Upcoming events at Glasgow Zine Library
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.
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Anti-Racist French Reading Group
Want to practice your French? Interested in anti-racist/decolonial writing? Join us for this reading group in a relaxed environment.
Queer Read-in Club Glasgow
Join us for the new 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.
Divergent Design Series: Disrupting Shame
In this workshop we will examine the ways that the compulsory executive functioning paradigm has twisted our very existence as neurodivergent people from “difference” into “disorder,” shamed us for our differences, and then blamed us for the dysfunction that shame has caused.
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.
Theory Underground and Strange Exiles present: The American Idiots tour
A small band of Amazon warehouse workers arise from the emerging underground theory internet scene to bring innovative hybrid philosophy events to a city near year! They will share about how they have been revitalizing culture in the U.S., and create spaces for untimely topics and concerns that are too often neglected or kept in isolation today.
Publishing a Role-playing Game
In this workshop we'll talk about publishing your first game zine; where you can find the skills and resources to put a project together, and how to promote it to potential players and GMs.
Hidden Herbals
Herbal storyteller Amanda Edmiston invites you to share a herbal tisane or two as she leads you along a path of herbal stories connected to Glasgow, its natural environment and little known lore.
Anti-Racist French Reading Group
Want to practice your French? Interested in anti-racist/decolonial writing? Join us for this reading group in a relaxed environment.
Queer Read-in Club Glasgow
Join us for the new 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.
Hardcore Type - a metal typography workshop
An introduction to designing typography in the chaotic, symmetrical, (often illedgible), style of black metal logos.
Divergent Design Series: Mise en Place: Getting Started is the Hardest Part
There are a million hacks out there that promise to offer the silver bullet for all our creative problems, and this workshop is … Not That. There really are no magic solutions to our struggles, but Mise en Place—a concept borrowed from the culinary world—is both a holistic practice and a quick strategy that can be helpful if we take it to heart and keep coming back to it.
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.
Queer Read-in Club Glasgow
Join us for the new 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.
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.
Queer Read-in Club Glasgow
Join us for the new 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.
Designing a Role-playing Game: narrative and mechanics
In our workshop, Laurie O'Connel will take participants through some of the basics of game design. We'll go through some popular games and analyse how they work, talk about making mechanics that fit your vision, and how to write a game that works in theory and in practice.
Divergent Design Series: Design Thinking
In this workshop we will explore the possibility that “design thinking” offers an alternative paradigm to the so-called “executive functioning” paradigm so often used to pathologize neurodivergent people.
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 Glasgow
Join us for the new 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.
Divergent Design Series: Living in Spiral Time
This workshop explores alternative metaphors for understanding time that are often extremely resonant, exciting, and even healing for Neurodivergent people.
Anti-Racist French Reading Group
Want to practice your French? Interested in anti-racist/decolonial writing? Join us for this reading group in a relaxed environment.
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.
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Secrets of DIY Animation (3 week course)
A 3 week hands-on introduction course to DIY animation! In this three-part series we’ll explore animation techniques, tricks, and history, with a focus on independent and experimental approaches.
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.
Remember this day? Teasing out digital memories with conductive ink
In this inky two-parter zine-making workshop with Lil of No Bindings you will learn how to use conductive ink to make interactive audio-visual zines and then have time to play around and experiment with this exciting medium!
Anti-Racist French Reading Group
Want to practice your French? Interested in anti-racist/decolonial writing? Join us for this reading group in a relaxed environment.
Preserving Community Stories: Scots Zine Launch
Join us for the launch of two Scots zines by Hayley Jane Dawson and Lynsey Gilmour
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for the first in 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.
Innocence & Corruption: A talk on youth oppression with Aiyana Goodfellow
Join Aiyana Goodfellow for an online talk and reading exploring an abolitionist understanding of youth oppression.
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.
Anti-Racist French Reading Group
Want to practice your French? Interested in anti-racist/decolonial writing? Join us for this reading group in a relaxed environment.
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.
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.
GZL Games Night: I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic by Caro Ascersion
Join GZL as we host a series of monthly TTRPG at the library! In this session we'll be playing I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic by Caro Ascersion
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.
Cataloguing Queer zines
Dive into GZL’s collection in this workshop where we’ll catalogue work together and discuss how to categorize zines covering the distinct experiences of the LGBTQ+ community.
Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.
Being Mixed Project
The Being Mixed Project potluck is a community event for mixed people. Come along and bring a dish to share with everyone.