Kate Downie: Conversations with Joan

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

Drawn to the possibilities left open by Joan Eardley’s last, incomplete, painting Two Children (1962), artist Kate Downie is debuting her recreated and completed version of Eardley’s iconic painting alongside other new works that explore childhood, sibling relationships, care and creativity.

Free

She Settles in the Shields: Exhibition

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

Glasgow Women’s Library invites you to explore the rich tapestry of stories that make up our community with our special exhibition, ‘She Settles in the Shields’.

Free
Event Series Readers of Colour

Readers of Colour Glasgow

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

Readers of Colour is a thriving community of Women* and Non-binary Readers of Colour who come together to read writing by Women and Non-binary Writers of Colour!

Free

Black Women in Our Collections

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

Staff and volunteers at GWL have chosen their favourite works in our collection by Black writers, activists and artists.

Free
Event Series Open Book

Open Book

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

These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are led by Kathrine Sowerby, a poet and writer based in Glasgow.

Each session focuses on a different theme – such as Home, Grow and Transform, or Garden – and we use poetry and short stories as prompts for your own creative writing.

Free
Event Series Story Café

Story Café

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

Rediscover the joy of being read to, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.

Free

East End Women’s Heritage Walk

Glasgow's East End Glasgow, United Kingdom

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.

£6.00 – £10.00
Event Series Conversation Café

Conversation Café

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

If you are new to speaking English or fancy a cuppa and a chat, this event is perfect for you!

Free

This Woman 这个女人

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

This Woman 这个女人 is a documentary film being screened as part of Women Hold Up Half the Sky 薄荷紫云行巡展计划, a touring programme of Chinese cinema coming to Scotland this Autumn.

Free
Event Series Women Making It

Women Making It

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

Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting sessions, including clay work, basket weaving, quilling, and much more. 

Free