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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

An audio-visual session focused on Palestinian liberation, featuring archival footage and sound from the Majazz Archive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drop in to watch the playful and experimental animations our DIY Animation Club have been making this year!

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 in conversation with Rosie's Disobedient Press, with opening readings from Leo Bussi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.