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BYOB (Bring Your Own Baby) Parent & Child Zine Workshop

Birdsong London 11 Pearson Street, London, United Kingdom

BYOBaby! Make a cute zine for friends and family together with your bab. We'll be joined by seasoned zine makers including artist Megan Pickering , and provide paper and crafting materials. Bring some magazines or photographs to collage, and we'll show you some fun techniques.

LGBTQ Zine Workshop

Travelling Man Newcastle 43 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Travelling Man and members of LGBT History Project NE will be running an LGBTQ+ Zine day. We will be basing the day around creating zines on and around queer identity. Zine making is drop in/drop out and if you've never made a zine before, this is the time! There will also be a talk about […]

Zine Club! Manchester with Shy Bairns

Partisan 12, New Islington Mill Regent Trading Estate, Oldfield Rd, Manchester, United Kingdom

Shy Bairns will be running a workshop using collage materials and a risograph printer, aiming to create a collaborative zine loosely based around themes of community and local identity. Shy Bairns is multi-disciplinary collective specialising in DIY arts publications. Their first publication in their self titled series, The Only Pizza Shop Where I Live Burnt Down, was released December 2016, with a second,Where's […]

Christmas Zine making

The Place To Be York Place, Newcastle under Lyme, United Kingdom

Come and share your love for Christmas and make your own mini-magazine, and then fill it with writing, pictures or stick things in that are all about your favourite Christmas things. £3 per person, material provided

£3

Wish Fulfillment Press X Erin McGrath Zine Launch & Exhibition

The Old Hairdressers 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, , Glasgow, United Kingdom

Join Wish Fulfillment Press to celebrate the launch of their newest title 'ONCE CONNECTED' by Glasgow Artist Erin McGrath. 'Once Connected' is a collection of black and white drawings Astrally projected from Dennistoun in the early 90's and arriving to us in Zine form via the pen of Erin McGrath. The drawings borrow from the […]

Printmaking for Zines – Sick! workshop

INTRA 337-341 High Street, Rochester, United Kingdom

A workshop for people who want to learn how to use printmaking to communicate ideas and stories in visual ways. In two hours, artist Xtina Lamb will show you simple methods to create effective graphics with print techniques including relief printing and stencils. Zines are small self-published magazines, focused on a particular topic or theme. […]

Zine Club @ the Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection 83 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom

Zine Club! The next zine-making session with @robertbidder, El and Tundun is happening this Thursday 18th January between 3-4pm in the Reading Room @ExploreWellcome. Drop in to make, chat and read. It's free! (info taken from twitter)

Women’s Network Zine Open Meeting

Drayton House 30 Gordon St, Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom

//This event is open to women and non-binary people only// Second term the Women's Network will produce zines with articles written and edited by members of the network, with artwork and designs by members too. Come along to get involved. There will be pizza! Picture from the Sheffield Women's Newsletter from the 1970s http://shefflibraries.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/exploring-archives-sheffield-womens-lib.html

Drop-in workshop: Zines & artist’s books with simple bookbinding

INTRA 337-341 High Street, Rochester, United Kingdom

The last in a series of four drop-in creative workshop days, looking at ways to create DIY publications and explore self-expression. This workshop offers a chance to try out, practice, or combine skills from our previous workshops in the series, working on a theme of living with invisible illness. Try writing about your experiences, express […]

Girl Gang Manchester 2nd Bday Bash & Zine Launch

Texture 67 Lever Street, Manchester

You are cordially invited to our second birthday bash! Help us celebrate entering the terrible two's with cake, craft and quizzes, party hats, party games and party pop hits! There will be: - A quiz about badass babes from the past present and popular culture. - Party hat decorating station. - Birthday card making - […]

£5

Ground Zine Fair

Ground 60 Beverley Road, Hull, United Kingdom

GROUND ZINE FAIR 2 A Zine is a DIY book/magazine/pamphlet. At GZF2 there'll be a whole lot of zines, and their creators, from Hull, Leeds, Manchester, London, Denmark and Norway. Sarurday & Sunday 27th & 28th ALL WELCOME!!!

I Look Better Online (Exhibition and Zine Launch)

System Gallery Leazes Park Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

'I Look Better Online' is a publication organised by Stella Dixon and Petra Szeman which explores the popular constructs of femininity and the online self. Join us for an exhibition to celebrate the launch of this publication at: System gallery Saturday 27th January 6.00pm - 9.00pm Featured artists inlcude: Iona Brown, Stella Dixon, Petra Szeman, […]

Zine Launch – The End of The Runt

Anseo Camden Street 18 Camden Street Lower, Saint Kevin's, Dublin, Ireland

Apocalypse How? Apocalypse Wow! The Runt is celebrating the upcoming end of the world as we know it (any day now) with the launch of our 11th issue. So come along for a flood of apocalypse-themed stories and poems! And have your say in determining post-apocalyptic society by deciding which aspects of our beleaguered culture […]

€4

The GAZE: A short exhibition about feminist zines

London College of Communication Elephant and Castle, London, United Kingdom

This short exhibition brings together a feminist collection of Latin American zines with the aim of diversifying the way of understanding the movement, its research and perspectives, its social impact, its expression and group discussion when addressing its problems in the editorial practice of DIY culture. Also, this event showcases the recent artwork of Cat […]

Your Body Is Not Your Own: Dream Nails Vinyl + Zine Launch

The Shacklewell Arms 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, United Kingdom

Join Dream Nails for a night of feminist punk and zine readings on reproductive justice, featuring support band Brosephine! We're releasing a limited edition double A-side vinyl of “Vagina Police”/ “Fascism is Coming” on 7th February with Everything Sucks Music, and 100% of the physical and digital proceeds are going to Abortion Support Network. The […]

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