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Cusp: Diving into the Lesbian Archive
Friday, 21st October, 2022, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Free
Join Playwright Natalie McGrath at the end of a week in residence at Glasgow Women’s Library. A week spent exploring the exciting collections of the Lesbian Archive to inspire ideas for a brand new play entitled Cusp.
Cusp: Diving into the Lesbian Archive, Friday 21st October, 10am to 12pm, GWL, 18+, Women* only, Free
Materials from the archive will be shared and explored to gently ignite stories and conversations about the rich heritage of queer women’s lives in Scotland. Bring your stories to share over a cuppa, and be amongst the first to hear early ideas and sketches from the play.
Cusp hopes to tell a beautiful love story, whilst also charting the heritage of lesbian lives and politics in Scotland over several generations. Natalie will be joined by Clare Duffy, who is an award winning Playwright, Director and Dramaturg and tour de force in Scottish Theatre to support this early stage of the process in the life of this new play.
Natalie McGrath is a playwright, poet and a Co-Director of Dreadnought South West, who produce the Rebellious Sounds Archive, she is also a Co-Director of Out and About Queering the Museum at RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery). Her plays include We’ll Meet In Moscow a digital production by Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and most recently The Beat of Our Hearts at Exeter Northcott Theatre on LGBTQIA+ loneliness and belonging. Currently she is writing a book; Honeycomb.
This work is generously supported by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland as part of their Self-led Projects.
www.dreadnoughtsouthwest.org.uk
This is one of our ‘Take Part’ events this autumn! (‘Attend’ events mean you can listen or look in and enjoy the event with no pressure to join in, though there will likely be opportunities to chat too! ‘Take Part’ events involve a bit more activity or participation on your part, you are of course still welcome to do so as little or as much as you would like to.)
Booking
The event is free and for women only* (16+). To attend, please book below and we will share an email invitation with you. If you would like to make a donation to Glasgow Women’s Library, you can do so here.
*All women-only events are inclusive of Trans and Intersex women, as well as non-binary and gender fluid people who are comfortable in a space that centres the experience of women.
Accessibility
Glasgow Women’s Library is wheelchair accessible, with lifts to the first floor and the Mezzanine Floor. We have accessible toilets and all the bathrooms are individual closed stalls and are gender neutral. Our larger Events Space is fitted with an induction loop. A portable induction loop is also available.
Find more information on Accessibility at GWL or contact us and we will be very happy to offer assistance.
