Duplicate Publishing Fair

4-8pm

Eastside Projects

Colorful collage-style poster for the "Duplicate Publishing Fair" featuring hand-drawn and cut-out elements. It advertises zines, comics, artists' books, and more. The event takes place at Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR, on Friday 2nd May (4–8 PM) and Saturday 3rd May (12–5 PM). The poster includes phrases like "Free Entry!" and contact info: @duplicatepublishingfair and duplicatepublishingfair.com.

Duplicate Publishing Fair returns to Eastside Projects bringing together artists, illustrators, zine makers and small-press publishers from Birmingham and beyond to congregate for two-days of DIY and indie publishing activity and distribution. The fair will welcome over 50 exhibitors in 2025 and a communal table will allow many more to share and sell their work.

Over the two days, a programme of free talks and workshops will invite people to explore self-publishing and to get involved. The fair is free to attend and open to all. The fair attracted over 700 people in 2024 and this year we’re hoping to make it even bigger!

2025 Exhibitors:

Exhibitors: Here is Jonny, PHOTOMAFIA, theft shrubbery and artforlivv, Alisha Lucia Davidson, Crude Futures, Andromeda Zines, Jessika Green, Peakrill Press, ossa prints, Practising Empathy in Mirrors, Two Friends and Their Table, UUendy Lau (UU), Lunchtime for the Wild Youth, Sayo Senoo, Yifan Hu, Shazleen Khan, Elly Bazigos & Kai Reynolds, Iliadtea, Persehouse Press, Qian-hui Yu, Juneau Projects, Sarah Gillespie, COPY, Evan Androutsopoulos BCU Photography RFK Subseri Elliot Hanks Illustration The Little Prints Lucy Roberts Pittville Press, Hannah Lee Miller, Burley Fisher Community Press, Coventry University, BLOOD ORANGE ZINE, Silly Dogs Brunch Club, Buku-Buku, Theadora + Zuzia + Ami, Physical Interface, ArtHole, Queer Out Loud, Kiosk, Edie Woolf, SEEMAWORLD, Seedlings of Kun, PageMasters, Famicon Express, BUNNY BISSOUX, tallfingerpress, Luke Humphries & George Manson, Eric Monk-Steel, Book Works, Ideas Loading, Sammy Borras and Sarah Fogg, @JREATP, Rachel Littlewood, Lydia Davies, Jack Lewdjaw, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Strike Design Studio, Alice Li, Yat Sze + Ashley Lo + Quail Wang, HMM TV, Rabbits Road Press, BCU Illustration.

Duplicate was started in 2019 by Gareth Proskourine-Barnett, Sofia Niazi and BAAAD Press.

C’mon in, grab a drink and a samosa, check out the shows, and then explore everything else this month’s Digbeth First Friday has to offer.

Accessibility

Eastside Projects is an accessible venue. There are a couple of steps at the door but if you ring the bell or speak to a member of staff we will bring our ramp out. Once you are inside the galleries are on one level, as is the bathroom. Alice's exhibition includes a video which is shown in a dark space and has sound. You can borrow noise cancelling headphones and popping fidget spinners from staff on the front desk if you need them. Please email or call us if you have any questions.

Venue

Eastside Projects

86 Heath Mill Lane
B9 4AR