She Made the Library
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.
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Women, Water and Wheels
Women, Water and Wheels
Enjoy inspiring stories of the pioneers of women’s sport in the Arlington Baths Club, a beautiful Victorian swimming pool with a unique Turkish Bath, where women have been swimming since 1872.
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Story Café Special: Lesley O’Brien
Story Café Special: Lesley O’Brien
To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2017, gather around the Story Cafe table for a sensory and culinary feast with storyteller and musician Lesley O’Brien.
Free – £2.00
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Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Hear the shortlisted Bold Types writers read their stories in front of our wonderfully supportive and encouraging panel of judges.
Free – £2.00
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Seeing Things: Her Spirit Soared
Seeing Things: Her Spirit Soared
Seeing Things would love you to join us on our next trip to Her Spirit Soared: Stories of Survival. This performance is part of 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women, and presents women's stories about moving on from abuse, oppression, and desperation, to triumph, liberation, and peace.
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Her Spirit Soared
Her Spirit Soared
As part of 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women, we present Her Spirit Soared: Stories of survival and hope from women moving on from abuse.
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Collect:if Women of Colour in Literature
Collect:if Women of Colour in Literature
Collect:if members discuss women of colour in literature, breaking into the industry, and creating their works.
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Story Café
Story Café
There's tales and poems from women writers from around the world to inspire you at our lunchtime Story Cafés this Autumn, so warm up with a cup of tea and become part of the story.
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Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
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!
Free – £2.00
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Mull Over Ethical Gifts at GWL
Mull Over Ethical Gifts at GWL
It's that time of the year again, and what better way to see in the season than with a new GWL tote bag packed full of ethical gifts perfect for your friends and family?
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Interviews in the Video Data Bank
Interviews in the Video Data Bank
This event draws upon artist interviews conducted from 1974–84 by Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield.
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
Come along to our new and much-anticipated GWL singing group and celebrate the power of our collective voice!
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Reading Group for Muslim Women
Reading Group for Muslim Women
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
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Seeing Things trip to Centre for Contemporary Arts and Glasgow School of Art
Seeing Things trip to Centre for Contemporary Arts and Glasgow School of Art
A trip to see a couple of exhibitions: Lilt, Twang and Tremor at the Centre for Contemporary Arts and then Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness at the Glasgow School of Art.
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Story Café
Story Café
There's tales and poems from women writers from around the world to inspire you at our lunchtime Story Cafés this Autumn, so warm up with a cup of tea and become part of the story.
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Interrupted Film Screening with Document Film Festival: Grab and Run
Interrupted Film Screening with Document Film Festival: Grab and Run
For our second screening of Grab and Run with Document Human Rights Film Festival we revisit the ‘interrupted screening’ format. Audience members join one another around tables and the film is interrupted at key points to allow time and space for discussion and reflection.
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Seeing Things: Women, Witches and Witch-Trials lecture screening at Mitchell Library
Seeing Things: Women, Witches and Witch-Trials lecture screening at Mitchell Library
Screening of the British Library lecture "Women, Witches and Witch-Trials", chaired by Anita Anand. The lecture focuses on the history of witchcraft and gender roles within it.