Fanzine: an exhibition and zine by Girl Gang Leeds
We’re launching our brand new zine – it’s a fanzine about fans!
This exhibition will feature the amazing artists we’re showcasing in our zine, and will be your first chance to buy it.
✨FREE ENTRY – EVERYONE WELCOME✨
We’re celebrating, talking about and featuring ideas about:
– Our experiences as women/non-binary/gender non-conforming superfans
– Having your legitimacy as a fan questioned due to your femme/nb identity
– Being labelled a ‘fangirl’
– What it means to be a fan
– Unapologetic fandoms
– Negative experiences of superfan culture
– Positive experiences of superfan culture
– Why it’s important to emphatically support the things you love.
Come down to our exhibition space in Headingley to get your hands on a new zine and support some local artists ♥
This is a joint project between all our girl gangs! We’ve taken submissions from Leeds / Manchester / Sheffield / Edinburgh and beyond.
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Accessibility info:
We will be hosting the exhibition on the ground floor of our building, which has step-free access and an accessible toilet.
Registered assistance dogs are welcome at this event. Please drop us an email at girlgangleeds@gmail.com if we need to make any arrangements for your assistance dog.
We won’t be using strobe lighting at this event.
There is parking available right outside the building and on the street.
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We expect everyone to be able to have a good time at our events. We won’t tolerate harassment or abuse of any kind, and we work closely with our venues to maintain a safe environment for all.
We’re working hard to create safe, empowering spaces and we value your contribution to our positive community!
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GIRL GANG Leeds is a supportive community working to celebrate and uplift people in Leeds by creating fun, safe and empowering spaces for women and non-binary people.
We put on parties, workshops, meetups, exhibitions and more and are always seeking new collaborations. Girl Gang Leeds is a sister community with GIRL GANG Sheffield, Girl Gang Manchester and Girl Gang Edinburgh.
The House That Heals The Soul: Digital Collections
Join Shy Bairns as they work with our Designers in Residence, Jamie Hudson and Orlando Lloyd, for a workshop as part of the exhibition, The House That Heals The Soul. This workshop will explore how digital matter on the internet are grouped into collections, be it through websites like YouTube, Instagram, or the photos saved on your phone. Workshop attendees should come with a smart phone, tablet or laptop, and Shy Bairns will work with them to print a collection. Alongside this, there will be smaller drawing and collage activities.
This workshop will teach you how to use you the processes and tools that go in to making small-run and DIY publications with this Northern zine collective. Participants are welcome to make an optional pay as you feel donation at the end of the workshop to cover material costs. At the end of the session you will have a publication or printed matter to take home. Copies will be kept and distributed by Shy Bairns, one copy will stay in the exhibition’s growing library and the other will be for you to take home or distribute.
The House That Heals the Soul is both an exhibition and a functioning publishing studio. Its presentation at The Tetley coincides with the International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair. See our website for more information.
Shy Bairns’ self titled series includes work from anyone who calls the North ‘home’. Their first publication, The Only Pizza Shop Where I Live Burnt Down, was released December 2016, with a second, Where’s Your Coat You’re Going To Be Cold, following in April 2017. Both zines intended to gather northern creatives together on one platform, creating a community regardless of medium, level, background or theme. Their third zine of the series is on it’s way. Other past projects involve curated shows at Caustic Coastal, Salford, and online @ isthisit.com, and zine making workshops ran for Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2017 and Pen Fight Distro in Manchester.
Website: https://
Summer Skint Fair
Skint Fairs is back taking over The Brunswick for a slice of summer print action. From 12 you can catch up and buy some bargain basement from some top notch established and up and and coming creatives from Leeds and beyond.
This one is shaping up to be one of the most diverse Skint Fair’s we have ever had, with a wide range of amazing creatives selling prints and zines, lots of different workshops and swapshops, and also new stallholders selling clothes, plants and other goodies.
So start checking under the sofa from loose change and keep your eyes and ears peeled for some exicitng announcments and collaborations listed soon !
Stall Holder List incoming.
Endless City will also be downstairs playing some of there wide collection of nostic delights discovered on the road of there festival tour. Expect a tster of what theyve been upto accompanied by some visual projection delights and a special art raffle.
Zine Workshops for under 18s
Every week during our Creative Cafe sessions on a Friday, bring your young zinesters to make zine pages as part of a 4 week project.
Write about what you love, share your favourite recipes, tell us your stories!
There’ll be pay as you feel snacks and hot and cold drinks.
£2.50/3 per session
THE VENUE
Food and Drink available throughout but please bring cash as we are unable to take card payments.
The closest cash machine is at the Shell garage, where Willow Road joins Kirkstall Road, a 5 minute walk along Kirkstall Road, away from the city centre.
