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Grrrl Zine Fair at Village Green Festival

Chalkwell Park Chalkwell Avenue, Southend on Sea, United Kingdom

Grrrl Zine Fair is SUPER excited to be hosting its next event at Village Green Festival. We’re swapping London pubs for a beautiful park overlooking the essex seaside. Expect your fav magic and inclusive Grrrl event but with more workshops, more zines, a sculpture garden, art exhibition, bands and an immersive zine library. ☺ ☺ […]

Achilles! Fanzine Launch Party

Vinyl Deptford 4 Tanners Hill, London, United Kingdom

Achilles! is a fanzine about the Achilles Street area in New Cross, South-East London, which is under threat of regeneration by Lewisham council. 4 blocks of houses and 2 rows of shops face potential regeneration, a euphemism for total demolition. The zine is a space celebrating the existing area and people of Achilles Street. It […]

Zine Workshop – Sick!

INTRA 337-341 High Street, Rochester, United Kingdom

A workshop for those affected by invisible illnesses - guiding you to express yourself through words, images or collage to create a collaborative zine on this theme. Led by artist and printmaker Xtina Lamb, your contributions will be compiled into a small DIY publication - a 'zine', to be printed on INTRA's Risograph machine. The […]

A Short Exhibition About Music Zines

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

A Short Exhibition About Music Zines, presenting a brief history and overview of the movement in the UK, co-curated by LCC Library (UAL) and Jen Kavanagh. Music zines feature heavily in the London College of Communication, UAL Library Zine Collection. From the original punk fanzines of the 1970s, through to the indie and alternative zines […]

What If? Exhibition and Zine Launch

Gracelands Cafe 118 College Road, London, United Kingdom

In Crisis’ landmark 50th year, Art in Crisis considers the proposition ‘What If’ through the eyes of our clients, with pieces examining the past, considering the present and looking to the future. Join us at the launch of a photography exhibition developed by Crisis Skylight Brent clients and local video artist and photographer Michael Speechley. […]

Freshly Pressed – Print Fair

The Civic Hanson Street, Barnsley, United Kingdom

The Civic are delighted to announce the impending arrival of Freshly Pressed, a new print fair for South Yorkshire and the latest addition in the region’s calendar of markets for artists, artisans and lovers of all things hand-crafted. The Civic’s Freshly Pressed will feature a cacophony of stalls selling contemporary art, illustration and photographic prints, […]

Weirdo Zine Fest at Sutton House

Sutton House 2 Homerton High Street, , London, United Kingdom

Weirdo Zine Fest is a self-publishing fair celebrating DIY cultural production by radical and marginalised people. Preference for tables goes to women, queers, POC, disabled people, trans people, fat people, sex workers and anyone who is otherwise marginalised. The first fair was last year at DIY Space for London and it’s back for a second […]

£3 – £6

South London Comic and Zine Fair

Stanley Halls 12 South Norwood Hill, London

A brand new comic and zine fair at Stanley Halls SE25 on the 15th July focusing on London based self & micro publishing Exhibitors include Avery Hill, OOMK zine, Cat Sims, and Darren Cullen. There will be a communal table for visitors to leave their zines and comics to be sold free of charge, and […]

Zine making workshop

Tate Britain Millbank, London, United Kingdom

As part of International Zine Month 2017, enjoy this workshop hosted by Holly Callaghan and artist Seleena Daye. Take the chance to make your own zine in response to artists, works, and themes in the Tate collection, and add your completed zine to the library’s special collections. Zines are self-published non-profit publications with a history […]

Zine Workshops for under 18s

Aire Place Studios Units 2c, Aire Place Mills, Kirkstall Road, Leeds, United Kingdom

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 […]

£2.50

Young Creatives – Truth Be Told: Zine Making Workshop

Somerset House Strand London, London, United Kingdom

Learn what it takes to make a zine and create your own with a screen printed cover with OOMK Zine. OOMK Zine (Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin and Heiba Lamara) has operated since 2013 as an artist collective specializing in print practices exploring intersections of art, activism and publishing. OOMK publishes a biannual zine that explores diasporic activism […]

Zine Making Workshop – Festival Stoke

Art Stop Stoke 108 Church Street, Stoke-on-Trent

Join writer Caroline and artist Anahita for a zine making workshop. Using creative writing and artistic techniques you’ll create a zine – a handmade magazine – on any topic you like, from personal life writing to a favourite hobby. Materials will be provided but feel free to bring along anything (e.g. photos, patterned paper) that […]

What I Want To Be When I Grow Up – Collage and Zine Workshop

Copeland Gallery Copeland Park & Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, London, United Kingdom

What do you want to be when you grow up? Artists Georgie Mcaushland & Hannah Redpath (Sesame Drawing Club) will leading this children's collage workshop aiming challenging gender roles in society. Aiming to find a fun and creative way to help children see there are no boundries for what they choose to persue their dreams, […]

£4

Zine-Making Workshop

International Slavery Museum 3rd Floor of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Inspired by the fantastic posters of our Art of Solidarity exhibition, we invite you to explore self publishing as a creative method of activism. Join artist Seleena Laverne Day to learn about zine culture, DIY publishing and how to create your own zine. Limited places available so please book early to avoid disapointment. All materials […]

Truth Be Told: Zine Making Workshop

Somerset House Strand London, London, United Kingdom

Learn what it takes to make a zine and create your own with a screen printed cover with OOMK Zine. OOMK Zine (Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin and Heiba Lamara) has operated since 2013 as an artist collective specializing in print practices exploring intersections of art, activism and publishing. OOMK publishes a biannual zine that explores diasporic activism […]

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