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Cut it up, stick it down

A collage studio, a free zine library and a paper-scrap shop on Gloucester Road in Bristol. Drop in to make something, borrow a zine or fill a bag with paper.

  • Collage club every Thursday, everything provided
  • Three hundred and forty zines to borrow, free
  • Paper scraps and old magazines by the bag
Six people laughing round a long table covered in cut paper, scissors and mugs of tea

Three rooms, one shop

Collage club

A long table, a hundred magazines and twelve pairs of scissors, every Thursday from seven.

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Zine library

Three hundred and forty zines about everything, to read on the sofa or borrow for a fortnight.

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Paper shop

Offcuts from Bristol printers, old maps, wallpaper and magazines, sold by the bag.

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Everything here had a life before

Odds & Sods began in 2016 as a market stall selling bags of paper offcuts that a printer down the road was about to throw away. Ten years on it fills a whole shop, and it still runs on the same idea: good paper deserves a second go.

Printers, framers and design studios bring us their trimmings. Neighbours bring old magazines, maps and wallpaper books. We sort it all by colour, and it goes out again by the bag, as a zine on the shelf or as a picture on somebody's wall.

The back room is the bit we are proudest of: a free zine library, a long table and, every Thursday, a room full of people cutting things up.

A brick wall covered in bright collages and prints made at the club
340Zines to borrow
1800 kgKilos of paper saved
12Seats at the table
52Collage nights a year

Overheard at the big table

JO
I came in for a bag of paper and left with a zine about pigeons, two friends and a seat booked for Thursday. Every week, basically.
Jess O.Thursday regular since 2021
MT
I had not made anything since school. Three months later my collages are framed in the hallway and my kids are jealous.
Marcus T.Club card holder
PS
The library is the best free thing in Bristol. I have borrowed sixty zines and finally made one of my own.
Priya S.Zine maker

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