MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH - Andrea Thomson from the University of Glasgow Centre for Gender History will talk about oral history practice, a central aspect of the Speaking Out project. There will be time for questions, discussion and viewing of the Speaking Out exhibition.
MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH - In this session participants will be able to listen to extended selections from oral history interviews with women associated with the Women’s Aid movement in Scotland. There will then be a guided group discussion on themes identified in the interviews. Tea and cake will also be served!
Save the date for our Spring Programme Launch.
MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH - In this session we’ll draw inspiration from the pin badges displayed in the Speaking Out exhibition to design and make our own feminist buttons we can wear with pride! Pin badges were (and still are) important visible symbols of the beliefs held by women involved with the Women’s Aid movement.
Lullabies are a space to sing the unsung... See Glasgow artist Donna Rutherford's new project 'Unsaid Lullaby' about the children she never had.
Looking at archive items from the Lesbian Avengers and BlackOUT collective, and artists like Claude Cahun and Zoe Leonard, we will use activist art methods to produce artistic and creative responses to our own experiences, address our need and desire to challenge hate, and envision the future.
MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH - Elizabeth O’Brien from Glasgow Women’s Library will talk about the Scottish Women’s Aid archive and efforts to make this resource more accessible to the public. There will be time for questions, discussion and viewing of the Speaking Out exhibition.
Put a spring in your step at our lunchtime Story Café, as we travel the world, one tale at a time. Relax as we enjoy stories and poems from some of the best women writers world-wide.
An evening of dining and readings, celebrating the shared birthdays of Robert Burns and Virginia Woolf, exploring existing links between these two writers and forging new contemporary ones.
MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH - In this session, facilitated by poet Nadine Aisha, participants will use creative writing practice to explore themes around Women’s Aid and how women’s poetry and writing can be used to connect with others, tell truths about lived experience and get others to understand and listen.
