Tag: Workshops

Personal Development Workshop with Terry Neason

The audience at our memorable Auction of Pleasures will remember being blown away by the performer Terry Neason. Terry, a Library supporter, is now offering workshops, sharing her own amazing powers of ‘personal impact’. The workshops are designed to foster Confidence, Communication Skills, Motivation and Self Esteem and how to Speak Out. For more information [...]

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Dundee Women’s Festival 2011

GWL was at the Dundee Women’s Festival in March, organising workshops to complement our mobile exhibition “Between Future and Past”. At the Women’s History Bring and Tell workshops in the afternoon, Elaine told us about her admiration for her daughter, and Sheila brought some beautiful photographs of her mother as a young woman when she [...]

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New GWL satellite collections around Scotland

National lifelong learning has been out on the road again delivering our new satellite collections to various locations. Each satellite collection is a small “mini women’s library” tailor-made to suit a particular group or location then installed at venues such as community centres, public libraries and other community venues. In February I travelled to Stirling [...]

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The F Word in Dunoon

As part of our activities around International Women’s Day, Nisha and I were invited to Dunoon to deliver the F Word workshop at an event for the Engender Women into Public Life project in Argyle and Bute. Women into Public Life aims to support women in the Argyle and Bute area in having their voices [...]

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‘My Body And Me’ workshops with Terry Neason

The audience at our memorable Auction of Pleasures will remember being blown away by the performer Terry Neason. Terry, a Library supporter is now offering workshops, sharing her own amazing powers of ‘personal impact’. We know that some of those attending the night would be interested to hear that these workshops are now on offer.The workshops are designed to foster Confidence – Communication Skills – Motivation – and Self Esteem and how to Speak Out. For more information click, visit her website at www.mybodyandme.co.uk.

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Wigtown Community Festival 2010

Last week Morag and I travelled to Wigtown to run an oral histories workshop at the annual community festival. We drew into Wigtown square around 7 o’clock, in time to see a game of Bowls taking place in the green, and, just a few metres away, local children spilling out of the library – a lovely introduction to rural town life…

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Summer Programme ……lots of fun and learning

The ladies have had lots of fun taking part in the summer programme at the Glasgow Women’s Library.  This year we put together a mixture of activities where the women could come together to learn in an informal and comfortable setting.  So far, women who have taken part come from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life.  We are [...]

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Summer Programme

Step into the Summer Programme at the Glasgow Women’s Library to enjoy a range of activities including arts & crafts, film screenings & discussions, workshops, outings, picnics and a chance to socialise in a fun and friendly environment.

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Spring 2009 Programme

The programme includes a range of events celebrating International Women’s Day in March. There are also writers evenings, book launches, history walks, creative writing and more…

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Spring has sprung…

It’s been a wee while since my last blog, although I have been full of good intentions. I thought I would let people know about a couple of opportunities I have recently been informed of. The first is Women’s Self Defence Classes being held at Urban Oasis in Ruthven Lane on 22 or 29 April [...]

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