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

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

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!

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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.

Access Plus hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.

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

Access Plus 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.

Access Plus hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.

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.

Academic and zine-maker Dr Gemma Flynn explores the rich culture of DIY fan-created gifting within commercialised music spaces.

Pay-What-You-Can

Explore alternative ways of documenting cities and personal experience in this workshop led by Bhavani Bala of Kutty Press.

Pay-What-You-Can

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.

Access Plus hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.

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.

Access Plus hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.

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 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.

Access Plus hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.

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

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

Revisit the joy of the homemade compilation at this drop-in mix CD making event!

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Want to finish your zines ahead of the zine fair? Attend this relaxed drop-in session, hosted at Glasgow Zine Library.

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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

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

Open to BPOC participants

Build an understanding of the tools necessary to build nourishing economies rooted in the Solidarity Economics Framework.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse

With perspectives stretching from Skye to Sutherland to Lewis, join our panelists in this discussion considering the lasting impacts of land resistance and what the methods of tomorrow might look like.

Location: Tramway 4

In this creative writing workshop, we’ll use storytelling and speculative fiction to imagine liberated, just futures rooted in land, reparations, and collective care.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse

Create bold, two-colour posters using risograph printing to spark climate action in your community!

Location: Inkling, The Cooperage

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Inspired by the endangered corpse flower and surrealist exquisite corpse game, artist Jacky Cheetham invites you to play with clay as a way to process, absorb and document the themes, questions and conversations you have explored over the festival.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard

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Glasgow Zine Library will be open all festival weekend for zine making! No experience necessary and all materials provided. The Library’s Palestinian zine collection will also be on display and you can use our photocopier for free to print your own to take away.

Location: Glasgow Zine Library

Drop in, no ticket required!

Browse climate and activism zines from our extensive Glasgow Zine Library collection. Our archive counts over 4000 zines made across the last 70 years and includes some of the most important expressions of radical self-publishing.

Location: Tramway Foyer

Drop in, no ticket required!

The zine fair is a weekend-long market of over 70 makers and artists selling their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch and more.

Location: Tramway 1

Drop in, no ticket required!

A rolling programme of screenings and audio material, sharing knowledge from academics, activists and artists engaged in climate and social justice, including new work emerging from GZL’s year round programme.

Location: Tramway 4

Open to BPOC participants

A creative and political space to co-create strategies for global food sovereignty — through art, memory, healing, and collective action.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse