Upcoming events at Glasgow Zine Library
We run a programme of free and Pay-What-You-Can events at the Library and online.
See what events we have coming up below:
(Smoke)screens or paper? Zines for Climate Change
This event invites you to consider and learn about digital emissions before sharing your learnings by making a zine, creating a tangible resource to share further post-event.
So You Like Showtunes. It Doesn't Mean You're Gay, It Means You're Awful: Queer Adolescence on Screen and the Legacy of "Glee"
ONLINE
Reviewing history of representing LGBT youth on television pre and post Glee, this talk will incorporate scholarly and popular discourse to ask the questions: what was the impact of Glee and its fandom? How is the series remembered almost twenty years after its premiere? And most importantly: was it all worth it?
Queer Read-in Club
Not your usual book club, this is a social space for LGBTQ+ people to come together and do one of our favourite things, read.
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
Glasgow Storytellers Group
This group is a place to share opportunities and performances, meet other local storytellers, and build a professional network in a relaxed, casual environment.
All Consuming Letterpress Course: Glasgow Press x Lisette May Monroe (5 week course)
Join us for a 5 week course where you will learn letterpress techniques with Glasgow Press, create content around tactics for survival within the cost of living crisis with Lisette May Monro (author of newsletter All Consuming), and go away with your own printed materials to take home.
Tetra-Pak Printing
Join Elina Bry for an evening of eco-printmaking. Learn how to use a Pasta Maker as a printing press using your favourite milk substitute Tetra-Pak container to make beautiful etchings.
Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!
Preserving A Place: Gaelic Place Names & Climate Change
ONLINE
Join us as we explore the Gaelic language and the legacy of place names. We will examine their intrinsic value in helping us understand climate change, land use, and colonialism, as well as the Gaelic folklore that inspires climate justice zine-making and community action.
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Trying Together: A Peer Group for Works in Progress
A peer support group that gives creatives space to reflect on the highs and lows of their month.
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Queer Read-in Club
Not your usual book club, this is a social space for LGBTQ+ people to come together and do one of our favourite things, read.
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
What Zines Can Do (Inside and Outside of Academia)
ONLINE
This talk assess the ways researchers of all stripes can use zines to better communicate with the public and each other. Part memoir, part manifesto, it lays out a series of arguments and ideas about the value of print and DIY publishing for sharing information, catalyzing conversations, and building community.
Glasgow Storytellers Group
This group is a place to share opportunities and performances, meet other local storytellers, and build a professional network in a relaxed, casual environment.
Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Trying Together: A Peer Group for Works in Progress
A peer support group that gives creatives space to reflect on the highs and lows of their month.
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
Queer Read-in Club
Not your usual book club, this is a social space for LGBTQ+ people to come together and do one of our favourite things, read.
Glasgow Storytellers Group
This group is a place to share opportunities and performances, meet other local storytellers, and build a professional network in a relaxed, casual environment.
Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Queer Read-in Club
Not your usual book club, this is a social space for LGBTQ+ people to come together and do one of our favourite things, read.
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
Trying Together: A Peer Group for Works in Progress
A peer support group that gives creatives space to reflect on the highs and lows of their month.
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Rot Your Brain: A Television Reading Group
A group to discuss theories and themes in contemporary and past television series. This month’s show: BoJack Horseman
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!
Glasgow Storytellers Group
This group is a place to share opportunities and performances, meet other local storytellers, and build a professional network in a relaxed, casual environment.
Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!
Rot Your Brain: A Television Reading Group
A group to discuss theories and themes in contemporary and past television series. This month’s show: True Crime Television
Glasgow Storytellers Group
This group is a place to share opportunities and performances, meet other local storytellers, and build a professional network in a relaxed, casual environment.
I Want a Better Catastrophe: re-imagining ourselves and places we love for the age of climate crisis
ONLINE
Join the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network’s Story Weavers team for an immersive exploration of the effects of climate crisis and the steps we need to take to adapt in our communities.
Autobiographical Avatars: A Comic Zine Workshop
Autobio comics and zines are a creative and accessible way to explore, process, and reflect on lived experiences, emotions, memories, moments in time, and more. This workshop will introduce participants to a number of autobiographical comics and zines ranging in narrative styles from literal to abstract. As well as concepts within autobiographical comics practice such as ‘the autobiographical avatar’.
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
Queer Read-in Club
Not your usual book club, this is a social space for LGBTQ+ people to come together and do one of our favourite things, read.
How to create your own zine library: lessons from the Madzines project
A zine library can be anything from a fully catalogued collection in one fixed physical location to a shoebox under one's own bed. Join Madzines to hear about our main collection, our personal collections and the lessons we have learned.
Life Hacks for the Chronically Sick
Come for a quiet morning outside in the garden to spend time with other people who experience fatigue.
Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive: Working-Class Print Media and the City
The Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive is a new project to document and learn from our city’s rich history of housing movements and tenant struggles. In this workshop, we will look at the legacies of working-class print media and political education in Glasgow between 1970 and 1990.
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Trying Together: A Peer Group for Works in Progress
A peer support group that gives creatives space to reflect on the highs and lows of their month.
Collage and Conversation: Dreaming Alternative Worlds
In the third and final Collage and Conversation session of 2024, we will be diving into an exploration of utopias and collectively designing alternative futures.
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!
Transition is Collaboration, a Writing Workshop
In this workshop for trans and non-binary people, we will write through the ways gender happens among groups and in relationships. Working from the understanding that transition is a series of social decisions, rather than one innate transformation, we will consider the lineages that inform our existence: from friends and lovers to historical and pop culture figures to strangers on the internet.
Glasgow Storytellers Group
This group is a place to share opportunities and performances, meet other local storytellers, and build a professional network in a relaxed, casual environment.
DOCMA: DIY Documentary Filmmaking (3 week course)
Come along and make your own DOCMA film! A DOCMA is a 5-minute documentary film made by a team of 5 filmmakers in 5 different documentary styles. Sundays, 2-4pm from 3rd November - 24th November
Sex Positive Reading Group
A night of chatting and myth busting for anyone interested in sex education, sexual health, how we relate to the people around us.
Queer Read-in Club
Not your usual book club, this is a social space for LGBTQ+ people to come together and do one of our favourite things, read.
Three Sessions on Creative Militancy for Palestinian Liberation
Join Hussein Mitha for three sessions on Palestinian liberation, tools for resistance and production of revolutionary material. 100% of ticket sales will be donated to Thamra.
Sersi: Release Party and Gig
We invite you to a weird and wonderful night of music to celebrate Sersi's new musical collection
Celebrating Punk Rock Karaoke with Bianca Xunise
Come join Chicago-based artist Bianca Xunise to celebrate the release of their book PUNK ROCK KARAOKE.
Trying Together: A Peer Group for Works in Progress
A peer support group that gives creatives space to reflect on the highs and lows of their month.