Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

In this free zine-making workshop, participants will create their own zines. Guided by GZL’s zine-making experts, this hands-on activity will invite the public to discover a relaxed, non-judgmental, inclusive, and accessible creative method.

The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.

The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.

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.

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!

Part of our Community Led Programme.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

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.

Have you got an application you really need to finish… but you just can’t quite sit down and do it? Application Hub is just the ticket. These monthly sessions take the power of body doubling to run as a two-hour focus group using a gentle Pomodoro structure: we’ll set goals together, do short bursts of deep work, check in with each other, and end with a short moment to decompress.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.

Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

ONLINE

Glasgow Zine Library is currently looking to commission two disabled zine-makers to create one zine each. You can find out more about how to apply to this opportunity here: glasgowzinelibrary.com/resilient-zine-community.

This online workshop is for people interested in applying who may not have experience making zines or filling in applications for creative opportunities.

Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. This edition of Poetry Open Mic is a special collaboration with Coastal Lines Press, bringing together poets in Gaza and Glasgow. In this hybrid event, Gazan poets will be reading their work online and poets in Glasgow will perform from the Zine Library.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join illustrator Olivia Juett to create an imaginary garden, built up from collaboratively drawn flowers. This will be a relaxed, exploratory session that aims to imagine new ways of illustrating the natural world, and imagining how we can each contribute to this.

Celebrate your love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at this fun, relaxed fanzine-making workshop!

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.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Have you got an application you really need to finish… but you just can’t quite sit down and do it? Application Hub is just the ticket. These monthly sessions take the power of body doubling to run as a two-hour focus group using a gentle Pomodoro structure: we’ll set goals together, do short bursts of deep work, check in with each other, and end with a short moment to decompress.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.

Notes From The Underground traces the inter-generational Hip Hop movement of Cape Town, spanning four decades from the 1980s to the present day.

This is the story of a city, told through the lives of those who were not born, but became, Glaswegians.

Join Rana for a workshop exploring Amazigh art, specifically tattoo art. The Amazigh/Imazighen (plural) are indigenous people in much of North Africa and the Canary Islands, with a documented history going back at least 10,000 years.

Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join us for our weekly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.

Comic Club provides a social space for people interested in making comics or any other form of visual storytelling. Participants can bring an existing project to work on, start something from scratch, or just spend the time sketching and doodling.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join us for our weekly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.