Your complete guide to magCulture Live London 2024
Our annual magCulture Live London event takes place this week, on Thursday 7 November. We’ve sold out of in-person tickets, but you can still book the Livestream to follow the event online
As ever, the main focus will be our speakers—editors and designers from big magazines and small magazines, highlighting the amazing creative work that goes into magazine-making. Read on for a complete guide to the day, whether you’ve already booked are are considering it.
What is magCulture Live?
Over the years the event has moved through various names and been based at several different venues. What has remained a constant is the desire to celebrate the creative side of magazine publishing. As well as direct disciplines like editing and designing, it also covers illustration, photography, writing, art direction and typography: everything that goes into creating a magazine. Expect a series of bespoke talks from expert specialists; if you regularly read the magCulture Journal you’ll know the scope of what to expect. We love magazines!
When/where does it take place?
magCulture Live takes place on Thursday 7 November, from 1—5pm, at Vitsoe in Marylebone. Doors open at 12 noon for some pre-talks shopping and chatting.
Vitsoe have been a key partner of ours since 2014, and supplied the shelving and furniture for our Clerkenwell shop. Their space is an exciting modernist showroom space that will be adapted into an auditorium for the day.
Vitsoe
21 Marylebone Lane
London W1U 2NG
Map
Update: the Tube strike planned for Thursday has been cancelled.
This event has now taken place
Is there a theme to the day?
Creativity! Each edition of magCulture Live is a celebration of creative publishing in the broadest sense, but we also add a theme each year. This time it is the Double Page Spread—the basic building block of the print magazine, and a defining difference between print and digital formats. Digital is always a single surface, a spread of print offers two planes.
The day comprises a series of talks by invited speakers, accompanied by slides. Each has been briefed to share their work and address the day’s theme. The running order is planned like a magazine, to provide intriguing crossovers between speakers and to build pace from talk to talk. There is time for some questions from the audience, but the day is designed to be informal and attendees will get the chance to interact directly with our speakers one-to-one too.
The day’s schedule
13:00 Welcome
13:15 Shira Inbar
13:55 Auste Skrupskyte Cullbrand, Playground
14:10 Anna Morrissey, Tummy Ache
14:25 Lucy Roeber, Erotic Review
15m Break
14:55 Davide Cazzaro & Tom Lobo Brennan, Notebook
15:25 Nina Carter, It’s Freezing in LA!
15:40 Clarke Rudick, Crosscurrent
15:55 Chris O’Leary, Fatboy Zine
16:10 Richard Turley, Interview, Civilization etc
17:00 Drinks
Read more about our speakers here. All times are approximate
What else can I expect?
Our pop-up magazine shop will be present on the day, along with stands from our partners Park Communcations and Ra & Olly. All attendees will receive a smart Vitsoe tote bag containing work by our speakers and material from our partners.
Fresh water will be available all day, there will be a ticketed coat check, and one 15m rest break. Vitsoe is located on a small, busy road with plenty of cafés and coffee shops.
We hope attendees will stay at the end of the session for a quick beer or two and chat with our speakers.
Ultimately though, magCulture Live is a day to sit back and enjoy! Be inspired and reminded what’s possible.
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Following magCulture Live, out pop-up shop will remain open on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 November. We also have two events on these days, both sold out (details here).
Our Clerkenwell shop will also be open, usual hours.
Can I watch online?
The event is designed for a live audience, but we realise not everyone can get to London so we livestream it too. Plus we’ve sold out of IRL tickets! This also means that all ticketholders—live and online—will have access to a full video of the whole session after the event has taken place (the link for this will be shared a week or so afterwards).
Tickets
Live and Livestream tickets: £110
Students Livestream rate £80 (please book using your university email address)
If you have any further questions, please email info@magCulture.com