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.
Our fun and fear-free creative writing workshop for women only will help prepare you for submitting to Bold Types: Scottish Women's Creative Writing Competition.
One day event for women in partnership with East Lothian libraries, Scottish Book Trust and East Lothian Writer in Residence project. This one day event includes a range of workshops, including developing a Women’s Heritage walk and researching local women’s history, feminist blogging and zine writing from Glasgow Women’s Library, a playwriting workshop from Village Pub Theatre and a creative writing workshop.
Mixing The Colours Publication Launch The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is a ten-day celebration of live storytelling, oral traditions and cultural diversity, bringing together a large number of Scottish and […]
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.
Join us at one or all of these events for tea, coffee, biscuits and informal discussion on local women from Bishopbriggs, Auchinairn, Twechar, Baldernock and throughout East Dunbartonshire. Who are the women that you most remember and why? Where did they live and what did they do? How are they remembered? From the well-known to unsung heroines, this friendly, social and informal event will include short talks, a fun women’s quiz, discussion and hands on activities to give you an introduction to Glasgow Women’s Library and some of the women’s heritage projects that are happening across Scotland, including the new interactive Women of Scotland website that maps monuments to women across Scotland.
Following the launch of their Sharing Heritage lottery funded publication and Memory Box, experience this unique community and educational resource in the company of its creators, West Dunbartonshire women’s history group, as they showcase the written, pictorial and artefact documentation of their own and other women’s lives during the 50s and 60s. Join the group for tea and cake and find out more.
At this workshop discover the wonderful world of fanzines and make your own unique zine that celebrates your life as an older woman (we love to show off in front of younger pups too, so all ages are welcome).
Film screening of I Shot Bi Kidule, followed by Q&A with director Andy Jones presented by Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival.
We are taking love from the page to the screen. Films to fall in love with and films to break your heart starting with Hitchcock’s classic gothic melodrama just in time for Halloween.
