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Future Fairs

The Construction Gallery in Tooting was the happy home of the best zine fair in the history of Tooting.  There were lots of familiar faces but also new people sharing their work and displaying their skills and  explaining their ideas which is always nice. I didn't really look around at everyone's work, which was a bit stupid, but i did watch the Salford Zine Library documentary which I very much enjoyed. I also tried to get some Tooting Aunties to come in, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, I'm sure they'll be having a word with my mum as to what I was doing hanging out with weirdos... Anyway, here are some things that I liked from the fair:

             

Sally Hancox's prints (above) were wicked. I really liked some of the posters in 'Shape and Situate: Posters of Inspirational European Women' that Melanie Maddison put together, it's cool that the posters were made by both men and women. And i also liked the drawings and use of color in Kripa Joshi's Miss Moti books. And lastly I liked the colors and patterns in Faster Forever (below).

If you didn't make it to the fair and wished you were there you can you can travel back in time through this short vid and pretend you were. 

The pictures right at the top were taken by one of the ladies from the Userp Gallery who are busy preparing for Harrow's first ever zine fair in April: usurpzines.tumblr.com for more info.

Tooting Zine Fair 2012

Yes it's true there is a zine fair in Tooting! Here's a poster i did for it and here's some more information so you can tell your friends and aunties and cousins and your second cousins and your other distant relatives.

The Construction Gallery will be hosting the first Tooting Zine Fair from 12pm-6pm on 25th February 2012.

CONFIRMED STALLS / ARTISTS / COLLECTIVE EXHIBITORS 2012:

Alternative Press, Girls Get Busy, Walrus Zines, Shebang, Other Asias, Tom Cass, TINAG/Myrdle Court Press, Emma Falconer, Decadence Comics, Nichol Keene, Vampire Sushi, Red Robin Press, Just Design Collective, Nanae Kawahara, Monster Emporium Press, Microcosmic Orbit, Eyeball Comics, Cressida Knapp, Partisan Zines, Siberian Zines, Elliott Baggott, Jasmine Fung, Whirlygig distro, Melanie Maddison, Vapid Kitten, Susan Mortimer, Partisan Siberia.

Website: www.tootingzines.tumblr.com

Construction Gallery and Cafe
74 – 80 Upper Tooting Road
London SW17 7PB
Nearest Station: Tooting Bec Underground 

Contact: tootingzines@gmail.com 

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