You can learn the art of handmade bookmaking at Pubpeab Zine Fair this July 4-5

The community surrounding zines keeps growing, and Pubpeab Zine Fair grows right alongside it. Back for its third outing with a new theme, ‘The Maker Space’, the fair reimagines GalileOasis as a working print house where artists, publishers, collectors and curious first-timers all come together under one roof.

Not the sort of print house filled with conveyor belts and fluorescent lights. Organised by GalileOasis and Wuthipol Designs, the event also welcomes fabric-printing specialists Studio2B and risograph producer Haptic Editions, turning the venue into a temporary workshop where ideas move as freely as ink on paper.

What sets this year apart is the emphasis on making rather than merely displaying. The centrepiece is ‘Make Some Zines’, a hands-on workshop area where visitors follow a publication from start to finish. Pick your papers, test materials, experiment with layouts and stitch everything together yourself. Never folded a single page before?

Elsewhere, Space Bar Zine and Wuthipol Designs present selections from their own collections, showing just how broad the format can be. Personal diaries, political statements, artist books, travel journals, playful visual experiments – part of the appeal is never quite knowing what waits on the next table.

And, naturally, the beloved zine swap returns. Bring a publication, exchange it with someone else and watch it begin a new life in another pair of hands. Paper, people and conversations that carry on long after the ink dries – sometimes that's all you need.

Taking place on July 4-5 at GalileOasis from 11am to 6pm. Admission is free.