LGBT Acronym
The young women of Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur invite you to an exhibition of materials which consider the history and importance of the LGBT acronym.
The young women of Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur invite you to an exhibition of materials which consider the history and importance of the LGBT acronym.
Since March 2013, Glasgow Women’s Library and the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow have invited women across the world to write illuminated letters of love and honor to an inspirational woman.
Let your imagination run wild with our treasure chest of craft and writing materials and create your own illuminated letter.
Magi Gibson will deliver two free workshops to women, with the aim of producing writing about women’s experience of sectarianism.
Come along and find out more about some of the talented women writers who have dominated crime fiction in Scotland and elsewhere - and meet a few of their unforgettable characters, from police officers to poisoners! If you like, bring along your own favourite crime fiction book by a woman writer.
Come along and find out more about some of the talented women writers who have dominated crime fiction in Scotland and elsewhere - and meet a few of their unforgettable characters, from police officers to poisoners! If you like, bring along your own favourite crime fiction book by a woman writer.
Our fabulous Drama Queens sessions explore some of the all-women plays we have in the archives – from powerful suffragette plays to light humorous sketches. No acting skills are required.
The letters and postcards we have received as part of our Illuminated Letters project will be on display for a week from International Women’s Day on Saturday 8th March.
Following a 6 session development course from Glasgow Women's Library in partnership with Aberdeen Women's Alliance and Aberdeen libraries, the Aberdeen women's heritage walk group are now launching their very own women's heritage walk on International Women's Day 2014.
Join us on International Women's Day at the Library to officially launch the 21 Revolutions publication. Contributing writers Muriel Gray and Kirsty Logan will be reading their fabulous new works and copies of our stunning new book will be available to buy.
Following Glasgow and Edinburgh launches, we will be taking the 21 Revolutions publication launch celebrations on the road so that women across Scotland are amongst the first to see this beautiful new book and meet some of the artists and writers involved. A series of launch events will run throughout the year featuring major and up and coming women creatives speaking about or reading from their work and revealing the inspiring sources behind the work found amongst the shelves and in the archive boxes of Glasgow Women’s Library.
Wednesday 12th March, 6-7
To celebrate the publication of the 21 Revolutions book, we will be exhibiting a selection of the artworks at Creative Scotland’s headquarters.
Magi Gibson will deliver two free workshops to women, with the aim of producing writing about women’s experience of sectarianism.
To celebrate the publication of the 21 Revolutions book, we will be exhibiting a selection of the artworks at Creative Scotland’s headquarters.
Who are the women who helped to build Scotland? How are they remembered? What about women in Oban and elsewhere in Argyll? Join Glasgow Women's Library and WEA women@work for these informal hands on sessions looking at women's heritage in Argyll and Bute. You can come along to one or both sessions and lunch will be provided. All sessions are free of charge.
Join us in Dundee for lively discussion while making our signature suffragette rosettes!
Our fabulous Drama Queens sessions explore some of the all-women plays we have in the archives – from powerful suffragette plays to light humorous sketches. No acting skills are required.
Toni, ‘naïve child cradled in an old soul’, delights in performing her own work with energy and verve. She uses poetry to interrogate social issues such as stories of place and displacement and gender-based violence.
Ruth Barker & Kim Moore will be launching their works The Lives of Saints and We run. We Walk. We run with performances in our intimate and evocative library venue. Also performing live is Lucy Reynolds’ A Feminist Chorus, bringing together a choir made up of participants from across Glasgow.
Part of our Glasgow International programme of events. Researched and led by learners and volunteers at the Library, this women’s heritage walk uncovers the hidden heroines of Glasgow’s East End.