Futurepast Zine

A few months back, Rob Ashby hit me up to let me know about something that he and a friend were starting. This something is ' Project Birmingham '. They are running a series of events showcasing Birmingham's creative talent and their second event 'Limelight' is taking place at  112 Space  on the 18th July.  Their first event showcased a mixture of art, live bands, DJs and food. I was interested to find out a bit more as some Futurepast Zine family (Anjin and Hollow) played a few records at the first event and they reported back good things :) Tell me about yourselves? My name is Rob, and along with James Cronin I help run a cultural collective called Project Birmingham. Our aim is to showcase the best of Birmingham based artists, musicians and chefs. Me and my partners grew tired of the stigma surrounding the second city and wanted to show the rest of the UK what Birmingham has to offer! How did Limelight come about? What was the motivation for it? ...

On Thursday last week I had the opportunity to attend a workshop at Rope Press . Rope Press is a book shop located in the Jubilee Centre in Birmingham. On my first visit I was blown away by what they had there. And they also specialise in risograph printing which is something I’m interested in. Sometime last year I purchased a comic from there entitled ‘Neon Noir’ which also contained a comic called ‘Dirt – The Debate’ which was written by Michael Kennedy. I thought that Dirt was unreal for a lot of different reasons, it felt fresh. It was Michael that was running this workshop on Thursday so I was pretty excited, but I can’t draw to save my life and I’ve never written a story since I was at school! Reece, that runs Rope Press with his partner Elyse, assured me that I didn’t need to have either of these skills. 2nd trash comics workshop went amazingly! Cider, hobnobs and crazy stories @trashcomics @memoryboy14 @futurepastzine pic.twitter.com/QBdMXyf3aQ — Rope Press (@RopePress...