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
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 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

Through the Female Gaze

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

Karen Cecilia, an internationally recognised playwright, will run a workshop offering a comprehensive step-by-step journey into creating intricate and compelling characters with a particular emphasis on a woman-centric viewpoint.

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
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

Bold Types Showcase

GWL Online

Join us on Zoom and be dazzled by our bold shortlisted writers, as they read out their stories and poems on this year’s theme – HOPE.

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

Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds

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

Join us for the Glasgow Launch of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds, by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift.‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions […]

Free

The Library will be closed over Christmas and Hogmanay, and will re-open on Tuesday, 7th January.
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