Per-zine discussion event: Saturday 18th May

Welcome to Bradford Baked Zines, a temporary popup zine shop happening in one of Fabric Arts empty shop spaces, at 13 Market Street in Bradford City Centre between 13th and 18th May.

Programme: http://bradfordbakedzines.wordpress.com/events/

SATURDAY 18th May

2 – 3.30pm ‘It’s common, but we don’t talk about it’; personal writing, zines and autobiography

What makes a good per-zine? Why use a pen name? What happens when you share your darkest secrets in your zines? What subjects would we never write about?

In the grand tradition of per-zines we’ll be over sharing our experiences of writing about the personal in this informal, round table event. Including zine readings, discussion and a chance to ask your questions. You are welcome to bring along your own personal writing to read and share.

With Rachel Kaye, Catriona Simons and Em Ledger.

 

Rachel Kaye started an ill advised, long term love affair with zines when she was 14 and published Toast and Jam – collected stories of surviving eating disorders. Since then she has sporadically published Footsteps in the Dark, a per-zine (and now a blog) of whispered secrets, as well as contributing to various collective zines and live blogging for grown up arts conferences. She writes about gender, sex, class, politics, mental health and art. She is still making everything up as she goes along.

 

Catriona Simons is a Bradford based twenty something mum of three who makes, among other things, zines about life, love, guilt, parenting, food and knitting. She is a part time shopkeeper, sewing teacher and full time craft addict. In the past she has been part of the Claptrap and Loosely Bound zine collectives, and has helped to organize various craft and zine events. Her past titles include ‘letters to my teenage self’, ‘guilty’, ‘polaroids’ and ‘inky mess’ – a zine for children.

Em Ledger was one of the founding members of Lola and the Cartwheels a DIY queer/feminist collective based in Sheffield. She curated ‘The World’s A Mess and Yr My Only Cure’ zine and took Sister Spit on European tour. In 2011 she set up her own business, Get Busy; an independent women’s street wear store. Her latest zine project is Poor Lass edited in collaboration with Seleena Daye which publishes real talk about being working class. She writes about preciousness and feelings intertwined with adventures, friendships, music, tv and film, growing up and running her own business

‘Don’t mention the 47′ Film & Discussion @ Richmix, E1 – Sunday 12th May 7pm (Plus events & workshops ALL DAY)

From my inbox:

Anti-Austerity Festival on the 12th of May at the Richmix.

12.30 Radicals & Revolutionaries of the East End walk begins at Whitehapel Gallery ends at Richmix by 2.30pm £5/2

2.30-6.30 Unite Housing Workers & Unite Community Housing discussion and workshops on ‘Alternatives to the Housing Crisis & Fighting Evictions’ with european speakers and practical information sharing and plans. (Fuller details attached) Counihan Campaign will also be speaking who are again facing eviction on May 27th.

3-5.30 ScriptReadEast – New scripts responding to the 80′s Thatcher era £4 with live music from Sophie Burrows

The day ends with a screening of developing documentary ‘Don’t Mention the 47′  on the relevance of the Liverpool 47 who fought Thatchers cuts.

The film is being screened at a time of unprecedented cuts in a Tower Hamlets borough that also has a radical history opposing cuts, with the Poplar councilors who coined the slogan ‘Better to break the law than break the poor’ in the 1920’s and then used in Liverpool. There will be a discussion after the screening on the 12th of May chaired by Suzanne Muna (Unite Housing Workers) with a Liverpool 47 councillor,  Trade Unions & Socialist Coalition (invited), Filmmakers & also photographer Dave Sinclair about the 47 campaign & alternatives to austerity today. £7/4 BOOK TICKETS online or by phone 0207 613 7498

Look forward to seeing you there!

