It's the Engels of the world as we know it and we feel fine
29 March 2025
10:00-16:00, Artist & Radical Book Fair // Fair Artistiaid a Llyfrau Radical
Books, Art, Pamphlets, Zines, Posters, Distro, Campaigns, Stickers, Merch.
A day packed with stalls, workshops, talks and discussions, featuring radical publishers, booksellers, artists, campaign groups and activists.
Fully accessible. Affordable refreshments. Free Entry – come and recharge your radical batteries.
Hosted by G39 in collaboration with Yellow Back Books and Red Shoes Poster Archive ! Archif Bosteri'r Esgidiau Cochion
Events
Free but booking is essential
Climate Cooks: Tea Making
10:00-14:00
Climate Cooks are a group of women who come together around cooking, hosting and eating. The women have lived experience of the asylum system, and through the project they share their heritage and culinary tradition. They started by running creative cooking workshops to share skills with each other, now with support from Levelling Up funding they are popping up across the city with their mobile bike kitchen.
Dragged to the Revolution with Heather Savage
10:30-12:00
This workshop aims to amplifiy voices of the queer community, through fostering empowerment and creative self-expression. Participants will create mask designs and maquettes, to embody personal and collective queer resilience. Drawing inspiration from the rich history of drag culture as a site of defiance, transformation and joy. Through humour and wit as powerful design tools, this workshop cultivates solidarity and strength within the queer community, encouraging participants to reclaim space, embrace play, and express themselves theatrically in the face of adversity. Materials will be supplied.
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Yellow Back Books: Art Vs Content with Onismo
12:30-14:00
The “Art vs Content” project is an exploratory workshop designed to investigate the intersection between art and content creation, examining how these two realms can coexist and complement each other. The primary goal of the workshop is to create a collaborative environment where artists and content creators can engage in meaningful discourse, develop new skills, and challenge the traditional boundaries between art and content. The workshop aims to highlight the significance of intention behind content creation, providing artists with the tools to create purposeful content without compromising their artistic integrity.
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Left Cultures Creative Writing Workshop
14:30-16:00
Within the workshop we will be discussing the various forms of storytelling, writer’s use when creating their narratives for the editions of Left Cultures. The diversity of culture which has been discussed throughout the project to date. Using the project brief our writer’s response too, you will be asked to question and explore your own political journey and education you’ve taken through culture and eventually share your potential Left Cultures story with the group.
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Left Cultures and Welsh Stories
17:30-19:00
Throughout the 3 editions of Left Cultures to date there has been array of amazing stories focusing on Welsh cultures on the left, from literature to activists to music to bampas to architecture. During the event Phil and Colum the co-publishers and editors will discuss the importance of Left Culture in Wales and have a series of readings from published stories from all 3 the Left Cultures editions and maybe, just maybe a story exclusive from the 4th edition yet to be published. Readings by some very special guests.
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Stalls
YBB Yellow Back Books
Red Shoes Poster Archive
Community Table
g39
Left Cultures
Fernanda Fedrizzi
Gutter Gear Press
ACORN (Housing Union)
AWCHU
Printed Matter(s) - CSAD: Fine Art
Daughter of Carmilla
Resistance books
Rubicand Space
Shelf Life
Dinah Vagina
Dyddiau Du
Joshua Jones
C.W.O The Internationalists
Cwilt
Francesca Sobande
mur.mur.sca - Swansea College of Art: Photography
Letters to political prisoners
UWE MA Print
Stop the War Cardiff
Yellow Back Books
Yellow Back Books is a collaborative project around artists’ books formed in 2015.
Named after Yellow-backs, affordable publications that were available to the mass market through railway stations, Yellow Back Books is committed to provide a space for people to access affordable artist books and multiples.
Having previously taken form as a temporary artists’ bookshop in shop units, art fairs and exhibitions in spaces, including a residency with ArcadeCampfa in 2018, Yellow Back Books will be situated in g39 for the foreseeable future.
RED SHOES Poster Archive ! Archif Bosteri’r ESGIDIAU COCHION
RED SHOES Poster Archive ! Archif Bosteri’r ESGIDIAU COCHION is an accessible public learning resource set up by artist Shaun Featherstone to preserve and celebrate the radical poster culture of working class people, communities and social movements. Set up in 2020 and organised along grass roots not-for-profit principles, the archive has over 1700 physical posters, books and ephemera as well as a digital archive. RED SHOES refers to the colour most associated with mass worker-led movements, and the notion that we walk in the footsteps of those before us, continuing the struggle to win a more fair, equitable and sustainable world.
