehran Zine
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Publishing the Camera Roll: Conflict in Times of Visual Pervasiveness
Our phones have become windows into wars and conflicts, with photos from the frontlines pouring in via social media. How can these be used responsibly in contexts of journalism, arts, and research? Discussion with Solomiya's Vsevolod Kazarin (Kyiv), and Anhar Salem, artist and filmmaker (Paris/Jeddah).With: Anhar Salem Froh! e.V. Solomiya Collective
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Risoforum: Why (Not) to Print with Riso?
Risoforum is a popup convention at Indiecon, focused on the art of Riso printing. It is organised and hosted by our friends at Risofort and will cater to beginners as well as fellow enthusiasts, and makers.With: Pseudo Press RISOFORT / SofortBooks SO-RI Taxonomy Press Tehran Zine
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4 in 60 Minutes
The Indiecon speed dating format, brought to you by Steve Watson of Stack Magazines. Get to know four superb independent publications in lightspeed interviews.With: bog bodies press Food& Stack SUPERSONIC STUDIO USELESS
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A Cooperative Response to the Crisis of Faith in Journalism
Try this for a local newspaper: Oakland-based Coyote will jolt you to life every time you open it up. Co-founder Soleil Ho tells the story of the worker-owned cooperative behind the online publication and shares experiences from their first year online.With: Coyote Media Collective
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Canceled | From Mogadishu into the World: The Future of Somali Cinema
Sorry guys, the session has to canceled because Mahad‘s visa application has been rejected last minute.After decades of a de-facto ban, Somalia is rediscovering its rich history in cinema. Mogadishu-based magazine Shineemo Banaadir connects archival history with contemporary practice. Co-founder Mahad Mohamed will showcase the project and some of its discoveries.With: Lubi Barre Shineemo Banaadir
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How to Indiecon – Ask Me Anything
Curious how an independent publishing festival comes to life?With: Fable Timo Durst
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Narrative Sediments
What if a spreadsheet becomes a publishing-tool?With: Froh! e.V.
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In Conversation: Mimi Aborowa, Travel Grant Alumna
What it takes to keep publishing independently from Africa.With: Lubi Barre ìrìn travels & lifestyle media
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Roundtable Roundtable Space
Independent Publishing as an antidote to hopelessness
What kind of worlds can we envision and what kind of stories help us keep going?With: casita nepantla editoras
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Sending the Text: Community-building with Mail-art Periodicals
Lauria & Rachel will introduce the group to their own mail publication series and other small press mailer periodicals, exploring the boundaries of letters-as-books, making an envelope exciting to open, and why regularity matters!With: Pseudo Press Taxonomy Press
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How we keep going: mixed funding for independent publishing
In this roundtable, we share an open and practical look at how we have been building a mixed-funding model that combines editorial work, cultural projects and work with aligned institutions, while protecting independence and staying close to our values.With: Gerador
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Let's talk about class
Let's get together and address the impact of class in the art and design scene/industry/world.With: Stef Mosebach
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Let's Write Together
The best way to overcome procrastination is simple: sit down and write. Together. Write a short story, a poem, an experimental piece—or ignore the prompt entirely. What matters most to us is that you write.With: DACH Magazine
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BEING AN ISLANDER
A map-zine as a social design tool : Researching People, Things and Contexts: Islanders in HONG KONGWith: Islanders Ltd
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Launching and managing a membership
Thinking about making your magazine a membership? Get started with tips and ideas to make the process easy.With: International Magazine Centre
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Publishing Without Permission
Independent publishing is often someone’s first experience making, sharing, or circulating creative work. This roundtable explores how we can create more accessible pathways into publishing.With: Velvet Jam Press
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Nü Shu – Historical Women Chinese Script
Presented by Eugenia Chin, this roundtable uses Nüshu as a starting point for a wider conversation on feminism then and now - where women's autonomy has genuinely progressed, where it has quietly regressed, and which vulnerabilities Nüshu was invented to answer still show up today, just in different forms.With: Fable
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What Happened When We Started Connecting Music and Publishing?
Independent musicians are usually introduced through records, concerts, or streaming. We wondered whether zine-making could become another way of introducing them.With: SUPERSONIC STUDIO
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Voicing a community
On framing the words from a community with care and dignity. How do we ensure we are doing the communities that we are recording justice?With: Black Tones
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Print as Monument
Print as monument is an open conversation on how printed matters are active tools for storytelling, representation, and creating dialogue around remembrance culture.With: Lady Liberty Press & Library Sinti Union Schleswig-Holstein
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CAOS NUNCA MURIO: Some Notes on Latin American Queer Publications
Profundo Ediciones invites you to a roundtable discussion on contemporary publications from the Latin American queer scene.With: profundo ediciones
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Taste, or Budget?
