Three short films selected by Madelon Hooykaas to accompany the exhibition Revealing the Invisible: The Art of Stansfield/Hooykaas from Different Perspectives at CCA.

Madelon Hooykaas was born in 1942 (Maartensdijk, The Netherlands) and lives and works in Amsterdam. Ella Stansfield was born in 1945 in Glasgow and died of leukaemia in Amsterdam in 2004. The two artists worked in collaboration under the title Stansfield / Hooykaas since 1972 and belong to the first generation of video artists. They are considered pioneers in their field, with their work influencing many video and multimedia artists today. In 1996 they received the Judith Leyster prize for their oeuvre.

One of these days

The Netherlands, 1973, 30 min.

Directed by Elsa Stansfield and Madelon Hooykaas with music by Delia Derbyshire.

One of these days was made as an image impression of Marte Roling, an Amsterdam designer. Integrating the familiar occurrences of an ordinary day with the aural and visual stimuli of the city, the film captures the ambiance of her life. Commissioned by NOS.

About Bridges

The Netherlands, 1975, 22 min.

Directed by Elsa Stansfield and Madelon Hooykaas with music by Delia Derbyshire. Written by Madelon Hooykaas.

About Bridges shows the perception and the experience of bridges in three different ways: by the artist, the worker and the user.  The film is presented as a cinematic equivalent to the experience of crossing a bridge. The film was conceived and shot in Amsterdam, a city of bridges, and follows three interwoven working themes.

Daydreams

The Netherlands, 1972, 8 min

Directed by Madelon Hooykaas with text by Panayota Kampoli.

In Daydreams, Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield are preoccupied by the thoughts and memories that cross a person’s mind during the transitional moment of waking up and getting out of bed.

For a chance to win these cinema tickets, and many other fantastic prizes, buy a raffle ticket asap – we are grateful for your support.
To book tickets for this event visit http://www.cca-glasgow.com/home.

Tickets are £5 – please contact the Library to order yours. Call 0141 248 9969, contact us online, or drop in to our new home at 15 Berkeley Street to pick up a ticket.

You can pay for the raffle tickets by card by making a donation through Charity Choice.

Charity Choice will ask you if you wish to make your donation Gift Aid eligible – unfortunately, we’re not able claim Gift Aid on the raffle tickets, so please select ‘yes’ under section 3 of the Gift Aid declaration (“Are you donating in exchange for goods and/or services?”)

Once you’ve completed your donation, just send us an email with your Charity Choice reference, and we’ll get the raffle ticket sent out to you!

Prizes include:

• A gigantic Home Cinema System worth £499 kindly supplied by Danwood (if you have ever wanted to have your very own home cinema now is your chance!)
• A Day Trip for up to 12 on the Peccadillo Barge, which will ferry you and the whole family and friends along the Forth and Clyde canal by a route of your choosing, having a picnic on the boat or stopping off for a pub lunch on the way!
• 2 theatre tickets to Stellar Quines’ Age of Arousal at The Tron , ‘a lavish, sexy and powerful ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self’
• An overnight stay for 2 at ReadingLasses Bookshop – the opportunity to browse to your heart’s content in peace and quiet at the only shop of its kind left in the UK
• A Le Creuset classic casserole dish RRP £110 – perfect for cosy winter nights in
• Signed Belle & Sebastian memorabilia – the iconic Glasgow band are just about to release their new studio album ‘Write About Love’
• Cinema tickets for 3 films at the CCA by Dutch film-maker Madelon Hooykas, shown alongside the exhibition ‘Revealing the Invisible: The Art of Stansfield/Hooykaas from Different Perspectives’
• Janis Claxton tickets, kindly donated by Tramway.
• A year’s subscription to The List magazine.
• Fabulous collections of Books! Donated by The Feminist Press, Saraband, The Linen Press, Whittles Publishing, Two Ravens Press, the Irish Academic Press, and more
• Shoeshine Records memorabilia
• A goody bag of artists’ publications from Transmission Gallery
• A selection of fine wines, a hamper from Walkers Shortbread, loads of lovely LUSH cosmetic products, and more…

More are coming in all the time so check our Twitter or Facebook pages for more details.

