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Welcome to Glasgow Zine Fest 2024!
It’s been a big year in the life of Glasgow Zine Fest! Our community has grown hugely this year with lots of you finding out about zines and DIY culture for the first time, in large part because of our fantastic new library space where we run our year-round programme and house our collection of over 3000 zines. With this in mind, we have returned to the heart of zine culture with this year’s festival, putting together an events programme that unpacks the radical legacies and possibilities of self-publishing. Check out our talks, workshops and drop ins to get inspired and get making.
As well as keeping true to our roots, we are also trying something different. In addition to two days of Zine Fest at our CCA home over Friday and Saturday, and online events throughout the week, we invite you to venture away from the city centre with us to the southside of Glasgow for Sunday’s events. We want to show off our new accessible library and introduce you to more amazing organisations in our area. Take a look at the Glasgow Zine Fest and Friends events in this programme to find out more.
As well as checking out the talks, workshops and drop ins, make sure you visit the Zine Fair to meet a marketplace full of makers and their new zines and other DIY treasures.
We’ll see you there!
LD, Chris, Alex, Martha, Siobhain, Saskia & Nic xoxo
Zines, Scenes, Squats, Anti-racism, Gender Everything and the Kitchen Table
WITH: Raju Rage
WHEN: Wednesday 1st 7-8PM
WHERE: Zoom
Time travel to the 2000s to explore radical zine making and Queerhistorical dissidence in London and beyond. We will explore zine making as a tool for personal-political documentation within the ephemerality of social movements. We will go through the importance of iconic zines of the time and create our own mini-zines.
Magical Overthinking and Me: Conversation and Q&A with Amanda Montell
WHEN: Thursday 2nd 7-8PM
WHERE: Zoom
Author of Wordslut and Cultish, Amanda Montell, joins us to discuss her new book The Age of Magical Overthinking. She will unpack celebrity worship, nostalgia and the phenomena of parasocial relationships, and respond to your questions.
Speculative Sexuality
WITH: Leone Ross
WHEN: Sunday 5th, 10-11:30am
WHERE: Zoom
How might we make love when a body might do anything: change form, shake mountains, be invisible…? In this speculative writing workshop with Leone Ross, you will take part in writing exercises considering sex and sexuality when nothing is impossible and everything is very fluid indeed.
Unlock Your Voice: Art and Activism Zine Workshop
WITH: Munaza Kulsoom / Bradical Press
WHEN: Sunday 5th, 1-3pm
WHERE: Zoom
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 a zine that can be your tool for inspiration and change.
Cocoon Radio Glasgow Zine Fest Special
WHEN: Sunday 5th, 5-6pm
WHERE: ONLINE with Radio Buena Vida
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.
Drop-In Zine Making and Reading Room
WITH: Derbyshire Zine Library
WHEN: 4-6:30pm
WHERE: Creative Lab
Using the library's curated, travelling collection as our backdrop, we'll be mucking in and making zines together. We'll have prompts to inspire you on the themes of gentleness, non-violence, activism and advocacy. All ages welcome, all making materials provided, no zine making experience necessary!
We'll also be accepting zine submissions from anyone who wants to add their creation to the collection.
Political Vessels
WITH: CJ Reay of Black Lodge Press, Anoushka Khandwala, Jess Baines
WHEN: 6-7PM
WHERE: Cinema
Zines are inherently political vesselsthey bypass the guardians and gatekeepers of 'acceptable' culture. CJ Reay of Black Lodge Press, Anoushka Khandwala and Jess Baines gather to discuss the use of self-publishing to disseminate radical information, facilitate political education, spread stories of resistance, and as a tool for building movements for liberation.
Glasgow Zine Fest and Friends Zine Launch
WHEN: 7:30-9PM
WHERE: Creative Lab
Join us to launch an array of amazing new zines emerging from the Glasgow Zine Library community over the past year. There will be readings, snacks and a chance to meet the makers. Come alone or bring your friends! Meet new people and get inspired for what you might make next.
R.AGGS
WHEN: 9-10pm
WHERE: Creative Lab
An intimate gig with R.AGGS, the solo project of total virtuoso and modern guitar hero Ray Aggs (Sacred Paws, Trash Kit and Shopping). Expect irresistible rhythms with distinctive post punk and high life influences.
