Zine Mela Exhibition – Curated by Hamja Ahsan

The Zine Mela Exhibition curated by Hamja Ahsan will be running from Wednesday 14th October till Monday 16th December at the IHRC Gallery & Bookshop.  Drop in Monday – Saturday 11am – 5pm.

RSVP for Prisoner Zine Panel and / or Book tickets for the Zine Making Workshops on this page.

Zines and comics and graphics exhibition featuring Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Adivasi first nations, local, global diasporas including South Africa and Malaysia and Palestine Zine Archuve and Carrom and aAnti-racism movements and prisoner solidarity campaigns.

Zine Mela Workshops:

Hamja will be running three workshops that involve Zine making and discussions around key social issues.  Please register via the booking link.  Participants must be aged 16 and over.

Entry is £12 early bird and £17 on the day, concessions £5 early bird and £9 on the day. For a group discount of groups of 5 or more, email shop@ihrc.org

Saturday 31st October

Workshop 1. Fictional Fried Chicken

Saturday 14^th November

Workshop 2. A zine think-in: Colonial Crime cross-solidarity Famine Zine (Bengal 1943, Ireland 1847)

Saturday 5^th December

Workshop 3. Citizen Coconut: a collaborative Zine workshop envisioning the Coconutistan Nation

Creative Writing workshop & Collaborative Zine workshop

Thursday 29^th October

Prisoner Zine Panel

Hamja will be chairing and speaking at a panel on Prisoner Zines, alongside speakers from the Free Satpal Ram campaign, Prisoner Fightback, and others. Speakers include Ahmed Uddin (IHRC Prisoner Pack campaign), Hamja (also chairing), Nicki Jameson (Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism!), Mos Hannan (writer . director of Satpal Ram documentary), Helen McDonald from Satpal Ram campaign, Dhruv Haria (South Asians for Palestine).

Admission is free but please help us plan by booking in advance below. Doors open at 6.30pm.