Discover the hidden heroines of Glasgow’s East End by joining our tour guides on Glasgow Women’s Library’s unique heritage walk as part of Glasgow Open Doors Day Festival.
Premiere screening of March, which documents the large scale, pubic art event March of Women that spilled out onto the streets of Bridgeton on the eve of International Women's Day 2015.
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.
We are screening 4 fabulous films which are chosen by some of the diverse women’s groups we work with and in conjunction with Cinema for All. We begin this series with Persepolis (12).
As part of European Researchers Night we will be exploring the role World War 1 had on women’s lives, freedoms and welfare. In a series of short talks followed by Q&A researchers will explore how this time of great upheaval led to rapid changes in the lives of women and what the lasting implications of those changes were.
Our Mixing The Colours project presents a Story Café Special in Inverness sharing short stories and poems from our anthology of the same name. For the first time women’s writing […]
Film screening of the documentary FtF: Female to Femme shown with a selection of shorts examining a variety of perspectives, including trans, genderqueer, and working class femme experiences.
The Library will be closed to the public all day on Tuesday 29th September for staff training. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Our warm and welcoming Story Café is the perfect way to relax over lunchtime. Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa, and enjoy listening to wonderful short stories, novel extracts and poems by women writers from around the world. Join us for this special event as part of Banned Books Week Scotland.
Sectarian identities in Scotland and Northern Ireland
In our recent anthology of women’s creative writing, Mixing The Colours, Glasgow Women’s Library explores sectarian identities in Scotland through stories and poems. This event places us in discussion with Paul Burgess from Northern Ireland who is similarly interested in sectarian identities, both in his recent novel White Church, Black Mountain, and his most recent academic work The Contested identities of Ulster Protestants.
