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 […]
Category: National Lifelong Learning Blog
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 […]
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
Equals and Herstory Portrait: Andrea Kusel and Sharon Thomas in conversation
Morag talks to curator Andrea Kusel and artist Sharon Thomas about the Equals exhibition and the Herstory Portrait series, both on display at Paisley Museum and Art Gallery until 21st October
Mapping Memorials to Women in Edinburgh
The National Lifelong learning team braved the Edinburgh festival crowds last week for the latest Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland session. While festival goers sweltered in the sunshine outside […]
Dumfries women’s reading circle – Reading for Well Being
Our new Dumfries women’s reading circle met for the first time at North West Resource centre on Wednesday 27th June. This new group is a chance to meet up with […]
Equals and Herstory Portrait at Paisley Museum
Two fantastic new art exhibitions featuring women artists have just opened in Renfrewshire at Paisley Museum. Equals features work from a variety of women artists and celebrates a century of […]
Scrapbooking in Motherwell
We packed our bags and cases with paper, glue, gems and lots of other fun things and headed off to North Lanarkshire in April to do some scrapbooking […]