Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join this welcoming, hands-on introduction to Japanese calligraphy and discover the beauty of traditional brush writing.

Join illustrator Olivia Juett in exploring how memories can be held and create a memento magnet for a moment you want to hold close.

The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join Coin-Operated Press to nerd out about Doctor Who and celebrate your love for The Doctor by crafting your very own mini-zine!

Learning to code? Working on a project? Working on a game? Want to start coding but don’t know where? Need help figuring out particular software? These monthly meetups are a chance to share and discuss any coding-related projects with a group of like-minded peers.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Have you got an application you really need to finish… but you just can’t quite sit down and do it? Application Hub is just the ticket. These monthly sessions take the power of body doubling to run as a two-hour focus group using a gentle Pomodoro structure: we’ll set goals together, do short bursts of deep work, check in with each other, and end with a short moment to decompress.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.

What do we know about our bodies? What can creative practice teach us about disability? How do we take care of ourselves when we share our experiences of disability and ableism? Join Glasgow Zine Library and Ellen Renton for an evening of conversation and readings that will focus on exploring experiences of disability through creative practices and advocacy work.

This event will take place in person. To book an online ticket please click here.

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What do we know about our bodies? What can creative practice teach us about disability? How do we take care of ourselves when we share our experiences of disability and ableism? Join Glasgow Zine Library and Ellen Renton for an evening of conversation and readings that will focus on exploring experiences of disability through creative practices and advocacy work.

This event will take place online. To book an in person ticket please click here.

This workshop explores why we must reject the framing of racist incidents as ‘hate crime’, and ways we can intervene when we witness these types of harm in public.

The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.

The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.

Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.

In the final session, we will use the phrase ’seeing is believing’ as a starting point to think about the relationship between sight and truth.

Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. Whether you're a seasoned performer or trying out the mic for the first time, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your voice and connect with fellow artists.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

In this free zine-making workshop, participants will create their own zines. Guided by GZL’s zine-making experts, this hands-on activity will invite the public to discover a relaxed, non-judgmental, inclusive, and accessible creative method.

The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.

The Glasgow Zine Library archivists curate an exhibition of zines made by local creatives based in Govanhill and Glasgow Southside as part of this year’s Govanhill Festival.

Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.

In the second session we will focus on poetic form and how this can be used to explore different ways of seeing.

The DIY Animation Club is a space to gather together and play with images, movement, and sound. No experience is necessary to join–each of us is learning through experimentation! We share ideas, tips, and skills. We might be working on our own fragments of bigger projects, or spontaneous scrappy snippets together!

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join poet Ellen Renton for a series of three writing workshops which will help you to find new ways of engaging with your senses.

The first session will focus on ’the hierarchy of the senses’, as we consider ways that we can de-centre sight in our writing practice.

Concerned about immigration raids for you or your community? Want to know what you can do in the event of ICE knocking on the door? Want to know how you can support your neighbours?

Come to Southside Anti Raids Network’s workshop! We will learn our legal rights, practise asserting them, look at warrants, and more.

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.

Learning to code? Working on a project? Working on a game? Want to start coding but don’t know where? Need help figuring out particular software? These monthly meetups are a chance to share and discuss any coding-related projects with a group of like-minded peers.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Discover the fun and creativity of handmade origami fortune tellers in this playful, hands-on workshop. Participants will learn how to fold and design their own paper fortune tellers while exploring colour, pattern, drawing, collage, and creative storytelling.

Have you got an application you really need to finish… but you just can’t quite sit down and do it? Application Hub is just the ticket. These monthly sessions take the power of body doubling to run as a two-hour focus group using a gentle Pomodoro structure: we’ll set goals together, do short bursts of deep work, check in with each other, and end with a short moment to decompress.

Part of our Community Led Programme.

Join us for our monthly afternoons of zine-making at the library. This is open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new, or in the middle of working on a zine already.

Trans Writes is a creative writing group for anyone who identifies as trans or non-binary. We welcome writers of all levels, including those who want to try writing for the first time. Together we'll explore trans identity and creative expression; this is a space for you to experiment, whether you’re writing something serious, something playful, or something in-between.

Part of our Community Led Programme.