Wendy Kirk
Story Cafe Special: Anne Pia
Pauline reflects on a fabulous afternoon with Dr Anne Pia, who read from and talked about her new poetry collection Dragons Wear Lipstick. Wendy welcomed everyone to Story Cafe and […]
Story Cafe round up: summertime
What have we been reading this month at Story Cafe? Pauline beautifully captures our sunny vibes…. Wendy chose a summer seaside theme for our July Story Cafe and although the […]
Story Café: Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month Scotland
Pauline shares what we’ve been reading and chatting about at Story Cafe this month… This Story Cafe was first planned for June 2020 so it’s only three years late! After […]
Story Cafe round up: Peak beyond Peak
Peak Beyond Peak: the unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison compiled and transcribed by Hazel Buchan Cameron On 11th May, we welcomed Hazel Buchan Cameron to talk about her […]
Story Cafe round up: Scotland’s witches
Pauline shares some of the highlights from our April and May Story Cafes… Wendy introduced Anabel, who was leading this Story Cafe telling of Scotland’s persecution of witches, the attempt […]
Story Cafe: A silent voices speak by Trishna Singh OBE
Pauline reflects on a wonderful, illuminating Story Cafe with Trishna Singh… Trishna Singh OBE is a first generation Scottish Bhat Sikh born in Glasgow in1953. She moved to Edinburgh on […]
Story Cafe round up: women journalists
From anarchism in Spain, to photo-journalism in Yemen, Pauline gives us a fantastic round up of what we’ve been reading and chatting about… In this fascinating session (“brilliant” and “my […]
Drawn Together: volume 1: Rewilding
Zohra reviews Rewilding… Rewilding is a dynamic practice in Drawn Together Volume 1: Rewilding. The collection of visual stories by ‘international feminist collective’ Drawn Together invites the reader to morph […]
Story Cafe round-up!
Pauline gives us a flavour of what we’ve been reading and chatting about so far this year, and chats to Aishwarya about Story Cafe… Aishwarya Balasubramanian has been on a […]
30 years of books
In November, Elaine, who works so hard to source hot-off-the-press books for our shelves, shared her experience of volunteering at the Library. Now she wants to spotlight some of the […]