Firstsite is delighted to announce that it will be staging Cultural Traffic, a fair for counterculture material, alongside a day of performance, poetry, music and film, on Saturday 18^th February.

Free and open to all, the fair will feature over 40 dealers of new, rare and collectable books, zines, prints, posters, catalogues, vinyl and tapes, giving the public a unique opportunity to purchase an eclectic variety of items at affordable prices directly from the producers.

The hugely popular pop-up Syrian Café will return (between 10.30am and 3.30pm) with a special menu of delicious food, available to eat-in or take-away. And they’ll be joined by Firstsite’s newly launched coffee bar, a collaboration with social enterprise charity We Walk the Line – who’s ‘Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!’ project trains local people to develop the skills they need to find employment.

The day will be closed by a special screening of My Buddha is Punk (2015) at 6pm. Directed by Andreas Hartmann, the documentary centres on a young Burmese punk pursuing the dream of seeing the punk scene take off in Myanmar.

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