Membership to The Ephemera Society is on my list for when finances allow, but you can visit the fairs in general, either way. Being a zine creator and library type, with virtually her own archive/museum at home, it would be really useful and interesting to join up.
The Ephemera Society's annual bazaars and fairs are always full of merry artefacts. If you have any curiosity about paper articles that are snapshots in time, if you like the visual aspect of ephemera like postcards, photos, magazines, adverts, curios, and so on, it's good fun to take a look around the stalls of this fair. Membership to The Ephemera Society is on my list for when finances allow, but you can visit the fairs in general, either way. Being a zine creator and library type, with virtually her own archive/museum at home, it would be really useful and interesting to join up. I went to last year's ephemera fair and bought some amusing magazines, like the 1940s/1950s origin Lilliput, with its bizarre array of stories, adverts, and photo captions. I could be in danger of becoming a collector of this, as it's written in the kind of style and tone that the modern day Clod magazine seems to satirise. To whit: The Feathers Bumper Book for Boys and Girls was an entertaining oddity that I ended up buying for fun too: I love the drama and silliness of how this story opens: Sinister sheep in frocks, at teatime: It's all the sort of bizarre surrealness that appeals for reappropriating in a 'zine, and it's also just amusing, quirky stuff. Funny to read the tone of articles and stories, and see how things were presented and how people amused themselves in the 40s and 50s − not often you get access to such stuff, and there aren't enough museums to keep it all in, sadly.
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There are so many exciting events going on in and around London in the coming months, that I feel I might burst - and I also feel the need to make a list, lest I forget! The big one this weekend for me is: http://www.londonopenhouse.org/ Open House Weekend, if you don't yet know it, consists of hundreds of museums, gardens, architecturally impressive buildings, libraries and the like all hosting FREE entry and events - guided tours, talks, etc! Every year it drives me to near apoplexy about what to do when and where, and all the things I'll never fit in! Last year I discovered Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, and the Karl Marx Memorial Library, which I wrote about in Athemaura issue #6. Postcard and paper ephemera fair in Woking tomorrow, and Saturday! Woking Leisure Centre, Kingfield Road. http://www.postcard.co.uk/woking.php Abundance Fruit Fair, Wimbledon. Jams, chutneys on sale, homemade from windfall fruit gathered by a wonderful group of people. Also, live music, kids' activities, lots more stalls. Last year, I had a stall and sold my garden-theme 'zines! Clash exhibition: On until 22nd September, unique memorabilia, previously unheard remastered songs on listening posts, and so on - an idea of heaven to me!!! Eel Pie Island, Twickenham. Photo exhibition, films, etc, till 29th September. Accounting the blues rock history of the area. There've been a bunch of cool gigs too. Anarchist Book Fair: 19th October, Queen Mary University, Mile End, East London. I think this is free, and there's sure to be a range of stuff from other radical political frames/socialist stuff, if the word 'anarchist' is too dangerous for you. I have a good feeling there may be small press and 'zines too! Various record fairs, throughout October and November, including Soundbite Record Fairs in SW London, and the ones held in Westminster. BFI film festival. And the Urban Wandering events at the Barbican coming up too!
Small Publishing Fair 2013, at Conway Hall in Bloomsbury, 15th - 16th November. Keeping It Peel - events in celebration of John Peel's ethos, including gigs, club nights, and more. SW Zines Presents: A Christmas Zine Social, Housmans book shop, in Kings Cross, 7th December, from 7pm - 9pm. Free zine event. Sellers can apply for free selling space via SW London & Surrey Zine Collective. Zine readers and the curious can come and be social in this book shop event, where cake and beer are promised. |
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