Arti

Festival Organiser

Supported By Richmix & Unite Housing Workers

http://dontmentionthe47.wordpress.com/

Twitter @dontmention47

(Photographs DAVE SINCLAIR – Month Long exhibtion of his work till 30th May)

DIY Cultures 2013: Zines, artists books fair – Sunday 7 April

Programme -
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Sunday 7th April, 12pm-7pm, Rich Mix

 

Address: 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road,, E1 6LA London,

 

DIY Cultures is a day long festival of zines, artists’ books, comics and distros. There will be a programme of films, animation and video art throughout the day as well as exhibitions, workshops and music. We’re celebrating all things independent, autonomous and alternative and everything is FREE to attend so check out what we’ve got lined up and find out how you can DIY!

Produced and curated by Sofia Niazi of OOMK & Hamja Ahsan & Helena Wee of Other Asias.
DIY Cultures is spread over two venues, the MAIN SPACE  (Ground floor) and VENUE 2  (4th floor)

 

TALKS + FILM

Where: MAIN SPACE, Ground Floor

1pm: We All Can Do It! Black Women in DIY Culture - 

Join Black Feminists in a discussion about how black women

have played a vital role in DIY cultures with Stephanie Phillips,

Aurella Yussuf and Rianna Parker.

#DIYBlackFems

2pm: DIY OR DIE: How to Survive as an Independent

Artist- “What is DIY?” opens this film
Film featuring Zinesters Lydia Lunch, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr. and other artists.

#DIYFilm

3pm: Unemployment & Creativity Panel Discussion
Sarah Tea-Rex (Graduating in Unemployment Zine),

Saban Kazim (Gissa a Job Zine), Robin Bale (Dole arts) talk about

unemployment and creativity. Janine Francois. Kieran (Diary of a Jobseeker)

#DIYDole

4.30pm: Prisoner Zines, Writing & Creavity Panel
Marek of (Not Shut Up Magazine), Nicki Jameson (Prisoner Fightback )

& Hamja of Free Talha Ahsan Campaign discuss prisoner

writing and creativity. Trenton Oldfield on UK prisons (TINAG)

#DIYPrison

6pm: DIY Artists Communities - Panel Discussion
Join Pippa Koszerek (Post-Artists / Independent Art School), Craftivist Collective

and from artists-run spaces Gareth Owen Lloyd(Foodface) & Esther Planas  (5 years).

#DIYArts

 

WORKSHOPS + MUSIC + MORE

 

Where: VENUE 2 (4th Floor)

 

Workshop Sign Up- Workshops are free but spaces are limited to 10 per workshop, please sign up at the DIY Cultures table on Ground Floor.

 

Exhibitions:

 

How to Make a Magazine- A guide by OOMK Zine

DIY Is…- Posters by various artists

Glue Paper Scissors- Animation and video work

Shape and Situate- Posters on Inspirational European Women collated by Melanie Maddison

 

1.30-2.30pm: Lunch Music from Extra Bones

Foxout! (violin and electronics) + more

 

2.30-3.30pm (table A): Workshop 1- Make a Collar with DIY Couture

2.30-3.30pm (table B): Workshop 2- Woahatrope drawing experiment with Extra Bones

 

3.30-4.00pm: Music from John Trouble

 

4.00-5.00pm: Workshop 3- Make a Collage with OOMK Zine (table A)

4.00-5.00pm: Workshop 4- Make a Patch with Hanecdote and Girls Get Busy                                    .                     

 

5.00-6.00pm: Workshop 5- Blindfold Drawing with Dimitr Pieri

 

6.00-7.00pm: Workshop 6- Needle Felting with Ceri May

 

ZINE FAIR

Where: MAIN SPACE (Ground floor) and VENUE 2 (4th Floor)

