At Glasgow Women’s Library, we believe in the power of performance to amplify voices, challenge narratives, and inspire change. By exploring key social issues affecting women, we invite both emerging and established performers to share important stories, sparking engagement and connection with our audiences.

Our Collect:if network has been a crucial part of this process, bringing together dynamic performers in pivotal projects like Her Spirit Soared, a powerful exploration of violence against women, and Shifting Sands, a moving short film on coercive control in relationships. Through our partnerships with organisations including Stellar Quines Theatre Company, we have supported the next generation of playwrights and performers based in Scotland, helping to shape the future of Scottish theatre while continuing to address pressing social issues.

Our Herland event nights bring together diverse audiences to discover new ideas and enjoy creative work by women artists, musicians, performers, filmmakers and writers. Herland serves as a much needed crucible for audiences to see great new work by some of the best women creatives working in Scotland, for emerging talent to cut their teeth in a great cultural venue and for established talent to feel supported in taking risks in a supportive and inspiring environment.

Through our work with performers, Glasgow Women’s Library continues to champion creativity and empower individuals to express themselves, ensuring that stories of women’s experiences are told, heard, and celebrated.

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Herland

An irregular event night at Glasgow Women’s Library, Herland distils and blends the special ingredients of GWL: illuminating learning and surprising pleasures, the historic and the cutting edge, and the bringing together of diverse audiences to discover new ideas and enjoy established and experimental women creatives work. At Herland these will be served up with good food and live music in an evocative, beautiful space.

Collect:if

Collect:if is a fabulous new network bringing together Women of Colour (WoC) who are established figures in the arts, culture and creative industries in Scotland and those who are developing their practice. We aim to explore the challenges affecting Black and Minority Ethnic women in the Arts and create opportunities for them to progress in their field of work. Furthermore, we aim to inform and assist mainstream arts organisations in meeting the EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) standards within their service provision.

Shifting Sands

Charting a journey of survival and hope, Shifting Sands tells a story of a woman in an abusive and controlling relationship. Alongside the film, we have developed a toolkit to promote an understanding of coercive control and how to effectively support victims.

Her Spirit Soared

As part of 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women, we present Her Spirit Soared: Stories of survival and hope from women moving on from abuse.

Open the Door: Calm Slams

Our Open the Door Calm Slam is a safe space for poets who are ready to step out of the shadows and take their writing to the next level.

No-one who harms me will go unpunished. I am a woman.

On Wednesday 8th March 2017, the In Her Shoes project launched a groundbreaking performance to challenge hate crime against women. No-one who harms me will go unpunished. I am a woman. is a choreographed protest designed to raise awareness of women’s experiences of hate crime in Scotland.

March of Women

In March 2015 a procession of women from Glasgow and beyond gathered at Glasgow Women’s Library to march through the streets of Bridgeton to celebrate the achievements of women past […]

Voices from the Belvidere

Stories of Women from a First World War Fever Hospital Typhoid, Smallpox, Bubonic Plague, the Belvidere Fever Hospital on London Road treated them all. In our Heritage Lottery funded project, […]