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Please Leave a Message: Creating Space with Writing

Name: Please Leave a Message: Creating Space with Writing
Start: 2025-01-16T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-22T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Glasgow Women’s Library

Thursday, 16th January to Saturday, 22nd March

Free

Audience

Open to all

Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible, Audio-described and Induction loop on request

Collaged scene featuring an armchair, telephone, and pieces of text. — Image by Aoife Hogan and Gwendolin Kircali

An exhibition presented by the Free Writing Society from Glasgow School
of Art.

Immerse yourself in writing and recordings played through old telephones, where different voices touch on topics from politics to gender, loneliness to love.
This exhibition serves as a living archive of stories and poems, and is about creating a shared space for writing — a dialogue where visitors are encouraged to listen, but also to respond.

In the space you will find free writing guides, writing tools, and a post box
to share your ‘message’ with future visitors.

The Free Writing Society will be running Free Writing Sessions at Glasgow Women’s Library and Online during the exhibition.

Saturday 25th January, GWL, 2pm to 3.30pm, Drop in
Saturday 1st February, Online, 10.30am to 12pm Follow this link to book on to this online session
Friday 7th February, GWL, 2pm to 3.30pm, Drop in
Sunday 23rd February, Online, 10.30am to 12pm Follow this link to book on to this online session
Thursday 6th March, GWL, 5pm to 6.30pm, Drop in

This exhibition and workshop series intends to create a space for people to write freely and to explore writing through different mediums. It is a space for people of all backgrounds and experiences to share their words and have a platform
for their stories. The Free Writing Society has been writing together for nearly two years. Through weekly writing sessions, we connected and found a safe space to share our thoughts and words. It was originally founded by a person with dyslexia to create a space for writing that is not based on having to produce ‘great writing’ but about enjoying the act of writing itself. To create more access to writing that doesn’t exclude people with different skills or approaches.

Instead of making a text-based show, The Free Writing Society wanted to translate these principles and goals into an immersive installation that creates more space for writing and offers different ways of interacting with text. A group of members from the Free Writing Society came together to collaboratively create this installation, which is being exhibited for the first time.

www.pleaseleaveamessage.org