Glasgow Zine Fest 2024
Glasgow Zine Fest is a yearly celebration of zine culture, featuring events about art, community, and heritage.
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!
Glasgow Zine Library: Cataloguing POC-centered zines
This event will be held in person and is for People of Colour only.
Check out our other cataloguing workshops.
Join GZL for a deep-dive into our collection of POC-centred zines, where we’ll read and discuss how to cataloguing zines about race and identity.
All welcome, no cataloguing experience necessary!
Glasgow Zine Library: Cataloguing Disability zines
This event will be held in person and is for disabled people only.
Check out our other cataloguing workshops.
Dive into GZL’s collection in this workshop where we’ll catalogue work together and discuss how to categorize zines exploring the broad ranging experiences of disability.
All welcome, no cataloguing experience necessary!
Glasgow Zine Fest
Applications now open: https://www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/glasgow-zine-fest/
Sapphic Writers Zine Launch: Meet Me At Lesbos
Please note: this event will be held online using Zoom
Join the Sapphic Writers Collective for a night of performances to celebrate the launch of their new zine: Meet Me At Lesbos.
In this issue, we’re thinking about reunion. For some of us, the prospect of borders re-opening and travel restrictions easing is holding open the prospect of seeing loved ones for the first time in many months. We also live in a world scarred by borders and walls that actively prevent innumerable reunions from happening, a fact that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. Come along and hear all about the winter stories from our incredible community.
Please note: this event will be recorded, and content from the recording may be shared publicly online by Sapphic Writers and their followers for promotional purposes.
GIRLFANS Celtic – Zine Launch
Join us this International Women’s Day to celebrate the launch of GIRLFANS, Issue 5 on Saturday 7th March from 6.30pm – 8.30pm at the Clubroom, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
GIRLFANS Celtic acknowledges the female supporters and activists of Celtic FC during their ‘double treble’ winning season, 2017-2018. This limited edition issue features photography by Jacqui McAssey and Zoe Hitchen as well as contributions from ‘On The Ball’ trio Orlaith Duffy, Mikaela McKinley and Erin Slaven and Glasgow Football Tour’s Lindsay Hamilton.
GHIRLFANS pins will also be available on the night. MON THE GIRLS!
@girlfanszine
TV Will Break Your Heart: TV Fanzine Workshop
“With film you’re in and you’re out and you go on with your life. TV is like a long relationship that ends abruptly or wistfully. One way or another, TV will break your heart.” – David Bordwell
It’s time to put all those hours spent watching Netflix to good use. We know you’ve got ~strong feelings~ about TV shows – so do we. Come and gather with other TVphiles and get those feelings out of your head and into a zine!!
Some potential zine titles to get you inspired:
-why’d they cancel Firefly??
-an ode to the sassy commentator on Come Dine With Me
-the impeccable morality of Captain Jean Luc Picard
-Loving Love Island
This event is free but donations are greatly appreciated!
(CANCELLED TILL 2021) Glasgow Zine Fest 2020
Glasgow Zine Fest table applications are open – apply here
Survivors Zine the Archive
Learn to write and bind your own zine! In this workshop, we’ll transform copies of archival material from the Women’s Aid Archive into hand-bound zines. During the first part of the workshop, we’ll use archival material to tell our own stories, crafting poetry or prose through the inspirational material housed at the library. You’ll then learn how to hand-bind your stories into minature books using traditional bookbinding techniques.
This event is open to self-identifying female survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse aged 18+.
There will be a trained support worker present throughout.
Zine the Archive! (Public workshop)
Learn to write and bind your own zine! In this workshop, we’ll transform copies of archival material from the Women’s Aid Archive into hand-bound zines. During the first part of the workshop, we’ll use archival material to tell our own stories, crafting poetry or prose through the inspirational material housed at the library. You’ll then learn how to hand-bind your stories into minature books using traditional bookbinding techniques.
This event is open to all.
The GWL Community Room is accessible via stairs and a lift, and there is an accessible toilet on the same floor. A portable hearing loop is available, please inform us beforehand if you require this so that we can be sure to welcome you.