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Linder’s Flag and Film
One of the most significant feminist artists of her generation, Linder has created interventions of uncanny glamour and enchantment in Glasgow’s East End with GWL for Glasgow International 2018.
3 events,
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Belonging with Open Book
Belonging with Open Book
Described as “the most interesting and inspirational mornings” by one participant, these vibrant and thoughtful monthly workshops led by poet Marjorie Lotfi Gill explore themes of journey, migration and belonging.
Free – £2.00
5 events,
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Story Café
Story Café
Rediscover the joy of being read to at our legendary lunchtime Story Café, as we immerse ourselves in tales of life, love and longing by the best women writers from across the globe.
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Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
It’s curtain up time once again for the next Act of Drama Queens: armchair drama without the stage fright.
Free – £2.00
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Creative Writing for Fearties: Lose Yourself in Writing
Creative Writing for Fearties: Lose Yourself in Writing
Our supportive and encouraging writing workshops will coax seeds of creativity into a flowering window-box of words.
Free – £2.00
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Spring is here: time to unwind and try something new! GWL has bitesize learning and fun on offer including scrapbooking, badge making, creative writing, film screenings and much more.
5 events,
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Femspectives presents: 46 Years in the Future – Women’s Film Festivals, then and now.
Femspectives presents: 46 Years in the Future – Women’s Film Festivals, then and now.
In 1972 the Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted the UK’s first women’s film festival, which was entirely dedicated to the cinematic achievements of women directors. Here we re-visit two feature films from the original programme and contextualise them anew in our discussion sessions after each screening.
Free
Warm Welcome
Warm Welcome
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
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Processions and Participation: Banner Making with Helen de Main
Processions and Participation: Banner Making with Helen de Main
One hundred years ago, women didn’t just tell the world they were equal: they showed it. Hosted by visual artist Helen de Main, these sessions are a chance to come together to create a banner reflecting what political participation means to us today.
Free
3 events,
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CHANGE OF PLANS! Seeing Things: Glasgow International at the Southside
CHANGE OF PLANS! Seeing Things: Glasgow International at the Southside
Join the Seeing Things group for the final day of Glasgow International, exploring two exhibitions in the Southside!
2 events,
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First Waves: Exploring the impact of race relations legislation in the UK
First Waves: Exploring the impact of race relations legislation in the UK
The Race Relations Act 1965 was the first legislation to address racial discrimination in the UK; this was furthered in 1968 and 1976. What was life like in Glasgow during these years? How have things changed?
Free
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Changing Stories and New Beginnings
Changing Stories and New Beginnings
“It is in the autumn and winter of life that woman is freed from her chains,…” Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Glasgow Women's Library introduces some fabulous women who have taken on the menopause in fiction, poetry and more. Listen to entertaining and thought provoking readings from the GWL collections and share in relaxed discussion and creative activities to explore how the menopause is the end of some things but can also be a new beginning.
2 events,
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Story Café Special: Donna Moore
Story Café Special: Donna Moore
Rediscover the joy of being read to at our legendary lunchtime Story Café, as we immerse ourselves in tales of life, love and longing by the best women writers from across the globe.
Free – £2.00
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
This singing group with a difference brings together women of all ages and abilities to celebrate womanhood through the power of our collective voice.
Free
1 event,
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Reading Group for Muslim Women
Reading Group for Muslim Women
This reading group has as its focus books written by Muslim women or with topics of particular relevance to Muslim women today.
Free
3 events,
Moving Minds: Exhibition
In an open, honest and often humorous way, contributors to this exhibition have shared memories and photographs of objects with special significance to them, telling diverse stories from Scotland’s Gypsy and Traveller population.
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Women’s Heritage Bike Ride
Women’s Heritage Bike Ride
Let us guide you along the East End’s excellent cycle paths and along the Clyde to Glasgow Green, stopping along the way to share some key events in women’s cycling history.
Free
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Moving Minds: Exhibition Launch
Moving Minds: Exhibition Launch
An afternoon of traditional crafts with some of the Moving Minds contributors. Join the informal myth-busting chat and learn some new craft skills.
Free
2 events,
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Necropolis Women’s Heritage Walk
Necropolis Women’s Heritage Walk
Take a stroll through this atmospheric Victorian cemetery while our tour guides bring back to life the notorious and forgotten women buried here.
£6.00 – £10.00
2 events,
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Glasgow Women’s Library Story Cafe – Beginnings
Glasgow Women’s Library Story Cafe – Beginnings
Relax while you listen to a story and poems being read out loud, then join in the discussion. We will listen to a story and selected poems from writers from the shelves of Glasgow Women’s Library on the theme of “beginnings”. A great chance to chill out, discover some new women authors and enjoy the company.
