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DIY 2018

After 5 years of DIY Cultures we’re taking a break in 2018. We would like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who has supported, contributed and attended the fair, DIY Cultures has grown to be bigger than any of us expected and is the result of the efforts, encouragement and support of so many people. There will be no festival this spring but we would like to continue the dialogue through creating an online resource mapping the people, projects and campaigns involved over the past 5 editions. If you have been involved in the fair and would like to be included in the online resource please complete the form below.

DIY Resource Form- https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSfokbPafhCBOz1Sw…/viewform…

We love talking about the project and sharing our experiences so please get in contact for any speaking/collaborating opportunities at [email protected].

Many thanks Helena Wee, Sofia Niazi, Hamja Ahsan

Where are they now? Helena is exploring the use of computational arts methodologies in her current practice. She recently undertook a research trip to Transmediale festival in Berlin. Hamja is touring his book Shy Radicals and investigating the role of zines in the Hillsborough Justice campaign. Sofia is working as an artist alongside editing OOMK and co-running Rabbits Road Press.

Photos from DIY Knowledge, the show is up until 2nd June at Rich Mix Cafe Gallery. Open daily, 10am-11pm

35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA

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DIY Knowledge, the official DIY Cultures curated exhibition, opens today at Rich Mix Cafe Gallery. The multimedia group exhibition explores DIY Cultures’ ongoing concerns with self-education, news beneath the mainstream and imparting knowledge from margins. The exhibition features short film, comics, infographics, digital art and zine archival collections. Featuring: Leila Abdelrazaq Gemma Anderson Sang Mun Keep It Complex - make it Clear Antiuniversity ZineFutures East Africa Temporary Services Turn Your PHD into a zine (Performed by Nina Power) Other Asias (toybox lexicon)

Archive collection: Liverpool & Hillsborough Solidarity zine collection (1981-2017) (Zines: What’s the Score?/ The End/ Red All Over the Land/ When Saturday Comes/ When Sunday Comes/ Through the Wind and Rain / Boss with help from Kevin Sampson & Sheila Coleman) New Film Commission: Hillsborough & the Zines Directed by Ali Russell & Hamja Ahsan Edited and shot by Ali Russell Information about the Artists & Collectives: Liverpool & Hillsborough Solidarity zine collection (1981-2017) is an ongoing project looking at zines under Thatcher's Britain. How Zines showed the truth about Hillsborough decades before the MSM and law courts. How Zine helped foster solidarity. Zine humour helped survive the trauma and subverted demonisation of Liverpool city. Zine as working-class Scouse identity. Ali Russell is a filmmaker and activist based in UK of Iranian & Scottish heritage, directed in collaboration with Hamja Ahsan. - Leila is a Chicago-born, Palestinian author and artist. Her debut graphic novel, Baddawi (Just World Books 2015) was shortlisted for the 2015 Palestine Book Awards. Her creative work primarily explores issues related to diaspora, refugees, history, memory, and borders. Leila has been involved in organizing around the Palestinian cause and the city of Chicago since 2011. She is currently a core member of For The People Artist's Collective. She is also the founder of Bigmouth Press & Comix. - Gemma Anderson studied Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art and Falmouth University. She has collaborated on a number of innovative art/science projects including the ‘Cornwall Morphology and Drawing Centre’. She completed a practice based PhD in 2015 and is currently a research fellow at the University of Exeter and associate Lecturer in Drawing at Falmouth University. Her new book Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science will be launched September 2017. http://www.gemma-anderson.co.uk/ - Sang Mun was a former contractor with the US National Security Agency (NSA) for whom domestic surveillance issues hit especially close to home. He gathered SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) for national security defence purposes, but never for surveillance of American citizens. After leaving his contract things changed. As a designer Sang became dedicated to researching ways to “articulate our unfreedom” evolving his thoughts about censorship, surveillance, and a free society. http://www.sang-mun.com/ - Keep It Complex - Make It Clear is a loose group of women artists, designers and art administrators. It formed out of the Britain Is Not An Island campaign during the EU referendum. Our aim is to bring together cultural workers who take a stand against white dick politics, from Brexit to Bannon. In January, Keep It Complex organised an activation weekend and for July we are planning a summer school about political education. Follow us @GBisNoIsland http://makeitclear.eu/ - Bookstop Sanaa Art Library & Creative Learning Space (BSS) is an independently run organisation based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The space was founded in 2013 to activate greater curiosity in the theory and practice of the visual arts. To this effect, BSS regularly programmes reading groups, forums, exhibitions and workshops around a variety of themes with particular emphasis on Africa and the Black Diaspora - Temporary Services is Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer. We started working together in Chicago in 1998 as a larger group. In 2008, we started Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and online store. We are currently based in Chicago and Auburn (IN). We produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. The distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors is irrelevant to us. - Nina Power is a philosopher and activist associated with Defend the Right to Protest. Author of One Dimensional Woman. Turn Your PHD collective was conceived by Hamja Ahsan in a facebook status. - Other Asias is an open collective, initally based in Lahore, Pakistan, Dhaka, Bangladesh and London, UK. operating somewhere between a production company, art movement and creative think-tank. A full list of critical lexicon neologism can be found here: http://otherasias.webnode.com/toy-box/ For further information & media interviews - email us: [email protected] Twitter: @diycultures / WhatsApp & mobile: 07885895421 Exhibition supported by Arts Council England and Tower Hamlets Council.

