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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ZigZag’s Inspirational Women
Which women do 5 to 14 year old artists look up to? Find out at this moving exhibition. Whether family heroine, community champion or famous celebrity, the ZigZag Arts Club's imaginative creations of their female role models are both powerful and charming.
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Creative Writing Support Group
Creative Writing Support Group
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
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Story Café
Story Café
Reinvent your lunchtime at Story Café. Tales and poems from around the world, all washed down with tea and friendly chat! Why not pull up a chair and become part of the story.
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
This summer, try something new at GWL where we have bitesize learning and fun on offer including scrapbooking, badge making, creative writing, film screenings and much more.
3 events,
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Merchant City Heritage Walk
Merchant City Heritage Walk
Scandal, vice, radicalism, regeneration and revival… Discover another side to this area as we retrace the footsteps of women who gave birth in the Maternity Hospital on Rottenrow and picture ourselves as the jury in a sensational Victorian murder trial in an arsenic poisoning case.
£6.00 – £10.00
3 events,
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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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Creative Writing Workshops for Muslim Women
Creative Writing Workshops for Muslim Women
This summer, learn from avid bloggers Talat Yaqoob and Faiza Yousaf at our friendly and relaxed blog-writing workshops.
Free
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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 there. This is a hilly walk but the views across Glasgow and the insights on women's history are spectacular!
£6.00 – £10.00
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Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
GWL’s Drama Queens give you thrills from the comfort of your chair as we read from and listen to plays from our collection.
Free – £2.00
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Drama Queens: In Our Own Words
Drama Queens: In Our Own Words
Experiment along with us as we adapt one of Muriel Spark’s short stories or novellas together for play writing fun.
Free – £2.00
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
This summer, try something new at GWL where we have bitesize learning and fun on offer including scrapbooking, badge making, creative writing, film screenings and much more.
3 events,
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Creative Writing Workshops for Muslim Women
Creative Writing Workshops for Muslim Women
This summer, learn from avid bloggers Talat Yaqoob and Faiza Yousaf at our relaxed and friendly blog-writing workshops
Free
3 events,
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Histories of Reproductive Health and Rights Activism
Histories of Reproductive Health and Rights Activism
A series of talks by International experts from Yale, Purdue and Strathclyde Universities examining the complex history of reproductive rights activism and the role of women in shaping reproductive healthcare in the past.
Free
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Suffragette Heritage Trails for Glasgow
Suffragette Heritage Trails for Glasgow
Become a GWL Women's History Detective and help create a lasting legacy celebrating women who changed our world.
Free
3 events,
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Making Sparks with Seeing Things
Making Sparks with Seeing Things
Join Seeing Things on a guided tour of the fantastic GWL/Glasgow School of Art collaboration, Making Sparks
3 events,
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Creative Writing Workshops for Muslim Women
Creative Writing Workshops for Muslim Women
This summer, learn from avid bloggers Talat Yaqoob and Faiza Yousaf at our relaxed and friendly blog-writing workshops.
Free
3 events,
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West End Women’s Heritage Walk
West End Women’s Heritage Walk
Glasgow’s West End- the home of rousing radicals, tireless teachers and steadfast suffragettes! Learn all about the women of the area on our West End Heritage Walk.
£6.00 – £10.00
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Seeing Things: Re-imagining Rita and Masataka Taketsuru (Kirkintilloch)
Seeing Things: Re-imagining Rita and Masataka Taketsuru (Kirkintilloch)
Re-imagining Rita and Masataka Taketsuru explores the early 20th-century life and imagery of Kirkintilloch-born Rita Cowan, the Mother of Japanese Whisky, and her Japanese husband Masataka Taketsuru.
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
This summer, try something new at GWL where we have bitesize learning and fun on offer including scrapbooking, badge making, creative writing, film screenings and much more.
4 events,
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The Open Archive: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
The Open Archive: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
This Open Archive shines a light on the lives of Scottish suffragettes and explores how our lives have been shaped by the struggles of these early campaigners.
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Creative Writing Workshop for Muslim Women
Creative Writing Workshop for Muslim Women
This summer, learn from avid bloggers Talat Yaqoob and Faiza Yousaf at our friendly and relaxed blog-writing workshops.
Free
1 event,
to
Creative Writing Support Group
Creative Writing Support Group
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
4 events,
to
Seeing Things visit The Tenement House
Seeing Things visit The Tenement House
Join us to explore The Tenement House to find out what it meant to be an 'independent woman' in the early 20th century.
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Drama Queens: In Our Own Words
Drama Queens: In Our Own Words
Experiment along with us as we adapt one of Muriel Spark’s short stories or novellas together for play writing fun.
Free – £2.00
to
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
GWL’s Drama Queens give you thrills from the comfort of your chair as we read from and listen to plays from our collection.
Free – £2.00
to
Suffragette Heritage Trails for Glasgow
Suffragette Heritage Trails for Glasgow
Become a GWL Women’s History Detective and help create a lasting legacy celebrating women who changed our world.
Free
1 event,
to
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. Join us for lively conversations in a relaxed environment.
Free
1 event,
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.
1 event,
to
Women of the Gorbals Heritage Walk
Women of the Gorbals Heritage Walk
This tour highlights suffragettes, Jewish and Asian immigrants, hawkers and weavers, all of whom have inhabited this part of Glasgow, often facing daily challenges to make ends meet, but using their resourcefulness and creativity to strive and thrive.
£6.00 – £10.00