The 2026 Rock / Paper / Scissors Book & Print Fair

R/P/S illustrations by Justin LaGuff

Sunday, February 22, 2026 | 11am – 4pm
Art Gallery of Guelph
358 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario

PS GUELPH’s annual Rock / Paper / Scissors: Book & Print Fair is back on Sunday, February 22, from 11am to 4pm at the Art Gallery of Guelph. The event and all of its related programming is free!

Now in its fourth year, Rock / Paper / Scissors is devoted to small-scale publishing and the social life of the book. Every February, local zinesters, printmakers, artists, poets, and publishers from across Ontario and further afield join us for a print media lover’s dream. Peruse hand-made and locally published books and print media and support small book makers, artists, and publishers. This year, over 50 vendors will be joining the event!

Rock / Paper / Scissors is co-presented by PS Guelph, Musagetes, and Art Gallery of Guelph. The Book & Print Fair event space is accessible by both a ramp and stairs leading to the front entrance, with stair and elevator access to the washrooms. Masks are encouraged, and some will be available at the door. The organizers encourage vendors and guests to stay home if they feel unwell. Please reduce the use of scented products (e.g. perfume, cologne) for this event.

Big Ideas in Literature: Daniel Sarah Karasik
Friday, February 20, 2026 | 7pm
Art Gallery of Guelph
358 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario

As part of the Rock / Paper/ Scissors weekend of programming, join us on Friday, February 20 for the first Big Ideas in Literature lecture with writer and poet Daniel Sarah Karasik.

Can fiction be a laboratory where we construct miniatures of the world we want, the obstacles to building it, and how we might overcome them? Especially speculative and other so-called “genre” fiction?

Daniel Sarah Karasik’s debut novel, a work of queer and trans speculative fiction called Disobedience, examines the fraught internal dynamics of a community dedicated to justice and liberation. Set in a distant future, it asks questions urgent in our own times. How should a social movement address the conflict and harm that develops between its own members? What might compassionate, sustainable models of justice look like in practice?

Join Daniel Sarah on Friday, February 20 for a talk about literature’s relationship with social movements for liberation, what we talk about when we talk about “community,” and what it means to participate in political life at a time when the far right is rising, and politics so often feels like a machine for grinding hope down. As the theorist and activist Mike Davis put it: “Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely.”

…and Workshops!

Saturday’s programming features five artist-led workshops related to writing and book-making! This year we’re excited to offer The Hybrid of Writing with January Rogers, Zine-Making for Resistance with Jude Akrey, Experimental Papermaking with GroundersGrounders, Writing Through Collective Grief with Rayya Liebich, and an Erotic Awakening Writing Workshop with Fan Wu. Follow the Eventbrite links for details!

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