Pussy Riot Fundraiser - Sunday 22nd

TOMORROW!

Not So Popular, Girls Get Busy and Storm in a Teacup are teaming up to raise money and awareness for the Free Pussy Riot campaign: http://freepussyriot.org/

CONFIRMED ACTS: VIV ALBERTINE (THE SLITS), ZOETROPE, FEMALE BAND, NEW NOVETA, WARS, YOUTH, HONEYSLIDE, SKINNY GIRL DIET, UMEZ, KEEBO

VIV ALBERTINE (THE SLITS) || http://www.vivalbertine.com/
ZOETROPE || https://www.facebook.com/Zoetropeband
SKINNY GIRL DIET || http://soundcloud.com/skinngirldietband
NEW NOVETA || http://soundcloud.com/new-noveta
FEMALE BAND || http://www.facebook.com/imfemaleband
HONEYSLIDE || http://honeyslide.co.uk/
UMEZ || http://umez.bandcamp.com/
KEEBO || http://www.myspace.com/keebo
WARS || http://soundcloud.com/warsband
YOUTH || http://youtu.be/KjJL0ltGEC8
GOODBYE LEOPOLD || http://www.facebook.com/pages/Goodbye-Leopold/127421070678171

Start: 2.00pm
2.30pm -4.30pm || Workshops
2.30pm -11.00pm || Bands / DJs / Speakers

CONFIRMED STALLS: THE FEMINIST LIBRARY, FINANCIALLY HARD TIMES ZINE, GIRLS GET BUSY ZINE, SHE BANG ZINE

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON-ANDREWS (WEARS THE TROUSERS MAGAZINE), EAST LONDON FAWCETT GROUP, , SISTERS OF MIRTHY, CATHERINE BROGAN (POET) || http://catherinebrogan.com/

CONFIRMED CRAFTS: TAMSIN OMOND'S BALACLAVA MAKING WORKSHOP, SHOREDITCH SISTERS "PUSSY PATCHING" WORKSHOP

CONFIRMED ARTISTS: FOR OUR FREEDOM YEARS

DJS: THROWING UP, JOSH HALL, GGB, NOT SO POPULAR, AYA MAG, CHARLEIGH BLUE (CANT YOU WANT TO), SISTERS OF MIRTHY, VERITY SUSMAN (ELECTRELANE)

£5.00 DONATION (ALL money donated to PUSSY RIOT)

We will have zine stalls, yard sale, bands, DJs and guest speakers all committed to spreading the word and raising money to free Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samusevich.

The 22nd is sandwiched between the ACTION DAY (21st) and the RUSSIAN EMBASSY MARCH (23rd) so come down and help and have fun...

Pussy Riot blog: http://pussy-riot.livejournal.com/
Protest event: https://www.facebook.com/events/337054436346614/?ref=ts

http://notsopopular.com/

http://joinourteaparty.org/
http://girlsgetbusyzine.tumblr.com/

Sara Marcus Book Reading!

We can't even begin to explain just HOW incredible this will be!

One of the most inspiring and eloquent documentations of the Riot Grrrl movement, 'Girls To The Front' should be a staple of every girl's bookshelf.

More info at Storm In A Teacup.

South East London Zine Fest!

Sadly it's yet another fun fest we can't make thanks to work commitments (booo!) but this is set to be awesome.

I Can Do Anything Good!

Shebang in Girl Gang Zine!

Girl Gang Zine #2 has arrived! And what a fine papery read she is. I have no idea how Maren and Kristina managed to get SO many well known women involved - the contents page reads like the best party ever: Grass Widow, Brilliant Colors, Super Wild Horses, Cassie from Vivian Girls, Electrelane, Marnie Stern, Tavi Gevinson (Style Rookie/ Rookie Mag), Karin from Fever Ray/The Knife, Kate Nash, Zola Jesus & others, all openly chatting about their music, art, feminism, love, life and all the rest of it, in an incredibly candid manner. For Shebang to be featured in the same issue as these ladies is quite mindblowing & a total honour.

The zine is as lovely as you'd expect from two such talented girls - all images are illustrated, with text a mixture of hand-written intro's and typed Q&A's. A few of the women featured are new to me (The Blow, signed to K Records, in particular), so I've got plenty to look up, as well as others to revisit. With a quote from Kathleen Hanna kicking everything off, it was always set to be a winning read.

The zine is available from the Girl Gang Zine site - get yours quick!

(Text taken from Liv's blog, dress up to mess up).

Round Up - Zine Fest at The Women's Library

We appear to have dropped off the face of the (virtual) world for a while.. Ooops. To try to make up of the lack of contact recently, here's a slightly late but better-than-never write-up of the recent Zine Fair at The Women's Library in London, which was one of the most enjoyable fests yet!

Taking place on Saturday 25th June, the event was the 4th Zine Fest to be held at the 'Library. Brilliantly organised by Red Chidgey, the day has many goings-on in store for zine fans, including comic making workshops (which Rushka attended - the fruits of her labour will be popping up soon!), survivor zine discussions, a feminist media and memory panel, tours of the library's archives, art installations, cross-stitch drop-ins and mask making! With the fair only lasting for 4 hours a lot was crammed in, and although we weren't able to sneak away for much of the programmed events we heard from friends that there were a lot of interesting, fun and thought-provoking activities and conversations.

The morning began with us doing as little directions prep as possible (living in London has made us a bit too cocky), meaning we lost about 45 minutes strolling in circles around The Women's Library like two lost loons. Thankfully, our adventure wasn't all in vain as we managed to pick up a sugary breakfast from Hummingbird Bakery to keep us going-

We had out stall inbetween the wonderful Reena from Nest and lovely Anna-Marie from Pamflet zine. The space was smaller than recent fairs we've stalled at, making it easier to get around to have a chat to the other zinesters and to catch up on what everyone's been up to.






A very special part of the day was when Erica from Girl Frenzy showed up with a suitcase of back issues of her legendery zine, and was kind enough to share them out between everyone! Girl Frenzy was one of the best known riot grrrl-inspired names in the 90s, so to get a chance to chat with Erica and to flick through copies was pretty exciting for zine nerds like us! We're hoping to sort out an interview with Erica for Shebang #4, so keep 'em peeled...

I always make a beeline for the feminist and music-related zines at the fairs, so this was the perfect opportunity to pick up EVEN MORE, just in time for my holiday... (holiday reading = best excuse)

The only trouble was that I went home and read them all from front-back straight away. Oh well. Luckily I also picked up the much lusted-after Doris anthology that I'd had my eye on for a looong time, which I hid in a suitcase so I wouldn't be tempted to read before setting off. I've written up a little review of it over on the dress up to mess up blog, so feel free to have a little read if you want to find out more.


BIG thanks again to Red for organising the day! For the full list of stallholders, click here.

xx

Shebang in Time Out!

Big thanks to Katie from Fat Quarter zine for her inclusion of Shebang in her Zine Scene article in this week's Time Out magazine! We're in very good company in the pic... x