This art installation created from medical correspondence and leaflets seeks to encourage discussion around Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and reframe its numerous – yet often unspoken – narratives.
We’ll celebrate the life of Scottish artist Georgina Smith through an exhibition of her lino prints. Inspired by her environment and the people close to her, her artwork often incorporates elements from her own life, including her anti-nuclear activism, for which she was imprisoned many times.
This small, interactive exhibition draws on a new open-access digital archive at GWL to reveal ‘transoceanic’ networks that stretched across the Atlantic and Pacific in the 1980s and 90s, linking Greenham women and Indigenous communities.
Artist Ailie Rutherford has been working with us to visualise the complex nature of work and care for many women. This exhibition will display prints and other outcomes from the Mapping Women’s Work workshop series at GWL.
Travel the world, one tale at a time, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around. From awe-inspiring adventures to gentle journeys amongst nature, our Story Café is sure to spark your curiosity and reinvigorate your lunchtime. Book your spot, pull up a chair and become part of […]
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL's bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, candle art, quilling, stone art and much more!
If you are new to speaking English or fancy a cuppa and chat, this event is perfect for you! As part of the adult literacy and numeracy team at GWL, we are focused on building a welcoming and supportive community for all women. Join us for a conversation, tea, and games while we practise English […]
The Library will be closed over Christmas and Hogmanay, and will re-open in the New Year on Tuesday, 9th January.
These sessions will each begin with an introduction to the research and work of composer Pauline Oliveros, who founded concepts such as ‘deep listening’, teaching us new ways to focus our attention on sound.
In the opening text of Quim, an erotic lesbian magazine that launched in 1989, the feminist sex wars of the time are referred to as a reason for the magazine's establishment. Too much had been kept shut away and it had to be set free. Quim is the product of that mood; that urgency to talk about and celebrate what […]
