Thursday 28th March 6:30-8:30pm
PUBLICATION LAUNCH & EXHIBITION: Agony (In)cantations by Rabindranath X Bhose

Announcing the launch of a new publication: Agony (In)cantations, a collection of poems & illustrations, with an accompanying exhibition of vinyl works.

Join us for a presentation of sound poems from the very brilliant Nat Raha alongside a collective reading of Agony (In)cantations.

There will also be drinks and good chat amongst the friendly books of Good Press and a new installation of vinyl drawings and text.

"These unruly drawings & poems have been a few years in the making and it’s a relief to finally give them a material home. It feels like a fitting time to bring their pain and resilient energy into the world as we continue to work together towards ending Israeli apartheid and resisting the violence in Palestine. I hope to see some of you there ❤️‍🔥"

Exhibition continues until 21st May

Thursday 23rd May 6:30pm - 8pm
PUBLICATION LAUNCH: MOZAIC VOLUME 1

We invite you to the first issue of our Zine MOZAIC! We’re dedicated to creating the space for BIPOC creative expression and ensuring a collaborative community of BIPOC creatives exists within the walls of GSA. We’re a visual-based zine shining a spotlight on the work of BIPOC creatives at GSA. This is our first release of 2024 and we’re very excited to share everyone’s contributions to our collaborative zine. We’d love to see you at the launch event to celebrate the launch of our first issue, and if you’re a part of the POC community and are interested in meeting other POC creatives please come along! A portion of our proceeds go towards a charity or organisation that supports the BIPOC community and we’re driven by the idea of creating a more inclusive community at GSA. We’ll also be selling some limited edition launch merch so if you’d like a copy of the zine and to support the community come along!

The MOZ team consists of Tania Rodrigues (Graphic Designer) and myself Lizzie Eidson (Illustrator and Creative Director). We’re both proudly POC with Tania being of Goan descent and myself being West African and British. We’re graduating this year from GSA Communication Design and we’ve loved working on this project together and meeting all the contributors involved with submitting work for our first issue. The idea of MOZAIC and our first issue is themed around our title and the concept of a mosaic: small fragments that create a larger whole. By bringing BIPOC works together we’ve created our own visual mosaic and are so grateful to our contributors. We hope to continue uplifting BIPOC's creative outputs of all disciplines and interacting with you all as a community through workshops and events. We hope you enjoy our first issue and to keep updated with the zine follow us on our Instagram @mozaicmag.

Here’s to the future of MOZAIC!

Love,

MOZMAG

Wednesday 29th May 6:30-8pm 
PUBLICATION LAUNCH: Multitude Zine by Libby Hiatt

Join us for the launch of Multitude Zine by Libby Hiatt.

Working with artists from underrepresented identities and communities, this publication explores the works and minds of these artists and provides a platform for them to be celebrated. 

All welcome, come along to grab a copy, free drinks and good chat. See you there!

Tuesday 18th June: 6:30 — 8:30pm
Caleb Nichols, Mícheál McCann, Charles Lang & Leo Bussi

Caleb Nichols is a queer poet and musician from a working class family in California. His poetry and prose has been published or is forthcoming in places like the New England Review, 14 Poems, Poetry Wales, Redivider, and 45th Parallel. His Kelp Books chapbook “Teems/Recedes” was called “a gorgeous abundance” by Chen Chen and his Bottlecap Press chapbook “Chan Says & Other Songs” was called “marvelously queer” by Eduardo Corral. Caleb’s critically acclaimed rock opera “Ramon” was released on iconic indie label Kill Rock Stars in 2022 and he's toured in North American and Europe in support of it and other KRS releases. A best of the net nominee, and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets University prize, Caleb is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Bangor University in North Wales. 

Mícheál McCann is from Derry City. His poems have appeared in Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review, anthologised in Queering the Green (Lifeboat Press, 2021) and Romance Options (Dedalus Press, 2023) and have been broadcast on RTÉ and BBC. He is the co-editor of Hold Open the Door (UCD Press, 2020) and has published three poetry pamphlets, most recently Keeper (Fourteen Publishing, 2022). Devotion, his first collection of poems, is forthcoming from The Gallery Press in May 2024.

Charles Lang (b. 1995) is from Glasgow. His poems have recently appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Review and The Rialto. His collection The Oasis is forthcoming with Skein Press in 2025.

Leo Bussi is a poet and researcher based in Glasgow. He runs Waterwings Press, a reading series and poetry press.