The Revolution on Roller Skates will be the first public exhibition at the Library of materials donated to the “National Museum of Roller Derby”. Carefully curated by members of Glasgow Roller Derby and Auld Reekie Roller Girls, it offers an insight into the fast-and-furious first years of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby in the UK.
Glasgow Women’s Library was launched in September 1991 and, with the support of thousands of donors, volunteers and dedicated workers has grown into a remarkable library, museum and archive collection […]
Glasgow Women’s Library is a phenomenon: the sole resource of its kind in Scotland. We are celebrating our 21st birthday by commissioning 21 women artists to make new work inspired by GWL’s library, archive and museum artefacts. Artists including Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Lucy Skaer and Karla Black have created work that draws on sources including campaign badges, knitting patterns, suffragette ephemera, album covers, feminist newsletters and lesbian dime novels. Come, celebrate and be inspired.
Reading and talking about books, poems or stories in a supportive group can be inspirational and help people through difficult times. Our new Dumfries women’s reading circle is a great chance to read new books, meet new friends and improve your reading skills.
As part of our ‘Two Decades of Changing Minds’ twentieth anniversary programme, and linking with the 21 Revolutions exhibition we are programming a range of related readings events. Several of the 21 writers we have commissioned to make new work inspired by the GWL collections, including Denise Mina, Elizabeth Reeder and Anne Donovan, will read their work and discuss the sources of their inspiration.
