Cubitt Community Zine + Publishing Fair

12-6pm, Saturday 2nd August 2025

A one-day publishing fair to celebrate and gather everyone who is making and thinking about books, zines, prints, self-publishing, community organising, and more.

With over 20 stallholders—including local publishers, artists, organisers + activists,  and collectives from Islington and beyond—the fair will reignite Islington’s histories of radical publishing and self-organised print culture.

Join us for the launch of the Cubitt Community Press ISSUE 2, a collectively made community newspaper created and risograph printed by Islington Locals. Come grab a copy and spread the word.

STALL HOLDERS:

ADDA
ADDA is an ongoing, intimate series of conversations between myself (Ankita Mukherji), and other cultural workers, bringing together two people who already share a relationship – through friendship, romance, or collaborative work. Each conversation explores how our work is informed by the relationships and interdependent networks in our lives, focusing in particular on practices of organising, and what this may look like for different people. This first issue features British-Bangladeshi artists Puer Deorum and Jannat Hussain.

Ankita Mukherji is a cultural worker currently based in London, with roots in Kolkata and Singapore. Her practice is grounded in a slow, collaborative approach to working, and explores practices of organising, interdependence, and alternative forms of research and knowledge-sharing. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has led artistic and curatorial projects across multiple cities such as Singapore, Los Angeles, and London.
Instagram: @adda__zine / @ank1t0

AH Kunstwerk
Alison Hui is a illustrator and zine maker. She uses watercolour as her key medium to express her own observation of cityscape and culture of the places she visited. Recently years she self published several titles to explore how cooking as a cultural way to connect people in London. The latest one is the new version of All About Tofu Zine.
Website:  alisonhuiah.com
Instagram: @a.h.inkpen

Anakbayan UK
Anakbayan UK is the UK chapter of the Philippine national democratic youth organization Anakbayan. We organize for the genuine independence of the Philippines and an end to imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism in our country. We're beginning to explore creative avenues like zine-making to share more about the struggle of the Philippines. We want to raise awareness for Philippine issues and show their connection to global systems of oppression.
Instagram: @anakbayanuk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnakbayanUK

common/play\grounds
common/play\grounds is a collaboration between yasamin ghalehnoie and sass popoli. Formalised in 2023, it is a reciprocal project of workshops, experimental performance and publishing, initiated by their shared search and desire for timescales of belonging and home whether found or still unfound. The prints respond to the uncertainties of their everyday lives and dotted memories, their respective practices and convergences, and experiences within their bodies; vowels, letters, drawings of moments, fold in paragraphs of steps and notes, pacing common warmth and neighbouring shades.

Website: https://www.commonplaygrounds.com/
Instagram: @qall | @sasspopoli 

The Bunting Bugle
The Bunting Bugle is brought to you by Hands on Hearts - a community arts project which celebrates community spirit and strength. We do this by delivering free workshops, helping people create giant bunting chains of hands and hearts to hang in their spaces. The project started during the pandemic in 2020. Since then we have worked with over 20 groups and organisations, with over 400 beautiful flags created. Most chains were made locally but some were created further afield - including in Japan, and Peru! We are now planning an exhibition of this incredible display of community work. We decided to make a zine to provide a platform for participants and supporters of the project to share their reflections on community building and belonging. We will be launching the first edition of The Bunting Bugle at the zine fair and are very excited to be given the opportunity to take part!
Website:  https://www.handsonhearts.net/

The Grey Zine
The Grey Zine is a fashion publication, community events programme and digital platform fighting word by word to democratise the fashion industry and change its course. Pushing against perceptions of fashion as something centred on consumerism, celebrity and frivolous luxury, The Grey platforms fashion stories around identity, politics, history, craft and ultimately the extremely human side of fashion that have made it a powerful political tool since the dawn of time. Issue 1 of The Grey was themed ‘Fashion & Gender’, issue 2 is on ‘Fashion & Conflict’. The Grey publishes in print 2 times a year, digitally every week, and hosts monthly events to further your experience, and empowerment in your use of fashion. (And is always open to collabs or submissions!)
Website: https://www.thegreyzine.co.uk/
Instagram: @thegreyzine