WHEN: Friday 4-9pm, Saturday 11am-5pm
WHERE: Theatre
The Zine Fair is a weekend-long marketplace brimming with DIY treasures. Zine-makers, artists and creatives from all over will join us to showcase, sell and swap their zines, prints, merchandise and more.
The first hour of each day will be an accessible hour for those who may need extra space and a quiet environment to move around the zine fair.
Please wear a mask in the Zine Fair.
WHEN: Friday 4-10pm, Saturday 11am-9pm
WHERE: Intermedia Gallery
Alongside Glasgow Zine Fest events, there is a free unticketed quiet space in Intermedia. This space has soft lighting, low noise levels and comfortable seating.
There will be a range of resources available that you may find supportive, including ear defenders, stimming toys, colouring books, zines to read, books about DIY, and zine-making equipment.
Publication Studio Inductions
WITH: CCA
WHEN: 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm
WHERE: Publication Studio
Publication Studio Glasgow is an open access printing and binding studio based at CCA Glasgow. It periodically publishes books distributed through a global network of 12 studios spanning 4 continents. After this book-binding induction you will be able to use Publication Studio on your own for your own publishing projects.
Ink and Action!
WITH: Red Sunday School
WHEN: 11am - 12:30pm
WHERE: Creative Lab
Families, come along to this creative workshop to discover histories of radical pedagogy and children and young people’s activism! We will delve into archive materials from radical youth movements, including Glasgow’s Socialist Sunday School tradition, and we'll make our own zines to take home.
Archival Resistance
WITH: Mo'min Swaitat
WHEN: 1-3pm
WHERE: Cinema
Learn more about the Palestinian struggle through the audio-visual Majazz Archive. In this immersive session, you will explore archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, interacting with archival footage and sound that preserves and documents Palestinian heritage and resistance.
Drop-in Zine Making
WITH: Glasgow Zine Fest
WHEN: 1-5pm
WHERE: Creative Lab
Celebrate self-expression and explore the art of self-publishing in a welcoming and inclusive space. Open to makers of all experience, whether you’re brand new or in the middle of working on a zine already. Just drop in and have a go.
Radical Printshops
WITH: Jess Baines
WHEN: 2-4pm
WHERE: Club Room
Explore the largely forgotten history of radical design and print collectives active in the 70s and 80s in this workshop with researcher and designer Jess Baines.
Reimagining Ways of Seeing
WITH: Anoushka Khandwala
WHEN: 4-5pm
WHERE: Cinema
How have Eurocentric ways of seeing dominated our understanding of art and design? How has this shaped narrative and the ways we communicate stories? In this interactive talk, we will consider this, asking how we can expand our notions of what art and design can be.
Penned Prophecies
WITH: Belladona Paloma
WHEN: 5-7pm
WHERE: Club Room
A writing workshop exploring divination, mediumship and channelled writing through tarot, with reference to The Oracle of Delphi, John Dee & Edward Kelly, and spiritualist psychophony. We'll use tarot to connect with a variety of beings, both alien & terrestrial to make a collective zine of channelled texts.
REEL WEIRD! REEL GOOD!
WITH: DIY Animation Club
WHEN: 5:30-6:30pm
WHERE: Cinema
Drop in to watch the playful and experimental animations our DIY Animation Club have been making this year!
Things That Go Well with Rice: A Being Mixed Food Zine Potluck
WHEN: 6-9pm
WHERE: Creative Lab
A potluck and zine-making workshop for mixed-race people who want to explore mixed race identity and food. We will discuss memories and experiences related to food and our identities, developing these conversations into a zine. Bring a dish to share.
K Patrick
WHEN: 7:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Cinema
An in-conversation and reading with K Patrick, discussing their new poetry collection THREE BIRTHS (Granta Poetry). An extraordinary and playful collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, THREE BIRTHS explores the joy and fluidity of queer love. MRS S (4th Estate) was their breakout debut novel and published last year.
GZL Open House and Photocopy Party
WITH: Glasgow Zine Library
WHEN: 11am-5pm
WHERE: Glasgow Zine Library (Venue 5)
Glasgow Zine Library will be open for dropping in to browse the collection and make a zine or badge. Selected zines from our collection about Palestinian liberation, direct action and activism will be free to photocopy to take home and distribute among your communities and the places you go.