CHICAGO: DIY Cultures Twin City

The first ever DIY Cultures Twin City will be Chicago! DIY Cultures co-organisers OOMK Zine are going to America for an Arts and Social Practice Fellowship and they'll be collecting zines throughout their trip for a dedicated zine stall at the fair.

We'll also be featuring Chicago based artists in the four-week DIY Knowledge exhibition.

OOMK will be collecting zines at two events in Chicago during their visit, just bring them along!

Zinester Meet-up: 9th April hosted by Leila Abdul Razzaq and Sheika Lugtu.

Sunday, April 9 at 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Chicago Publishers Resource Center (CHIPRC) 858 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60620

On 13th April OOMK will be hosting a panel discussion with the Uni of Chicago at the Gray Center. Self-Publishing for Activism will explore how self-publishing can be used as a tool to address, challenge and fight against social injustice. The event will feature a brief presentation about OOMK, Rabbits Road Press and DIY Cultures and will be followed by a panel talk with Leila Abdul Razzaq, Sheika Lugtu, Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) and OOMK, it will be chaired by Tempestt Hazel (curator, writer, and director of Sixty Inches From Center).

Thursday 13 April 6pm Gray Center Listing: https://arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center/logan-center-exhibitions/upcoming/arts-social-practice-fellowship-oomk Facebook event

They’ll be blogging on instagram- @oomkzine

There are LOTS of ways to be part of DIY Cultures 2017. Every year the festival brings together a range of artists, activists and publishers to explore various themes relating to arts and social justice. From having a zine stall to submitting existing GIFs and films, to being comisisoned to produce new artwork, there are many ways to be involved in this year’s festival and lots of opportunities to share work and make new connections. See below for details about all the opportunities for this year’s festival.

—STALL APPLICATIONS—

Call for zines, artists’ books, illustration, comics and distros.

The zine fair at DIY Cultures is spread across four venues in the Rich Mix and hosts over 90 exhibitors ranging from artists, illustrators, comic book makers, activists and small-press publishers.

Table space is £11 for half a 6ft trestle table. There will be a FREE communal table for people with one-off zines to sell. No need to apply for table space, just bring your zines to the DIY desk on the day! We also welcome applications from people based outside of London and internationally.

Stall Application Form Deadline: Friday 24th February 2017

—WORKSHOPS—

We are looking to commission six workshops exploring different aspects of DIY culture including one zine-based workshops.

Workshops in previous years have included: rethinking mental health through hip-hop, make your own beauty products, DIY couture, preventing prevent, experimental drawing, make a video game. If you are interested in delivering a workshop please fill in a workshop proposal form.

