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
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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Rae-Yen Song Solo Exhibition
Tramway presents the most ambitious solo exhibition to date of Glasgow based artist Rae-Yen Song, as they transform Tramway's vast gallery space into a sub-aquatic world!
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moniqux ensemble presents Dictations - The Heart of the Sea
Through dance and live vocals, Dictations - The Heart of the Sea from moniqux ensemble explores how family and community are carried and remembered.
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A Festival of Korean Dance 2026: Ryu and Friends - GRAVITY
Swept up by an invisible force, an eleven-strong company shakes, scatters and spins in a spectacular extra-terrestrial dance!
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Tramway Beyond Walls: Cirqulation Ensemble presents JOURNEY
JOURNEY by Cirqulation, Scotland’s travelling contemporary circus ensemble, is a stunning, emotionally resonant ride through stories of change, challenge, and connection!
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Lara Kramer - Gorgeous Tongue
Lara Kramer embodies stories and dreams rooted in her Anishinaabe lineage, inviting audiences into the intimacy of her artistic constellation and toward imagined futures.
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Jericho Mars - My heart is drenched in blood! My heart is drenched in blood!
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Daina Ashbee: Serpentine
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Jamie Crewe - Defiling Rain
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Cade & MacAskill and Spooner & Clarke - NOW NOT NOW
Created by the team behind international hit The Making of Pinocchio, NOW NOT NOW is a darkly funny and disorientating dive into the peculiar ways we experience the flow of time!
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