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Critical Hits Zine Fair

From: 22nd March 2025 11:00 am

To: 22nd March 2025 5:00 pm

Bonington Gallery

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Marking the launch of our Bonington Gallery’s exhibition, Weird Hope Engines (22 March – 10 May), this event celebrates DIY publishing and tabletop gaming with vendors from Nottingham and around the UK including Melsonian Arts CouncilCopy/Paste Co-opWarp MiniaturesRamshackle Games and others.

Critical Hits Zine Fair brings together independent publishers, artists, and writers exploring themes of critical worlding, resistance, and alternative futures.

Alongside a diverse range of zines and collectables to purchase, the Fair also features a programme of talks and conversations with artists from the exhibition including Zedeck Siew and Angela Washko, and panel discussions on fantasy illustration, game design and miniature fabrication with Andrew WalterAmanda Lee FranckScrap World, and Alex Huntley.

Critical Hits Zine Fair also features gaming sessions with David Blandy, Angela Washko and Andrew Walter, as well as a film screening programme delving further into the narratives, aesthetics, and communities that shape these immersive worlds, including the documentaries World of Darkness (2017) and Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons (2019).

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