Artist Fee (45 minute workshop): £100

Workshop Proposal Form Deadline: Sunday 5th March 2017

—FILM and GIFs—

Call for existing films (including animations) and GIFs to screen at DIY Cultures.

Themes we’re interested in this year are post-truth knowledge, Trump, Brexit, justice, activism, mental health, shyness, introverts, unemployment, and technology art but other themes may also be submitted. There will be a separate dedicated installation for GIFs.

Email submissions with subject “FILM, ANIMATION and GIFs” to [email protected] with your name, website or bio and links to your videos on youtube/vimeo or GIF file.

Deadline: Sunday 5th March 2017

PUBLICATIONS: DIY KNOWLEDGE

Call for publications and zines exploring the theme DIY Knowledge.

As part of DIY Knowledge, a four-week multi-media group exhibition in the Cafe Gallery at Rich Mix, there will be a library of publications exploring self-education, news beneath the mainstream and imparting knowledge from margins. The library will be made up of collected and submitted zines with the aim of exhibiting a broad range of publications both in terms of content, publishers and geography.

To submit your zine/publication email [email protected] with the subject "DIY KNOWLEDGE SUBMISSION" include your name, website (or bio), image of publication/zine and brief description stating how the publication relates to the theme ‘DIY Knowledge’.

To recomend a zine/publication please email [email protected] with the subject “DIY KNOWLEDGE SUBMISSION” with a weblink to the publication.

Deadline: Sunday 20th March 2017

ARTIST COMMISSION: COMMUNAL TABLE/STRUCTURE

Call for an artist, designer or carpenter to build or assemble a communal table/structure.

Every year there are more applications for table space than there are stalls, to ensure that everyone can share and sell their work at DIY Cultures a communal table is available for people to leave their work to be sold on thier behalf.

Would you like to build or assemble the communal table? It needs to be able to hold at least 50 publications, be assembled or built on site, easy to set up and take down and be practical for selling publications (space for 2 people to stand and sell work and ensure no one walks off with publications).

Artist Fee: £500 (+£150 for materials)

To apply email a brief proposal or sketch along with an example of previous work to [email protected] with the subject ‘COMMUNAL TABLE'

Deadline: Sunday 20 March 2017Deadline: Sunday 20th March 2017

ARTIST COMMISSION: INTERACTIVE ART

Call for interactive/digital art.

We’re inviting artists to propose an interactive/technology artwork for DIY Cultures 2017. We welcome responses in a variety of media including sculpture, digital art, video games, VR, film and video or other new media.

Themes we’re interested in this year are justice, activism, Trump, mental health, decoloniality, introverts, unemployment but other themes may also be submitted.

Artist Fee: £500

To apply, email a brief proposal with subject “INTERACTIVE ART” to [email protected] with your name, website or bio, proposal and links to your artwork, videos on youtube/vimeo.

Deadline: Sunday 20th March 2017

DIY Cultures is curated by OOMK Zine and Other Asias and supported by Arts Council England. For queries please contact [email protected].

DIY Cultures returns to Rich Mix (London) on Sunday 14 May 2017!

CALL FOR ZINES, ARTISTS' BOOKS, ILLUSTRATION, COMICS AND DISTROS.

Stall Application Form- http://diycultures.tumblr.com/apply

The zine fair at DIY Cultures is spread across four venues in the Rich Mix and hosts over 90 exhibitors ranging from artists, illustrators, comic book makers, activists and small-press publishers.

Deadline: Friday 24th February 2017

fb event- https://www.facebook.com/events/259081314527166/

25th May - 4th June 10am - 11pm Lower Cafe Gallery

https://www.facebook.com/events/1122363277796492/?active_tab=posts

IN A NUTSHELL Radical Libraries explores archives and collections highlighting struggles for reclaiming public space, illuminating the fight against the ongoing closure of public libraries, prison libraries and access to education. GO ON... Radical Libraries explores intersections of archives, collections and activism with an emphasis on contemporary struggles for reclaiming public space. The exhibition space doubles as a reading room and community hub. The collections and manifestos hope to illuminate our current predicament with the ongoing closure of public libraries, prison libraries and access to education, and show ways we can fight back. WHO'S INVOLVED Part of the 2016 edition of DIY Cultures at Rich Mix. Featuring: OOMK, Sorryyoufeeluncomfortable, Feminist Library, Arteries, New Beacon Books, Defend the Ten Libraries (Occupy Carnegie Library), Zunar, Chloe Spicer (Object Book) and Temporary Services.

