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<p>So what&#8217;s new? A new name (goodbye Glug, hello Gather!) An awesome new venue (The Crossing!) A new BD Magazine about the West Mids creative community (half price with your Gather ticket!) Four fantastic new speakers (all magazine masters!) and plenty of new news&#8230; (about BDF, our new shop &amp; more!) &#8230;plus some new street food! What more could you want?</p>
<p>Speaking will be Holly Hollister (Bab Mag &amp; Selextorhood) John Joseph Holt (LAW Magazine) Ella Paradis (The Black Explorer) and Andrew Diprose (The Ride &amp; WIRED).</p>
<p>Whether it&#8217;s your first time, or umpteenth, we hope you can join us on Thurs 21st April in Digbeth to socialise, enjoy an evening of inspiring talks, and come away with a new magazine celebrating our scene. Tickets are just £15 (inc booking fee) with a copy of the magazine, or £10 without. Additional copies of the mag will be available to purchase on the night for £10 (+ buy 5 and get 1 free).</p>
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                                            Andrew Diprose                                        </li>
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                                            Ella Paradis                                        </li>
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                                            Holly Hollister                                        </li>
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                                            John Joseph Holt                                        </li>
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                                                                                                    <h4 class="c-event-sidebar__title">Duration</h4>
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                        Group Creative Director at WIRED                    </p>
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                        &lt;p&gt;Andrew says he&amp;#8217;s been working in publishing for over two decades, but honestly it&amp;#8217;s nearer three.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#8217;s previously spent time at GQ, Elle, Esquire, Sky, Tatler, FHM, Smash Hits was the launch art director for WIRED here in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#8217;s now Group Creative Director for the brand where he works over every part of the business. He&amp;#8217;s four time BSME Art Director of the year and being a massive bike geek he also previously published an independent magazine purely on all kinds of riding, it&amp;#8217;s imaginatively titled The Ride Journal.&lt;/p&gt;
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                                            <li><i class="fas fa-globe"></i><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/profile/andrew-diprose">Website</a></li>
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                    Group Creative Director at WIRED                </p>
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                <h3 class="c-col-title">Ella Paradis</h3>
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                        Founder of The Black Explorer                    </p>
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                        &lt;p&gt;Ella is the founder of The Black Explorer, a media company on a mission to amplify Black voices in travel. She loves to champion underrepresented voices creating spaces for their stories to be heard and seen. She&amp;#8217;s a self-proclaimed graduate from and eternal student of the &amp;#8220;university of Google for design&amp;#8221;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                                            <li><i class="fas fa-globe"></i><a href="https://www.theblackexplorer.com">Website</a></li>
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                    Founder of The Black Explorer                </p>
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                <h3 class="c-col-title">Holly Hollister</h3>
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                        Selextorhood / BABMAG                    </p>
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                        &lt;p&gt;A human of Brum for eight years, creatively solving problems is what Holly likes to do. They run Selextorhood.com and BABMAG.co.uk, which provide platforms for underrepresented people to come together, use their voice and collectively create meaningful action.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With an acute awareness of the global world we live in and how we’re going to create a better planet for future generations, Holly likes to challenge people to think outside of society’s norms, whether that be through identity, music or words.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A DJ and speaker too, Holly 1–10 collects soul filled music and delivers talks to young people in the city.&lt;/p&gt;
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                                            <li><i class="fas fa-globe"></i><a href="https://babmag.co.uk">Website</a></li>
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            <h3 class="c-col-title">Holly Hollister</h3>
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                    Selextorhood / BABMAG                </p>
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                        Founder, Creative Director &amp; Editor-in-Chief of LAW                    </p>
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                        &lt;p&gt;John Joseph Holt is an award-winning writer, artist and founder of British documentary publication, LAW magazine. Launched in 2011, LAW is a celebration of modern Britain that hails the unsung, driven by Holt’s deeply romantic and evocative vision. In 2023 Holt&amp;#8217;s poem ‘The Island Life’ for the Channel 4 idents won gold at the British Arrows and his debut ‘Bite the Bullet’ poetry tour included performances at We Out Here, Glastonbury and Rally festival. He lives and works in the Fenlands, East Anglia.&lt;/p&gt;
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                                            <li><i class="fas fa-globe"></i><a href="https://www.law-mag.com">Website</a></li>
                                                                <li><i class="fab fa-instagram"></i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/johnjosephholt/">Instagram</a></li>
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                    Founder, Creative Director & Editor-in-Chief of LAW                </p>
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<p class="c-col-subtitle" style="text-align: center;">Available for half price when you purchase tickets to Gather: Off the Page.</p>
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        <p><strong>*Birmingham Design Issue One* is our first (and hopefully not our last!) printed publication, celebrating the West Mids creative community.</strong></p>
<p>Inside its 110 vibrant B5 pages you&#8217;ll find a varied collection of interviews, features, opinion pieces, conversations and profiles — we hope it&#8217;s a fitting introduction to our scene.</p>
<p>Beautifully printed by Birmingham&#8217;s finest family printers, Clarkeprint, it features a stunning full-bleed wrap created especially for this issue by Super Freak – available in 2 colourways – a signature SF colour explosion, and an on-brand BD blue variant.</p>
<p>Too special to spoil with cover lines, this very special uncoated 6-colour metallic silk cover includes a spot varnish and comes with an A5 sticker sheet so you can decide whether to keep it clean or sticker-it-up!</p>
<p>This first issue includes: Super Freak, Common Curiosity, Foka Wolf, Imbue, Sleep Sparrow, Old Bort, QTRMSTRS, Harpers Hill, Seven 9 Signs, Doaly, Lewes Herriot, Lou Chorley, Keith Dodds, Minima, Jointworks, Outspoken, Pickle Illustration, Ted Jones, Tina Jiwa, Mary Hemmingway and Abbie Reilly + lots more&#8230;</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be donating 10% of the profits from this issue to WithUkraine – a platform set up by the Embassy of Ukraine to the UK to consolidate international efforts in raising funds to provide humanitarian support to Ukraine and its people.</p>
<p><strong>Add to your basket at checkout to get 50% off.</strong></p>
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