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:

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Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 3)
Apr
3

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.

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Creating from Landscape: Zine Workshop
Mar
15

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.

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Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 2)
Mar
6

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.

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What Zines Can Do (Inside and Outside of Academia)
Feb
27

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.

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Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 1)
Feb
21

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.

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All Consuming Letterpress Course: Glasgow Press x Lisette May Monroe (5 week course)
Feb
6
to 6 Mar

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.

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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"
Jan
25

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?

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Autobiographical Avatars: A Comic Zine Workshop
Nov
27

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’.

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Transition is Collaboration, a Writing Workshop
Nov
12

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.

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