As part of the West End Festival join a Women Make History walking tour within Garnethill’s confined boundaries that spotlights the women who made Garnethill into the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
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Feminist Lines of Flight
Artists Kate Davis and Faith Wilding developed a project, Feminist Lines of Flight in 2010 that involved a diverse group of people adding their feminist ‘must reads’ and ‘must sees’. The GWL Book Group is hosting a special session with one of the ‘Lines of Flight’ Marilyn French’s feminist classic The Women’s Room to launch this fantastic resource moving to the GWL website. All are welcome to come along and discuss this groundbreaking novel in a friendly and celebratory session.
WMH Workshop 4: Oral Histories
Based on consultation with those attending previous Women Make History workshops we will be holding a mystery history workshop.
Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir
GWL are delighted to welcome Pat MacEnulty to launch her new book, Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir, published by The Feminist Press and due for UK release in June 2011.
Captured Hearts
Last night saw the return of two of our wonderful library friends, Melynda Jarratt and Mrs Zoe Boone. Having come all the way from Canada it was lovely to see […]
Captured Hearts
Melynda Jarratt and Zoe Boone return to Glasgow to tell us more about the experiences of British and European women caught up in the dramatic reality of war who fell in love with and married soldiers from a foreign country. When the war ends, they leave behind all they’ve ever known. A compelling portrait of love, passion, perseverance, and hope in a world torn apart by war.
Girl – A Community Project
Adura Onashile, in partnership with Ankur Productions and the Glasgow Women’s Library is developing Girl, a series of creative workshops, inspired by Antiguan writer Jamaica Kincade’s poem of the same name.
GWL Learners Forum
We value you as a learner and library user and we want your feedback on what we do. Glasgow Women’s Library attracts hundreds of learners each year to our courses, events, training and other activities. The GWL Learners Forum will be a chance to meet other Library learners to share your experiences and for us to find out what you want and where we can improve our programmes and communication with you.
Library Closed Friday 13 May
The library will be closed on Friday 13 May for staff training. If you have learning arranged and have not spoken to a member of staff about this already please contact us on 0141 248 9969. ESOL classes have been rescheduled for that morning and Steps to Social Science and Care will take place at Stow College.
WMH Workshop 3: Bottled Tears
Explore “one of the strangest migrations in modern history” (BBC). Following World War Two, tens of thousands of war brides made one-way voyages to their husbands’ distant homelands. In a spellbinding presentation Beverley Tosh will tell the tales of seven lasses who came of age in wartime Scotland then found themselves transplanted from Newfoundland to New Zealand.