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Empire Cafe: Bondage is Behind You: Women’s Heritage Walk

26th July, 2014, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Empire Cafe LogoDuring the Commonwealth Games an exciting Culture 2014 project, Empire Café, will be activated in the centre of Glasgow.

It will be the focus of talks, readings, a café and a range of other activities exploring and uncovering the dark history of slavery and the slave trade in Glasgow.

Our contribution to the Empire Café will be a specially developed new walk that reveals the connection between women and slavery and a rosette making workshop in honour of the firebrand campaigners against slavery and for the vote.

Bondage is Behind You, Freedom is Before

Woman and Sister 2 medal creative commons mylearning.orgUncovering the women who battled against slavery and for suffrage in the streets of Glasgow.

Women and the Abolition Movement Heritage Walk
Saturday 26th July, 2pm
or Monday 28th July 2pm

These illuminating walks developed for Empire Café by Glasgow Women’s Library’s  Women’s History Detectives will honour the courageous, inspiring firebrand women involved in Scotland’s abolitionist and emergent suffragette campaigns.

Wear the Rosette that the Brave have Worn! 

Women abolitionists and suffragettes changed the face of Scotland. Learn about them whilst creating a rosette to be worn in their honour on the walk that charts their history.

Rosette Making Workshop 
Monday 28th July 11am

Honour the firebrand campaigners against slavery and for the Vote, come along and create your own stirring adornment and why not wear it on our Bondage is Behind You heritage walk at 2pm.

Booking

These events are free of charge. Booking is through the Empire Cafe eventbrite page. Why not check out all the Empire Cafe events on eventbrite.

Culture Logo ColourThe Empire Café is part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme, a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and Creative Scotland through National Lottery funding.  The Empire Cafe is also supported by The British Council.’

 

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Date:
26th July, 2014
Time:
2:00pm to 4:00pm
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Empire Cafe
The Briggait
Glasgow, G1 5HZ
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