Cornwall Zine Library

04/09/2024

Pay it forward with a cup of kindness ☕️💛 Our 'Hanging Coffee' scheme at Fish Factory lets you buy an extra coffee for someone in need. Small gestures, brighter days.

We currently have 4 coffees available 🙌

04/09/2024

04/09/2024

Zines, Memes and DIY Dissent: A Talk with Hate Zine
Wednesday 18th September, 7-8pm, Online
Pay-What-You-Can, book at www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/events/2024/9/18/hate-zine

Join Hate Zine editor Luisa Le Voguer and writer, performer and organiser Amardeep Singh Dhillon as they discuss zines, DIY culture, activism and how to resist rising fascism.

Participants can learn how zines can play an important role in social movements and ideas for getting involved with activism at various levels.

18/04/2023

We were stoked to receive the March 2023 edition for this week, kindly delivered to us at the 🙏🏼✨

We love! Thank you so much.

Image description: a white person’s hand with red nail varnish holding two copies of BodZine, showing the cover with Cornish Lens, and one showing the Declaration of BodZine.

 

29/03/2023

Hello, I am Bunty, and I am one of the zine librarians at the lovely fish factory. I am currently cracking on my MA in Illustration (Authorial Practice) at Falmouth Uni.

I became interested in zines when I first heard and made one of mine about a year ago. My aim to volunteer for this role is very simple, getting to know as much as I can about the zine culture which is not so popular where I come from. I love the concept of DIY and self-publishing, rejecting all forms of censorship and control. I am trying to create my own zines and hopefully will be contributing some of mine to the amazingly diverse collection at .

I come from an Interior Architecture background and am particularly interested in building with natural materials. I have been drawing regularly since 2016 and it has become quintessential to my existence. I have conducted various workshops with the objective of engaging people (specially "non-artists") with this beautiful expression available to them because I believe that
'everyone is an artist
everyone is creative
and anyone can draw'

You can follow me on -

Until then,
Cheers!

19/03/2023

✨ EVENTS NEXT WEEK with and at ✨

What are zines and what is the Cornwall Zine Library? Come and find out with zinester and artist on Tuesday 21 March 10:30am-1:30pm. Try your hand at making a one page mini zine too!

Or on Wednesday 22 March 10:30am-1:00pm Create a comic Zine with Cornwall Zine Library and learn more about zines too.

Full details and booking on Eventbrite, search: school of fish.

Image description: poster featuring a background of pale pink papers, stapler and pencils, an orange scissors graphic and zine workshop written in bright Orange letters with the details of the workshops listed.

 

15/03/2023

Explore the Cornwall Zine Library and make a zine yourself in this brilliant workshop by Camilla Stacey]] at Fish Factory Arts].

An Introduction to Zines with Camilla Stacey is on Tuesday 21 March from 10:30am-1:30pm. See Camilla Stacey]] bi0 for ticket details.

Posted • Camilla Stacey]] I'm going to be running another of my tried and tested zine workshops as part of Fish Factory Arts] free workshop series.
There's a link in my bio to book if you are interested- £5 deposit which can be redeemed in the cafe or as money.

13/03/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=664757695651126&id=100063507034666&sfnsn=scwspmo

March is for making and reading mini-zines! Thanks to Sea Green Zines for inventing Mini Zine March! What are your zine plans this month?

More info:
- https://seagreenzines.com/2023/03/01/happy-mini-zine-march-2023/
- https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/mini-zine-march-2023-my-plans-play-along/

11/03/2023

A new addition to the Cornwall Zine Library from the brilliant .chuck.illustration Non-binary Finery! Thank you Bee.

Image descriptions:

1. Photo of a white personal wearing a red fleece holding Bee’s zine open on a page which is illustrated with a large sun and individual beings labelled ICA and FRAN with the words ‘Non Binary clothing can be ANY CLOTHING under the SUN because clothing doesn’t have a GENDER!’

2. Photo of a cup filled with barista style coffee on a saucer with the title page of NON-Binary Finery illustrated with a being with purple curly hair and a colourful scarf.

28/02/2023

Hey, from me… I’m Hannah one of the zine librarians at Cornwall Zine Library. I’m keen on the sea, vegan food, punk and ancient stone bothering, as well as zines of course.

Zines are great and I can thank them, and their authors, for introducing me to new ideas and new ways of thinking, as well as awesome bands and recipes.

I think zine culture is probably more important than ever right now for fostering community, creating inspiration and allowing ideas to flow so I’m super stoked to be volunteering for CZL.

Luckily I also love a good spreadsheet and am going to very much enjoy continuing to catalogue and organise the zines with my co-librarians!

21/02/2023

We live inside Fish Factory Arts] and are available for anyone to visit while the Fish Factory is open.

At the moment the Fish is running a crowdfunder to help raise much needed funds for workshops, exhibitions, free food events and the boring stuff like paying bills.

There's just a week left to hit the target of £5000- if this target is met it will unlock match funding which will mean the Fish can do much more of the good stuff.

If you are able to pledge £££ please do- if you can't then please consider sharing the link and encouraging others:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fish-factory-community-food-and-workshops

(Hop over to Fish Factory Arts] for more details)