MEANS magazine issue 7 : You Can't Climb a Tree With Dead Roots

The latest issue of MEANS contains articles, artworks and music from a plethora of people supporting grassroots art and music across the UK and beyond. Explore initiatives ranging from death festivals to avant-garde kids orchestras, social spaces to art-clubs, record labels to site-specific resistance... A wonderful - positive - overview of the sort of activities taking place, and how the arts serves to strengthen communities. Includes album of experimental music (which will be uploaded here once the issue ships)

MEANS 7 is a full colour 72 page art magazine featuring writers, organizers and creatives discussing their role in the Grassroots. Contributors include:

ART YARD BKLYN
Art educators and social space in Brooklyn.
LIMNETIC MAPS
Digital world map for discovering underground music.
AWEN / RHYS TRIMBLE
DIY space for experimental performance in North Wales.
THE SONDERING
Unique festival of death and grief.
SPACES OF THE NO-AUDIENCE UNDERGROUND
Exploration of the sites of participatory noise-making.
TURQUOISE COCONUT
Label and fundraiser for the social good.
THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY
25 years with the iconic Brighton promoter.
OTHER SPACE ARTS
Multi-use art space and vegan cafe in Windsor.
PRIMITIVE PERCUSSION YOUTH ORCHESTRA
School children improvise weird music.
A VAST NETWORK OF PIPES
The state of grassroots digital radio.
TO ARTISTS
Ukrainian refugee art collective explore resistance through art.
SPOT
Modern approaches to gig listings in Sussex.
POETS OFFLINE ART CLUB
Quiet art outside of the noise of social media.
OUTPUT
Netherlands experimentalists rock the boat.
ST. GHOSTLY CREATIVES
Projects at the nexus of theatre, writing and sound.

+ music reviews, project breakdowns, a music compilation of experimental voices from the grassroots, and more.