Manchester Print Fair #8

This coming Saturday (the 25th) sees the next Manchester Print Fair. This time it's in the People's History Museum and there'll be 40 stalls selling zines, as well as prints and various other dead nice things. Well worth a look. Plus, the People's History Museum is great so you can kill two birds with one stone and have a look around the exhibitions while you're there.

There's a list of stallholders on the Manchester Print Fair Facebook page and there'll also be a variety of print demonstrations by GF Smith.

https://www.facebook.com/events/676521535772712/

The Chapess Zine #5 Launch

We're dead excited to be hosting the launch for the new issue of the Chapess Zine!

Issue 5 features poetry, prose, illustration + photography by Jessie Askinazi, Sara Sutterlin, Suxy X, Inma Lorente, Lauren Cook, Ele-Beth Little, Gabby Guiliano, Cheyenne Sophia and more! Zines will be available on the day to buy and swap as well as info on how to get involved with our next issue.

Drop in for zine making with Cherry Styles in 'the nook' at Nexus Art Cafe from 12pm-5pm and pay a visit to the Zine Library while you're here! Materials provided, but feel free to bring along anything you want to use. Suitable for beginners and zine pros alike - bring your friends!

Find out more about the zine at thechapess.tumblr.com or tweet us @thechapesszine. There's a Facebook event page HERE for you to share with all your friends.

Salford Zine Library On Tour in Darlington!

We are extremely excited to announce that the library will be heading out on the road this weekend to show off the collection in Darlington, thanks to the super cool Navigator North. We'll be exhibiting in an empty shop on High Row in the town centre this coming weekend and there's going to be a free zine making workshop throughout Saturday. Come along! We'll be working with the locals to put together a zine and then you'll be able to pick up a copy on the Sunday.

The exhibition will stick around for a bit and you'll be able to get in and have a look the weekend after too, and there'll be some kind of activities happening for you to enjoy.

As a result, the zine library at Nexus will be slightly emptier than usual for the next couple of weeks. We're not taking all of the zines with us, but if you're planning a visit you might want to wait until everything's back to normal. Keep an eye on our Twitter to find out when we've got everything back in!

Yorkshire Zine Weekend

Exciting zines news, everyone! The Yorkshire Zine Weekender is only a week and a bit away and, while all the stalls have been snapped up, we can guarantee that they'll both be well worth visiting. Two zine fairs in two days! Here's the lovely flippable poster for each event:

Sheffield Zine Fest - 15th March, Electric Works

Tell them and everyone you know that you're going on Facebook. 

Sadly we won't be at the Sheffield leg of the Yorkshire Zine Weekender, but I think that the Salford Zine Library film that Craig made in 2011 will be getting an airing at some point during the day. So go and check that out!

Leeds Zine Fair - 16th March, Wharf Chambers

We'll be at this, although we'll be selling copies of our zine rather than exhibiting the zine library this time. Come and say hi, though! And we'll gladly take any donations for the library that you might have too.

Tell all your friends about the weekender, it's sure to be brilliant. I've just been looking at the list of people who have stalls over the weekend and salivating. I am definitely going to be coming home with a massive bundle of zines. See you there!

Classification Party

It has been scientifically proven that adding the word 'party' to anything automatically makes it sound more fun. So here we are attempting to make sorting things into a vaguely logical order sound exciting. On January 18th we have hired the little room at Nexus Art Cafe and we'd like people to come and help us organise the collection into a handful of very broad categories. We think this will help people to browse the shelves a little bit easier.

All the information is available on the Facebook event page. Please feel free to share the event with your pals! You don't have to commit or anything, you can just pop in for a few minutes if you happen to be in the area. There's sure to be some nice people to talk to about zines and whatever else you like talking about. And you can have a cup of tea and a slice of cake while you're at it. Check out the super cool poster below, as designed by the extremely talented Stef Bradley of Today Zine fame.

Whether you can come or not, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support since we took over the library in the summer. Hopefully 2014 will bring lots of exciting new developments for the library! Happy New Year!