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.
Trans Writes: Creative Writing Group
Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.
Poetry Open Mic
Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.
Parent & Baby Poetry Reading with Saskia McCracken and Annie Muir
Parents, babies and everyone else - you're invited to the double launch of Annie Muir's Middle Child and Saskia McCracken's Let Me Carry That For You.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.
TRANS//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
Learning to code? Working on a project? Working on a game? Want to start coding but don’t know where? Need help figuring out particular software? These monthly meetups are a chance to share and discuss any coding-related projects with a group of like-minded peers.
DIY Animation Club
The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!
Trans Writes: Creative Writing Group
Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.
Poetry Open Mic
Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.
DIY Animation Club
The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!
DIY Animation Club
The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!
Social Theory and Pop Culture: ‘Trad Wives’, Yesteryear, Married at First Sight and Feminist Backlash
ONLINE
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.
TRANS//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
Learning to code? Working on a project? Working on a game? Want to start coding but don’t know where? Need help figuring out particular software? These monthly meetups are a chance to share and discuss any coding-related projects with a group of like-minded peers.
Application Hub
Have you got an application you really need to finish… but you just can’t quite sit down and do it? Application Hub is just the ticket. These monthly sessions take the power of body doubling to run as a two-hour focus group using a gentle Pomodoro structure: we’ll set goals together, do short bursts of deep work, check in with each other, and end with a short moment to decompress.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine-making event
Celebrate your love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at this fun, relaxed fanzine-making workshop!
Zine Scenes: learning bite-size playwriting together
Join us for an inclusive peer-learning session led by a fellow amateur playwriting enthusiast. Through guided prompts and discussion, this workshop explores what the creative freedom of zine-making can bring to the act of writing a scene, and how the tradition of plays published in print might bring something exciting to zine collections everywhere.
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.
Poetry Open Mic
Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.
Trans Writes: Creative Writing Group
Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.
Introduction to Japanese Calligraphy
Join this welcoming, hands-on introduction to Japanese calligraphy and discover the beauty of traditional brush writing.
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.
DIY Animation Club
The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!
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!
TRANS//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
Learning to code? Working on a project? Working on a game? Want to start coding but don’t know where? Need help figuring out particular software? These monthly meetups are a chance to share and discuss any coding-related projects with a group of like-minded peers.
Application Hub
Have you got an application you really need to finish… but you just can’t quite sit down and do it? Application Hub is just the ticket. These monthly sessions take the power of body doubling to run as a two-hour focus group using a gentle Pomodoro structure: we’ll set goals together, do short bursts of deep work, check in with each other, and end with a short moment to decompress.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.
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.
Zines of Govanhill exhibition
The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.
Zines of Govanhill exhibition
The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.
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.
Poetry Open Mic
Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.
Trans Writes: Creative Writing Group
Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.
Drop-In Zine Making
In this free zine-making workshop, participants will create their own zines. Guided by GZL’s zine-making experts, this hands-on activity will invite the public to discover a relaxed, non-judgmental, inclusive, and accessible creative method.
Zines of Govanhill exhibition
The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.
Zines of Govanhill exhibition
The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.
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.
DIY Animation Club
The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!