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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tetra-Pak Printing
Join Elina Bry for an evening of eco-printmaking. Learn how to use a Pasta Maker as a printing press using your favourite milk substitute Tetra-Pak container to make beautiful etchings.

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.

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?

(Smoke)screens or paper? Zines for Climate Change
This event invites you to consider and learn about digital emissions before sharing your learnings by making a zine, creating a tangible resource to share further post-event.

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.

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’.

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.

Life Hacks for the Chronically Sick
Come for a quiet morning outside in the garden to spend time with other people who experience fatigue.
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.

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.

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

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.

Hardcore Type - a metal typography workshop
An introduction to designing typography in the chaotic, symmetrical, (often illedgible), style of black metal logos.