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.

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:

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• 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)
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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)
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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!

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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

Best laid schemes...

Empty library

State of the art security

Glad to be finished unpacking

Thank you so much to all the volunteers who are helping us with this sweaty, dusty, vital work, we couldn’t do it without you!

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!

The office had to be re-wired, but by the end of last Wednesday we were able to have de-humidifiers and heaters running in the office to speed up the drying process. The lights were fixed yesterday, and we’re hoping that today will be that last day that we’ll have the de-humidifiers running, and we’ll be able to get back into the office tomorrow.

Of course, even though our office has been out of action, we haven’t! The ESOL classes weren’t able to run last week, but have now started up again. Some staff worked from home or had outreach work and meetings outside the library, while the rest of us alternated between working in the GWL kitchen (keeping an eye on the dehumidifiers) and pigbacking on our neighbours wifi over at 103 Trongate – many thanks to GMAC for the loan of a spare room and their wifi last week, and to KOG cafe for wifi last Tuesday.

Our thanks to Helen, Chris et al from Wasps, who helped with mitigating some of the worst of the flooding in the building. And thanks to the GCC joiner and electricians who’ve been working to ensure our office is safe for us to go back to.

Many thanks also to all of you who have offered kind words and support, by phone and email, and here on the blog.

Many of you have been asking the ever present question – when are we moving to the Mitchell? I’m sure that it’s as frustrating to you as to all of us on the Library team, knowing that we’re so close to moving to new premises, but still being stuck in a cold and occasionally sodden temporary space here in Parnie Street. The simple answer is that as soon as we have raised the funds, we will be able to start work on renovating our future home in the Mitchell Library. Although we have raised some of the capital funds, with grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Robertson Trust and the Scottish Arts Council, we still have a long way to go.

Large grants and funds are, of course, a part of this, but your support is just as important. The Women on the Shelf initiative is a crucial part of our effort to raise money for the move, and allows you to be a real part of the future Women’s Library. By sponsoring a shelf, book or section in the new Women’s Library, you’re ensuring that the Library collection and archive will have a secure, custom-built (dry!) home where it is fully accessible.

If you’d like to help, you can do so in a number of ways:

• Come along Thursday 1st and/or Friday 2nd October to help move boxes and tidy up. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty in and bring along a duster!
• Do you have any spare plastic boxes that you would like to donate to the library? We’re looking for plastic boxes with lids, ideally around 55 x 30 x 40 cm (or 22″ x 11.5″ x 15.5″) in size.

• Or you could lend us trolleys for heavy lifting.
• We’re also looking for wooden pallets – if you have any or know of anyone who would like to get rid of some of them let us know!

For Sale

Clearing out the library means we have some wooden shelves and cardboard boxes that we’re hoping to sell to help raise funds for the move to the Mitchell.

Two pre-assembled shelving units:

2.2m (w) x 130.5cm (h) x 24.5 cm (d) (3 bays of shelving)

126cm (w) x 199cm (h) x 50cm (d) (4 bays of shelving – 2 bays back to back)

One unassembled shelving unit: 77cm (w) x 233cm (h) x 22.5cm (d) (1 bay of shelving)

15 metal shelves (brackets): 90 x 25 cm

Cardboard packing boxes: 1m x 34cm (w) x 32 cm (h)

If you’re interested in helping out and would like to know more please contact Hannah Little or Laura McVean on 0141 552 8345.

Updated Friday 31st July: Voting has now closed. Our congratulations to the winning charity, No Strings Attached Scotland, and many, many thanks to all those who supported us. Don’t forget there are many other ways you can support the Library as we raise funds for our move to the Mitchell!

You can help the Library become this year’s Glasgow ‘Twestival’ Local Charity and help us raise funds for our move to the Mitchell Library. Vote now to nominate Glasgow Women’s Library for the Glasgow Twestival in September!

The Twestival movement is a world-wide phenomenon inspired by the social networking site Twitter but built from grassroots across the globe. Like-minded ‘tweeps‘ come together for an evening of music (and prizes!), and raise money for charity. The last series of Twestivals raised money for Charity: Water, and for the upcoming Twestivals the focus has changed to local charities. The Glasgow Twestival will take place on September 10th, and they’re looking for a Glasgow-based charity to support.

The charity is being chosen by open vote, and we’d like your help in nominating GWL. You can vote for the Library here! Voting is open until midday on Friday, 31st July.

Don’t forget: You can follow the GWL Kettle on Twitter here.

The Twestival movement is a world-wide phenomenon inspired by the social networking site Twitter but built from grassroots across the globe. Like-minded ‘tweeps‘ come together for an evening of music (and prizes!), and raise money for charity. The last series of Twestivals raised money for Charity: Water, and for the upcoming Twestivals the focus has changed to local charities. The Glasgow Twestival will take place on September 10th, and they’re looking for a Glasgow-based charity to support.

The charity is being chosen by open vote, and we’d like your help in nominating GWL. You can vote for the Library here! Voting is open until midday on Friday, 31st July.

Updated Friday 31st July: Voting has now closed. Our congratulations to the winning charity, No Strings Attached Scotland, and many, many thanks to all those who supported us.

Don’t forget: You can follow the GWL Kettle on Twitter here.

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You use the same secure servers for purchasing and will pay exactly the same amount as you would if you entered each site though Google or Yahoo.

This only adds a few seconds to your shop and could earn GWL some valuable additional income to help us on our way to our new home. Please give it a try!