COnTEnTS
2. Welcome
3. Meet the team
4. Where to find us
6. Online Events
10. Saturday 5th July
14. Sunday 6th July
18. Attending Events
20. What should I pay? 21. Safer Spaces 22. Accessibility 1. Contents
8. Zine Fair
9. Quiet Space
WELCOME!
Glasgow Zine Fest 2025 takes root this year in our new home at Tramway and The Hidden Gardens! This year, we dig deep into themes of climate justice, land resistance, care and creativity, offering a weekend of workshops, discussions, and hands-on making.
From field recording in the gardens to making paint from Scottish soil and risoprinting calls for climate action, our workshops invite you to experiment, connect, and create. Engage with critical conversations around land, disability justice, and climate reparations, and discover how art can be both archive and activism.
Zines remain our core - tools of resistance, reflection, and imagination. Visit the zine fair to meet a marketplace full of makers, their new zines and other DIY treasures. Our year-round space in Govanhill will be open for you to explore over 3500 titles, including a dedicated collection of Palestinian zines, and join drop-in sessions to make your own.
Whether you’re here to listen, print, etch, discuss, or simply wander and wonder— GZF 2025 is yours to explore. Join us as we imagine and build new worlds through DIY-publishing, community care, and collective creativity.
LD, Chris, Siobhain, Saskia, Martha, Alex, Nic, Caroline, and Katie.
MEET THE TEAM
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OnLInE EvEnTS
Listening for Change:
A Sonic Gathering
WITH: Dundee Radio Club
WHEN: Wednesday 2nd, 6-8pm WHERE: Zoom
How can sound help build solidarity? Explore the role of community radio in climate action in this sonic workshop. You will listen to environmentally responsive sound works and voices speaking from climate justice movements and create your own audio for a
Climate Justice is Disability Justice
WITH: Jen White-Johnson
WHEN: Thursday 3rd, 7-8:15pm WHERE: Zoom
Meet designer, educator and activist Jen White-Johnson, working at the intersection of disability and climate justice. You’ll 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.
PALES-ZINE:
Palestinian Lands Back in Palestinian Hands
WITH: SHELBY x Studios & Malak Yassine
WHEN: Friday 4th, 3-5pm
WHERE: Zoom
An interactive 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. All anti-racists and
Zines for Climate Justice: From Eco-Anxiety to Collective Action
WITH: Solastalgia Zine
WHEN: Friday 4th, 7-8:30pm
WHERE: Zoom
Explore your eco-emotions and channel them into action through zine-making. In this interactive session for BIPOC participants, you’ll reflect, discuss, and create,
ZInE FAIR
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, 1-6pm
ACCESSIBLE HOURS: 11am-1pm
WHERE: Tramway 1
The zine fair is a weekend-long market of over 70 makers and artists selling their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch, and more.
This year we have participants coming from all over the country to share their DIY treasures, connect with like-minded people, and celebrate zine culture.
Please wear a mask when attending the fair unless medically exempt. Accessible hours aim to be low-traffic for people who have difficulty in crowded spaces.
QUIET SPACE
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 7pm WHERE: Tramway Studio
There is a free unticketed quiet space in Tramway Studio. This space has soft lighting, low noise levels, fans and comfortable seating.
There will be a range of resources available that you may find supportive, including ear defenders, stim toys, colouring books, zines, books, and zine-making materials.
SATURDAY
5th july
The Compost Co-Lab
WITH: GALLANT
WHEN: 10:30am-12:30pm
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens
Boilerhouse
Get your hands dirty, and conduct some simple scientific testing on GALLANT’s citizen science compost heap. Together, we will take a look at the hidden world of compost through a microscope and explore other ways to get involved.
Biome Stories: Close Observation Zines
WHEN: 10:30am-6pm (drop-in)
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens
Bothy
Use sensory prompts and reflective exercises to explore the garden, deepen your awareness and magnify your
observations. There will be zine making materials available for you to make a record of your reflections.
Field of Zines
WHEN: 11am-6pm (drop-in)
WHERE: Tramway Foyer
Browse climate and activism zines from our extensive Glasgow Zine Library collection. Our archive counts over 3500 zines made across the last 70 years, and includes some of the most important expressions of radical self-publishing.
Photocopy Party & Drop-in Zine Making
WHEN: 12-4pm (drop-in)
WHERE: Glasgow Zine Library
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.
The Year’s Harvest: Sharing New GZL Zines
WHEN: 2-4pm (drop-in)
WHERE: Tramway Café Mezzanine
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.
5th july
SUnDAY
6th july
Biome Stories:
Close Observation Zines
WHEN: 10:30am-6pm (drop-in)
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens
Bothy
Use sensory prompts and reflective exercises to explore the garden, deepen your awareness and magnify your observations. There will be zine making materials available for you to record your reflections.
