FREE ENTRY

Coming in costume encouraged.

Poster artist for 2025 is Beau Parsons

Table applications open Friday August 1st 2025 and will close 31st August 2025.

Hallozeen celebrates zinemakers launching freshly made Halloween zines.

Information & Rules

To ensure the safety of everyone at Hallozeen, all stallholders must understand the following information & agree to the following non-negotiable rules.

Please read through them carefully before deciding if you can commit to tabling at Hallozeen:

• Submitting a stallholder application does not guarantee you a table at Hallozeen 2025.
  
  
• Stallholders must provide your legal first name, legal surname, email address & phone number in the application form.
  
  
• Only registered stallholders are allowed to table at the fair.
  
  
• Solo zinesters are allocated half a standard-sized trestle table with one (1) chair. A half-table stall allows a maximum of one (1) adult stallholder & cannot be shared.
  
  
• Zine distros are allocated a full standard-sized trestle table with one - two (1 - 2) chairs. Zine distros are allowed a maximum of two (2) adults at their stall.
  
  
• An adult accompanying minors under the age of 16, will be allocated a full table with two - three (2 - 3) chairs. A maximum of one (1) adult & two (2) minors are allowed at their stall.
  
  
• If you have an accessibility request, please send an email to downstairs@stickyinstitute.com after completing the application form.
  
  
• Hallozeen is a zine fair; therefore, 80% of products sold at your table must be zines.
  
  
• T-shirts & food items are not allowed to be sold or traded.
  
  
• No free-standing racks, stands or displays are to be used.
  
  
• Displays set up on the allocated table space are allowed.
  
  
• Candles, incense or open flames are not permitted at stalls.
  
  
• Battery operated fairy lights are fine!
  
  
• Kensington Town Hall has a total ban on the following: open flames, pyrotechnics, glitter and confetti

• Seating arrangements are pre-allocated & will not be released before the day of the fair.

• Stallholders are not permitted to swap allocated tables on the day of the fair.

• We do our best to accommodate any seating requests, but we cannot guarantee anything.
  
  
• Stallholders are responsible for the disposal of their rubbish & paper waste when packing up at the end of the day.
  
  
• Stallholders will not use a power outlet at the venue under any circumstances.
  
  
• No animals of any kind (including dogs) are allowed inside Kensington Town Hall unless they are a trained service animal. Guide dogs and assistance animals are welcome at Kensington Town Hall.
  
  
• All trained service animals at the event must be signed as such & the owner must take full responsibility for its behaviour.
  
  
• Hallozeen is an all ages and sober event. You must not bring or consume any alcohol or drugs at/or during the event.
  
  
• If you smoke or vape, this must take place five (5) metres from any entrance/exit, as per government regulations.
  
  
• If you are feeling unwell do not attend the fair.
  
  
• Just email or call us to let us know you can't make it. It's cool.

• If you want someone to run a stall on your behalf you must email downstairs@stickyinstitute.com with the legal first name, legal surname, email address & phone number of the person replacing you. They will be emailed a stallholder form which must be completed to the attend the fair.

• We cannot accommodate any replacement/swap requests made within 24-hours of the event.
  
  
• Anyone not complying with these rules will be asked to leave immediately to ensure the safety of the other stallholders & patrons of the fair. 
  

Organised by Sticky Institute with Alex e Clark, supported by the City of Melbourne.