BAB and Friends Gift Shop

BAB and Friends Gift Shop Small Press gift shop selling books, zines, prints and more!

COMPRESSED is a community! Bread & Salt, Athenaeum Art Center, Chris, Yessi, Amanda, Manda, Luisa, Jade, Alyssa, volunte...
09/16/2026

COMPRESSED is a community!

Bread & Salt, Athenaeum Art Center, Chris, Yessi, Amanda, Manda, Luisa, Jade, Alyssa, volunteers, exhibitors, Taller!, djs, musicians, panelists, workshop organizers, creative classroom attendees, food vendors, scannners archive, my moms. Thank you everyone! Extra double thanks to Particle.fm, this is year 4 in our collaborative zine & music & art & vibes fair

If anyone took really good pictures pls send them to me the city needs to fund this s**t lmao

TWO packed days of programming, art and music are only 24 hours away! Beyond the brick room, Bread & Salt will be host t...
09/11/2026

TWO packed days of programming, art and music are only 24 hours away!

Beyond the brick room, Bread & Salt will be host to many incredible exhibitions opening throughout the building.

We can’t wait to see you at 1955 Julian Ave! It’s gonna be one for the books

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Part...
09/10/2026

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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The Middle Eats

A Palestinian woman owned
small business serving up fresh cuisine and memorable experiences.

I resist the erasure of my culture, heritage and existence by passing along the recipes from my homeland, passed down to me from my mother.

Find The Middle Eats at COMPRESSED on beginning noon on SATURDAY and through SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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Oven Kisses

Neo-Neopolitan pizza that’s for EVERYBODY. Cold-fermented dough made by warm-hearted weirdos.

Find Oven Kisses at COMPRESSED SATURDAY and SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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Mujeres Brew House

The woman led and operated brewery will be serving drinks on-site plus you can find their beer garden just around the corner from the venue!

Find Mujeres at COMPRESSED SATURDAY and SUNDAY

SATURDAY 9/12Join us in celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Taller California with the Athenaeum Art Center! • LIVE Print...
09/08/2026

SATURDAY 9/12

Join us in celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Taller California with the Athenaeum Art Center!

• LIVE Print Demos all day
• Meet the Authors of Taller California from 4-6 pm
• Enjoy a pop-up gallery and reading room all day long

~All inside the AAC Classroom and Print Studio

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Part...
09/06/2026

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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SUGARBOMBING WORLD

Sugarbombing World is an art project that uses pop culture characters of our childhood and transforms them into agents of change, spreading a message of mutual aid, solidarity, against borders and fascists.

Find at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY and SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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SENSITIVE

Living in double, a toe dipped in each pool, assessing, tasting, wondering. Will I choose? Can I choose? A suggestion from some far off place, the hidden generator of the possible, reveals—: the unnegotiable will towards the thing.

Find SENSITIVE at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY and SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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SHIV LITELY

shiv litely is an artist and curator with a focus on providing gateways to the esoteric and obscure.

Find SHIV LITELY at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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SIGH _BORG

Hello from Los Angeles. I’m Hannah, a multidisciplinary artist originally from the midwest. My current practice leans heavily towards zines, printmaking, needlework and collage - but I’m always trying new things! I love learning and creating projects surrounding nature, animals and insects. I grew up outdoors in a rural area with a background in Appalachia but have now lived in this huge city for 15 years. I like exploring that tension and relationship as well as the contrast of my more luddite tendencies mixed with being chronically online and reminiscence for a time when technology felt more freeing than today.

Find SIGH _BORG at COMPRESSED on SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Part...
09/05/2026

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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MEDIOCORE ZINES

Yo. This is Nardos and Tilly of mediocore zines and we’re zinemakers and artists based in the San Diego, CA. Our work (zines + more!) focuses on, but is not limited to the intersections of: magic, food, foraging, and nature.

Find MEDIOCORE ZINES at COMPRESSED on SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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MIQUELA DAVIS

Miquela Davis (she/her) is an Orange County, CA Native, descended from the Acjachemen. Her works vary in mediums from photography to comics to zines. She enjoys experimentation with zinemaking and encouraging others through her workshops and classes to use the medium of zines as a form of accessibility in self expression and the art world. Her zines primarily feature anthropomorphic animals and diary comics.

Find MIQUELA DAVIS at COMPRESSED on SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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OATMEAL BANDIT

Big Oat (she/her) Aleah C. (she/her) is a San Diego-based mixed media artist and writer currently pursuing her B.A. in Studio Art & Literature. She primarily does collaging, ceramics, & book arts. Her work has been featured in La Cynthia, HNDL, Hyperfocus Horror, and FLARE Lit Mag.

Find OATMEAL BANDIT at COMPRESSED on SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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ON PLANET WEIRD

On Planet Weird is a cartoon universe created by Cori Elba filled with high energy punk music and cartoons. Featuring self-published zines with original cartoon characters and music. The musical branch of On Planet Weird called Weird Records has multiple forms of physical media including full-length records and CDs with

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Part...
09/04/2026

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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JENN STEFFEY ZINES!

