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

Drop in, no ticket required!

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

Drop in, no ticket required!

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

Drop in, no ticket required!

Use sensory prompts and reflective exercises to explore the garden, deepen your awareness, and magnify your observations. Zine making materials will be available along with equipment and resources to guide you in making a record of your reflections.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Bothy

Have a go at field recording in this hands on sound workshop.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse

The combined climate and fiscal crises are devastating ecologies and economies globally, especially in the Global South, while protecting the Global North's wealth and its practices of colonial plunder. Join our panellists to look at how climate reparations seeks to chart another path.

Location: Tramway 4

Drop in, no ticket required!

Each year GZL seeds the development of new zines through commissions, workshops and discussions. Come by and check out the abundance of this year’s programme, meet the makers and pick up copies of their new zines for yourself.

Location: Tramway Cafe Mezzanine

Make your own natural paints using earth and rocks from around Scotland. You will transform ground pigments into water-based paints like watercolours to make your own natural art kit.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse

Drop in, no ticket required!

Learn the art of drypoint etching using old juice cartons and a pasta maker as a printing press. No experience required, just a dose of curiosity and enthusiasm!

Location: The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard

Drop in, no ticket required!

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

Get your hands dirty, and conduct some simple scientific testing on GALLANT's citizen science compost heap. This workshop will be a great way to explore composting, soil health, sustainability and climate change through the lens of communities, art and science.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse

Drop in, no ticket required!

Use sensory prompts and reflective exercises to explore the garden, deepen your awareness, and magnify your observations. Zine making materials will be available along with equipment and resources to guide you in making a record of your reflections.

Location: The Hidden Gardens Bothy

ONLINE / Open to BPOC participants

Led by Solastalgia Zine, this interactive session invites you to explore how zine-making can be a powerful tool for expressing eco-anxiety, processing climate grief, and building collective resistance.

ONLINE

Join us for an interactive 2-hour online workshop where we’ll learn through zine-making, conversation, and creativity. Together, we’ll explore the situation in Palestine, discussing the occupation, climate justice, and the role of art in activism in an open and welcoming space.

ONLINE

Explore anti-ableist design, engage with thought-provoking zines, and gain fresh insight into how care, activism, and creativity can reshape visual culture and drive change.

ONLINE

How can sound help build solidarity? Explore the role of community radio in climate action in this sonic workshop.

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.

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.

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.

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.