Glasgow’s first women-only Get Into Reading group is coming this spring. Bring your packed lunch along to our weekly group to share stories, books and poems in a relaxed and friendly environment. Starts on Thursday 26th April 12pm to 2pm (free) Whether you’re a reader, a non-reader, or simply would like some time and space […]

Glasgow’s first women-only Get Into Reading group is coming this spring. Bring your packed lunch along to our weekly group to share stories, books and poems in a relaxed and friendly environment.

Glasgow Women’s Library is a phenomenon: the sole resource of its kind in Scotland. We are celebrating our 21st birthday by commissioning 21 women artists to make new work inspired by GWL’s library, archive and museum artefacts. Artists including Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Lucy Skaer and Karla Black have created work that draws on sources including campaign badges, knitting patterns, suffragette ephemera, album covers, feminist newsletters and lesbian dime novels. Come to this special preview night to celebrate and be inspired.

  Glasgow Women’s Library was launched in September 1991 and, with the support of thousands of donors, volunteers and dedicated workers has grown into a remarkable library, museum and archive collection with a notable history over two decades of delivering mind changing learning and events. September marks our 21st birthday and we’ll be celebrating with […]

As part of our ‘Two Decades of Changing Minds’ twentieth anniversary programme, and linking with the 21 Revolutions exhibition we are programming a range of related readings events. Several of the 21 writers we have commissioned to make new work inspired by the GWL collections, including Denise Mina, Elizabeth Reeder and Anne Donovan, will read their work and discuss the sources of their inspiration.

Join our monthly informal singing group. Whether you feel you can sing or not this is a safe space to find out, to use your voice freely, and experience group singing.

Glasgow Women’s Library was launched in September 1991 and, with the support of thousands of donors, volunteers and dedicated workers has grown into a remarkable library, museum and archive collection with a notable history over two decades of delivering mind changing learning and events. September marks our 21st birthday and we’ll be celebrating with a […]