Summer 2024 Programme Out Now | Glasgow Women's Library

Our Summer 2024 Programme is now available and you can pick up your copy of the beautiful printed brochure at GWL, take a look on our online events calendar, listen to our audio programme on this page, or download a pdf programme to find out all about events and projects happening this season.

Download a copy of our Summer 2024 Programme here.

This Summer Programme we are proud to be launching Peace Arbour, an exhibition of work by Reiko Goto Collins, Yoko Ono and Zana Araki for Glasgow International Festival of Art 2024.

We’re so excited to extend our GWL welcome to include a fruit tree nursery developed and nurtured by artist Reiko Goto Collins in collaboration with the GWL team who’ve been laying soil, planting and enjoying seeing these saplings bud and grow.

Open for thought, dialogue and imagination, Peace Arbour centres the powerful capacity trees have to affect us and our threatened environment in many positive ways. The arbour will also contain a Yoko Ono artwork, Wish Tree 1996/2024, offering up a place for people throughout the festival to express their wishes and needs.

Through the pages of this programme are illustrations by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design students of peace activists, Mohtaram Eskandari, Cathy McCormack and from The Chipko Movement. These incredible activists speak to the themes of Peace Arbour and the ways in which we have been thinking about peace and power in relation to global, political, local and private relationships. In different ways each of these activists remain relevant today, the innovative and peaceful forms of protest they pioneered speaking back to forms of violence where they manifest from gendered and state violence to environmental harm.

The programme is packed with Women’s Heritage Walks, Story Cafes, reading and writing groups, and opportunities to hear from incredible writers such as Sara Ahmed, Jackie Kay and GWL’s own Donna Moore: so come, visit and enjoy.