I am an AI-AP award-winning illustrator, zine maker and graphic designer working out of my house/studio in Normal Heights. I’ve shown work with the San Diego Art Institute, Bread & Salt, Visual Gallery, Art on 30th, The Spanish Village Art Center and the Hill Street Country Club in the San Diego area. In New York City, I have shown my work at the New York Public Library, American Museum of Natural History and Soho 20 Gallery.

My approach to my art is quick and expressive, using watercolor, gouache and ink to highlight subjects. This style lends to unique blending and bleeds, which can take on a life of their own. The uncertainty of the medium is what draws me to this style of image making. Once the image is finished it is scanned on a flatbed. There is some touch up on the computer, but 90% of the image is done analog.

Find JENN STEFFEY ZINES at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY.



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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JOHN DISHWASHER’S ZINE

John Dishwasher’s Zine revolves around the idea of “humans resisting dehumanization,” with the principal hook being it is totally legitimate to deliberately work as a part-time dishwasher and spend the rest of your time practicing art. John’s “Zine from the Future Describing the End of Civilization” was a finalist for Best Political Zine of 2021 at the Broken Pencil Zine Awards. His self-published novel “The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground,” which is based on the SoCal zine scene, is the first-ever novel to feature an entire zine community.

Find JOHN DISHWASHER’S ZINE at COMPRESSED on SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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JOSEPH HOANG

The Cathedral of the Plains

Find JOSEPH HOANG at COMPRESSED on SUNDAY

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Part...
09/03/2026

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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DREAM BOUQUET

Nini Chen is a Los Angeles–based, Cantonese illustrator whose zines explore the intersection of cultural memory, nature, and digital visual language. Her zines range from playful accordion books celebrating everyday subjects like plants and cats, to experimental risograph and transparent flip-film formats that reinterpret themes such as the 24 Solar Terms, plants, and fleeting moments like sunsets. Each piece is designed as an intimate, tactile object, inviting viewers to slow down and engage with small, poetic fragments of her illustrated universe.

Find DREAM BOUQUET at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY and SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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EARTHFRUIT

運動 (undō) is a series of printed works that explore notions of the body and bodily movement, especially through the artist’s relationship to choreography, analog filmmaking, plant kin, queerness, and lineages of japanese folk knowledge.

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Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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EAT ME ZINE

Eat Me is a zine that celebrates and explores vintage food in Southern California.

Find EAT ME ZINE at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY.



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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EDITORIAL HALFBREED

Independent publishing house with all handmade books, specializing in regional poetry and philosophical essays in bilingual formats, as well as handbound notebooks. Located in Tijuana, Mexico.

Find EDITORIAL HALFBREED at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY and SUNDAY



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Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Part...
09/01/2026

Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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RICOS JUGOS

is a Guadalajara México based space that sells and Edits self publications from latín América

Find RICOS JUGOS on SATURDAY and SUNDAY at COMPRESSED



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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TALLER CALIFORNIA

is a small press & printing workshop located in the San Diego-Tijuana region. It publishes vibrant artist books that engage with the border as a sociopolitical place and as a liminal and creative space. It is committed to hybrid forms and multilingualism. Taller California’s collaborative and experimental ethos creates new modes of production and distribution of printed matter and books

TALLER is also celebrating their 5th anniversary with a special exhibition inside the Athenaeum classroom all day on SATURDAY.

Find TALLER CALIFORNIA at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY and SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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S.A.R.A.

We are S.A.R.A. a small independent print studio based in Mexico City!
We love to print and share the work of amazing mexican artists! We believe that art should be accessible to everyone and everywhere, so we chose printmaking as a medium of expression and diffusion.
We love illustration and books and we believe in visual communication, as a universal language, that’s why we try to publish books that try to break that frontier. We don’t have a specific editorial line just fun and experimentation in printmaking, searching for interesting and new narratives!

Find S.A.R.A. at COMPRESSED on SATURDAY and SUNDAY



Join us on SATURDAY 9/12 and SUNDAY 9/13 for two days of art, music, food, and programming The Brick Room hosted by Particle FM and SCANNNERS archive

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EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH

is a feeling and a means. a

Hey we could really use a boost on our fundraiser right now. The last three years in this adams avenue space we have hos...
07/27/2026

Hey we could really use a boost on our fundraiser right now. The last three years in this adams avenue space we have hosted hundreds of free events, talks, workshops, art shows, music shows, and pro social gatherings of all kinds.

We’re getting ready to show you a brand new space full of opportunity, but we have to stay closed a little longer to put the pieces back together!

Use the zeffy link in the bio or screenshot the text on the second slide and click that in your photo gallery

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3131 Adams Avenue
San Diego, CA
92116

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Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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