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Mixing The Colours @ Portobello Book Festival

Portobello Library 14 Rosefield Avenue, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sectarian identities in Scotland and Northern Ireland
In our recent anthology of women’s creative writing, Mixing The Colours, Glasgow Women’s Library explores sectarian identities in Scotland through stories and poems. This event places us in discussion with Paul Burgess from Northern Ireland who is similarly interested in sectarian identities, both in his recent novel White Church, Black Mountain, and his most recent academic work The Contested identities of Ulster Protestants.

Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire

Dalmuir Community Centre Duntocher Road, Clydebank, United Kingdom

This friendly group highlights the history and achievements of local women in West Dunbartonshire. There are lots of new skills to learn and interesting projects and activities to get involved in, including a recently created Memory Box and the development of a publication about women’s lives in West Dunbartonshire.

Poetry for Fearties – Poetry Writing Workshop

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Our fun and fear-free poetry writing workshop for women only will help prepare you for submitting to Bold Types: Scottish Women's Creative Writing Competition.

£3.00

Mill Girls On Tour

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Mill Girls on Tour is a unique production - a show that intertwines poetry, theatre and music – comic and tragic, always dramatic and shimmering with glamour.

£3.00 – £5.00

Women’s Heritage Bike Ride for Beginners

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

A led ride starting and ending at GWL, this 5 mile loop is for cyclists of all ages (16+) and abilities, and a great way to discover how women have used cycling to change the world, and how cycling has changed women’s lives.

£6.00 – £10.00

The Mackintosh Festival: The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Heritage Walk

Garnethill Walk Start Point 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

For the Mackintosh Festival take a walk within Garnethill’s confined boundaries as we spotlight the women who pioneered European art movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.

£6.00 – £10.00

Document Human Rights Film Festival Videotheque

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Pop in to the library to preview selections of the film programme for this year's Document Human Rights Film Festival during the week of 12th October.

Seeing Things Planning Meetings

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

If you would like to be getting out to see more things happening in Glasgow then this group might be for you! Find out more about the group and the kinds of things which we go to at our Seeing Things planning meetings.

Film Screenings with Cinema for All – Provoked

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

We are screening 4 fabulous films which are chosen by some of the diverse women’s groups we work with and in conjunction with Cinema for All. The second film in this series is Provoked.

Trailblazers: In Conversation with Dervla Murphy: Between River and Sea

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

A unique opportunity to hear from Dervla Murphy, writer, traveler, and cyclist whose cycling adventures started in the 1960’s with a cycle ride from Ireland to India, via Iran and Afghanistan which became the subject of her first book, Full Tilt.

£3.00 – £5.00