The final exhibition in GWL's 25th year is a photographic portrait of women who helped to create the Library, and is a powerful and fascinating record of the growth of a unique organisation through collaborative working.
We're delighted to welcome back Ajay Close to Story Cafe to read from her latest novel on the complex bond between mothers and daughters.
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
Our editing mistress-class will support you to polish your writing gem until it sparkles, and give you the boost you need to be bold.
Drama Queens is an armchair drama group without the limelight – informal play readings with no performance at the end. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll be amazed! You’ll be amused!
A Seeing Things trip to see Ingrid Sinclair’s 1996 film Flame showing at GWL. The film is set in Zimbabwe in the 1970s and is about the women fighters in the National Liberation Army who are fighting against white oppression. It focuses on two friends, Florence and Nyasha and their experiences during this war.
Africa in Motion presents African Lost Classics, a project aiming to screen some of the greatest African films that have been neglected or forgotten, or that have simply been lost to the archives.
