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.

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Imaginary Gardens
Jul
5

Imaginary Gardens

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.

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Disabled Makers Zine Commission: Introduction Workshop with River MacAskill
Jul
14

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.

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Bookmark Etching with Pasta Maker
Dec
11

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.

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 Watchdog and the Art of Consumerism - with Jared Schiller and guests Siân Pattenden, Joshua Knowles and Josh Moir
Dec
3

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.

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Zine Scavenging
Nov
22

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!

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Telling and Recording Stories of Struggle with Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (Session 3)
Apr
3

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.

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