The draw will be made on Wednesday, 15th December.

Sound familiar? Then here’s how you can help GWL with no extra expense.

It takes just a few minutes to go to the Easy Fundraising website and register, choosing Glasgow Women’s Library as your charity. Then every time you shop online GWL could benefit at no extra cost to you!

The only thing you have to do for GWL to receive a donation from the 2000 plus participating companies is:

• log in to your account at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/
• use their links to company websites (see the categories section on the left hand side or the popular links section on the right-hand side)
• carry on buying as you normally would – you need do nothing more!

Examples of money we could receive include:

• Amazon – 2.5% of what you spend (so for every £10 you spend GWL gets 25 pence and you pay nothing extra)
• Waterstones – 2.5%
• Marks & Spencers – 2.5%
• Argos – 1.5%
• Boots – 3%
• Play.com – 1%
• HMV – 2%

…and many, many more. It may not sound like a huge amount but every penny really counts!

Even better – if you are thinking of changing your energy supplier, broadband supplier or your car, house, travel, even pet insurance, GWL could receive quite substantial amounts of money ranging from £5 to £55 pounds!  Have a look and see whether your preferred provider will give GWL a donation when you switch – the chances are they will.

Finally some companies will make donations to GWL when you sign up for things like a 14 day free trial for Lovefilm (£5.00 donation) or register on Ebay (£4.50 donation). Click on the Free Funds tab near the top of the page.

Please take the time to sign up if you can and remember to log in to your favourite shopping sites via http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ each time you shop. You really could make a difference!

And don’t worry if you are not in the position to help us through online shopping. If you make http://gwl.easysearch.org.uk/ your search engine (instead of Google or similar search sites) then you can still raise money for us just by doing a few searches every day.

Thanks to the efforts of the Auction team some of the fantastic auction items that those attending will be able to bid on are:

In addition to all of this there are also lots more items of interest to any arts lover, including

- as well as a host of other extraordinary one-off items and opportunities:

…and many, many more.

Tickets are selling fast, and we are luck enough to have an award winning, sell out, legendary female performer lined up for the night – I don’t want to be too mysterious, but you will have to wait for this exclusive announcement!

So now is the time to dig deep and show your support for the library. If you are planning to come along it is important that you get in touch soon so that we can guarentee you a spot. All details are on our website, just click here to go to the booking page.

As I sit here in our new space at the Mitchell Library it is clear to me just how important this event is in raising the much needed funds to make the women’s library of our dreams.

Auction of Pleasures

Volunteer role: Fundraising Event Support Volunteers
Type of work: Administration, Research, Promotion and General Support
Supervision: Lifelong Learning Assistant
Average weekly hours required: From 7 hours, daytime
Minimum period of volunteering required: 4 months (from June to September 2010)

Volunteer tasks description:

The main focus of this volunteer post will be to assist the Audience Development Intern who is working towards the development, coordination and promotion of a large Arts Event and Auction Fundraiser. Glasgow Women’s Library is working towards relocation to Glasgow’s prestigious Mitchell Library, where it will re-launch as an accredited national
resource in refurbished premises of excellence: a Women’s Library of Scotland. This event will raise funds for our move to the Mitchell and the £1.5 million needed for capital building works and refit.