Curated by Hamja Ahsan & Helena Wee of Other Asias, and Sofia Niazi of OOMK Zine. Assisstant Curator: Heiba Lamara FIND OUT MORE Website: www.diycultures.tumblr.com Facebook: /DIYCultures Twitter: @diyculturesfair

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RELATED Talk on 29th May 1pm Main stage Rich Mix Radical Libraries convened by Decolonising Our Minds as part of DIY Cultures Day festival Free - all welcome

Final Call: DIY RISO

Deadline: 6/5/16 (this Friday)

DIY RISO is a one day exhibition at DIY Cultures 2016, Rich Mix, curated by Rose Nordin and Divya Osbon. The exhibition aims to highlight artists who produce artwork specifically for risograph printing and the large variety of publications and zines that are produced as a result.

There are TWO call outs

1. Existing zines Theme: any Submission format: Physical printed zine to be posted. E-mail an image of the zine to [email protected] with the title 'riso zine submission', she will send you a postal address to send the zine to. Deadline: 6th May

2. New A3 Posters Theme: Libraries and collections Submission format: Black and white files, JPG (A3- 297mm x 420mm), 1 file for each layer (max 2 files in total), to be printed by Divya and Rose in two colours, teal and orange, please specify which file is which colour. E-mail image files to [email protected]. Deadline: 6th May

All zines can be collected after DIY Cultures at 7pm or donated to the Radical Libraries exhibition which will run for 3 weeks at Rich Mix. Two copies of each new poster will be printed, one for our archive and one for the artist, which can be collected at DIY RISO exhibition on the day.

CALLOUT FOR ARTWORKS FOR DIY CULTURES 2016 & RADICAL LIBRARIES

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DAY FESTIVAL COMMISSIONS

DIY Cultures 2016 returns 29th May to Rich Mix. We are commissioning 3 new artworks for the day festival: - Communal Table Sculpture - a sculpture which can also be used as a communal table for zines - Technology/Interactive media artwork - can be sculptural/digital/film based media - Film/Animation artwork - no longer than 15 minutes running time. These are PAID commissions which will be shown at Rich Mix during the day festival. For the sculpture commission there will be additional funds available for materials on top of the commissioning fee. Send an email titled "Day Festival Commissions" to [email protected] with a proposal outlining the following details: - Commission you are applying for - Title of work - Description of proposed artwork - Approximate size of artwork (resolution and running time etc if film/animation) - Links to previous artworks - Biography of artist

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RADICAL LIBRARIES

There will also be a DIY Cultures exhibition titled Radical Libraries. We are inviting artists to submit zines, artists' books, and other artworks for Radical Libraries. Themes for the exhibition will include activism, contemporary struggles for reclaiming public space such as local libraries, prison libraries, access to education, collections and manifestos. Send your proposals in an email titled "Radical Libraries" to [email protected] DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: 5pm Friday 8th April

