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Internship Vacancy: BME Learning Development Internship
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21 Revolutions, an Orkney poet and a road trip – Harpies Fechters and Quines 2014
Women in the arts was the theme for this years Harpies Fechters and Quines festival in Edinburgh which ran from 9-21st June. Within that theme we had a wide range of activities, talks and workshops, from zine making and creative writing to fabulous exhibitions and fascinating talks.
My Placement at Glasgow Women’s Library
Carrie, third year Community Learning and Development student from Strathclyde University, has been on a full-time placement with the national lifelong learning project since September. Here she talks about her […]
Job Vacancy Re-advertisement: Mixing the Colours Project Development Worker
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A Life in Badges – interviewing Anne Begg MP, in Aberdeen
We set off for Aberdeen last Thursday to interview Dame Anne Begg, MP for the Badges of Honour project. Anne has kindly decided to donate her large badge collection to […]
Harpies, Fechters and Quines – Rosette Making at Stockbridge and Oxgangs
We have been spending a lot of time in Edinburgh over the last few weeks, thanks to the Harpies, Fechters and Quines festival. There have been plenty of brilliant events, including our suffragette rosette making workshops at Stockbridge and Oxgangs libraries, where we had lots of enthusiastic participants who ranged in age from 23 to 83.
Bonnie Fechters and the Extraordinary Ordinary Women Exhibition
As the Harpies, Fechters and Quines events launch in Edinburgh this month, Theresa Wallace, a volunteer from the Bonnie Fechters group writes about how the Extraordinary Ordinary Women exhibition was […]
Mixing the Colours: Women speaking about sectarianism
For the last few months staff, volunteers and learners at GWL and beyond have been speaking about sectarianism – what it is, how it affects women, their lives, and their communities, and what can women do about it.
Volunteering and working with GWL by Alice
Alice started volunteering at the library in 2009 and now, after helping on a number of projects, she works for us as a sessional tutor with the national lifelong learning project. Here Alice talks about her journey with GWL
Mixing the Colours – fiction, films and poems about women and sectarianism
Glasgow Women’s Library is developing a new project, Mixing the Colours, which will be looking at women in Scotland and sectarianism – and we’d like your help!