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:
PULP: Recycling & Creativity Through Papermaking
Using gathered materials like redundant packaging, printed papers and recyclable art paper, participants will learn how to recycle fibres and form new papers, perhaps for drawing, hand printing or to use as covers for limited edition paper publications.

Zines Forever! at Wellcome Collection
ONLINE
Join Mel Grant and Nicola Cook from Wellcome Collection, London, to hear about their growing zine collection broadly themed around health, and new display Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice, which runs until 14 September.

KNOT JUST HAIR: Zine Launch
Join us for the launch of KNOT JUST HAIR, a zine by Lizzie Edoh Eidson.

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.

Queer Craft Club
Queer Craft Club is a community run monthly crafting meet up. Each session a different member will teach us their favourite craft.

unruly histories archive building (in person workshop)
London-based art practitioner and youth worker Meera Shakti Osborne shares zines and audio from the DUH archive along with zines from Glasgow Zine Library, exploring DIY ways of recording history.

Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 3)
Join us for the second in a 3 part series with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive. In our third workshop, archivists from Glasgow Zine Library will talk us through the building and cataloguing an archive collection, with the opportunity to learn more about GZL's materials and contribute to the cataloguing of GHSA's material.

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!

Always Been Here with Replay Zine
Make content for the second issue of Replay Zine at this zine making social for women and non-binary people into gaming. Replay is a zine that shines light on the vibrant community of women and non binary gamers in Scotland by bringing people together and sharing experiences.

Un/Nature: a queer ecologies reading group
Un/Nature is a queer ecologies reading group, plucking texts from zines, philosophy, critical theory and poetry.

To Filth: A transfeminist reading group
To Filth is a group for trans women and trans feminine people to gather to discuss transfeminist texts.

Rot Your Brain: A Television Reading Group
A group to discuss theories and themes in contemporary and past television series. This month’s show: Bob’s Burgers

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.

Zine & Poster Making for Folks with Neurological Conditions
Come along for a making session for those with neurological conditions which includes migraines, long Covid, etc.

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.

Ancestral Returns: Collective Filmmaking for Beyond Human Experiences
This workshop will explore lo-fi filmmaking and create a zine art manifesto that guides collective filmmaking practice.

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.

Let’s Make A Video Game Zine!
ONLINE
Artist Fredde Lanka invites you to this 2 part online workshop where you will learn how you can become a video game zinester using a free open source software called TWINE.

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.

To Filth: A transfeminist reading group
To Filth is a group for trans women and trans feminine people to gather to discuss transfeminist texts.

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.

unruly histories archive building
ONLINE
Art practioner and youth worker Meera Shakti Osborne shares insights into archiving unruly histories in this online talk. We will think together about the impulse to archive, questioning the process and reflecting on ways of recording and sharing. Meera will share audio samples from the

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.

Speculative Worlds: writing speculative fiction
Join award-winning novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Rachelle Atalla for an in-person workshop exploring the art, breadth and beauty of speculative fiction.

Rot Your Brain: A Television Reading Group
A group to discuss theories and themes in contemporary and past television series. This month’s show: Feminist television

Zines, Feminism & Queer Resistance: Conversations with FemLibrary
ONLINE
The event will bring together speakers - Armine Karapetyan, Maria Zakaryan and Arpi Balyan - from FemLibrary (Yerevan, Armenia) to discuss feminist organising, queer resistance, and zine culture.

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.

To Filth: A transfeminist reading group
To Filth is a group for trans women and trans feminine people to gather to discuss transfeminist texts.

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.

Creating from Landscape: Zine Workshop
Join us for a special workshop exploring the connections between creativity, language, and nature through the art of zine-making. Gaelic culture, language and identity is deeply rooted in landscapes, wildlife, and other natural elements. We’ll express our own interpretations of this connection by creating zines using the accessible medium of collage.

Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!

playmymixtape: pick&mix
Spend the evening trading physical media with each other, and creating mini-zines to take home with you – our very own pick and mix

Imagined Memories: Zine Making Workshop
In this zine-making workshop, we’ll explore fleeting wanderlust through the art of collage.

Playing Posthumanism: Choose Your Habitat
Join MUCK to co-create habitats for unruly critters in a playful exploration of symbiosis, shapeshifting, and convergence.

Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 2)
Join us for the second in a 3 part series with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive. In our second workshop, we will look at how to digitize and preserve material records of our struggles (articles, leaflets, posters, badges, speeches), with an opportunity to get hands-on experience with digital photography and flatbed scanners.

Queer Craft Club: Herbal Tea Blending
Izzi will be hosting this chill evening making different herbal tea blends

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.

Decolonising The Outdoors: Zine Launch
Join us for the launch of Decolonising The Outdoors, a zine by Aileen Angsutorn Lees.

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.

Preserving A Place Zine Making Workshop
IN PERSON
Create your own zine exploring the legacy of Gaelic placenames and how they can help us to understand climate change.

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.

Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 1)
Calling trade unionists and tenant union members with a story to tell! Join us for the first in a 3 part series with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive. The first workshop will involve basic oral history training, including the theory, ethics and practicalities of oral history interviews. This workshop is aimed at trade unionists and tenant union members with an interest in oral history skills who are able to commit to gathering oral testimonies of housing and community struggles throughout March, April and beyond.

Rot Your Brain: A Television Reading Group
A group to discuss theories and themes in contemporary and past television series. This month’s show: Sex and the City (Valentines Special!)

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.

To Filth: A transfeminist reading group
To Filth is a group for trans women and trans feminine people to gather to discuss transfeminist texts.

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.

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.

Poetry Open Mic
Come share your talents at our Open Mic night at Glasgow Zine Library - it's your time to shine!