Material Matters involved women of different ages and cultures in the creation of sewn wall hangings inspired by each person’s emotional attachment to a textile that has a story to tell: a grandmother’s quilt, a child’s dungarees, a Palestinian embroidery, a wedding dress. This exhibition shares the works created during the project by women at workshops across Scotland.
Celebrate International Women’s Day at GWL with stories, images and songs from Rachel Dawick who researched the stories of trailblazing women who left the UK and all they knew behind to start a new life on the other side of the world in New Zealand in 1800s. These stories turned into songs, a book and a final show; ‘The Boundary Riders’.
This lively and welcoming women’s history group, supported by Glasgow Women’s Li-brary, celebrate the histories of local women, from artists and suffragettes to their own mothers and grandmothers.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
In the first of her visits to GWL this spring, Ajay Close will be in conversation with GWL's own Donna Moore about her novel 'A Petrol Scented Spring' which looks at a turbulent time in Scottish suffragette history and portrays the real people on both sides of the struggle.
If you are interested in joining the Seeing Things group, which gives women the opportunity to see things like art exhibitions and theatre, together with other women, please get in touch with GWL or join the Seeing Things Planning meetings this Spring to find out more.
Glasgow International 2016 Director’s Programme artist Sheila Hicks presents an artist talk on her pioneering textile works and practice.
This lively and welcoming women’s history group, supported by Glasgow Women’s Li-brary, celebrate the histories of local women, from artists and suffragettes to their own mothers and grandmothers.
Scottish Women’s Aid has a proud forty year history of working to address domestic abuse in Scotland. To mark this, a project has been launched to capture the stories of those who have been involved.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
