This workshop explores how ideas and inspirations and a wish to share experiences with the world can find their way into becoming actual print projects.
This can apply to online publications as well as the now-popular paper-print ‘zines which are becoming common on the alternative media scene. There’ll be a chance to learn about the possibilities and the potential pitfalls involved in going to publication and opportunities to develop ideas for new projects, both in workshop groups and individually. Who is your audience? What's the gap you're trying to fill?
Why should we care about it?
It’s never too late to start producing independent publications – you just need something to say and an idea about who you want to say it to.
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This workshop will be run by David Lloyd. David has written for The Guardian, Time Out, NME and BBC, as well as editing Manchester's much-loved indie culture magazine, City Life.
He set up Seven Streets, a popular Liverpool/Merseyside based cultural website, exploring the parts of the city that remained stubbornly off the radar of the traditional media, before returning to a freelance career, helping brands and organisations communicate their stories more effectively: working with anything from the Eurovision Song Contest to the new visitor centre at Liverpool Cathedral, and ex-St Helens'-based Heart of Glass theatre company.