Small Talk & GOODbye Guidebook
Struggling to start conversations with strangers or say goodbye during life transitions? Discover Ivy Kan's two zines, Small Talk and GOODbye Guidebook, designed to help you communicate effectively and navigate farewells with confidence.
Instagram: @ivysgallery

kamipaper
kamipaper makes handmade blank notebooks using upcycled materials, upcycled sewn creations and self-published zines. They also like to share East and South East Asian (ESEA) zines to shine a spotlight on them. They care about the environment, sustainability and are interested in the ESEA diaspora. They weave bits of their British ESEA culture into their works when possible.
Instagram: @kamipaperuk

Kismet
Kismet is a creative house and cultural archive centred in spiritual transcendence through art. The first of the No Tourists series is a self-published Zine spotlighting a Sufi community from London. It follows two insiders as they travel to meet their shaykh and visit the founder of their Sufi order in Fez, Morocco, during Ramadan 2024. Travelling with intent and respect for the local community allowed for an inner look into Fez’s Tannery District and Old Town. The zine later sheds light on their community’s rituals, practices and gatherings in London. No Tourists contains film photography, poetry, ethnographic study and reflections on community and spirituality. This short publication reveals how the fusion of art and religious practice can help mental health and understanding of self.
Instagram: @Kismet.Archival

Islington Local History Centre
The centre has a wide range of resources on the history of the borough, including books, maps, illustrations, newspapers, trade directories and archive material. The centre will bring archives and examples of publications, posters, magazines, flyers and periodicals from Islington’s historic community print projects, autonomous printing spaces and community-led action documented through printed material.
Website: https://www.islington.gov.uk/libraries-arts-and-heritage/heritage/local-history-centre

Lydia Davies
Lydia Davies is an artist and writer working across bookmaking, performance, painting, sound, and moving image. Lydia’s practice is preoccupied with interpersonal dynamics, bodily gestures, and the shifting registers of voice and narration. Her work draws attention to the ways in which selves are both sustained and undone through their relations.

Lydia’s artist books can be found at: Good Press (Glasgow), Typewronger Books (Edinburgh), CCA Derry~Londonderry (Derry), The Holloway (Norwich) and BOOKS Peckham (London). For the month of August, her film ‘May’ will be screened online with LUX Scotland as part of their ONE WORK series. Recent projects include: The glass with the fingers dipped in, solo exhibition, Fruitmarket, (Edinburgh 2025); This little, live radio broadcast, Radiophrenia (2025); This one’s for the, a radio broadcast and live performance commissioned by David Dale Gallery, (Glasgow 2023).
Website:  www.lydiadavies.co.uk
Instagram: @lydiaacdavies

Maqam Books
Maqam is a nomadic bookshop and archive that moves through books, textiles, sound, and conversation. It creates spaces for temporary community—a practice of gathering in transit. Sharing a wide selection of English and Arabic titles centred around the arts, culture, politics and history of the Arabic speaking world.
Website: https://www.maqam.uk/about
Instagram: @Maqambooks

Squid Horse Comics
The Mollusc Dimension, a British-born Chinese multidisciplinary artist, will be here with his colourful, comic memoir The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse, which explores mental health, grief and growing from the POV of a transqueerian, neuro non binary POC. Shortlisted for a Selfies Book Award for non-fiction, WWSSH has been described as "poignant", "tender", "hilarious", "shocking" and "an essential read". Come take a look, maybe grab a signed copy and/or browse the dazzling selection of quirky LGBTQA+ stickers, cards, badges, zines and more! Proceeds from certain items will be donated to amazing fundraisers.

TMD has 3 connections to the area from the 2000s - being dumped and stumbling into a local church to seek solace (c/o a highly confused prayer group), covering rucksack music (parent + toddler music chaos!) and band practice - 2 of which get a cameo in his comic book!

Website: https://www.themolluscdimension.com/the-weird-wonderful-surviveries-of-squid-horse-british-chinese-comic-book\
Instagram: @squidhorsecomics

Silly Dogs Brunch Club
Silly Dogs Brunch Club is a publication collective that specialises in affordable and experimental published items like zines, books, prints, and stickers. As publications are among the most accessible forms of art, we strive to put the extraordinary directly into the hands of the ordinary—ensuring that creativity isn't confined to elite spaces but is shared, celebrated, and enjoyed by all.
Website:  www.sillydogsbrunchclub.com
Instagram: @sillydogsbrunchclub

