We are a self-publishing library, archive and community space located in Govanhill, Glasgow.
We host a year-round programme of affordable, accessible events, hold a collection of over 4000 zines, and organise the annual Glasgow Zine Fest.
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Upcoming events at Glasgow Zine Library
Discover the fun and creativity of handmade origami fortune tellers in this playful, hands-on workshop. Participants will learn how to fold and design their own paper fortune tellers while exploring colour, pattern, drawing, collage, and creative storytelling.
Learning to code? Working on a project? Working on a game? Want to start coding but don’t know where? Need help figuring out particular software? These monthly meetups are a chance to share and discuss any coding-related projects with a group of like-minded peers.
This tour will explore some of the city's rich history of radical print cultures, from anarchist booksellers and worker-run newspapers to seditious print shops, political posters and suppressed languages.
Concerned about immigration raids for you or your community? Want to know what you can do in the event of ICE knocking on the door? Want to know how you can support your neighbours?
Come to Southside Anti Raids Network’s workshop! We will learn our legal rights, practise asserting them, look at warrants, and more.
Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.
The first session will focus on ’the hierarchy of the senses’, as we consider ways that we can de-centre sight in our writing practice.
The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!
Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.
In the second session we will focus on poetic form and how this can be used to explore different ways of seeing.
Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.
In the final session, we will use the phrase ’seeing is believing’ as a starting point to think about the relationship between sight and truth.