One week until May Day
May 1st is a complicated day.
It’s seen as the beginning of summer and the ancients, from the Romans (Floralia) to the Gaels (Beltane) celebrated it. It’s International Workers Day, marking the ONGOING struggle for labour rights. And it’s an infamous distress call.
Mashing all this up, we’re using the day to gather our magazine mates together in one of our favourite pubs to celebrate the art of magazine making, look for some answers to the industry’s day-to-day challenges and have some fun.
Grab a ticket and join me, Joanna and this fine group of magazine people on May Day as we ask them how they’ve survived and thrived in this messed-up modern media landscape.
Need some reasons to come?
GET OUT THE OFFICE
Surely you don’t need convincing to step away from your desk, put on your ‘outside clothes’ and breathe in the free air??! Put down the Cup-a-Soup and get on that train.
CHAT TO PEOPLE WHO ‘GET IT’
No one understands your pain points better than your magazine comrades. Kick back and get it off your chest in a place your boss can’t hear you.
GET INSPO FOR YOUR MAG
Between the kick-ass guests, your fellow attendees and of course, The Grub Street Gang, there’ll be plenty of ideas for you to nick put to work on your own publication(s).
LEARN HOW OTHERS ARE SURVIVING
Let’s be real: it’s a challenging time to be a person in magazines. Get ideas for how to survive (and maybe even thrive!) in this f***ed-up media landscape... from people who live it.
MEET YOUR HEROES
Yes, we know wise people say you shouldn’t. But when those heroes are Terri White, Paul McNamee, Roy Rowlands and Kate & Jack Lennie, wise people can shove it, frankly.
RELAX IN A QUIRKY PUB
Are there many better things to do than talk magazines, with us, in one of the quirkiest pubs in Cheshire? We don’t think so. Plus the first drink’s on us.
SUPPORT GRUB ST’S MISSION...
...which is, at heart: TO MAKE MAGAZINE-MAKING MORE FUN.
Cheer Up London!
Macclesfied is less than two hours on the train and the venue just three minutes walk from the station.
And if you can’t make it…
Issue four of The Grub Street Journal is out now.
