Glasgow Zine Fest is a yearly celebration of zine culture, featuring events about art, community, and heritage.
This year’s festival will take place on the 2nd-6th July at Tramway, The Hidden Gardens and online.
Glasgow Zine Fest is a yearly celebration of zine culture, featuring events about art, community, and heritage.
This year’s festival will take place on the 2nd-6th July at Tramway, The Hidden Gardens and online.
ONLINE
How can sound help build solidarity? Explore the role of community radio in climate action in this sonic workshop.
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
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 / 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.
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
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!
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!
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!
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
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!
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
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
Have a go at field recording in this hands on sound workshop.
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
Open to BPOC participants
Expect ambient music, good food, ritual, generative somatics and trauma informed check ins in this zine making and protest art workshop for BPOC.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
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
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!
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!
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
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
With perspectives stretching from Skye to Eigg 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
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
What does Glasgow Zine Fest involve?
As well as providing all the good vibes that you’d hope to find at a festival that celebrates DIY culture and creativity, Glasgow Zine Fest is founded around two major components:
Events!
We programme a full weekend of events that are affordable and accessible. We welcome internationally-renowned speakers an workshop leaders to deliver everything from performances to mural-making, to poetry writing, to kids arts and crafts, and much MORE!
Zine Fair!
Each year, we hold a massive zine fair that welcomes over 40 zine-makers. For the whole weekend, zine-makers, small presses, artists and more showcase their wares, hang out with each other, and generally have a lovely time!
