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    Queer Zine Library cataloguing party

    Queer Zine Library is a diy roaming library celebrating LGBTQIA radical self-publishing. The zine library travels across the UK taking up residency in community spaces.

    If you are interested in getting involved with Queer Zine Library and want to learn more about cataloguing then get involved!

    Cataloguing is a way for new readers to discover zines in our collections and to track where those zines are currently on display. All cataloguing is carried out by QZL volunteers and we are hosting our very first public cataloguing party inviting queer zine makers and queer zine readers to contribute and develop the way we catalogue.

    Everyone is welcome regardless of experience. No previous knowledge of cataloguing is necessary, just a passion for queer zines! We want the queer community to challenge ideas of cataloguing and help us build a collective approach to making the library accessible. There will be a chance to spend time with the amazing zines in our library collections, learn the basics of cataloguing from our volunteers, as well as contribute to our collective cataloguing which is always changing and growing.

    Spaces are limited and booking is essential. Get in touch if you have any questions about the day queerzinelibrary@gmail.com

    Canvas Cafe have provided the community hub meeting space for free in return for a donation to our Pay-it-forward board which provides food and drinks to homeless people in Tower Hamlets. As part of this agreement we ask all attendees not to bring your own food and drink with you and to use the cafe for all food. Drinks from the cafe are on us. The cafe is 100% vegan. You can find more info about food options here: https://www.thecanvascafe.org/vegan-cafe

    Canvas Cafe has gender neutral toilets. The space is wheelchair accessible but unfortunately the cafe has no wheelchair accessible toilet facilities at the moment. We are prioritising a fully accessible venues for our next cataloguing sessions and apologies to everyone who will be unable to attend this first meetup. You can find more about the venue’s access and safer space policy here: https://www.thecanvascafe.org/about

    Community Zine making Art Night

    Join our FREE art night, where all art made will go into the next issue of our community Zine. Get creative with all materials provided in a chilled environment.

    Feel free to bring your kids, dogs and friends.

    This Art night is sponsored by URBAN BY NATURE

    LGBTQ+ zine fair

    I’m organising a LGBTQ+ zine fair at Brixton Library on Sunday 16th Feb for LGBTHM! Would you like a stall?? Zinesters, distros, booksellers and publishers all welcome, drop me an email to reserve a stall CTownend2@lambeth.gov.uk

    Zinesters’ coffee morning

    Are you zine curious? Ever wanted to make an A5 pamphlet or, dare we say it, even stray into A6? Are you sick of the hum drum world of slick, commodified objects and want the raw visceral adrenaline rush of a hastily sketched comic about going to the shops?

    This coffee morning is for you!

    Maybe you have a zine you’d like to show off, or you’re half way through making a creation but would like advise on what the next step should be – come, come, come.

    What will you see?

    There will be coffee.
    There will be cake.
    There will be an anarchist bookshop.
    There will be people who have made things.
    You will mingle.

    The last one was great. This will might also be great. I guess that’s up to you.

    #BoringSelfCare Zine release event

    Come celebrate the release of #BoringSelfCare illustration zine. An informal relaxed event, come have a drink, buy a zine and meet new people.

    Access: this event is British Sign Language interpreted. The venue is level access. The downstairs part of the bookshop is not wheelchair accessible, however Hannah will only be using the upstairs part of the shop.

    Zine: this is a self published book, “zine” celebrating Hannah Daisy’s #BoringSelfCare illustration project. All the #BoringSelfCare illustrations she has drawn plus more will be in her 48 page full colour A5 zine.

    The zine will be £10. £1 from every sale will go to Hospital Rooms charity.

    Zine Club – Wellcome Library

    The next Zine Club by the Wellcome Library is on Wednesday 2nd October.

    This month’s theme is burn out. Read, make, and chat about zines.

    Free, drop in anytime. All welcome.

    Nomadic Youth Zine Club

    A pop-up zine club for teenagers in London this October half-term

    About this Event

    Welcome to Nomadic Youth’s first ever ZINE CLUB!

    What is a zine? Put simply, it’s a DIY publication about literally ANYTHING that you want! Are you passionate about something and want to create zines to share that passion? Then Zine Club is for you.

    This half term, drop into Blighty Cafe, grab a cuppa and make your very own zine! Bring a friend or make new ones whilst creating a unique zine about whatever you like!

