Re-reading Greenham Common

Join artist researcher Yvonne Billimore in a two-day exploration of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp collection from our archive. Together we will draw out and layer the personal narratives, experiences, speculations, knowledges and gossip we find to acknowledge the complexity of Greenham Common. If you’re interested in eco-feminist thought and collective research practices come along to consider the continued relevance of this movement for multiple struggles, past, present and future.

Re-reading Greenham Common, Tuesdays 26th November and 3rd December, 10am to 4pm, £5/£3, 16+

Re-reading Greenham Common is a study group which favours experimenting with non-linear narratives and co-learning processes. The group will spend time working together directly with the materiality of the archive, cross referencing and intersecting it with their own work and interests, as well as those of other participants. The aim of the group is to practice processes of collective exchange, contamination and entanglement to disrupt dominant and singular narratives, inside and outside of the archive.

“We are transformed, individually, collectively, as we make radical creative space which affirms and sustains our subjectivity, which gives us a new location from which to articulate our sense of the world.” – bell hooks, Choosing the Margin as a Space for Radical Openness

All welcome, no prior knowledge of Greenham Common is required. Please do come to both days where possible. Refreshments and simple lunch provided.

Booking

This event is now fully booked. If you’d like your name to be added to the waiting list, please email emily.ilett@womenslibrary.org.uk

This event is open to all, booking is for both days and there are two ticket options for this event: a £5 ticket and a £3 ticket. The costs associated with this event mean that our prices are slightly higher than our usual events. Please choose the ticket which you feel most able to pay. We offer the £3 ticket if you are a Friend of GWL. Please book online below or you can call us on 0141 550 2267. If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend please let us know so that we can make your place available to someone else.

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. For paid events free companion tickets are available.

Find more information on Accessibility at GWL or contact us and we will be very happy to offer assistance.