IN PERSON: Want to get creative and share your voice with like-minded individuals to create a beautiful zine? This collaborative and relaxed workshop will focus on creating a vibrant zine on Women and Climate Change.
ONLINE: What impact has GWL had on individuals, groups and communities in the past 30 years? This is just one of the questions a team of four academic researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Kathy Hamilton, Holly Porteous, Sarah Edwards and Juliette Wilson, have been seeking to answer as part of a 2 year project. In this event they will share some of their findings and discuss the wider impact of their research.
ONLINE: At this online event artist and author Maliha Abidi will speak about the inspirational women featured in her new book, Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World.
IN PERSON: Our guided women’s heritage walks are back and our guided can’t wait to introduce some of the notorious and forgotten women buried in this atmospheric Victorian cemetery.
ONLINE: Read poems and short stories together as prompts for your own creative writing. Each session focuses on a theme such as Home, Grow and Transform, or Garden.
ONLINE: Read poems and short stories together as prompts for your own creative writing. Each session focuses on a theme such as Home, Grow and Transform, or Garden.
IN PERSON: Enter the world of blood and gold, and let performance storyteller Mara Menzies take you on a journey of tragedy, wonder and magic. Listen and watch as she explores African ancestry through tales of slavery, cruelty and colonisation, unearthing pride, love and sacrifice along the way.
IN PERSON: Led by our volunteer History Detectives, this guided walk will focus on some of the achievements and struggles of the industrious and resourceful women of Glasgow's East End, and the radical nature of the area which gave birth to them.
Pop in to the Library to pick up a copy of our Summer 2022 programme of events.
Thursday 31st August, 10.30am to 12noon Talk and exhibition tour Leith Library, 28-30 Ferry Rd., Edinburgh EH6 4AE How is women’s heritage celebrated in Scotland? At this illustrated talk, Morag Smith from Glasgow Women's Library chats about how women’s history projects have developed around Scotland and how Glasgow Women’s Library can support exciting and innovative […]
IN PERSON: Led by our volunteer History Detectives, this guided walk will focus on some of the achievements and struggles of the industrious and resourceful women of Glasgow's East End, and the radical nature of the area which gave birth to them.
