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.
Exhibition launch of 'Material Matters' which shares the works created during the project by women at workshops across Scotland. 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.
Check out some of the useful, quaint and downright outrageous advice contained in the archives of Glasgow Women’s Library and the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Choose your favourites as we create our own exhibition of some of the top tips and short films.
Following its triumphant launch in September at GWL, March is now making its way around Scotland.
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.
The women of the East End have always had to be industrious and resourceful simply to survive. This guided walking tour focuses on some of their achievements and struggles, and the radical nature of the area which gave birth to them.
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.
