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Here’s a list of zine and DIY events coming up in the UK.

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Salford Zine Library @ The Deli Lama / Sounds From The Other City

The Deli Lama 220 Chapel St, Salford, United Kingdom

Sounds From the Other City festival (SFTOC) is a celebration of new music and performance, uniting the cream of the national and international scene with some of the city’s finest independent promoters, collectives and club nights. Happening regularly on the May Day Bank Holiday each year along the Chapel St corridor of the historic city of […]

£20

PEAKS: Why DIY?

BUSTER MANTIS 3-4 Resolution Way, , London, United Kingdom

#PEAKS - a night of talking, art and DJs. WHY DIY? curated by Not So Popular and Milk and Honey ♥ We've always been amazed and inspired by the prolific output of DIY zine making in the UK alone. We've even published a few ourselves. This event will explore what drives people to get DIY […]

Library and Archive show and tell: Photobooks

Tate Britain Millbank, London, United Kingdom

Free, booking recommended This Show and Tell showcases a wide selection of photobooks from the library collections. The photobook is a book of photographs compiled to represent a photographer’s work. These publications often represent themes and concepts in a photographic narrative, and provide an alternative platform to display and disseminate images beyond the format of an exhibition. Photobooks […]

London Radical Bookfair

Goldsmith’s University University of London New Cross, London, United Kingdom

Radical booksellers, publishers, artists and activists of all stripes are setting up in the Great Hall at Goldsmiths University to host the 4th London Radical Bookfair. With over 130 exhibitors and 20 guest speakers, this will be a unique gathering of progressive readers, thinkers and doers, in a celebration of radical publishing and politics. The […]

‘Taking Back the Narrative’: A Zine Making Workshop with Rudy Loewe

Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

The No Fly on the WALL Academy opens its doors again this month for another event. This year, as well as our monthly brunches and regular events, we will be hosting a series of guest workshops facilitated by people we admire. In this series there will be workshops led by Tobi Oredein of Black Ballad, […]

Zine Afternoon at Putney Library

Putney Library Disraeli Road, Putney, London, United Kingdom

Zines (or fanzines) are self-published pamphlets/magazines and can be about any topic. They are made using cut and paste techniques, and photocopying. This afternoon of zines invites zine readers and anyone who is curious to come and immerse themselves in zines! The afternoon include stalls of zines to browse and buy: across topics such as […]

Zine Workshop

Ground 60 Beverley Road, Hull, United Kingdom

This is our last Zine workshop with Untold Hull! Come share a story, have a good old draw, and generally just MAKE A ZINE!!!

Salford Zine Library @ The Print Mill

The Print Mill 78 Mill Street, Macclesfield, United Kingdom

The Salford Zine Library team are going to be at The Print Mill for an informal day of zine making and chat. Never made a zine before? Don't worry, it's dead easy! They'll be bringing a sizable chunk of their collection for you to look at and get inspiration from and will gladly take any […]

£2.50

D-Zine: A BTEC Collective Zine Exhibition of Music Inspired Artwork

Salford Zine Library Nexus Art Cafe, 2 Dale St, Manchester , United Kingdom

We're continuing the tradition of exhibiting work from students on the Marple Sixth Form College BTEC with this new one launching on May 26th. Come along to the launch evening, get a can of lemonade and have a chat with the students about their work. The exhibition will be up at the library for another […]

Festival of the Zine 2016

B&D Studios Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street., Newcastle, United Kingdom

You are cordially invited to a FESTIVAL OF THE ZINE, run by social enterprise Verbal Remedy and hosted by B&D Studios (a two-second walk from Tyneside Cinema). Come along and explore a great collection of zines to buy (both limited edition and regular prints), make your own on the craft table, and get to know […]

£2

NEVER HAVE I EVEREST – ‘Zine Fair Fundraiser In Aid of Childreach International

Rough Trade Nottingham 5 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

'NEVER HAVE I EVEREST' ZINE FAIR FUNDRAISER IN SUPPORT OF Childreach International - HELD AT ROUGH TRADE NOTTINGHAM. SATURDAY 28TH MAY, FROM 12PM. FREE EVENT WITH 'ZINE STALLS, PRINT WORKSHOPS, DJs, RAFFLE AND MORE... Sponsoring NTU students who are trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp (5400m high!) in aid of Childreach International. Childreach International is a […]

ZINE CLUB #1

Manchester Craft and Design Centre 17 Oak Street Northern Quarter , Manchester , United Kingdom

If Salford Zine Library had a PR company and a marketing budget we’d have been dropping hints about what we’re calling “Two Thousand and Sixzine” for ages now. Or at least once during the first five months of the year. But here is the hint now: Two Thousand and Sixzine: the Year of the Zine […]

DIY Cultures

Rich Mix London 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, United Kingdom

A day-long festival of zines, artist books, comics, artists-run spaces, talks, films, animation, poetry, video art, exhibitions, workshops - the spirit of independence, autonomy & alternatives. This year alongside the main festival there will be a programme of events and a special 2 week exhibition Radical Libraries which will take place in the Cafe Gallery […]

Clare Sita Fisher, Rowan McCabe & Vicky Foster plus zine launch & open mic | Pay What You Feel

Hyde Park Book Club 27-29 Headingley Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom

Nymphs & Thugs is a spoken word record label, established in Spring 2015. We're delighted to launch a brand new quarterly spoken word zine as part of the Leeds BigBookend Festival, supported by three of the North's most vital voices: Clare Sita Fisher, Rowan McCabe and Vicky Foster. The event is Pay What You Feel […]

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