In order to celebrate Contradictory Woolf, The 21st Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, held at Glasgow University in June 2011, curator Kitty Anderson and artists Anne-Marie Copestake, Kate Davis, Rachel Lowther and Lorna Macintyre developed a new collaborative art project.

Drawing inspiration from a series of reading groups looking at Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, alongside the conference theme, they created a series of limited edition risograph prints and bags, each of which honours a variety of female figures, past and present.

These works are for sale and all the proceeds go to Glasgow Women’s Library’s Women Leading Through Reading programme which supports the development of women’s literacy and communication skills in a range of different communities.

Hand painted and screenprinted canvas bags and limited edition risographs for £15

Discover more about the real life inspirations for Woolf’s remarkable figure ‘Orlando’ revealed within the collections at Glasgow Women’s Library.

Thursday 28 October, 5.30pm to 7.30pm

GWL Archivist Hannah Little will lead a workshop exploring how the lives and loves of some pioneering women from the early 20th century refigured women’s gendered and sexual identities- influencing generations of radical lives, and fictional characters.

There will be an opportunity to find out how to become one of the women’s history detectives working with the national Lesbian Archive based at GWL.

Booking is essential. For more information or to book your place click here to send us an email or you can call us on 07783 975 044. Please note that the GWL mobile is only available during office hours.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

A special Virginia Woolf reading group with visual artists Faith Wilding (USA) and Kate Davis (NZ/UK), June 2011 at Glasgow Women’s Library new space and a pass for the annual Woolf symposium taking place at the University of Glasgow.

This item includes a private reading group for your chosen attendees, on the Virginia Woolf text of your choice, hosted by the two artists who will share their passion for Woolf in a supportive and stimulating environment. The artists will also provide Woolf related refreshments and a private screening of Kate Davis’ short film ‘What have we got to do with a room of one’s own?’. On top of this the lucky recipient will receive a much sought after pass for the 21st Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf entitled ‘Contradictory Woolf’, June 9th to 12th 2011. A veritable Woolfian delight!

Donated by Faith Wilding and Kate Davis and Jane Goldman.

Kate Davis and Faith Wilding

The launch of an exciting new CCA project takes place at Glasgow Women’s Library.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009 – 7pm to 9pm

WHAT: A reading group led by Dr Jane Goldman focusing on her selection of starting points for Read Out! Read In! Feminist Lines of Flight in Art and Politics:

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)and Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid (1940).

This reading group also marks the launch of the project, Read-Out! Read-In! Feminist Lines of Flight in Art and Politics (further details below).

WHERE: Glasgow Women’s Library, 81 Parnie St, Glasgow, G1 5RH.

WHEN: 7pm, 24 November 2009.

HOW: The reading group is free but places are limited. If you would like to attend please reserve a place before 24 November by e-mailing: hannah@cca-glasgow.com.
Places will be allocated to the first 40 people to contact us.

MORE: Further details on the project and Dr Jane Goldman can be found below and at www.cca-glasgow.com

In conjunction with Faith Wilding and Kate Davis’ two-woman exhibition project, The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?, commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Glasgow, for Glasgow International 2010, both artists have invited a wide range of co-inspiritors to select up to three starting points for feminist lines of flight in art and politics for discussion and feasting on.

These suggestions, whether texts, audio/video, film clips, or images, seek to explore the question of how we have gone on, how we go on now, and how we dream/desire to go on in the future in response to a feminist heritage. They will be available as both an online resource by the end of Nov 2009 and in physical form to pore through at the CCA, in a resource area Wilding and Davis are collaborating on with Glasgow Women’s Library, for The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here? April 2010.

Read-Out! Read-In! Feminist Lines of Flight in Art and Politics will provide a catalyst for a network of reading groups, initiated by Wilding and Davis and advertised through this page and The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here? mailing list. Please add your details to the CCA mailing list to be sent the e-mail updates.

Wilding and Davis are delighted to be launching the project with their first reading group led by Dr Jane Goldman and hosted by Glasgow Women’s Library, focusing on her starting points for feminist lines of flight which are:

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Available in many editions, often published with the sister text, Three Guineas, and the Oxford World’s Classics paper back edition is probably the best, but AROO etext is also available at http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/

Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid (1940)
Available at: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/#chapter28