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New work from Penelope’s Sisters, a group of textile and mixed media artists.

This festival of talks, exhibitions and workshops is organised through a partnership between Glasgow Women’s Library, Edinburgh City libraries and the Bonnie Fechters women’s group and is now in its third year. The theme is women in the arts.

Glasgow Women’s Library recently celebrated their 21st anniversary as a unique lending library, archive and learning centre. As part of this year of celebration, 21 woman writers and artists were commissioned to produce exciting new stories, essays and works of art inspired by the women’s library’s collections.

This exhibition from Scottish Women’s Aid displays the meaningful belongings, poetry and art work of women, children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse, alongside their stories of how Women’s Aid have helped them.

Come along and find out more about these 2 exhibitions and meet some of the people involved. Artist Helen De Main will be talking about 21 Revolutions and about the development of her own artwork for the project. The 21 Revolutions book will also be available to view or purchase. Refreshments will be served.

Lesley McDowell is an author and literary critic for a number of newspapers, including The Herald, The Scotsman and The Independent on Sunday. Her latest novel, Unfashioned Creatures, portrays the Scottish childhood friend of Mary Shelley, Isabella Baxter Booth. She has also published on literary partnerships from a feminist perspective, in her book 'Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers' which was shortlisted for the Scottish Book Awards (non-fiction) 2011.