Glasgow Zine Fest
Glasgow Zine Fest
Glasgow Zine Fest Glasgow Zine Fest
19th -24th May at The Briggait, Southside and online
Glasgow Zine Fest is a yearly celebration of zine culture, featuring events about art, community, and heritage. It has been running since 2013, and growing every year. Visitors from all around the world are immersed in the amazing world of radical DIY culture through talks, hands-on workshops, and, of course, zines! Browse the full programme for this year’s Glasgow Zine Fest below:
Click here for a text only version of the programme.
Audio programme coming soon.
What’s On at GZF
In this special installment of Unfinished Zine Club, come and meet Inkling's founders Rachel Cannings and Mo Odling who will be on hand to give advice, share tips and tricks for publishing your creative ideas and get your zines ready for the fair!
Free, booking required
Lecturer and game developer Iona Ferguson leads this workshop on the fundamentals of programming, ideal for those with little or no experience who want to get started with code.
Online event | Pay-What-You-Can
Want to finish your zines ahead of the zine fair? Attend this relaxed drop-in session, hosted at Glasgow Zine Library.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Revisit the joy of the homemade compilation at this drop-in mix CD making event!
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Explore the cathartic art of blackout poetry. With guidance from genderqueer poet and artist Lizzie Brand, participants will destroy pre-existing texts with damaging themes and turn them into a positive piece of art
Online event | Pay-What-You-Can
Celebrate the start of Glasgow Zine Fest’s weekend programme at our opening party!
Drop in! No ticket needed.
This tour will start and end at The Briggait.
This tour will explore some of the city's rich history of radical print cultures, from anarchist booksellers and worker-run newspapers to seditious print shops, political posters and suppressed languages. People attending the tour will also learn about the surprisingly long history of radical stickers.
Pay-What-You-Can
Come and explore the archive of The Wanderin’ Library! TWL is a mobile zine library and community publishing resource on wheels that travels to events and unconventional locations to showcase handmade publications.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
The zine fair is a weekend-long market featuring over 100 makers and artists showcasing, selling, and swapping their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch, and more.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Access hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.
Bringing together educational and creative aspects, this workshop encourages participants to think about how and why Palestine and Palestinian liberation are at the centre of every activist movement.
Pay-What-You-Can | All ticket sales donated to The Sameer Project.
Every day we’re bombarded by propaganda for capitalism – but a better world is possible. In this drop-in session with artists L.T.Leif and Flannery O'Kafka, you’re invited to make your own posters and flyers to indoctrinate the public with anti-capitalist rhetoric. You can even make some copies to put up around town.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Explore alternative ways of documenting cities and personal experience in this workshop led by Bhavani Bala of Kutty Press.
Pay-What-You-Can
Academic and zine-maker Dr Gemma Flynn explores the rich culture of DIY fan-created gifting within commercialised music spaces.
Pay-What-You-Can
The zine fair is a weekend-long market featuring over 100 makers and artists showcasing, selling, and swapping their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch, and more.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Access hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.
Come and explore the archive of Glasgow Zine Library! GZL is the year-round home of the festival. Based in the Southside of Glasgow, it has been operating since 2018. It is the largest independent zine archive in the UK, with over 4000 zines.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Make a fanzine dedicated to your bestie at this workshop led by writers Anahit Behrooz and Mika Morava. An instant camera will be on hand, so bringing your best friend and doing the workshop together is encouraged!
Pay-What-You-Can
Join the Highland Zine Bothy for this calm and crafty drop-in session with plenty of materials provided for making mini zines and badges. Explore your own ideas or get inspired by our gumball machine full of prompts.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Creative collective playmymixtape hosts this fun and friendly trading event. Bring along the physical media item(s) of your choice – from DVDs to zines, vintage tech to keychains – then trade with something on display, or take a gamble with a mystery item!
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Discover new ways to document and archive recipes, meals and food memories in this relaxed cookzine workshop, led by poet and zinester Sean Wai Keung.
Pay-What-You-Can
To close the weekend, writer and fandom expert Gavia Baker-Whitelaw hosts a celebration of niche interests, featuring fun quickfire presentations from GZF tablers and friends.
Pay-What-You-Can