Arts & Crafts Workshop

Monday 5th July, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Monday 12th July, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tuesday 20th July,10.30am – 12.30pm
Monday 26th July,10.30am – 12.30pm
Tuesday 3rd August,10.30am – 12.30pm
Monday 9th August,10.30am – 12.30pm

An opportunity to learn how to create a scrapbook and hand-made cards! Informal, relaxed, socialising, tea and cakes, fun and laughter!

Visit to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Creative Workshop

Thursday 8th July, 10am – 3pm

Guided tour, creative writing, relaxed and informal, lunch provided

Visit to the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art and Picnic

Wednesday 14th July, 10am – 2pm

Interactive workshops, handling objects, guided tour, learn about faiths of the world in a fun and relaxed way.

Film Screening – Black

(Popcorn & soft drinks provided)
Thursday 15th July, 1.30pm – 3.45pm

A tender story of two soul mates: eight-year-old Michelle McNally, born to an Anglo-Indian family and deaf-blind after an illness at the age of eighteen months; and 48-year-old Debraj Sahai, an eccentric alcoholic and teacher to the deaf-blind. Debraj takes on the task of teaching the bright but violent Michelle. His unorthodox approach eventually succeeds, but he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease just when he is beginning to make progress with his student. Now, the roles are reversed, and it is Michelle who must help Debraj fight the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s.

Visit to the Garnethill Synagogue and Garnethill Heritage Walk

Wednesday 21st July, 10.30am – 2.30pm

Guided tour, explore the Jewish archives, learn about the Jewish faith, Learn about the Garnethill area through a guided walking tour, Picnic at the Garnethill Park

Visit to Gurdwara (Pollokshields) and Picnic at Maxwell Park

Wednesday 28th July,10.30am – 1.30pm

Tour of the Guru Granth Sahib Gurdwara, handling objects, learn about the Sikh religion

Film Screening – Slumdog Millionaire

(Popcorn & drinks provided)
Thursday 29th July,1.30pm – 3.30pm

Feel good film of the decade. Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai sets of to find the love of his life Latika. He is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20-million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”

Woodlands Barons Haugh Nature Reserve, Motherwell

Thursday 5th August, 10am – 4pm

Nature walk, bird watching, story telling, building bird boxes, picnic.

Booking is essential. For more information or to book your place click here to send us an email or you can call Syma or Pauline on 0141 552 8345

Arts & Crafts Sessions
Monday, 6 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Tuesday, 7 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Monday, 13 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Monday, 20 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Monday, 27 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Film Screening
Tuesday 14th July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – FILM SCREENING Water; Water tells the tale of brow-beaten oppressed widows in early 1900’s India

Workshops
Tuesday 21st July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WORKSHOP

Tuesday 4th Aug – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – WOMEN & POLITICS;
Get your voice heard (To be confirmed)

Outings
Tuesday 28th July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – Visit to the St Mungos
Museum, The Glasgow Cathedral and The Necropolis

Monday 3rd Aug – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – Visit to the Peoples Palace, Glasgow Central Mosque and Picnic at Glasgow Green

Please let us know if you would like to sign up for any sessions.  Call us on 0141 552 8345 or contact us through the website.

Working along side CINENOVA (The Women’s Film and Video Distributor), Glasgow Women’s Library and Transmission Gallery presents I for India, by Sandhya Puri.

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy 2 Super 8 cameras, 2 projectors and 2 reel-to-reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For forty years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home – images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket – his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn respond with their own ‘cine-letters’ telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life.

As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility, the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges give way to the darker reality of alienation, racism and a family falling apart.

A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion on migration and settlement in Scotland since the 1940’s. We will be keen to hear personal testimonies of women settling in a new country and highlight & celebrate the contribution they have made.

Screening at Transmission Gallery, 45 King Street, Glasgow
Thursday, 27th November at 7pm

To book a place, please contact the Library.