2 events,
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Tips for Girls at Glenburn Library
Tips for Girls at Glenburn Library
Is it permissible to “spoon” with a young man before you’re engaged? Should you singe the hairs off pigs’ trotters before roasting them? Is dancing bad for your ovaries? Find out the answers to these burning questions and check out more useful, quaint and downright dangerous advice, fashion and health and beauty tips contained in the archives of Glasgow Women’s Library and the National Library of Scotland film archive. Get your hands on some unique artefacts in the GWL archive and pick your own favourites.
3 events,
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Story Café Special: Poetry with Salome Benidze and Helen Mort
Story Café Special: Poetry with Salome Benidze and Helen Mort
Salome Benidze is a poet from Georgia. She has written two collections, as well as a best-selling novel. She will share a brand-new chapbook of poems, I Wanted to Tell You, written in Georgian with English translations by the brilliant British poet Helen Mort (Division Street; No Map Could Show Them). The two poets will talk about their work, exploring the weird and wonderful things that happen when you carry poems from one language to another.
Free – £2.00
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This is who we are
This is who we are
This welcoming, open session is for anyone who wants to discover what makes GWL tick, in discussion with the people who run it.
Free
3 events,
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Open the Door: Words with Women Writers
Open the Door: Words with Women Writers
This year we’re taking our popular literary festival online as a day-long virtual event so that people from around the corner and around the world can discover and discuss the vibrancy of Scottish women’s writing past and present.
Women Making It
Women Making It
Spring is here: time to unwind and try something new! GWL has bitesize learning and fun on offer including scrapbooking, badge making, creative writing, film screenings and much more.
2 events,
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The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
From the bustle of Sauchiehall Street to the quiet and leafy back streets, Garnethill is full of surprises and has been home to many remarkable women, including Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and other lesser known Glasgow Girls.
£6.00 – £10.00
2 events,
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Christina Sharpe: we are held, and held: writing and reading workshop
Christina Sharpe: we are held, and held: writing and reading workshop
A writing and reading workshop with Christina Sharpe, the celebrated author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. The workshop will focus on a collective reading of The Hold, the third chapter of this important text, and will provide a close reading and discussion with reference to the poetry of Dionne Brand, other writers and artworks on 'being in the hold'
2 events,
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Creative Writing Support Group
Creative Writing Support Group
As requested by Creative Writing for Fearties participants, we have created space for writers to meet each other, share work in an encouraging atmosphere, support each other to hone writing skills, try out ideas and develop new projects.
Free – £2.00
5 events,
Making Sparks: GSA Illustration exhibition
Glasgow School of Art Illustration students have been mining the GWL collection to create new letterpress and collograph prints inspired by Muriel Spark's dark, humorous and lushly evocative works.
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Summer Programme Launch
Summer Programme Launch
We launch our Summer Programme with tasters, tours and talks at GWL. We also host one of our legendary journal and book sales!
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Making Sparks: Exhibition Launch
Making Sparks: Exhibition Launch
Celebrate the launch of Making Sparks, an exhibition of new works by GSA Illustration students made in response to Muriel Spark books from the GWL collection.
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Cancelled: Utter: Raise Your Voice
Cancelled: Utter: Raise Your Voice
This singing group with a difference brings together women of all ages and abilities to celebrate womanhood through the power of our collective voice.
Free
3 events,
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Seeing Things Trongate Extravaganza
Seeing Things Trongate Extravaganza
Join Seeing Things group on the 26th of May for a three-part trip to Trongate 103! We will be seeing Nnena Kalu's exhibition at Project Ability, Ciara Phillips's work displayed at Glasgow Print Studio and James Pfaff's exhibition at Street Level Photoworks.
5 events,
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Collect:if
Collect:if
Collect: if is a network run by and for creative women of colour (WoC), join us for these informal gatherings to connect and learn more about how to use Collect:if and GWL resources to put your practice in the spotlight. Please note: this event will now take place on Thursday 31st May.
Free
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Story Café
Story Café
Rediscover the joy of being read to at our legendary lunchtime Story Café, as we immerse ourselves in tales of life, love and longing by the best women writers from across the globe.
to
CANCELLED: Lizzie, Lady of Hozier Street: Thursday Performance
CANCELLED: Lizzie, Lady of Hozier Street: Thursday Performance
Sadly this event has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled. The play will still be featured in our Drama Queens session on Thursday 3rd May at 2.30pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
£6.00 – £8.00
4 events,
Warm Welcome
Warm Welcome
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
to
CANCELLED: Lizzie, Lady of Hozier Street
CANCELLED: Lizzie, Lady of Hozier Street
Sadly this event has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled. The play will still be featured in our Drama Queens session on Thursday 3rd May at 2.30pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
£6.00 – £8.00