Bookfair 2010 roundup
We reckon this year's bookfair was pretty successful, to be fair it was all down to the coalition, let's hope the cuts don't have too much of an effect.

Bod writes: We reckon this year's bookfair was pretty successful, to be fair it was all down to the coalition, let's hope the cuts don't have too much of an effect.

We would like to thank the 47 groups, campaigns, authors, publishers and distros who ran stalls and all those who facilitated workshops and debates. We particularly want to thank the other members of our coalition: Bristol Radical History for organizing 11 stalls and one meeting room, Bristol Indymedia for running another meeting space, Kebele sound collective and friends and volunteers for organising and running the after party, Lemmy from The Chelsea pub and others for keeping the masses cidered up, and Classics and Co-Exist for the use of their venues plus anyone else we have missed.

Particular thanks goes out to the Kebele Cafe collective, some of whom appeared to not stop working for a moment all day, feeding the never ending queue of hungry bookworms. We unashamedly bow to you all. Of course, above all we want to thank those who attended the event, without which there would have been a lot of unloved books and stale cake.

Based on us running out of pamphlets by 3.30pm we estimate in the region of 800 punters through the door.

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We now need your help, on saturday 24th September at Kebele social centre we will be holding a feedback meeting. come and tell us what you think, what you liked, what you didn't like and we can use this to make next year event better. We know that not everyone was happy with some decisions made by the collective so come out from behind your computer screens, meet us and tell us! Alternatively you could come and say well done and buy us a cup of tea, it was after all, bloody hard work!

Would you like there to be a bookfair next year?
We really feels it's an important part of the regions radical calendar and it would be a shame to lose it.
If you would like it to happen in 2011 then please help it happen by joining the collective. The five of us can not continue to do it ourselves, it's not hard when shared between more people so if you want to get involved get in contact and keep the project alive.

L//R
The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective