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.

Join us for the launch of Last Call at the Local, a zine by Cheryl McGregor. Featuring live poetry and pub snacks.

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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.

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!

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.

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Ever thought about how comics can capture history, memory, and the passage of time? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll experiment with the unique ways comics combine text, image, and space to tell stories — especially historical ones.

Bring the whole family to discover the beauty of Japanese calligraphy in this hands-on workshop led by Glasgow-based artist and designer, Kanae Park. Originally from Japan and practicing calligraphy since childhood, Kanae loves sharing this traditional art in a way that’s fun, creative, and welcoming for everyone.

Calling trade unionists and tenant union members with a story to tell! Join Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive for basic oral history training.

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

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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.

This workshop will explore lo-fi filmmaking and create a zine art manifesto that guides collective filmmaking practice.

Come along for a making session for those with neurological conditions which includes migraines, long Covid, etc.

Use illustration and creative activities to explore the basics of DoxyPEP use, benefits and risks, and strategies for negotiating DoxyPEP in your sexual and romantic relationships.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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.

Spend the evening trading physical media with each other, and creating mini-zines to take home with you – our very own pick and mix

In this zine-making workshop, we’ll explore fleeting wanderlust through the art of collage.

Join MUCK to co-create habitats for unruly critters in a playful exploration of symbiosis, shapeshifting, and convergence.

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.

Join us for the launch of Decolonising The Outdoors, a zine by Aileen Angsutorn Lees.

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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.

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Create your own zine exploring the legacy of Gaelic placenames and how they can help us to understand climate change.