We work with creatives across disciplines to make good stuff happen - whether that’s raising awareness, raising money, creating a zine together, hosting an event or workshop, curating talks or exhibitions and any other way we can highlight feminist zine-makers and get more people celebrating and making zines.
collaboration over competition
collaboration over competition
Grrrl Zine Fair is artist-led, with social activism at its heart. Zines are a way to carve out space for communities who feel voiceless and are often not reflected in mainstream culture.
Since 2019, we’ve been taking on public art commissions to develop work with communities and produce publications. Recent work includes developing a new publication ‘Right Here & Tomorrow’ alongside workshops and public consultation with Offset Projects, launching early 2023.
We also developed the ‘Manifesto for Essex’ - from workshops, artist collaborations and writing submissions - which was duplicated and distributed across Essex, resulting in Essex’s first youth Climate Conference.
Due to our live and online zine fairs, and the Grrrl Zine Library, we have a vast network of zine makers and love creating opportunities to get more artists paid and their work recognised.
Recent collaborations have included:
TOMS vegan shoe customisation
An Everpress campaign for International Women’s Day where we invited six zine makers to design their own t-shirts, with each raising funds for a separate charity
An online workshop during the pandemic with Beavertown Brewery.
Workshops with Facebook Analogue lab for staff, encouraging offline making and mental wellbeing
Zine library pop-ups at the British Film Institute and V&A Museum
An exhibition and talks with Times Art Museum, Beijing, showcasing feminist self-publishing from the UK
A takeover of Soho Radio with Jagermeister, where Nova Twins played a live session and we launched Issue 2 of Grrrl In Print
An evening of poetry readings and a talk on zine history alongside a zine workshop with Selina Hotel in Camden
An Instagram live takeover of Urban Outfitters, hosting a zine workshop alongside three blog posts for Urban Outfitters of work we’ve published recently in Grrrl In Print, including how to start your own record label.
Community and collaboration over competition always!
