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Zine workshop with guest speaker

Ziferblat Edge St 1st Floor, 23 Edge Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

The blogging group are organising a zine workshop! All welcome! Last year we made a zine to celebrate the Manchester WI's 5th birthday and following on from the success we're going to create another! We've got Cherry Styles from Salford Zine Library coming to talk to us about zines and to give some inspiration. Cherry […]

Peachfuzz #1 Launch Party

Aatma 1st Floor, 14-16 Faraday St, Manchester, United Kingdom

Super excited to host the launch event for the inaugural issue of PEACHFUZZ, which contains art/poetry/prose collected from our super talented LGBTQ community from across the country. We'll have printed copies of the zine there available for purchase, some free drinks (for the early birds) and good vibes/our fab DJs The zine’s purpose is to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Zine Club! Manchester

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

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 […]

Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 2017

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

2017 anarchist bookfair in Manchester will variety of stalls and talks. The Cunningham Amendment The Cunningham Amendment (formerly Anarchism Lancastrium), the longest surviving Anarchist journal in the U of K “Probably the most beautiful anarcrisp booklet ever”. Under The Pavement Radio Show The long running anarchist radio show broadcast on Manchester’s ALL FM 96.9 community radio station. http://www.underthepavement.org […]

MAKE STUFF: Zine making workshop

Goodstock 6A Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom

⎔ Intro to zine making?? If you want to make some zines/spend some quality crafty time with your pals/learn how to make small publications with limited resources then pop in to Goodstock (Oxford road, Manchester). ✄ MAKE STUFF is a series of skill-sharing & open access workshops to help you enhance your skills, encourage collaboration […]

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 […]

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

Zine Making Workshop with Salford Zine Library

HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, United Kingdom

Part of: Home Young Creatives/ Persepolis Zines are a flexible, exciting medium and a powerful method of communication, often raising awareness of topics outside of mainstream media. Following the screening of Persepolis, Ingrid Francis, curator at Salford Zine Library and Isobel Harrop, author and artist, will facilitate this practical zine making workshop inspired by the film’s themes. Participants will have […]

Grrrlizm Zine Launch

Common 39 to 41 Edge Street, Manchester

THE GRRRLIZM ZINE LAUNCH PARTY The party will be held in March in celebration of Women’s History Month and the 100th year of women receiving partial voting rights! You can purchase our zine as well as artwork by female creatives on the night. Profits from the Grrrlizm Zine will be donated to the Pankhurst Trust […]

Zine Club Manchester: Women’s History Month

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

Zine Club is back! For this edition we'll be making a communal zine for women's history month (more info TBA). 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 […]

Can You Hear Me Now? Zine Issue 2 Launch

The Castle Hotel 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

Can You Hear Me Now? Zine is a music zine that gives women a voice. After the massively successful and sold-out launch of our first zine, we are holding another event for our second issue, CHANGE, at the Castle Hotel Manchester on 24/3/17 from 4-10pm. It’s going to be an afternoon of live music, zine workshops, […]

£3

Northwest Zinefest 2018

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

After a year off, Northwest Zinefest is back! This time we're going to be at Partisan Collective, an independent, community led, DIY space on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester. It's going to be on Sunday May 6th, so get it pencilled in your diaries (or wherever you keep track of your appointments) now. We're planning […]

Pen Fight InHouse: Thomas Schmidinger – Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds

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

Join Partisan Collective X Pen Fight and Pluto Press for an evening lecture and discussion with Thomas Schmidinger, author of Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality. But while Western radicals continue to project their own values onto the revolution, the […]

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