Event Series Story Café

Story Café this Spring

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

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.

Conversation Event: Speaking Volumes #3: Commonplacing

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

Speaking Volumes books will be activated through a series of important conversations between international and Glasgow-based creatives. Conversations will revolve around the often eclipsed but influential and multifaceted role of women on art and creativity.

Free

Women’s Heritage Bike Ride

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

This guided bike ride is for cyclists of all ages and abilities and follows cycle paths through Bridgeton, Dalmarnock and Glasgow Green, stopping along the way for our volunteer tour guides to share stories of trailblazing women cyclists from the worlds of sport, political activism, literature and entertainment.

£6.00 – £10.00

Book Giveaway Party

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

Free books, tea and cake? It’s the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon, and we’d love your company. Pick up your free book to grow your own library at home, or see if you can bag a prize at our book quiz. Part of World Book Night 2016.

Free

Edinburgh Story Cafe

Edinburgh Central Library George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Bring along a bite of lunch and relax while you listen to specially selected stories and powerful poetry handpicked from the rich GWL collection of women writers being read out loud and bring your own thoughts to the supportive discussion.

Untold Stories of East Dunbartonshire Women, Waterside

Waterside Subscription Hall Bankhead Road, Waterside, United Kingdom

From the well-known to unsung heroines, this friendly 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 happening across Scotland.

Event Series Story Café

Story Café this Spring

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

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.

Collect:if

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

GWL are embarking upon an exciting series of discussions that will explore the challenges affecting Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women in the arts and open up the potential for creating a new network based at GWL. We invite you to participate in Collect:if.

Free