Tasks will include:

• Researching possible donations for the auction
• Researching possible venues and catering contributors
• Researching possible supporters, sponsprs and funders
• Securing spornsorship for the event
• Compiling and updating databases of all of above
• Assisting Lifelong Learning Coordinator and Audience Development Intern
• Assisting with organisation of event
• Working closely with GWL Staff Team
• Assisting with the promotion of event
• Raising awareness of the current work of GWL and future plans
• Assisting with event bookings and ticket sales

Essential skills and qualities required:

• Confident with IT Systems and using the internet
• Previous experience of securing sponsorhip would be beneficial
• Database development experience would be beneficial
• Web experience would be beneficial
• Confident and friendly telephone manner
• Fundraising experience would be beneficial
• Researching experience would be beneficial
• Must be confident at working independently
• Eagerness to learn
• Willingness to adapt

If you are interested in this Volunteer Post, please download and fill in the GWL Volunteer Application Form and send the completed form back to: Glasgow Women’s Library, 2nd Floor, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, G1 5RH.

The questions we are currently asking ourselves are what exactly is a pleasure, and how does one go about auctioning one? At the auction in 1990 you could bid for a footwashing ceremony, handmade Belgian chocolates, or you could get your head shaved by a sculptor! Over the next few weeks we will be assembling our own delectable list of delights. If you are as excited as I am about keeping up to date with how preparations are going for the event, or you would like to let us know what pleasure you would like to see at an Auction of Pleasures, keep checking in with the blog…

In the meantime remember that if you are resting on your laurels you are wearing them in the wrong place!

Friday 26 March 2010, 8.30pm
£8/ £5 concession

Join Susan Calman and chums in the funniest fundraiser in the city. With proceeds benefiting Glasgow Women’s Library, you’ll love joining the ladies for a laugh!

Feisty Glaswegian compere Jay Lafferty (‘plenty of laughs’ Daily Record, ‘a crowd pleaser…assuredly delivered’ Chortle) introduces Alaskan Hailey Boyle, recently named funniest comedian at the New York Comedy Festival. Don’t miss her UK debut.

Also, rising star Lucy Oldham, the comedically poetic Katie Craig (‘her observational humour and soon had the room firmly on her side.’ One4review.com), beautifully dead pan Elaine Malcolmson (‘a stream of cute one liners’ Edinburgh Evening News)

Headliner is the fantastically funny Susan Calman (‘Everyone who knows anything about comedy knows that Susan is one of the funniest women around’ Daily Record)

Tickets have to be booked through the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival website or go direct to the Ticket Soup page to buy your tickets for the hottest comedy fundraiser in town. You can also call to book tickets: 0844 395 4005

This event is open to men and women and is BYOB.

The Library continues to grow and develop, and the year 2008-9 was no exception, with the first major funding secured towards our relocation to the Mitchell, from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Robertson Trust. Our learning programmes have gone from strength to strength, with continuing success of projects like the Women Make History group, exciting one-off events like the launch of Jackie Kay’s book The Lamplighter, and projects spanning many cultures, age groups and sister organisations lead by the Black & Minority Ethnic Women’s Project.

Read more about our achievements in the Glasgow Women’s Library Annual Report 2008-9

The entire collection, which is currently being catalogued by our newly appointed Archivist, will be fully accessible in a dedicated archive so that it will be preserved for generations to come, housed in the best environmental conditions and in premises of excellence.

GWL needs to raise in excess of £1 million for the overall refurbishment and is a quarter of the way there. But we need your help!

As well as our Women on the Shelf campaign, we are now delighted to launch Lesbians on the Shelf as part of our fundraising initiatives for the Mitchell Library refurbishment.

Lesbians on the Shelf has been formally launched through the new edition of DIVA magazine, with a specially commissioned story by the award winning writer, Zoe Strachan. ‘Strange Desires’ is Zoe’s homage to the lesbian pulp fiction novel and we hope you enjoy it. (Zoe talks about the inspiration behind the story on her blog)

You can help to preserve the future of the Lesbian Archives by joining the Lesbians on the Shelf fundraising campaign.

For just £10 you can sponsor a book from the collection – including such classics as Stranger on Lesbos and Women’s Barracks – or for £100 you can sponsor a shelf and dedicate it to the woman of your choice as a unique Christmas gift and a lovely and lasting tribute.

We need your support! So put a Lesbian on the Shelf today!

Thank you to Zoe and to DIVA Magazine.