Due to popular demand we have extended the celebration of Glasgow Women’s Library’s recent acquisition of Maud Joachim’s hunger strike medal, with a rare opportunity to see two other special medals in this exhibition of militant suffrage memorabilia.
Across the road from GWL is a new temporary orchard for people to acknowledge grief and imagine peaceful futures. Three artists respond to the themes of trees, hope and healing across this arbour and within the library space.
HAKOTO performed by Reiko Goto Collins in the fruit tree nursery developed as part of the exhibition Peace Arbour for Glasgow International Festival 2024.
Our guided walk will take you on a time travelling journey, from the Napoleonic Wars to modern day New Gorbals, highlighting the Suffragettes, Jewish and Asian immigrants, hawkers, and weavers who have inhabited the area over the centuries.
HAKOTO performed by Reiko Goto Collins in the fruit tree nursery developed as part of the exhibition Peace Arbour for Glasgow International Festival 2024.
HAKOTO performed by Reiko Goto Collins in the fruit tree nursery developed as part of the exhibition Peace Arbour for Glasgow International Festival 2024.