April 5th is the registration deadline for the upcoming Zine Fair 2010,

A day-long celebration of independent media and self publishing at New Urban Arts through workshops, panels, and the selling of small press publications. Register now to sell or distribute your comic, poetry, chapbook, zine, hand-bound letterpress, or any other independently published works. There is a fee of $5 for a half table or $10 for a full table.

The event takes place on April 10th and includes zine making workshops from noon to 2pm where you can learn about bookbinding and comic illustration. The fair itself runs from 2pm to 5pm with local artists selling their zines — don’t miss the Zine Toss and other games. A panel discussion will take place from 5pm to 7pm.

Go here to register (easy payment options) for the New Urban Arts Zine Fair on Saturday, April 10th.

New Urban Arts, 743 Westminster Street, 751.4556

Two other events tonight, which seem like they’d maybe have a big overlap in attendees if they weren’t being held at the exact same time in two different parts of town:

Providence Monthly is hosting a fundraiser at the Convention Center as part of the Fine Furnishings Show that’s going on there right now.  There’s food and schmoozing and, you know, hopefully wine.  And fine furnishings, I guess, which means maybe you can ogle fainting sofas while you’re eating food from El Rancho Grande.  Tickets are twenty-five smackeroos, which seems excessive, but the proceeds all go to New Urban Arts, which means it’s not excessive.  That starts at 6.

Also at 6, there’s a networking/socializing/schmoozing event at the Everyman (on Iron Horse Way, under the garish ALCO neon) for members of the arts community.  That one’s not raising money for anything, it’s just a chance for people to hang out and, I don’t know, do whatever it is people do at networking events.  (In my case, that generally means hovering over the food table, not speaking to anyone, and worrying that I’m underdressed.)  But, hey, half-price appetizers!

The Dear Providence project, run by the kids at New Urban Arts, is now online; letters written to the city by residents new and old are now up here.

In other news from the Westminster/Dean Street intersection, tonight at 7 there’s a reading/launch party for the new literary magazine Interrobang!?.  That’s at Ada Books (717 Westminster), and food and drink and fun and fiction and poetry will probably all be present.

[I really wanted to accompany this with a clip of Giggles' 1986 classic "Love Letter," but that song doesn't seem to exist on Youtube.]