We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
A new series of workshops in protest song.
Join a super team of comic creators and industry professionals as they discuss feminist comics, how to be a woman in the industry, and all things comics.
Wikipedia has a gender problem. In 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation found that only 15% of biographies on English Wikipedia are about women, and less than 10% of contributors identify as female. Join us for this Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and help to correct this imbalance!
Let us introduce you to formidable midwives, ‘the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel’ Jenny Patrick, and a hatchet-wielding temperance campaigner from Kentucky known as ‘the bar-room smasher’ on our Merchant City Women’s Heritage Walk.
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month: if you are new to GWL find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programmes and projects and get a full tour and your questions answered.
We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
This empowering session is for women who have experienced verbal and physical assault, intimidation or harassment motivated by prejudice based on sexuality, race, gender, disability and religion.
No acting skills required. Just enjoy an informal play reading without the stress of learning lines or the goosebumps of performing on stage. And you don’t even need to read out loud! Previous Drama Queens have told us it was “Great fun reading the plays together – something I’ve never done before.”
Aphra Behn was the first British woman to make her living from her pen. She wrote the first ‘novel’ – Orinooko; which had an anti-slavery theme. When she died, society conspired to bury more than her body. Nancy Jo Cullen, Alexandria Patience and Rose Scollard wrote Aphra, the playscript, to honour this pioneer of women’s writing. Join us for the launch of this script.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FURTHER UPDATES. Our In Her Shoes project is exploring the way that gender intersects with hate crime and behaviour targeting women’s sexuality, disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief and gender identity. As part of this project, we're inviting women with disabilities, sensory impairments, learning […]
