Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
Helen MacKinven will chat about her fierce and funny debut novel, 'Talk of the Toun' at our Story Café. An uplifting black comedy of love, family and friendship, it’s a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, central belt Scotland.
In partnership with National Galleries Scotland, we have arranged a unique opportunity for women to join in supported group visits to this major new exhibition which features Scottish Women painters and sculptors from 1885-1965.
Seeing Things visit to Maud Sulter, Streetlevel Photoworks, June 2014 Seeing Things are going to see a new show by the artist Rachel Lowther, Nothing compares to the first time […]
Sworn virgins are women who take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to live as men in the patriarchal northern Albanian society. Translated to English by Clarissa the novel 'Sworn Virgin' by Elvira Dones, explores this cultural practice and has recently been made into a film. Clarissa will read excerpts, discuss the challenges of translating the book, and discuss the Sworn Virgin tradition at this event.
