New Free Mini Zine to Inspire!
The 2022 book choice for St Leonards on Sea’s annual spring festival, #ATownExploresABook, is Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on its fiftieth anniversary of publication. The festival’s mentee team, an inspirational group of early career artists with barriers to employment, have contributed to a mini zine publication ahead of the festival to enthuse book groups and local community groups to get involved.
Esme Fisher
The initiative is the idea of 25-year-old St Leonards visual artist, Esme Fisher. Supported with work by her peers, she introduces themes in the book that the festival outdoor artist team and the photography team, both funded by Arts Council England, are exploring in #ATownExplores
ABook22.
The free publication is available from The Bookkeeper Bookshop at 1a Kings Road and other creative businesses in St Leonards on Sea, and at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. The mini zine offers multiple entry points to a book that will be explored in myriad ways in the festival running 1-18 April 2022 through the school spring holiday in St Leonards on Sea.
Esme Fisher has been funded by an Artist Digital fringe award in the 2021 AltPitch Arts and Technology Festival and mentored by graphic designer and the festival’s Community Engagement Coordinator, Erica Smith.
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