SISTA
SISTA is an intersectional feminist zine founded by Tanya Fevzi to platform the creative work of underrepresented artists. Having struggled to find a publication where her work fit in, Tanya built SISTA from the ground up, creating the first print as a passion project after learning how to navigate Adobe. The zine showcases writing, art, and photography in a way that celebrates femininity, diversity, and accessibility. It’s fun, colourful, and personal, and something small that (hopefully!) brings joy to its readers, reminding them to be authentic even if that doesn’t fit into societal expectations.
Website: https://www.sistamag.co.uk/
Instagram: @sistamag

slowslowzo
slowslowzo makes zines about mental health and self care. The strangeness of the locked-in environment is explored in project risk and the mad system and Can you open the Doors to Freedom without the keys? Don’t swallow the Hysteriazine! is a story-zine, A shock to the system a poetry zine and Sort YR Self Out! a self-care zine.

slowslowzo has been a community artist, and exhibited with the following groups: The Hive Studio, The Agency of Visible Womxn, Activate Arts, Fem Ad Lib Kolectiv for C.R.A.S.H.Culture (labofii/ArtsAdmin), SNAG, 73 women, the Shape Arts Open and fans of feminism (London Met).
Website: Slowslowzo.com
Instagram: @zoezzz197 

Soak Books
Soak Books is a publishing studio based in London, run by Hong Kong photographers Deacon Lui and Jane Lam. We publish books on photography, art, and personal stories that are intimate, reflective, and rooted in everyday experience.
Instagram: @soakbooks |  @lsb.co | @lapchingphoto

Studio Otis - London 

The Writers’ Room
The Writers’ Room is The Wild Pansy Press’ project space in Islington, supported by arts organisation The Florence Trust and co-ran by writer Lu Rose Cunningham and artist Simon Lewandowski. A flexible working environment designed for solo working, workshops, readings, small exhibitions and screenings, we host monthly residencies for creative practitioners who work at the intersection of Art and Literature.
Website: http://writersroom.org.uk/ 
Instagram: @wpp_writersroom | @wild_pansy_press presents

ON OUR COMMUNITY TABLE: 

Cubitt Community Press Issue #2!
Get your hands on the second issue of our grass-roots newspaper made by and for Islington residents. 

Girls of Pop
Girls of Pop is a handmade scrapbook style zine that celebrates women in the music industry. Issue 3, which will be available to buy at the fair, focusses on up and coming artists that we think you’ve got to check out!
Instagram: @girlsofpop_

How to get your Docs in a Row
This is a dyke-owned series of published materials aiming to inform other dykes about dyke history using anecdotal and academic research, with topics from sexual flagging and semiotics to the lesbian club scene in London pre-2014.
Instagram: @whykai

Ke sa ou vlé?
Part of a series of handmade linocut prints about visiting my Granpa. He was not openly affectionate but showed his love through making sure you left his home well fed. The two available prints depict him cooking a meal and bringing me a sandwich and tea while I wait.
Instagram: @ncharles.art

Lassitude
Lassitude is the sole disability-led arts publication dedicated to the exploration of fatigue. Through literary and visual arts, it examines fatigue as a fluctuating condition that restricts physical energy but not creative imagination, thereby amplifying diverse artistic voices and challenging prevailing notions of productivity and capability.
Instagram: @lassitudezine

Nice Gmo project
Nice Gmo is an archive of handmade imaginary-random-event posters. We are sharing an A4 portfolio filled with some of our handmade posters at the community table at Cubitt. Instagram: @nicegmo 

out through the mouth
Made through a series of events, this zine explores how artists can and must stand in solidarity with Palestine. It challenges the apathy of western artists and the defanged so-called “apolitical” perception of art institutions try to enforce.
Instagram: @regineedwards13

Pubis Project
Pubis Project is a cultural initiative using publishing as a method of connection and empowerment for Chinese feminist and queer diasporas living in the UK and around the world. Annually, Pubis Project chooses a theme to explore the idea of ‘diaspora’ in the Chinese context, producing an annual issue of Pubis Magazine and organising a series of related events, workshops and exhibitions. Through these efforts, Pubis Project actively seeks solidarity with feminist and queer communities.
Instagram: @pubis_project

When the Soil Speaks
When the Soil Speaks is a 16-page risograph printed zine created as the outcome of a collaborative project focused on climate justice and decolonial storytelling. It brings together poems, drawings and reflections that explore soil as alive with memory, history and its own voice.
Instagram: @francescafantoni, @dimple.bangalore and @alessandrarisicastoldi