Achieving rave reviews at the Melbourne Festival of the Photocopier and the Wollongong Zine Fair, A Personal History considers the life of Chester Carlson, the photocopier's troubled inventor. Afterwards, you'll hear a shameless sales pitch for a zine about philosophical truths, taken from comic book character Tintin.

Mandy Ord and Kirrily Schell, two long-time friends and collaborators in the comics and animation world, take you on a leisurely, visually-rich stroll through their influences and inspirations, traversing the local and international history of independent comics, the nature of collaboration and a whole lot more.

World-renowned Australian author Frank Moorhouse presents a meditation on that often-neglected concept: the imagination. What is it? Why, as writers, should we trust it? With reflections drawn from his own work and the wider worlds of literary and political history, expect a highly stimulating journey into the mind of the writer.

Sticky is a not-for-profit shop space in Melbourne, dedicated to zines and artist books. Since 2001 it has supported over 3500 photocopier addicts from around the world. Join Sticky coordinators Luke Sinclair and Eloise Peace as they discuss the amazing highs, death-defying lows and more amazing highs of seven Sticky years.