Glasgow Zine Fest

Join Glasgow Zine fest at their new festival home, Tramway and The Hidden Gardens, for a weekend celebrating zines, climate justice, activism, land resistance, and radical creativity!

About Glasgow Zine Fest

	5th Jul 2025 to 6th Jul 2025
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	Tramway 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow South Side G41 2PE what3words location: jobs.gasp.toast
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Glasgow Zine Fest 2025 features hands-on workshops—from soil paint making to risoprinting—plus critical conversations on land, disability justice, and climate reparations alongside free drop-in activities. Explore our bustling Zine Fair and browse over 3500 titles from our collection of DIY publications, including a special collection of Palestinian zines. Whether you’re here to make, reflect, or connect, come along and imagine new worlds through self-publishing and collective care. All ages welcome.

• Pay-What-You-Can workshops in composting, earth ink making, nature field recording, riso printing, people’s food policy, decolonising economics, and writing climate utopias.

• Panel discussions with experts, academics and activists engaged with Scottish land reform and resistance, and climate justice reparations.

• Family friendly drop-ins: connecting with nature through zine making, clay sculpting, and eco Tetra Pak printing.

• DIY publications, merch, badges and other creations from over 70 makers in our busy zine fair.

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Other Events at Tramway or Glasgow Zine Fest

Exhibitions

Solange Pessoa

9th May 2025 - 22nd September 2025

Tramway, Glasgow South Side

A major new presentation by one of Brazil's most renowned living sculptors, Solange Pessoa, will be hosted at Tramway Glasgow between Saturday 10th May and Monday 22nd September!

Theatre

KELI

11th June 2025 - 14th June 2025

Tramway, Glasgow South Side

Marking 40 years since the miners' strikes and featuring a sharp, hilarious script and live brass score KELI is a gripping show about community, creativity, and music!

Days Out

Sufi Festival

19th July 2025 - 20th July 2025

Tramway, Glasgow South Side

The annual Sufi Festival is a cultural experience of Islamic art, culture and heritage in the heart of Scotland's most diverse and multicultural community in Glasgow's Southside!

Dance

Scottish Ballet presents Wee Nutcracker

12th December 2025 - 24th December 2025

Tramway, Glasgow South Side

Enchanting characters are performed by Scottish Ballet's dancers in the Wee Nutcracker, a specially adapted version of the beloved festive ballet at Tramway!

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