What’s On at GZF24
Zines, Scenes, Squats, Anti-racism, Gender Everything and the Kitchen Table with Raju Rage
Time travel to the 2000's to explore radical zine making and Queerhistorical dissidence in London and beyond. We will explore zine making as a tool for personal-political documentation within the ephemerality of social movements. We will go through the importance of iconic zines of the time and create our own mini-zines.
Magical Overthinking and Me: Conversation and Q&A with Amanda Montell
Author of Wordslut and Cultish, Amanda Montell, joins us to discuss her new book The Age of Magical Overthinking. She will unpack celebrity worship, nostalgia and the phenomena of parasocial relationships, and respond to your questions.
Drop-In Zine Making and Reading Room
Using the library's curated, travelling collection as our backdrop we'll be mucking in and making zines together. We'll have prompts to inspire you on the themes of gentleness, non-violence, activism and advocacy. All ages welcome, all materials provided, no zine making experience necessary!
Political Vessels
Cj Reay of Black Lodge Press, Anoushka Khandwala and Jess Baines gather to discuss the use of self-publishing to disseminate radical information, facilitate political education, spread stories of resistance, and as a tool for building movements for liberation.
GZF & Friends Zine Launch + R.AGGS
Join us to launch an array of amazing new zines emerging from the Glasgow Zine Fest community over the past year followed by an intimate gig with R.AGGS. Expect irresistable rhythms with distinctive post punk and high life influences.
Ink and Action! A family workshop with Red Sunday School
Families, come along to this creative workshop to discover histories of radical pedagogy and children and young people’s activism! We will delve into archive materials from radical youth movements, including Glasgow’s Socialist Sunday School tradition, and we'll make our own zines to take home.
Publication Studio Inductions
Publication Studio Glasgow is an open access printing and binding studio based at CCA Glasgow. It periodically publishes books distributed through a global network of 12 studios spanning 4 continents. After this book-binding induction you will be able to use Publication Studio on your own for your own publishing projects.
Archival Resistance
An audio-visual session focused on Palestinian liberation, featuring archival footage and sound from the Majazz Archive.
The Sheetzines of Tomorrow
In an age of rampant misinformation and constant attention-grabbing tactics, how can your practice incorporate the tools thoughtful self-publishing provides? This workshop is for people who have a self-publishing project in mind.
Drop-In Zine Making
Celebrate self-expression and explore the art of self-publishing in a welcoming and inclusive space. Open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new or in the middle of working on a zine already. Just drop in and have a go.
Reimagining Ways of Seeing
How have Eurocentric ways of seeing dominated our understanding of art and design? How has this shaped narrative and the ways we communicate stories? In this interactive talk, we will consider this, asking how we can expand our notions of what art and design can be.
Penned Prophecies
A writing workshop exploring divination, mediumship and channelled writing. You will use tarot to connect with a variety of beings, both alien and terrestrial, and work together to create a new zine of channelled texts.
REEL WEIRD! REEL GOOD!
Drop in to watch the playful and experimental animations our DIY Animation Club have been making this year!
Things That Go Well with Rice: A Being Mixed Food Zine Potluck
A potluck and zine-making workshop for people who identify as mixed-race/multi-racial/bi-racial. As we eat, we will explore our different relationships with food and develop those conversations into a zine. Bring a dish to share that ‘goes well with rice’
K Patrick
K Patrick in conversation with Rosie's Disobedient Press, with opening readings from Leo Bussi
Speculative Sexuality
How might we make love when a body might do anything: change form, shake mountains, be invisible…? In this speculative writing workshop with Leone Ross, you will explore sex and sexuality when nothing is impossible and everything is very fluid indeed.
Earth First! A family workshop with Rumpus Room
Children, parents and carers, this one is for you! Gather in the Rumpus Room Yard for a play focused workshop all about the print history of Earth First! (a radical environmentalism journal and movement) and how this relates to us today.
GZL Open House & Photocopy Party
Glasgow Zine Library will be open for dropping in to browse the collection and make a zine or badge. Selected zines from our collection about Palestinian liberation, direct action and activism will be free to photocopy to take home and distribute among your communities and the places you go.
Life Hacks for the Chronically Sick
Come for a quiet morning outside in the garden to spend time with other people who experience fatigue, thinking up and sharing our life hacks. We’ll turn our ideas into a collective zine for future reference.
Unlock Your Voice: Art and Activism Zine Workshop
Explore the powerful intersection of art and social change. Zines will become our canvas for activism as we discover the stories, symbols, and messages that matter to you, transforming them into zines that can be your tool for inspiration and change.
Words as Sound World
Explore writing processes that go beyond the page in this writing and sound workshop. You will be guided to generate new writing then go on to create soundscapes using simple and readily available methods. No prior experience needed.
Paper, Ink, Press
A special chance to visit a working museum of print that has functioned for 200 years and continues production today. You will learn about letterpress methods, both past and present, as well as having your own chance to set type, ink up and print a poster to take home.
Cocoon Radio Glasgow Zine Fest Special
In this special edition of Cocoon Radio, meet the makers behind some of the zines at the festival, and learn about their process. Discover new music too as they take us through a favourite album that lifts them up through hard times.
