Grrrl Zine Fair 2025 | Our 10th Birthday Festival

Join us in celebrating 10 years of Grrrl Zine Fair with a busy two-day festival at our home, The Old Waterworks Artist Studios in Southend-on-Sea!

Free entry, all ages !

Look forward to our 10th birthday exhibition ‘The spaces where we keep on finding each other’ (featuring zines from our online & in person residents and our GRRRL10 micro-commissions) zine stalls, creative workshops, live music, performances, talks, food trucks and much much more.

Saturday 20th September | 2-9pm

Accessible quiet hour: 1-2pm

You only turn 10 once - live bands, DJs, screen printing, junk journaling, badge making, zine workshops, 20+ zine stalls, cafe, food and bar for a big birthday bash.

MUSIC

Twat Union

My Executive Dysfunction

Restless Taxis

Caitlin King

And DJ sets from The Femcels and Areola Grande Latte

Timings

14:00 Caitlin King

15:00 Restless Taxis

16:00 My Executive Dysfunction

17:00 Twat Union

18:00 The Femcels (DJ Set)

19:00 - 20:30 Areola Grande Latte (DJ Set)

WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES

Risograph posters with Grrrl's Lu Williams

Badge Making with Sassify Zine

Zine workshop with Hate Zine

Screen Printing with Sugar Storm Studios (bring your own items to screen print or print your own tote bag)

Class of 2025 Photography studio with Amy Ryall (come get some cute free headshots!)

Pop up Ice Cream Portraits (your souvenir for the day) by Fredrix Vermin

1hr Artist Residency with Alfie Winters (ever wanted to do an artist residency? now’s your chance! you’ve got one hour)

Sunday 21st September | 12-6pm

Chill, mellow and ambient - perfect for those looking for a quieter, calmer experience or those recovering from the night before. Expect morning yoga, zine workshops, riosgraph printing, comedy, 15+ zine stalls, and end the day with a cosy film screening of The Disappearance Of Shere Hite - a documentary about German sex therapist Shere Hite's pioneering study of women's sexuality, "The Hite Report" which sold millions of copies but somehow isn't a household name... yet

Plus food trucks + coffee.

WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES

Comedy from:

rising star Anna Gray

Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedian of the Year finalist Elaine Robertson

Comedy workshop with Elaine Robertson

Zine workshop with sweet-thang zine

DJ workshop with Areola Grande Latte

Junk Journalling with Kia Creates

Film Screening and panel talk with the White Bus Cinema and Essex Girl Liberation Front: The Disappearance of Shere Hite, a feminist sexologist documentary

Plus all weekend :

Tarot

Grrrl Zine Library

Print publishing exhibition ‘The spaces where we keep on finding each other’ (more info below )

The Welfare Lot welfare room

Lazy Sloth Coffee

Stoked Vegan Food + more to be announced!

‘THE SPACES WHERE WE KEEP ON FINDING EACH OTHER’ - Grrrl’s 10th birthday publishing exhibition

FEATURING ZINES BY:

Ayshe-Mira Yashin

Pen Fight Distro

FSB Press

Charlotte Bailey and Rosalie Schweiker

Helena Exquis

Phoebe Hanson

Andrea Ihl

BimbosAgainstCapitalism

Studio DGKK (Dugae Kongkang)

Kia Marie Hunt (Kia Creates)

Isabella Lee

Daria Ivans

Bethenie Carriaga

Saïda Ragas

Rebel Rosie

ZINE STALLS FROM:

Hate Zine, sweet-thang zine, THIIIRD, Kia Creates, Page Masters, Look Deeper, Seedlings, Ayshe-Mira Yashin, Pen Fight Distro, Katie in Colour, Buhains, Caroline Winter, Hayley Wells, Bex Bop, Paper Moon Zines, The Ex-Editor, Rage Zine, Shazleen Khan, Weed Zine, Izzy Argent, Funa Ye, Caterpillar Press, Funa Ye and The Pigeon Press and Slowslowzo Zines

Get yourself on the guestlist by RSVPing at grrrlzinefair.com

It's a free event at our studios, with limited capacity, so book your spot now - it's not one to miss!

We're also taking donations if you'd like to give us a cheeky birthday gift :)

Location

We are a 10/15 minute walk from Southend Central and Southend Victoria stations and Prittlewell Station, and there is some limited parking space available.

The Old Waterworks has two genderless bathrooms. We'll have a disabled portaloo on site for the event.

Access

We have wheelchair access at our entrance with a ramp to our inside zine fair, however our inside toilets are not currently wheelchair accessible.

Disabled loos

Seating throughout the site

Our film screening will be captioned

The Welfare Lot! Welfare space. Perfect to take 10 min break from the festival, ft comfy seats, snacks, ear plugs, fidget toys and a listening ear, more details: https://thewelfarelot.com/

Quiet Hour Sat 20th 1-2pmFor those who want to beat the crowds and look through the zine fair with no music, before we open fully to the public.

BSL Interpretation for all workshops across the weekend.

Sanitizer provided and masks are suggested.

Any queries relating to the venue and location access please email hello@grrrlzinefair.comAny other questions? Email hello@grrrlzinefair.com

Hope to see you there!