Most magazine makers think their aesthetic is a choice. Half of it is a supply chain. What actually kills a magazine? Money, a printer, a contributor, the day job? And what would have saved it?With: ìrìn travels & lifestyle media
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Workshop Workshop Space
How to Launch a Magazine
Thinking of launching a magazine?We'll help you solidify your idea and plan next steps.With: International Magazine Centre
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Workshop Maker Space
Weird Flora: Stencil a Fantastic Herbarium
Olga and Julia will guide you through making an illustrated herbarium leporello, a classical accordion-fold artist book with hard covers.With: kraterbooks Olga Epikhina
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Newsletters as Alternative Social Networks
In this workshop, we'll claim ownership our digital space by rethinking personal newsletters as decentralized social networks.With: Svenja Lettera
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Workshop Maker Space
Sticker Making and Urban Activism
This workshop explores sticker-making as a form of urban activism and everyday artistic intervention.With: PASAJ
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From Page to Post – Fun Format Ideas for your Socials
Lara and Marcel from Soft Communication offer inspiration for contemporary and playful social media formats that reflect both your publication and your personal voice and values.With: Soft Communication
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Pilgrimages Diary: Performing the Camera Roll
We invite Indiecon exhibitors to collectively produce a photographic-textual diary of their pilgrimage to Hamburg through a Messenger group chat.With: Anhar Salem Froh! e.V. Krisenstab Solomiya Collective
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FOOD& CENSORSHIP
We cancelled our Adobe subscription a while back and kept drifting towards free and open-source tools.In the workshop we'll go through the tool, how it works, and why turning a website into a printed object is quite cool.With: Food&
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How to Launch an Event from your Magazine
Would your readers like to meet you and each other in real life? Launching an event can be as easy as you'd like it to be.With: International Magazine Centre
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Workshop Maker Space
Make Zines!
We’ll look at some zines from Tehran Zine’s & Risofort’s collection, show you one way how to make your own zine & give you a quick introduction of the Risograph (the printer we’ll use to produce your zine). You’ll then draft your own zine, we’ll help you produce it right away with our Riso & you take some copies from it home with you.With: RISOFORT / SofortBooks Tehran Zine
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Write Nature. Fill a Zine: The Wild Intervention
Slow down, look closer and create a poetic response to the Gleishalle area.With: 1A Kollektiv
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Bizarre Identities: Horror Masks & Wearable Zines
Create a possessed alter ego through wearable publishing. Participants will transform Riso-printed mask templates, mini-zines, collage materials, and handmade wax colors into an original horror identity to wear and take home.With: Possessed Planets and Bizarre Bookstore
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Bring Characters to Life: Mosaic Paper Art Workshop for Kids
In this workshop, we will explore the traditional Japanese art of "Chigiri-e" (tearing colorful paper to create textured mosaics).With: Mitsuki Nakamura
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Fluo-Pop - A stencil printing workshop
Fluo-Pop is a workshop about stencilcut printing, a technique very close to screenprinting – but without the screens! Participants will be working with hand-cut paper stencils, acrylic paint in fluorescent and contrasting colours and sponges.With: Rüsselhorn
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Publishing online with Ghost − from first post to paid members
Build your own online publication with Ghost and leave with a real, live site. Everyone sets up their own and we work through it together: your first post, a newsletter, and paid memberships.With: Magic Pages
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Sand Pit
Fantasias graficas - An exhibition of Lafat Bordieu
“Graphic Fantasies” is an exhibition showcasing the work of artist Lafat Bordieu.With: Lafat Bordieu
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Table Schaff Verlag
Führung zur Baugeschichte des Oberhafens
With: Schaff-Verlag
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Maker Space
Rocks and Zines
Everyone is invited to bring a rock and spend a little time with it. A drawing exercise will be waiting for you and your rock on the maker table!With: Camila Machado RISOFORT / SofortBooks
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Guided meditation for office workers
Join the Office siren for a guided meditation for office workers.With: Corporate Aesthetics
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cadavre exquis
Contribute to our growing collection of body parts and remix creatures on five thermal printers.With: Krisenstab
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