DIY Cultures Zine Fair Exhibitors 2016

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OOMK, Other Asias, Achey Breaky Heart, Aether Magazine, Aleesha Nandhra, Alicia Rodriguez, Asyikin Azrin, Avery Hill Publishing, Black & BLUE, Black Lodge Press, Brigid Deacon, Centrala UK, Charlotte Cooper, Cherry Styles, Chloe Spicer, CouNNter, Cuntry Living, David Kerr, Dead Trees & Dye, Decadence comics, Decolonising our Minds (SOAS), Diaspora Drama Zine, Dirty Rotten Comics, EIiza Agar, ESSY, Esther McManus, Evangelos Androutsopoulos, Feminist Library, FemmeCatz, Gal-dem, Gareth Brookes, George Douglas Davies, Good Comics, Hannah Prebble, Hayley Fiddler, Hidden Eggs, Housmans, Hysteria, Interactive Monster Unit, Jacob V Joyce, Jacq Applebee, Jamie Malcolm + Friends, Julia Bear and Jacob Louis Beaney, Kate Rolison, Katriona Chapman, Kellie Huskisson, Kim Clements, Kingston Illustration and Animation, Lisa Busby, Look Here (Camberwell Illustration), Luke Stuart, Lydia Haworth, MA art and science course, MA Book Arts students from UAL, Marco Brunello, Maria Cecilie Midttun, Mark Pawson, Mashallah News, Mike Medaglia, Momo Works, Monster Emporium Press, Motherlands, Odd One Out, Orlando, PAPER AND INK, Pen Fight, Philippe Fenner, Polyester, Roadfemme, Rough Grazing, Royal Holloway Poetic Practice MA, Rudy Loewe, Silhouette Press, Silhouette Press, SISTER ECTOPLASMA , snubs querstret, Snöar, Soofiya, Sophie Elliott, Stephen Glove, Steve Larder, Teresa Ferreiro, Thunderbolts Comics UK, Tiny Pencil/One Pound Poems/AMber Hsu, Typical Girls, Vampire Sishi Distro, Wallis Eates, Yu Ting Su and Shoko Kimura, Yvoni Lada

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Call for Workshop: DIY Cultures is looking for artists to deliver workshops exploring different aspects of DIY culture at this year’s festival on the 29th of May at Rich Mix. Artists fees will be provided. Send proposals for 45 min workshops to [email protected] with the following details:

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- Who are you, what do you do, where are you based? - Workshop title and general content? - What would workshop participants do? - Special requirements, or additional comments? - Website link (if you have one).

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DEADLINE 13 March 2016

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DIY Cultures 2016 updates ---> fb event and website.

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Call for Zines, Artists books, Illustrations, Comics, Distros, Film and Animation for DIY Cultures 2016 at Rich Mix, London

Tables are £9 but spaces are limited. To book a stall email [email protected] with the following info:

- Who are you, what do you do, where are you based? - What kind of zines will be at your table? - Price range? Up for swaps? - Website link (if you have one).

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 few workshops exploring different aspects of DIY culture plus some zine-based workshops. If you are interested in hosting a workshop please e-mail [email protected] with the following details:

Film, animation and gifs: We're looking for films, animation and gifs to screen at DIY Cultures. Themes we're interested in this year are justice, activism, radical libraries, mental health, remembrance, unemployment, education, and technology but other theme may also be submitted. Email [email protected] with your name, website or bio and links to your videos on youtube or vimeo.

DEADLINE for workshops/film/animation/gifs 13th March

OOMK and Other Asias

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Photography by Saira Niazi

DIY Cultures 2015. Pictures from the zine fair and the DIY Justice talk, with Chardine Taylor, Nina Power, Ru of Transition Heathrow, Hamja Ahsan, Lena Mohamed and Hudda Khaireh.

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Photography by Saira Niazi

DIY Justice 24 May- 12 June Rich Mix London (Cafe Gallery) 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA London

This year's DIY Cultures festival extends out into an exhibition DIY Justice - exploring intersections of activism, craft and lo-fi art production with an emphasis on contemporary struggles for justice. The exhibition space doubles as a reading room and community hub. The artworks and exhibits hope to illuminate our current predicament with the ongoing War on Terror, prisons crisis and curtailment of civil liberties, and show ways we can fight back. . See Red Women's Workshop, Transition Heathrow(Grow Heathrow), UK Uncut, Deep Lab , Craftivist Collective, Occupy Design UK posters, Sofia Niazi (War on Terror GIFs), Nina Power (badge collection), Strike! magazine . Zines from OOMK Zine Visions of the Future Reading Room project:http://www.oomkreadingroom.tumblr.com/ . For more information contact [email protected] Twitter: @DIYCulturesFair Hashtag: #DIYJustice

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