Nyéléni’s Legacy: A
People’s Food Policy
WITH: Dee Woods
WHEN: 11am-1pm
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens
Boilerhouse
Expect ambient music, good food, ritual, generative somatics, and trauma informed check ins in this zine making and protest art workshop for BPOC.
You will gain a deeper understanding of food justice’s radical roots, the potential of A People’s Food Policy for transformational futures, and co-create demands for Nyéléni 2025 food sovereignty forum in Sri Lanka.
Fruiting Bodies
WHEN: 11am-2pm (drop-in)
WHERE: Tramway 4
A rolling programme of screenings and audio material, sharing knowledge from academics, activists, and artists engaged in climate and social justice, including new work from GZL’s year round programme.
Field of Zines
WHEN: 11am-6pm (drop-in)
WHERE: Tramway Foyer
Browse climate and activism zines from our extensive Glasgow Zine Library collection. Our archive counts over 3500 zines made across the last 70 years, and includes some of the most important expressions of radical self-publishing.
Photocopy Party & Drop-in Zine Making
WHEN: 12-4pm (drop-in)
WHERE: Glasgow Zine Library
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.
Exquisite Corpse Flowers
WITH: Jacky Cheetham
WHEN: 1-5pm (drop-in)
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard
Inspired by the unique corpse flower and the surrealist exquisite corpse game, artist Jacky Cheetham presents a large-scale open clay collaboration as a meeting place for informal making and discussion. An invitation to collectively absorb and explore the themes and questions shared throughout the festival by working with clay.
SUnDAY
6th july
Make a Risograph
Call to Action Poster
WITH: Inkling
WHEN: 2-4pm
WHERE: Inkling Studio
Create bold, two-colour posters to spark climate action in your community! Take inspiration from campaign posters and experiment with drawing, collage, and mark-making to combine words and imagery to make your own powerful call to action.
Dreaming Utopias: Storytelling for Liberated Futures
WITH: Jamila Versi / LION
WHEN: 2-4pm
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens
Boilerhouse
What might the world look like if land was free and we saw ourselves as part of it—not separate? In this creative writing workshop, we’ll use storytelling and speculative fiction to imagine liberated, just futures rooted in land, reparations, and collective care. Together we’ll write toward utopias that resist extraction and reimagine belonging.
Scottish Land Reform and Resistance
WITH: Catherine Macphee, Jacquie Aitken, Anne Martin, Agnes Rennie
WHEN: 3:30-5pm
WHERE: Tramway 4
Land resistance in Scotland is a history of storytelling, crofting, refusing imperial landowners, tackling housing inequity, and the challenges of community ownership. With perspectives stretching from Skye to Eigg to Sutherland to Lewis, join our panellists in this discussion considering the lasting impacts of land justice and what the methods of tomorrow might look like.
Building Nourishing Economies
WITH: Decolonising Economics
WHEN: 5-7pm
WHERE: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
In this workshop for BPOC participants, you will build an understanding of the tools necessary to build nourishing economies of care rooted in the Solidarity Economics Framework. You will leave the workshop resourced with actionable tools for divesting from capitalism.
ATTEnDInG EvEnTS
Festival events will 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 via email so we can offer your space to others who wish to attend.
If an event is ‘drop in’, it is free, and no ticket is required.
Our festival welcomes families, please check our online event listings for the age range events are suitable for.
We offer refunds until 72 hours before the event. If you have any questions please email: events@glasgowzinelibrary.com
WHAT SHOULD I PAY?
Our events are pay-what-youcan (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.
For full information on how to choose what to pay please visit glasgowzinelibrary.com/ticketing
£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.
SAFER S PACES
Glasgow Zine Fest aims to be a safe space for all visitors, staff members, and volunteers. Everyone attending the festival 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 historically marginalised experience 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.
ACCESSIBILIT Y
You can find text-only and audio versions of this programme on our website.
Glasgow Zine Fest takes place across multiple venues: Tramway, The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow Zine Library (GZL), and one event at Inkling Print and Publishing Studio.
All venues are wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are available at Tramway, GZL, and Inkling. A range of seating options will be available throughout the festival.
For detailed accessibility information, please visit tramway.org/access for Tramway, and check individual event listings for other venues.
All talks, both in person and online, will include live closed captioning and BSL interpretation. Online workshops will feature automated captioning. If needed, both live captioning and BSL can be arranged for additional events— just let us know in advance.
To request access support, you can contact us via Eventbrite or email events@ glasgowzinelibrary.com.
We encourage you to get in touch at least two weeks before the event so we can best meet your needs. We also welcome any questions or feedback.
We ask everyone attending the zine fair to wear a mask unless medically exempt. If you’re attending a workshop, you can request mask wearing when booking. If requested, we ask all participants to wear a mask if they are able to. Free masks will be available at festival welcome desks.
