Presse Books Fair
Book tickets below for this off-site event.
The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop will be participating in this year’s Presse Books Fair organised by Forma, on Saturday 17 June, from 11am.
Presse Books Fair is a free one-day festival at FormaHQ bringing together over 30 independent publishers and artists, workshops, a live zine assemblage, talks, performances, readings and more. One day to celebrate independent publishing in all its configurations, make new connections and give a platform to new practitioners in art publishing.
With publishing from Anamot Press, Art Monthly, AQNB, Banner Repeater, Belmacz, Bricks from the Kiln, Book Works, Bronze Age, Capricious Publishing, Canal, Chan Magazine, Common Threads Press, Cool Moist Books, Decadence Comics, Dominic Murray, Drawing Room, Fieldnotes, Flatness, Forma, Good Press, InOtherWords, Lolli Editions, Marzipan, Matt’s Gallery, Monitor Books, Montez Press, The Mosaic Rooms, Nieves, Onomatopee, Pagemasters, Pilot Press, Prototype Publishing, Rat Zine, Shanzhai Lyric, South London Gallery Bookshop, Southwark Park Galleries, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Strange Attractor Press, Supporting Material, Think Big Read Library, TLTRPreß, Tom Pope, Worms Magazine.
The full programme includes:
Garden Cyanotype workshop with Tom Pope
Q&A with AQNB’s Steph Kretowicz and Jared Davis Performance by Fer Boyd & Madeleine Stack
A Perfect Sentence excerpts read by Oliver Frank Chanarin Q&A with Think Big, Read Library
STRIKE live zine assemblage with Forma & contributors
& more to be announced soon
Forma will launch a new collaborative publication, ‘STRIKE’, inspired by DIY publishing and deconstructed book making, that will activate the garden through a live ‘assemblage’.
Instead of a commission or stall fee, tables are offered for free to invite both emerging and established practitioners in art publishing. Publishers who were unable to join in person were invited to send books to be sold at the Forma stall, with 40% of proceeds going towards the programming.
When booking your ticket, please consider making a donation to support the programming and overall fair costs.
Access information
The fair will be situated on the ground floor with a wheelchair accessible toilet. Peveril Gardens is located on the rooftop with a lift available on request.
Book tickets
Free entry with no booking required
A suggested donation of £5 will support the programming and artist fees