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Zine Club Manchester

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

Facebook event: available here Zine Club is a space where anyone can read, make zines, collaborate, be shown what a zine is and how to make one, work on an existing project, or ask more seasoned zine-makers any practical questions. Just come and have a nice hang out and a chat with us! Zines to read […]

SAXON ZINE VOL.1 Release Party // Pussyliquor + More!

The Old Blue Last 38 Great Eastern Street, London, United Kingdom

A night celebrating music, art & creating. To celebrate the release of Vol.1 we've decided to hold an event at one of our favourite London venues. The zine will be for sale on the day (cash only plz) + we'll have bands, spoken word & art showcased by creatives featured in Vol.1! So come down […]

Publish Cardiff

Clwb Ifor Bach 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Bored of the lack of representation, access to alternative education methods and support creatives receive outside London from the press, Editor and Welsh native Tori West has created Publish Cardiff - a day of talks, networking and celebration of all things print. Join us for the day on the 30th of September and support emerging […]

UK and Ireland Zine Librarians London meetup

Tate Britain Millbank, London, United Kingdom

UK and Ireland Zine Librarians invite you to our 2nd annual meetup in London at Tate Britain. Our London meet up is a chance to meet other zine librarians and chat about collecting, cataloguing, storing, and providing access to zines. This will be an informal meetup and in the weeks leading up we'll start to […]

Bristol Comic & Zine Fair 2017

The Station Silver St, Bristol , United Kingdom

Bristol Comic and Zine Fair celebrates the world of DIY and independent publishing. The fair brings together artists, writers, and publishers from across Bristol and further afield for a one-day market. 2017 will be our 7th year. BCZF was established in 2011 to give artists interested in self-publishing a chance to sell their work and […]

Zine making workshop

Devonshire Collective DC3 Workshop Space 1-5 Seaside, Eastbourne, United Kingdom

A zine is a DIY created publication for self-expression. It can be about anything you want, like personal experiences and stories, drawings, poems, photography, music, films... health, travel, cats, food… Zines can be put together by one person or a group of people and are often photocopied in black & white and stapled. In this zine […]

£7.50

Too Young for What? Zine making and collage art

Barbican Silk Street, London

Join us for an innovative programme of free events, installations and special performances and celebrate the creativity of Jean-Michel Basquiat Too Young for What? provides opportunities to develop young people’s creativity and showcases a range of new work with and by young people from across east London and beyond. The day explores what Basquiat and […]

Lost In Liberty 1/12 :: Zine Launch Party

Tanners Arms 1 Byker Bridge, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

We are releasing a monthly zine at each of our remaining parties before the Team finish university. It will be an extension of our existence and purpose. Limited to 50 copies. Get your arses to the Tanners Arms - Newcastle to get your mitts on our print. Keep it real, analogue, and trendy. Available for purchase on […]

Fanzine Tea Party

The Rose Hill 70-71 Rosehill Terrace, Brighton, United Kingdom

I AM NOT ASHAMED zine (by YA authors Harriet Reuter Hapgood and Eleanor Wood) presents THE BRIGHTON FANZINE TEA PARTY. Come and spend a cosy afternoon with us, making zines and celebrating DIY culture – with cake and music and glitter. Teens welcome! Make your own zine Chill in the zine library Buy personalised zines […]

£15

Durham Book Festival: What She Knew Zine Launch

TESTT Space 2nd floor, 25 North Road, Durham, United Kingdom

Join Papaya Press for a celebratory event to launch its latest zine, inspired by the work of writer Lydia Davis. Featuring commissioned performances from some very exciting artists and musicians. Line up to be announced. There'll also be a series of readings from our What She Knew zine contributors. *We still have a handful of […]

Grrrl Queer Nightlife Zine Fair, Panel Discussion & Screenings

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

As part of Light After Dark, an exhibtion celebrating past, present and future queer nightlife of London, Grrrl Zine Fair is hosting a feminist, queer zine fair and DIY art market, film screenings and a panel discussion on Sunday 15th October. Curated by Kat Hudson and hosted by Sutton house (National Trust's 15th Centurary, oldest […]

£4

Zine Club Manchester: October

Zine Club is a space where anyone can read, make zines, collaborate, be shown what a zine is and how to make one, work on an existing project, or ask more seasoned zine-makers any practical questions. Just come and have a nice hang out and a chat with us! Zines to read and materials will […]

Fear of Making Art: zine making workshop

For Fika Sake 7 Keith Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Whether you're a seasoned zine-maker or a first timer come along to FOMA's first zine making workshop and creative space Zines can be on any subject, using any materials. (we'll post some pdfs in the page for you to see beforehand as well!) This workshop is a welcoming space in which you can express yourself […]

zine making and theatre criticism irl with Megan Vaughan

York Theatre Royal St Leonard's Place, York, United Kingdom

Join blogger and zinemaker Megan Vaughan in an exploration of DIY publications for political and counter-cultural movements, and in theatre and arts contexts. Learn how to use zines as criticism, programmes, documentation, or as works in themselves, then stick around to contribute your own art, reviews, poems and collages to the YTR TakeOver zine.

Zine Workshop: Spread the Word and Repeal the 8th

Blackwell's Bookshop Liverpool Peach Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

How can we use our creativity to influence others and affect change? In collaboration with Liverpool Irish Festival, Blackwell’s Liverpool will host a drop in workshop looking at zines, posters and self-publishing as activism. Through the medium of collage, attendees will make handmade booklets and posters to photocopy and distribute amongst friends on the Repeal […]

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