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By Heiba Lamara
On Sunday 7th April the Rich Mix in Shoreditch played host to the first day-long DIY Cultures Festival. The venue was packed out with zine stalls, artists’ books, comics, crafts, talks, workshops, films, video-art and music. Organised by OOMK and Other Asias, it incorporated…
By Sofia Niazi
As co-organizers of DIY Cultures us OOMKs were all too keen to get some of our favorite sewing ladies on board. From patch making with Hannah Hill to felt needling with Ceri May there were lots of great workshops throughout the day for people to get stuck into and learn new…
Ziney Babies
We had a table at DIY Cultures this Sunday. It was a stonking event and excitingly our most popular item was the EATING FOOD IS RIGHT zine!
The final print outs were atrocious, as we put our money and our faith into Georgio at the cheapest printers in London, but our mirth shone through the botched photocopies and was a breakaway success with punters. Items on our stall were described as ‘Very rude’, ‘Disgusting’ and ‘Beautiful’ - which warmed our hearts.
We were shy and awkward for a few hours in, but then we got into it (ale helped) and our faces hurt from smiling at people that came to our stall - to a possible creepy effect. We really didn’t expect to be as successful as we were, being both newbies to tabling at a zine fair and being socially retarded in equal measures…but we made enough to have burgers and fries at The Diner afterward.
We were starving and deranged as we packed up at 6pm, we’d just had 2 ales and half a bag of beef jerky each over the course 7 hours, and had been been spurred on by the adrenaline of the fair and the fact that we were sitting down for prolonged periods - our arses hurt like crazy afterward.
We got our famished arses to The Diner and I (Jabbo) ordered a simple cheese burger with Monterrey jack cheese with fries and Bobbo ordered a burger that had pulled pork on it with extra volcanoes on the side, and fries. Whomp!
If you’d like a copy of Eating Food Is Right - PAPER EDITION - message us and we shall make it so!
Some photos from our day at DIY Cultures in Shoreditch yesterday - including the cute name badge Hannah made for me to wear at our workshop and the patch I made.
It was such a great day, and I had a lovely time working with Hanecdote. So thank you to everybody that supported GGB and bought zines, and to those who signed up to our patch-making workshop ♥
And thank you to DIY Cultures for putting together such a inspiring diverse event, it was so well organised!
