The second Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention will look at how the virtual world is allowing networks of zine makers to share publications, news and experiences all over the world.
Talks
'Making a noise: An express ride through the world of punk and riot grrrl fanzines and the UK feminist underground, 1977-2012': Cazz Blase
Cazz Blase wrote the fanzine
Aggamengmong Moggie between 1993-1999,
Real Girls in 2001 and
Harlot's Progress between 2002 - 2006. Along with Holly Combe, she is one of two music review editors at
The F-Word website, for which she has written extensively about both women and the UK punk scene and the UK riot grrrl scene. She was a contributing author to the book
Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! (Black Dog Publishing, 2007). Cazz is from Stockport and blogs about Manchester and Greater Manchester at
http://toolateforcake.wordpress.com. She works as a library assistant at Manchester University.
'Pam Ponders Paul Morley's Cat: The Wired and Wonderful World of City Fun': David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson is a writer, musician, public librarian and PhD student working on the politics of British post-punk.
City Fun was a Mancunian countercultural publication founded by Andy Zero in 1978. After Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll joined the editorial team, it became the city's dominant post-punk paper until it folded in 1984.
Rotherham Zine Library will talk about zine libraries (growing physical and online archives of self-published material comprising printed matter of different genres sent in by self-publishers all over the world).
Film
Watch
Salford Zine Library's 2011 film
Self Publishers of the World Take-over, which features self-publishers from all over the world talking about their work.
Tours
Visitors will be able to take tours of the building.
Workshops
Take part in workshops to make your own zine or contribute to a collective effort that will compile material into a collaborative Victoria Baths Fanzine.
Co-operative printing
2012 is the United Nations' first International Year of Co-operatives. Leeds-based Footprint Workers' Co-operative are bringing along a Risograph and will discuss how to prepare material for print on a Risograph — learn about page imposition, limits on paper size and margins, two colour work and picture quality for the Risograph digital duplicator with a quick guide to communicating with printers.
Co-operative working and living is creative, empowering and potentially radically anti-capitalist.
Find out:
What are co-ops and why should you be in one? Including workers' co-ops, housing co-ops, community co-ops, collective power and common ownership.
'Alice in apps land: explore your smart phone and your environment', presented by Visual Think Map in collaboration with Shift Space.
During this workshop you will discover the local landscape through digital stories and learn more about apps and the functionality of how your phone can enliven the world around you. Through an interactive and engaging tour of the area near Victoria Baths you will discover and digitally collate, using your phone, a variety of people's memories and your own as we introduce you to new apps and narratives, including old photos and memorabilia of the area. We'll finish by making an interactive map where everyone can share what they've made and then print a map.
'Vapid for a Day'
Feminist duo Vapid Kitten invite visitors to contribute creatively to a special edition of the fanzine Vapid Kitten (published both in print and for Kindle) which will be compiled throughout the day of the fanzine convention using an array of materials. At the end of the day, Vapid Kitten will have a new zine which will be emailed to everyone who took part.
Caravan
Nottingham's Caribou, a zine shop in a vintage caravan, will be setting up shop outside the building.
Food
Norwich-based Deerly Beloved Bakery will be celebrating its first birthday at the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention, returning with good food that is cruelty free including vegan cakes, whoopie pies, brownies and savoury pies and pizza slices. Deerly Beloved Bakery specialises in vegan cakes, pastries, biscuits, cupcakes, muffins, breads, salads, starters, mains and desserts. It does not use any animal products. All cakes and bakes are made by hand in small batches using real bourbon vanilla, unrefined non-bone char sugars and margarines free from hydrogenated fats. No artificial preservatives or flavourings are used.
Exhibition
Posters of Inspirational European Women: Taken from the zine 'Shape & Situate'
Leeds-based illustrator and fanzine-maker Melanie Maddison will display a series of posters of inspirational European women around the balcony of the female pool, from her zine entitled 'Shape & Situate. The posters highlight the (often hidden) history and lives of radical, inspirational women and women's collectives from Europe, connecting us with the past, inspiring us in the present and visually bringing women’s social and political history to life and into view.
Stalls
Stalls at the Convention will cost £10. Fanzine-makers (individuals and groups), cartoonists and comic book makers, self-publishing and printing collectives, artists' book makers, independent magazines and representatives from book arts and illustration degree courses are invited to have a stall. To register your interest fill in this short form: www.formstack.com/forms/?1147834-b2nNCHBcVB
If you would be interested in volunteering to help out on the day, please email Natalie.Rose.Bradbury@googlemail.com
For more information, including news and interviews, visit http://www.theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/p/victoria-baths-fanzine-convention-2012.html.