Zine Murmurations: A GZF zine launch
Join us to launch an exciting array of zines emerging from the Glasgow Zine Library team and programme over the past year.
Commonality: Connecting through Speed Artmaking
This event will provide a space for people to seek out one thing they have in common with someone else through conversation, and then use different forms of art such as poems, painting, clay, and collages to interpret this commonality. Individuals will move around different tables like a carousel in order to meet new people and find something in common with each person, with each table featuring a different art medium.
Social Theory & Pop Culture: The ‘True Crime’ Boom and Social Harm Theory
Considering the vast landscape of recent true crime – from podcasts and documentaries to the coverage of high profile trials like Amber v Johnny – this talk will use ‘Social Harm Theory’ and ‘Hierarchies of Victimisation’ to aim to understand the reframing of crime and victimisation today.
Any Room for Rest? (BPOC only)
Slow down, you’re going too fast. Take a breath, it’s ok. There’s time. Join Roo for a moment of rest.
Accessorise Your Life! a jewellery making workshop
Accessories can make an outfit go from 0 - 100, so we're gonna show you just how to do exactly that! Join us as we make our own bracelets, earrings + waistbeads.
On the Inhale: Community Shorts
A selection of short films made by the wonderfully creative members of the GZF community. They invite us to consider what we do with our time and at what pace.
Global Meme Cultures: Creative Practices in Online Civic Engagement
The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics. This talk will conceptualize memes as cultural mapping tools—tools that chart out the cultural hierarchies in relation to spatial and political relations for their makers and users, focusing particularly on youth civic engagement.
dreaming + being Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland
what does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? what is it like to dream of Black Scottish history? how do we learn about the past while living in the present? Francesca Sobande, layla-roxanne hill, Najma Akubar + Chris Manson invite you to dream, share + reflect upon these questions through readings, photography, illustration + animation.
Mini Comic Making!
A workshop for anyone interested in storytelling through comics, no experience needed.
Slow letters to the future: An anthotype image making workshop
Join A+E for a hands-on workshop that practices slowness as an act of resistance.
Explicit Zines
This workshop will discuss and interrogate how the more risqué items of a zine (or any) collection can be handled, maintained and accessible. Participants will get “handsy” with real examples and lively discussions about how to fit these items into their collection.
Tidal Writing: Exploring waves as a shape for writing
So much comes in waves, joy, misery, pleasure, nausea, illness, laughter. This workshop will explore what it might mean and look like to use waves as a shaping device for writing, as opposed to the convention of a narrative arc.
Slow Journalling: Learning with Nature and Our Non-Human Kin
In this workshop, we will take time to slowly wander, rest, spend time with and collectively learn from and with the plants and non-human kin who live in the Woodlands Community Garden.
Any Room for Rest? (LGBTQ+ only)
Slow down, you’re going too fast. Take a breath, it’s ok. There’s time. Join Roo for a moment of rest.
Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Library
Woodlands Community Anti-Racist Library houses books for people of all ages - children, young people and adults. There are fiction and non-fiction books, serious and light-hearted - but all centre the lived experience of People of Colour. Come by for a cup of tea, a chat and an opportunity to check out the books.
Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
From IRL streamers in LA to Brazilian butt lifts, from sex workers on OnlyFans to fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes, these are the incredible stories that lurk behind the filtered selfies and gleaming smiles.
Symeon Brown's exposé exposes the fraud, exploitation, bribery, and dishonesty at the core of the influencer model, Get Rich or Lie Trying asks if our digital rat race is costing us too much.
Sample a king-sized slice of drag with Dorian T. Fisk
Explore the masculine spectrum of the art of drag in this bite-sized workshop with Glasgow's master of metamorphosis, drag king Dorian T. Fisk.
Unruly Somatics & Care Practices for Black bodies in white spaces
Omikemi will facilitate a 90 minute talking and body work session on the theme of Black bodies being asked/forced to simulate whiteness.
Queer as Folklore: Legends of the Highlands & Islands Through an LGBTQ+ Lens
Join Stories of Scotland as they share some of their favourite legends, myths, and traditional stories from the Highlands and Islands retold through a queer lens.
Remember This Day? Teasing out Digital Memories through Conductive Zines
In this workshop, we will use conductive ink to make an interactive zine that takes the digital memories from our phones and places them into the world around us, through paper, projections and sound.
Internet of Zines
In this mini zine making workshop we'll use this space to explore and discuss ideas around internet culture. We will use the zine format to play with the ways we as people, artists, designers, makers and activists respond to disseminating ideas and radical thought in the age of the internet.
Domain Of Emergence (DOE): A Zine Making workshop for POC
Feeling welcome. Feeling wanted. Being able to show up in all our imperfections. Without judgement. With care. With love.
Lets make a zine about these things together!
Draw A Story: A Figure Drawing Workshop for Families
A family friendly figure drawing workshop with live model. Throughout the workshop we will be telling a story through movement and all participants will end up with their own hand drawn storybook by the end.
So Far, So Good: An exhibition of zine cultures in Scotland and beyond
Glasgow Zine Fest reflects on a decade of operation with this exhibition that looks at the past, present, and future of zine-making in Scotland.