Roll up! Roll up! Come one, come all to the 2011 Alternative Press Fair. This magnificent celebration of comics, zines, and all manner of underground publications has gone from strength to strength in recent years. The Fair is now a proper five-day event with a selection of different parties and get-togethers offering aspiring artists and writers, and fans like ourselves, a chance to admire the best (and worst) creations of the underground scene. You can also learn about the best ways to go about publishing your work independently. Plus, every event features booze and some of them are downright raucous.
If you're interested in comics, zines, radical press or any kind of underground press, this is the event of the year. Why not read an interview with the founders of the Alternative Press Fair? And make a diary date for the last weekend in July. See you there – we'll be trying, and failing, not to spend all our money on obscure comics.
Festival Opening Party
Friday 27th May
Performance by Resonance Radio Orchestra; an ensemble of musicians and actors from Resonance 104.4FM, London's independent arts radio station. Collaborating with live illustration by artists from home and overseas.
Alternative Press Fair
Saturday 28th May
A fair where artists will be exhibiting and selling their self-published comix, zines, art books, prints, radical literature and poetry, plus three rooms of workshops and talks including Andy Simons from the British Library, screen-printing workshops and a reading area with Zine Swap.
Stripburger: a taste of the premier Slovene Comics Zine
Saturday 28th May - 13th June 2011
Exhibition at Orbital Comics London with Artists Workshops and talks during the exhibition TBA.
Exhibition
Monday 30th May - Sunday 5th June
Exhibition including a film night, storytelling, poetry and zine sleep- over! With a live printing event at the end of the week. Artists TBC
Exhibition at the Sassoon Gallery
30th May - 5th June
Exhibition at The Sassoon Gallery. Exhibition TBC
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