PARKING
Limited free on-site parking available. Follow the yellow signposted directions to Leeds Flood Appeal. Aire Place Studios is in Aire Place Mills through the gates, next to Seagulls paint store. Parking is available at the front of the building through the gates.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
The following bus services stop outside The Tannery, near to Aire Place Studios: From Leeds Bus Station -33, 33A, 670, 757, 760. From Park Row: 33, 33A, 508, 670, 757, 760. From Leeds Train Station – 5, 33, 33A, 508, 670, 757, 760. From Headrow – 19, 49, 50, 50A (get off on Burley Road by ITV studios and follow the footpath next to the studios through to Kirkstall Road where you will be opposite the Aire Place Mills entrance).
OPEN LETTERS #5
join us for another evening of letters, read aloud.
letter-reading is open-mic, just sign up on the night.
letters might be fiction or nonfiction. they might be to people, places, or things. they might never have been sent.
they might be to you.
PLUS : the launch of the OPEN LETTERS zine, available to pre-order or buy on the night.
AND: the first 15 people buying/collecting preorders will get a free tote
Leeds Zine Fair
Leeds Zine Fair 2017 – Sunday 10 September. 60+ stalls, food, bar & more. Same venue and format as last year. We’ll start taking bookings in the spring, but for now save the date.
Leeds Zine Fair
Join us for the Leeds Zine Fair! Swap zines, meet new zine artists, listen to open mic zine readings and create your own zine!
If you are interested in hosting a stall please email: claire@studio12.org.uk
The Leeds Zine Fair is part of our Zine Exhibition in Room 700, Central Library during March 2017. Zines have been collected from groups across Leeds, including workshops taking place in libraries across Leeds. The exhibition will showcase Leeds culture, heritage, talent and creativity.
FemFest ’17
**SATURDAY**
DAY: ZINE AND PRINT FAIR
Scream Zines will be hosting a Zine and Print Fair celebrating female zine and printmakers working in and around Leeds. Come and join in our Zine-Making and Craft Workshops, and have a little nosy around Scream Zine’s extensive Zine Library…
Throughout the day we will also feature a line up of amazing women DJ’s. You will be hearing music from:
SLUTDROP
Lucy Williams
Tanya Pilikian [GAIA]
Amy Alford
zine-making with Saffa Khan!
Join us at 4pm on Saturday for a workshop full of collage materials, scissors, glue and stickers, and a few ideas to help you make a zine of your own. And keep an eye out for Saffa’s stall selling prints and zines throughout the day!
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Saffa Khan is a Pakistani queer visual artist and zine maker, based in Manchester. She creates work surrounding identity, sexuality, mental health & culture, via print and mark making.
website: http://safka.co.uk/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saffa.k/
shop: http://www.safka.bigcartel.com/
LGBT History Month event
Celebrate LGBT History Month at Leeds City Museum with this FREE programme of films, stalls, activities and talks organised by Leeds Queer Film Festival on 18 February 2017 11-3pm. All are welcome to come along and get involved!
A selection of films on LGBT History from our past festivals will be screened and we’ll be having a panel discussion on local LGBT history.
There’ll be stalls of various local LGBT community groups so that you can find out about the great long-running and more recent LGBT support groups, campaigning groups and social groups in our city. This will be a great opportunity to find out about the work they do, how to get involved, support them, or how to get access to services you need.
We’ll also have various activities and workshops so you can tell your own story or just have some fun! They’ll all be on a drop-in basis throughout the day (apart from the filmmaking workshop). Workshops will include:
– LGBT History-themed Zine-In-A-Day with Footprint Workers Co-op
– Make a Thaumatrope (lo-fi animation) with Hannah McCann
– Kendama with Ingi
– Monoprinting with Susie Rumsby (of Leeds Print Workshop)
– Clay Pendant making with Kim Searle (Darn It Workshops)
– Queer DIY Filmmaking workshop (This will be the second day of the workshop with the first day taking place in the museum on February 11. Information on the workshop and how to book a place is available here:https://www.facebook.com/events/404998579840919).
We’ll also be releasing the Leeds Queer Film Festival programme for our 2017 festival (24-26 March) and selling advance weekend passes.
Access information for the venue is available here: http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/leedscitymuseum/Access-at-Leeds-City-Museum.aspx
——- FILM PROGRAMME, LIST OF STALLS, AND INFORMATION ON THE WORKSHOPS AND PANEL DISCUSSION TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON ——-
To contact us, e-mail: leedsqueerfilmfestival@gmail.com
Etsy Made Local: Leeds Make Your Own Fun: Zine Workshop
Create your own self-published book with zine-maker and comic book creator Kristyna Baczynski. Zines can really be about anything, from outlandish and imaginary tales to confessions and secret obsessions.
Whether it’s a pocket-sized pamphlet cataloguing your favourite pets, or a fold-out map charting your dream adventure, this workshop will help you take your zine ideas from brain to paper.
During this workshop we will make a range of different styles of zine and fill the pages with content using drawing and writing prompts, as well as cut-up collage, hand lettering and lots more!
The workshop is being held as part of the Etsy Made Local: Leeds Christmas Market. The class will take place in the Denny Room on the Lower Ground Floor.
Minimum Age for participants is 16.