Earth First!
WITH: Rumpus Room
WHEN: 11am - 1pm
WHERE: Rumpus Room Yard (Venue 6)
Children, parents and carers, this one is for you! Gather in the Rumpus Room Yard for a play focused workshop all about the print history of Earth First! (a radical environmentalism journal and movement) and explore how this relates to us today.
Life Hacks for the Chronically Sick
WITH: Plot 26
WHEN: 11:30am - 1:30pm
WHERE: New Victoria Allotments (Venue 3)
Come to the garden and spend time with other chronically sick people coming up with and sharing our life hacks. We’ll turn our ideas into a collective zine for future reference.
Paper, Ink, Press
WITH: Glasgow Press
WHEN: 2-4pm
WHERE: Glasgow Press (Venue 2)
We will present a working museum of print over the last 200 years. Participants will have a chance to set type and to ink up and print a poster to take home. Participants will gain knowledge of letterpress print methods; typesetting, printing, both past and present.
Words as Sound World
WITH: Rosie’s Disobedient Press
WHEN: 2-4pm
WHERE: Broadside Studios (Venue 4)
A writing and sound workshop exploring processes for writing that go beyond the page. You will be guided to generate new writing then go on to create soundscapes using simple and readily available methods. No prior experience needed.
Cocoon Radio Glasgow Zine Fest Special
WHEN: 5-6pm
WHERE: ONLINE with Radio Buena Vida
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.
This year, festival events take place online and in person across a range of venues. Please make sure to check where your event is taking place.
You can book tickets on the day but we encourage you to book your tickets in advance as most events will sell out quickly.
You will be emailed with any information or resources you will need after you have purchased a ticket. If you have booked a ticket and can no longer attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer your space to others who wish to attend. We offer refunds until 72 hours before the event.
If you have any questions please email: glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com.
Our events are pay-what-you-can (PWYC). You can choose to pay £0-12 for all events.
Please be honest with yourself and your financial situation. If you purchase a ticket at the lowest end of the scale when you could afford the higher ticket prices, it makes it harder for us to provide financial flexibility to those who need it.
£0/£2: I frequently stress about meeting my basic needs and don’t always achieve them.
£4/£6/£8: I sometimes stress about meeting my basic needs but mostly achieve them.
£10/£12: I can comfortably meet all of my basic needs and have expendable income.
For full information on how to choose what to pay please visit www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/ticketing
Glasgow Zine Library aims to be a safe space for all visitors, staff members, and volunteers. All staff members, volunteers and visitors must agree to follow our Safer Spaces Policy:
Discrimination against anyone on the grounds of: gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, religion, class, survivor status, HIV status, body size or any protected characteristic will not be permitted.
Do not make assumptions about the identity of others.
Use the pronouns that others indicate as theirs.
Be empathetic and don’t assume your physical and emotional boundaries are the same as others.
Abusive behaviour will not be tolerated. If you experience, witness, or are aware of any abusive behaviour by an individual(s) within our space, please inform a member of GZF staff, who will address it.
Some of the zines featured in the Zine Fair and programmed events may cover potentially distressing topics. We are working to ensure that these topics are indicated, however this is not a guarantee.
You can find text-only and audio versions of this programme on our website.
Glasgow Zine Fest is primarily held at CCA, a wheelchair accessible venue with disabled toilets and various seating options throughout the building. Check CCA's website for venue accessibility details: www.cca-glasgow.com/accessibility
Accessibility information for other venues is on our website.
All in-person and online talks feature live closed captioning and BSL interpretation. In-person workshops offer BSL upon request. Online workshops have automated live captioning, with live captioning and BSL available upon request. Films in the programme include captions and a closed induction loop.
You can make access requests on Eventbrite or email: glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com.
We are better able to meet requests made at least two weeks in advance. Please also contact us with any feedback or questions.
CCA
350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD
Glasgow Press
No 6 / 21 Clydebrae Street, Govan, G51 2AJ
New Victoria Allotments
55 Glenapp Street, Pollokshields, G41 2NQ
Broadside Studios
123
Glasgow Zine Library
32-24 Albert Road G42 8DN
Rumpus Room Yard
Langside Lane, Govanhill, G42 8BH
