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.
Magnets for Memory: magnet making workshop
Join illustrator Olivia Juett in exploring how memories can be held and create a memento magnet for a moment you want to hold close.
Introduction to Japanese Calligraphy
Join this welcoming, hands-on introduction to Japanese calligraphy and discover the beauty of traditional brush writing.
Social Theory and Pop Culture: ‘Trad Wives’, Yesteryear, Married at First Sight and Feminist Backlash
In this instalment of the Zine Library’s ‘Social Theory and Pop Culture’ series, Dr Gemma Flynn will present a talk using Susan Faludi’s landmark text ‘Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women’ (1991) to explain the recent rise of TradWives.
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine-making event
Celebrate your love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at this fun, relaxed fanzine-making workshop!
Making Doctor Who Mini-Fanzines!
Join Coin-Operated Press to nerd out about Doctor Who and celebrate your love for The Doctor by crafting your very own mini-zine!
Disability, Creativity, Advocacy: a conversation and reading with Ellen Renton
What do we know about our bodies? What can creative practice teach us about disability? How do we take care of ourselves when we share our experiences of disability and ableism? Join Glasgow Zine Library and Ellen Renton for an evening of conversation and readings that will focus on exploring experiences of disability through creative practices and advocacy work.
This event will take place in person. To book an online ticket please click here.
Disability, Creativity, Advocacy: a conversation and reading with Ellen Renton (ONLINE)
ONLINE
What do we know about our bodies? What can creative practice teach us about disability? How do we take care of ourselves when we share our experiences of disability and ableism? Join Glasgow Zine Library and Ellen Renton for an evening of conversation and readings that will focus on exploring experiences of disability through creative practices and advocacy work.
This event will take place online. To book an in person ticket please click here.
Abolitionist Bystander Intervention Training
This workshop explores why we must reject the framing of racist incidents as ‘hate crime’, and ways we can intervene when we witness these types of harm in public.
Different Ways of Seeing: a creative writing workshop series (Part 3)
Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.
In the final session, we will use the phrase ’seeing is believing’ as a starting point to think about the relationship between sight and truth.
Different Ways of Seeing: a creative writing workshop series (Part 2)
Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.
In the second session we will focus on poetic form and how this can be used to explore different ways of seeing.
Different Ways of Seeing: a creative writing workshop series (Part 1)
Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.
The first session will focus on ’the hierarchy of the senses’, as we consider ways that we can de-centre sight in our writing practice.
Radical Print Histories Walking Tour
This tour will explore some of the city's rich history of radical print cultures, from anarchist booksellers and worker-run newspapers to seditious print shops, political posters and suppressed languages.
Origami Fortune Teller Workshop
Discover the fun and creativity of handmade origami fortune tellers in this playful, hands-on workshop. Participants will learn how to fold and design their own paper fortune tellers while exploring colour, pattern, drawing, collage, and creative storytelling.
Disabled Makers Zine Commission: Introduction Workshop with River MacAskill
ONLINE
Glasgow Zine Library is currently looking to commission two disabled zine-makers to create one zine each. You can find out more about how to apply to this opportunity here: glasgowzinelibrary.com/resilient-zine-community.
This online workshop is for people interested in applying who may not have experience making zines or filling in applications for creative opportunities.
Imaginary Gardens: a collaborative illustration workshop
Join illustrator Olivia Juett to create an imaginary garden, built up from collaboratively drawn flowers. This will be a relaxed, exploratory session that aims to imagine new ways of illustrating the natural world, and imagining how we can each contribute to this.
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine-making event
Celebrate your love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at this fun, relaxed fanzine-making workshop!
Notes from the Underground: Film Screening
Notes From The Underground traces the inter-generational Hip Hop movement of Cape Town, spanning four decades from the 1980s to the present day.
Migrants Made Glasgow: Walking Tour with Radical Glasgow Tours
This is the story of a city, told through the lives of those who were not born, but became, Glaswegians.
Introduction to Amazigh Art
Join Rana for a workshop exploring Amazigh art, specifically tattoo art. The Amazigh/Imazighen (plural) are indigenous people in much of North Africa and the Canary Islands, with a documented history going back at least 10,000 years.
Intro to Editing for Animation
Animator Karolina Glusiec returns with an introduction to using open-source editing software to fine-tune, experiment with, and finalize an animated film!
Intro to Sound for Animation
Join us for a hands-on experience in adding sounds to animation and creating new experimental noises to make things even more animated
again + again + again: stamp making workshop
This 2-hour workshop will introduce you to the art of collage. Through prompts, you will explore the basic concepts of collage
The Forest and the Ruin: Collage Workshop
This 2-hour workshop will introduce you to the art of collage. Through prompts, you will explore the basic concepts of collage
Revolting Now & Then: Anti-Capitalist Writing Workshops (Part 3: Future)
In this workshop series, we will engage with readings, discussions, and prompts to write alternatives to the capitalist hellscape and find possibilities in its decay.
In the final session in this series we will consider speculative fiction as a vehicle for visioning beyond societal collapse.
Revolting Now & Then: Anti-Capitalist Writing Workshops (Part 2: Present)
In this workshop series, we will engage with readings, discussions, and prompts to write alternatives to the capitalist hellscape and find possibilities in its decay.
In the second session in this series we will channel our rage about the current moment into propaganda and memoir.
ya tebya lyublyu: A Heated Rivalry fanzine-making event
Express your intense feelings for the Canadian television programme Heated Rivalry at this fanzine-making workshop!
Making Meaning: Zine Making for Mental Health
This workshop invites you to try zine making as a method of exploring and communicating lived experiences of mental and emotional distress
Revolting Now & Then: Anti-Capitalist Writing Workshops (Part 1: Past)
In this workshop series, we will engage with readings, discussions, and prompts to write alternatives to the capitalist hellscape and find possibilities in its decay.
In the first session in this series we will consider social movements for liberation across history and their lessons.
Gathered Thoughts: Bookbinding Workshop
Learn 2 simple bookbinding methods to transform found materials into curated, unique booklets
Bookmark Etching with Pasta Maker
Tired of the festive season blues and endless shopping lists? Step away from consumer madness and into the quirky world of sustainable making! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll be turning the humble pasta maker into your new favourite printmaking tool. Using recycled tetrapak cartons, you’ll design and etch your very own bookmark.
Last Call at the Local: Zine Launch
Join us for the launch of Last Call at the Local, a zine by Cheryl McGregor. Featuring live poetry and pub snacks.
Watchdog and the Art of Consumerism - with Jared Schiller and guests Siân Pattenden, Joshua Knowles and Josh Moir
ONLINE
I'm Not Buying It – the world's only Watchdog fanzine – is a collaborative zine edited by Jared Schiller, exploring consumer culture through art and writing. For this hour Jared will discuss the making of the zine and be joined by three of its contributors: the journalist, artist and musician Siân Pattenden and artists Joshua Knowles and Josh Moir.
Zine Scavenging
Ever made a zine from an old polaroid camera? How about from a plastic bag? In this hands-on workshop focused on recycling and reusing, you'll learn to see the possibility of how the things you might throw away can be turned into an unusual zine!
Dissent Rover / composing a poetics of dissent
What is dissent? What are poetics?
In this pilot workshop, Dissent Rover invites attendees to rove these questions. We will shape something like a poetics of a dissent, something where we write a poem and reflect on it.