Upcoming events at Glasgow Zine Library
We run a programme of free and Pay-What-You-Can events at the Library and online.
See what events we have coming up below.
Radical Print Histories Walking Tour
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.
Know Your Rights workshop with Southside Anti-Raids
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.
Different Ways of Seeing: a creative writing workshop series (Part 1)
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.
DIY Animation Club
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!
Different Ways of Seeing: a creative writing workshop series (Part 2)
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.
Trans Writes: Creative Writing Group
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.
Poetry Open Mic
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.
Different Ways of Seeing: a creative writing workshop series (Part 3)
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.
Abolitionist Bystander Intervention Training
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.
Different Ways of Seeing: Reading + Conversation with Ellen Renton (ONLINE)
ONLINE
Join us online for an evening with poet, theatre-maker and disability advocate Ellen Renton.
This event will take place online. To book an in person ticket please click here.
Different Ways of Seeing: Reading + Conversation with Ellen Renton
Join us for an evening with poet, theatre-maker and disability advocate Ellen Renton.
This event will take place in person. To book an online ticket please click here.
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Application Hub
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.
TRANS//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
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.
TRANS//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
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.
Origami Fortune Teller Workshop
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.
Application Hub
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.
Drop-In Zine Making
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: Creative Writing Group
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.
Disabled Makers Zine Commission: Introduction Workshop with River MacAskill
ONLINE
Glasgow Zine Library is currently looking to commission two disabled zine-makers to create one zine each. You can find out more about how to apply to this opportunity here: glasgowzinelibrary.com/resilient-zine-community.
This online workshop is for people interested in applying who may not have experience making zines or filling in applications for creative opportunities.
Poetry Open Mic: Coastal Lines Press edition
Join us for a night of creativity and expression in the heart of Glasgow's Southside. This edition of Poetry Open Mic is a special collaboration with Coastal Lines Press, bringing together poets in Gaza and Glasgow. In this hybrid event, Gazan poets will be reading their work online and poets in Glasgow will perform from the Zine Library.
Imaginary Gardens: a collaborative illustration workshop
Join illustrator Olivia Juett to create an imaginary garden, built up from collaboratively drawn flowers. This will be a relaxed, exploratory session that aims to imagine new ways of illustrating the natural world, and imagining how we can each contribute to this.
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine-making event
Celebrate your love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at this fun, relaxed fanzine-making workshop!
TRANS//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
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.
Application Hub
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.
Drop-In Zine Making
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.
Notes from the Underground: Film Screening
Notes From The Underground traces the inter-generational Hip Hop movement of Cape Town, spanning four decades from the 1980s to the present day.
Migrants Made Glasgow: Walking Tour with Radical Glasgow Tours
This is the story of a city, told through the lives of those who were not born, but became, Glaswegians.
Introduction to Amazigh Art
Join Rana for a workshop exploring Amazigh art, specifically tattoo art. The Amazigh/Imazighen (plural) are indigenous people in much of North Africa and the Canary Islands, with a documented history going back at least 10,000 years.
Poetry Open Mic
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.
Trans Writes: Creative Writing Group
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.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our weekly 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.
Comic Club
Comic Club provides a social space for people interested in making comics or any other form of visual storytelling. Participants can bring an existing project to work on, start something from scratch, or just spend the time sketching and doodling.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our weekly 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//CODED: a coding meetup for trans people
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.
Intro to Editing for Animation
Animator Karolina Glusiec returns with an introduction to using open-source editing software to fine-tune, experiment with, and finalize an animated film!
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our weekly 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.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our weekly 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.
Application Hub
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.
Drop-In Zine Making
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: Creative Writing Group
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.
Drop-In Zine Making
Join us for our weekly 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.
Poetry Open Mic
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.
Intro to Sound for Animation
Join us for a hands-on experience in adding sounds to animation and creating new experimental noises to make things even more animated