    Nomadic Youth’s Zine Club is for teenagers and will be supervised by DBS-checked adults. Young people requiring additional support are more than welcome to attend with a trusted adult.

    This is a two day event organised by Nomadic Youth, run by a professional zine-maker and hosted at Blighty Cafe, Tottenham. Come on Monday (21st) to get started and then come back on Tuesday (22nd) to finish your masterpiece!

    We will have everything that you need to make a zine including pens, pencils, paper, stickers, magazines and comics but feel free to bring your own resources! Zine Club is a “Pay-what-you-can” event, so if you can spare a few pounds (£3 max!) towards resources then that would be wonderful.

    Nomadic Youth is a new youth club that moves around London to set up youth activities and events in various spaces. Nomadic Youth events are inclusive to all, will not tolerate any discrimination and will challenge prejudice. Come with a big heart and a positive attitude and you’ll be fine!

    Blighty Cafe is wheelchair accessible.

    Please register here so we are clear on numbers. If you have any question about the event or have any additional needs that you think we should be aware of then feel free to get in touch at nomadicyouthlondon@gmail.com

    We hope to see you soon!

    Protest zines: what’s there to be mad about?

    Join artist and writer Rachel Rowan Olive and artist Beth Hopkins for a workshop exploring the personal and political power of the zine. Have a go at making your own zine using different design and folding techniques.

    No previous art experience necessary, all welcome. Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult. Concessions are available for SLAM service users, people over 60, students, people on ESA, people registered disabled and their carers.

    If you are unable to attend the workshop, please contact us to cancel your place. We often have a waiting list.

    (Image credit: Rachel Rowan Olive)

    Weirdo Zine Fest 2019 (London)

    Weirdo Zine Fest is a self-publishing fair celebrating DIY cultural production by radical and marginalised people. Weirdo Zine Fest has previously taken place in partnership with DIY Space for London, the National Trust and Leeds Libraries. This year we’re returning to London as part of Science Gallery London’s ON EDGE season to run an edition of the fair which focuses on zines exploring anxiety!

    For this edition of the fair, preference for tables goes to anyone who has experience of anxiety, but as always women, queers, POC, disabled people, trans people, fat people, sex workers and anyone who is otherwise marginalised are particularly encouraged to apply!

    The event will showcase the work of 20-30 stallholders and other exciting things happening too (details tbc!). Stallholders will be announced in early October.

    Interested in tabling? Tables are free! Fill out this form by 20th September: https://forms.gle/vThYcJYwzWuQ7eaZ9
    You will be advised if your application is accepted in late September. Anyone who identifies as marginalised and making work about mental health is encouraged to apply. Weirdo Zine Fest supports new zinemakers, so we would also like to encourage new and first time zine makers!

    Admission
    Entry to the zine fair and exhibitions at Science Gallery London is free.

    Accessibility
    All areas of Science Gallery are accessible by level access, by lift and by wheelchair. Wheelchair-accessible toilets are located on the ground and lower ground floor of the Gallery and the First Floor Studio. The Wheelchair-accessible toilets located in the first floor studio are outside of the main Gallery visitor access areas. Please contact a member of staff if you require assistance during your visit.

    We will be using a room in Science Gallery London as a quiet space (location tbc closer to the date). This room will also contain zine making supplies to allow for people in the space to make things away from the busy zine fair.

    There are both gendered toilets and accessible unisex/gender neutral toilets available in the building.

    Further accessibility information is available here: https://london.sciencegallery.com/visit/accessibility

    ON EDGE: LIVING IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY
    We all experience anxiety to a greater or lesser extent at some point in our lives.

    ON EDGE, Science Gallery London’s new season, investigates ways of living with anxiety, and how anxious states of being can fuel positive action.

    Running from 19 Sep 2019 – 19 Jan 2020, the exhibition opens a critical conversation around the causes of and responses to anxiety in contemporary society, making visible the connections between individual experiences of anxiety and the wider societal conditions that frame those experiences.

    Through artworks, and scientific and collaborative projects, the exhibition and events explore anxiety from many different perspectives. It considers the emotional experience of anxiety, the role of genetics, and how life with anxiety is affected by social factors, economics, class, gender and ethnicity.

    More information can be found here: https://london.sciencegallery.com/news/new-season-explores-living-age-anxiety

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