Decadence, Magpie Magazine, Kirsty Fife, Sky Nash, Gareth Brookes, Fliss and Jack, Joe Besford, Dancing Eye, Reena Makwana, Aspidistra Magazine, Lucy Porter, Peter Willis, SW Zines, Cinnamon Buns, Extra Bones, Elbow Room, Girls Get Busy, Crumb Cabin, 10×10, Feral University, Mia Julia Eley, John Trouble, Victoria Grantham, Hanecdote, Project Babe, Group Q, Cool Schmool Zines, Heather Bandenburg, Melon Shrub, Other Asias, Ben Rider, OOMK, Things in Panels, Walrus Zines, Florence Shaw, Ghostwood Press, Rachael Nilsson, Rianna Cox, Sarah Tea-Rex, DIY Couture, Hannah Prebble, Monster Emporium Press, Aloevera Studio, 20×20 Magazine, Avery Hill Publishing, Saban Kazim, Sister Ectoplasma Distro, Feminist Library, Vampire Sushi Distro, Strike! Magazine, Francesca Tuttolani, Peter Lally, Hannah Prebble, Misanthropynska, I am Hip Hop Magazine, Numb, Belly Kids, Mya Munnelly, Indestructible Energy, Craftivists.

 

Follow twitter :  https://twitter.com/DIYCulturesFair

Website : http://diycultures.tumblr.com/

suffragette event in london: Banners and Broad Arrows

From my inbox:

In 1832 the women of the United Kingdom were excluded from the Parliamentary franchise

After 71 years this injustice remained

In 1903 the Women’s Social and Political Union was formed

This is their story…

BANNERS AND BROAD ARROWS

‘FILM LAUNCH’

A lecture by writer/director Nigel Shephard, who will be presenting his work so far on the film Banners and Broad Arrows. He tells the story of the Suffragette Movement from its inception in 1903 to its demise at the outbreak of war in 1914, using original still photographs taken by the Suffragettes themselves. Please come along to demonstrate your support at this first fundraising event to take the film into full production

Many pictures only recently released from the Official Secrets Act

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Never previously published photographs smuggled from Holloway prison

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Meet the director and share in developing ideas for the film

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Rare opportunity to discover the history of the suffragettes through their own eyes

Book tickets: https://kingsheadtheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873491351/events

cfp: Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery: The Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’

Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery: The Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’

Events & News | March 14, 2013 by Lorna | 0 Comments and 0 Reactions

A partnership conference organised between University College London, University of York and the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) Hull

UCL, London September 13th and 14th 2013

Keynote Speakers: Catherine Hall (UCL), Madge Dresser (UWE)
Plus ‘Artists in conversation’ interview session chaired by Professor Alan Rice (UCLAN)
Welcome Address from Professor John Oldfield (WISE, University of Hull)

Call for Papers

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest around the history of the transatlantic slave trade fuelled largely by public, academic and institutional activities and projects undertaken for the national marking of 2007 as the Bicentenary of the Abolition Act in Britain. Alongside this there has been a greatly heightened academic and scholarly consideration of the way Britain has remembered this history through museum exhibitions, memorialisation and cultural representations in media, film and literature. Further large scale research initiatives have been set in motion to assess and explore the legacies of this history such as the ESRC funded Legacies of British Slavery Project at UCL and the recently initiated European-wide project combining genetics, archaeology and public history (EUROTAST). Numerous postgraduate and early career researchers across the country have also embarked upon individual projects of their own in a variety of disciplines across the humanities, including the organisers of this conference. Much of the research currently being done is turning away from the national picture and increasingly focusing on the smaller scale specifics of British involvement in transatlantic slavery, on the memory and legacies of individual people and places in their specific contexts and we are honoured to welcome some of the people pioneering these research strands from Catherine Hall’s work on nineteenth century biography, Alan Rice’s research into Lancaster’s memorial project, and Madge Dresser’s consideration of Bristol’s ‘obscured’ links to its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

This two day conference aims to facilitate a dialogue across institutions, disciplines and subject areas between people whose work addresses the smaller-scale specifics of Britain’s memory of slavery in more ‘local’ projects, looking at case studies of places, the lives and memory of individuals, networks and organisations across a broad span of time, from the 18th century to the present day. Through this intellectual exchange we aim to correlate the micro with the macro and probe the extent to which the literature on Britain’s national memory of slavery holds true for more nuanced case studies and specific research currently being carried out. The dialogue will thereby explore the interactions of ‘levels of memory’ in relation to this history whilst giving focus to individual and local agency and aiding a more complex understanding of the workings of memory in line with history.

