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:
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.
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
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.
Life Hacks for the Chronically Sick
Come for a quiet morning outside in the garden to spend time with other people who experience fatigue.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcore Type - a metal typography workshop
An introduction to designing typography in the chaotic, symmetrical, (often illedgible), style of black metal logos.
Collage and Conversation: Resistance in the face of fascism
This event will carve out space to reflect on how fascism shows up across the various frontiers of our lives and discuss strategies of resistance– from the individual and intimate, to the collective and structural.
This event is for Black and people of colour / people of global majority.
Risoprint your Zine! (6 week course)
Six week intro course to risograph printing & publishing. Saturdays, 10am-1pm from 28th September - 2nd November
Zines, Memes and DIY Dissent: a Talk with Hate Zine
ONLINE
Join hate zine editor Luisa Le Voguer and writer, performer and organiser Amardeep Singh Dhillon as they discuss zines, DIY culture, activism and how to resist rising fascism.
Collage and Conversation: Who am I in ‘Multicultural Britain’?
In this collage and conversation event with activist and pluralistic therapist Loa Pour Mirza, we will use collage-making to share our thoughts and feelings about being in Britain, and what this means in relation to our histories, heritage and identities.
This event is for Black and people of colour / people of global majority.
Copyright and Zine Making
ONLINE
Learn about how copyright law intersects with creative practices, including why copyright matters and what challenges it poses to creative practitioners.