A second opportunity for local women to take part in creative learning in an outdoor environment in the Southside of Glasgow. Children also welcome. For more information contact Syma at the Library.
Author: Laura
Launch of the Necropolis Women’s Heritage Walk Map
This event is now fully booked. The launch of our latest ground-breaking free Women’s Heritage Walk maps will be marked by a guided walk with some of the map’s researchers and its editor, Heather Middleton. A tour that digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the history of some of the women buried in the Glasgow Necropolis.
Glasgow in the Making: Women’s West End Walk and Talk
For Glasgow in the Making we are holding our pioneering women’s heritage walk revealing a hidden history of the West End of Glasgow. A unique and inspiring insight into the hitherto unsung women who made the West End. Followed by refreshments and discussion at the Albany Learning and Conference Centre.
Women Make History Workshops
Following on from our successful oral histories session in June there will be a chance to practice recording and to have a go at transcription. New comers welcome to join.
My Life in Books
The second in our series of events looking at the role of books in women’s lives. Following on from our successful crime fiction event, this will focus on when books come late in women’s lives.
WMH Film Night: You Play Your Part & Red Skirts
Part of our Women Make History workshops programme we are having a film night, watching 2 shorts films based on the Govan Rent strikes: Red Skirts on Clydeside and You Play Your Part.
Summer Programme: The Hindu Temple
A chance to tour the Hindu Temple of Glasgow and learn about women in Hinduism.
What’s On at GWL
It’s the Library’s twentieth anniversary on Wednesday 21 September 2011 and to mark this wonderful milestone we are launching a year of events, exhibitions and celebrations!
Summer Programme: Arts and Crafts
Use a fabulous range of creative paper, gems and embellishments to create a scrapbook to capture special moments in your life. You can also create a lovely scrapbook documenting your experience of taking part in GWL summer programme!
Summer Programme: Central Mosque and People’s Palace
Come along for a tour of the first purpose built mosque in Glasgow followed by a screening of ‘Hijab, the light behind the veil’, a short documentary created by AMINA – The Muslim Women’s Resource Centre in Scotland. The documentary touches upon the dress code of Muslim women and how the issue of Hijab has a local, national and international significance for Muslim women and their communities alike. We will also visit the Peoples Palace in Glasgow Green for light hearted tour and some lunch!