Fully Booked! Glasgow International Launch Event

Ruth Barker & Kim Moore will be launching their works The Lives of Saints and We run. We Walk. We run with performances in our intimate and evocative library venue. Also performing live is Lucy Reynolds’ A Feminist Chorus, bringing together a choir made up of participants from across Glasgow.

Launch Event
Saturday 5th April 2014, 5pm to 6pm
This event is now fully booked.

Our East End Audio Tours in all languages, along with Ruth Barker’s, The Lives of Saints and Kim Moore’s, We Run. We Walk, We Run. will be available to book and borrow from GWL on portable audio players throughout GI Festival. A film of the live choir performance of A Feminist Chorus will be sited amongst the books at the Glasgow Women’s Library for the duration of the GI from Tuesday 8th April to Monday 21st April.

Booking

This is a free event, to book your place at this event please click here you can use the code GI in the membership number field when booking if you don’t have a GWL number. Book early to avoid disappointment as we expect this event to be busy. Please note that we ask people to arrive by 5pm and stay for the duration of the event due to the nature of the performances. The event is expected to last approximately 1 hour. Doors will close at 5.00pm, refreshments will be available from 4.30pm.

More information on the artists:

Artists Ruth Barker and Kim Moore have made work in response to Glasgow Women’s Library’s East End Women’s Heritage Walk for this years Glasgow International Festival.

Palaces, Ballrooms & Battling Betty McAllister: Hidden Histories of Art & Culture in Glasgow’s East End

Barker uses live performance and spoken word poetry to re-tell ancient myths through the lens of her own unconscious associations. She has produced a new meditative sequence of short aural pieces, The Lives of Saints, evoking the stories of women including Saint Teneu and the lost witch Maggie Wall.

We run. We walk. We run is a new sound piece created by Kim Moore using binaural recordings of real and unreal spaces inspired by histories and stories of women and walking in Glasgow’s East End. Both artists’ sound pieces are to be experienced in and around Bridgeton, the new neighbourhood of Glasgow Women’s Library.

A Feminist Chorus

On the occasion of the GI Festival, a number of spaces across Glasgow resonate with a feminist voice. Lucy Reynolds is interested in the collective power of the Women’s Movement; tracing it through the spaces, writings and memories of the city.

A Feminist Chorus includes recitations from personal and polemic texts, adding a communal voice to Glasgow’s feminist history. The score draws on the collection of Glasgow Women’s Library and the city’s archives, including The Glasgow School of Art and the Mitchell Library. Participants from across Glasgow will speak the score at a collective choral event at Glasgow Women’s Library, while sound installations will be orchestrated, recorded and aired at other locations that carry echoes of the past. A Feminist Chorus is curated by MAP, a Glasgow-based online contemporary art publisher.

Palaces, Ballrooms & Battling Betty McAllister: Hidden Histories of Art & Culture in Glasgow’s East End is supported by Glasgow International and the Goethe Institute. A Feminist Chorus is curated by MAP, a Glasgow-based online contemporary art publisher.