Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce
Join us at GWL to experience inspiring new commissions by artists Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce.
Join us at GWL to experience inspiring new commissions by artists Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce.
This exhibition in partnership with the Audacious Women Festival features unique materials from Glasgow Women’s Library’s museum and archive collection.
From one library to another: join Seeing Things on a trip to the recently opened Glasgow Zine library to chat to their volunteers and read some zines.
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
Artist Alison J Carr presents her new short film and book drawing from her research with showgirls.
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Check out our new connect and create writing group, on the first Saturday of every month.
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.
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
This exhibition supports visitors to consider the social history of objects relating to women’s history, illustrating their historical and contemporary inequality – and linking interpretation with political campaigns for reform such as reproductive rights, domestic abuse, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
Glasgow Women's Library is the first pop-up venue for Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an oil painting from about 1615–17, as it makes its way on a 'grand tour' from the National Gallery, London.
The Decoding Inequality project has produced analyses of 25 objects from our collection to support an accessible understanding of how issues of (in)equality (across gender, class, sexuality, disability and race) are enacted and sustained in our society.
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
Award-winning poet Nadine Aisha Jassat launches her debut poetry collection Let Me Tell You This at Glasgow Women’s Library.
The Reading group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issue.
Join us for this exciting drop-in event, where you can check out our new Decoding Inequality exhibit, and learn about how we uncover stories of inequality behind our objects!
Seeing Things attend Hidden Rhythms - an evening of poetry and song from hidden voices- and see Artemisia Gentileschi's self-portrait!
A chance to hear original songs and poetry celebrating love, joy, sadness, hope and everything that comes with life. Written and performed by young women who are often hidden, these tracks will give you a glimpse of a world too often overlooked.
This is an introduction to Clare Hunter’s first book Threads of Life, an exploration of the significance of sewing through time and across cultures.
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
Join National Library of Scotland curators and the Hitherto Unknown team to consider the challenges of archiving non-paper texts, including film footage and web publications. Inspired by writer and social activist, Tillie Olsen, this is part of an ongoing series of research workshops across Glasgow that aim to uncover writers and stories silenced by the barriers of gender, class and race.
Women writers find revelatory and reflective ways of invoking their landscapes and surroundings through their writing.
Story Café Special: Hear about GWL’s Drama Queens’ adaptation of Muriel Spark’s The Abbess of Crewe
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
On Friday 15th March 2019 we will launch our Decoding Inequality sectoral report, sharing our equalities-led approach to object interpretation with museum and archive colleagues in the sector.
Colleagues will have the opportunity to visit the Decoding Inequality exhibition, learn about the emerging object narratives, learn more about the why and how of a 'feminist interpretation strategy' and try out our approach themselves.
Funny Women of Colour take to the stage for hilarious and unique stand-up comedy blended with afternoon tea.
Creative Writing for Fearties: Read between the lines of women’s diaries in our collection to create your own fiction and poetry.
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
Donna Moore shares writing and research investigating dark deeds in Edwardian Glasgow
Drama Queens: informal play readings where no lines need to be learned
Showing Shari’a law in a way we've never seen before--through the story of the first-ever female judge in Palestine’s religious courts--The Judge is portrait of a remarkable woman who overcame a male-dominated tradition to change minds.
The Reading group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issue.
This workshop is open to women interested in and sensitive to neurodiversity, we'll explore how these traits are not only valuable in poetry but vital to our culture.
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
Celebrate the launch of our suffrage animations with tea, cake and a choice of thrilling games.
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
This gathering of women calls together ecofeminist academics, environmental campaigners, writers, artists and performers for a day of papers, performances and workshops, exploring how ecofeminist theory and practice can unite to imagine and realise optimistic responses to our changing world.
Join Seeing Things for a day of discussions, talks and workshops exploring ecofeminism and some of the daring work being done by women around environmental themes.
Come connect to your writing and celebrate the changing seasons with our series of three gentle creative writing sessions. Wrap up warm and bring along a thermos of tea for these workshops in the atmospheric (but chilly) Secret Garden, hidden in the heart of Edinburgh.
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
East Glasgow was a hive of suffragette activity. Our Women Make History detectives have been researching Scottish suffragettes and have developed a new trail round the east of Glasgow, be among the first to experience it!