Zine Mela: South Asian Journeys in DIY Cultures
Curated by Hamja Ahsan (founder of the DIY Cultures festival)

🗓 Saturday 26th July 2025
🕛 12pm – 7pm

Exhibition also running along side from 27th July to 14th August

#ZineMela2025

Curated by Hamja Ahsan and Hosted by WIP Space; A day-long creative fair featuring zines, comics, makers, social justice, solidarity, alternatives, contemporary craft, small press, underground books, punks, photography, illustration, prints, posters, and graphics from across South Asia and its diaspora.

Come early for free rooh afza, chai, pakora, and carrom.

📲 Follow: @zine.mela
For the latest updates, video interviews, and event details.

🎤 Programme includes:
Talks · Animation · Video Art · Workshop · Riso Mela Exhibition · Reading Room & Archives · Zine Open Mic

📅 Updated timetable:
hamjaahsan.com/mela

South Asia includes:
Bangladesh, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Adivasi Indigenous Nations, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and their global diasporas.

About the Curator:
Hamja Ahsan is the founder of the legendary DIY Cultures festival (2013–2017 at London’s Rich Mix), co-curated with Sofia Niazi (OOMK/Rabbits Road Press) and Helena Wee.
This is his first zine fair since then.

He is the author of Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert and has presented art projects at Documenta 15, among other international platforms.
An artist, writer, curator, and campaigner based in London, he has been collecting and making zines since the 1990s.

📸 IG: @shyradicals
🐦 X: @hamjaahsan
🎙 Media/interview enquiries: hamjaahsan.com