Potential panel areas could cover though are by no means limited to:

People and memory: enslaved and free black people living in Britain, black and white abolitionists in Britain and their contexts; merchants and the legacies of individual and family wealth; politicians (pro and anti-slavery), historians and authors – writing slavery, artists and performers – contesting and creatively engaging with memory
Place and memory: towns and cities – the urban landscape of slavery memory; ports and the ‘maritimization’ of slavery; country houses and the elaborate display of excessive wealth; parks and gardens – open public spaces; local art exhibitions and artist interventions; walking tours and history trails
Organisations and Networks: public and private institutions (schools, banks, high culture) and remembered/forgotten connections; charitable organisations and people – the paradox of philanthropy; religious organisations and campaigning
Memory Work: local museums, galleries and the exhibition of memory; local memorials – creating tangible memory; heritage projects and the communal effort
Education: teaching slavery in schools, informal learning and adult education
Engaging with communities and conducting outreach: token gestures or meaningful encounters?
Reparations, social justice and apologies: where are we now?
The (contemporary) slavery question: the drive to highlight contemporary global human rights abuses –natural succession or diversion tactic?

Papers are invited from postgraduate students, early career researchers and established academics from any discipline including History, English, Museology, Archaeology, Heritage, Geography, Politics, Philosophy, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Film, Theatre and History of Art.

Please send abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers along with a 50 word biography to the organisers: Kate Donington, Jessica Moody and Ryan Hanley via email LBMSconference@gmail.com by May 31st 2013

Freedom Bookshop Firebombed

Freedom Press, in Whitechapel, London, was founded in 1886 by a group of friends and supports a lot of anarchist and social justice initiatives today- really sad news that it has been firebombed. More info here at The Guardian.

The bookshop is calling for donations and help, more info below. Please send money or books if you can, or drop by to give them a hand.

Via History Workshop Journal –

Support the Freedom Bookshop

Events & News | February 19, 2013 by Lorna |

London’s Freedom Bookshop has suffered a firebomb attack. It looks as though lots of books have been damaged. Their website gives an idea of what’s been going on, and while they undertake repairs and renovations downstairs after the firebomb attack, they have opened a substitute bookshop upstairs.

Our stock is somewhat reduced, but now features some interesting fire-damaged memorabilia. As so much of our stock was damaged, we would appreciate any book donations you can make. Please drop off books at the bookshop during our normal opening hours: Monday to Saturday 12 noon to 6pm, Sunday 12 noon to 4pm.

The Freedom collective have made the following suggestion for how comrades who can’t get to the actual bookshop can give financial support:

We are setting up a donation page. In the meanwhile, anyone who wants to donate can do so by ordering a book/s through the www.freedompress.org.uk website, and emailing us at shop@freedompress.org.uk to let us know that your purchase was a donation. Alternatively, [UK] cheques or postal orders made payable to Freedom Press can be sent to Freedom Press, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX.

Further info at: http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/
See also: http://libcom.org/news/freedom-bookshop-firebombed-01022013

Images above from the Freedom Press website

Stall bookings for DIY Cultures: Zines, Artists Books and Comics

From my inbox:

Hello zine makers

Stall bookings for DIY Cultures: Zines, Artists Books and Comics are now open.

DIY Cultures will be taking place on Sunday 7th April at the Rich Mix in East London. In addition to a zine fair, there will be talks and workshops throughout the day celebrating the spirit of DIY. Tables are a mere five pounds but spaces are limited.

Stall booking details are here: www.diycultures.tumblr.com

twita: @DIYCulturesFair

There will be a FREE communal table for people with one-off zines to sell. Bring your zines on the day!

Workshops: We aim to have a small selection of workshops exploring zines and other world views plus a small program of practical zine-based workshop. If you’d like to run a workshop, talk or other activity, please email us with your idea.

We’re aiming to get all the stalls booked by end of Feb so spread the word!

Thank you

OOMK Zine and Other Asias

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www.diycultures.tumblr.com

@DIYCulturesFair