21 Revolutions Exhibition at Creative Scotland
To celebrate the publication of the 21 Revolutions book, we will be exhibiting a selection of the artworks at Creative Scotland’s headquarters.
To celebrate the publication of the 21 Revolutions book, we will be exhibiting a selection of the artworks at Creative Scotland’s headquarters.
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.
Artists Ruth Barker and Kim Moore have made work in response to our East End Women’s Heritage Walk that will be available at the Library throughout the Glasgow International Festival.
A film of the live choir performance of A Feminist Chorus will be sited amongst the books at the Library for the duration of GI.
Join us for this Read, Relax, Recharge special with Indian Tamil Poet, Salma. Debarred from education and confined to her home from the age of 13, Salma remained a voracious and fiercely committed writer.
Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa and relax while listening to live readings of short stories, novel extracts and poems.
In the year that Glasgow hosts the Commonwealth Games, a new group will explore contemporary writing by Commonwealth women. In these reading-aloud sessions we will uncover and share stories and poems reflecting women’s experiences around the globe.
Two of Scotland’s most significant artists and two groundbreaking writers in a sparkling discussion about how a treasure trove of suffragette anthems, a literary trailblazer for women’s liberation and the legendary magazine Spare Rib fuelled their imagination at this 21 Revolutions event at Aye Write.
Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa and relax while listening to live readings of short stories, novel extracts and poems.
Download any of the GWL audio tours created for GI and gather at the Mercat Cross then follow the route at your own pace, taking in each stop and meeting up with the group at various points along the way.
Please note we have unfortunately had to cancel this walk. Check the events calendar for other women's heritage walks.
Pick up your free World Book Night book, pour yourself a cuppa, and relax as we read aloud from some of this year’s chosen titles.
Where are the memorials and monuments to women in Scotland – the writers, doctors, mothers, factory workers and other women who made Scotland what it is today? This session includes an introduction and guided tour of the Women of Scotland website, an exciting new project for recording memorials to women throughout Scotland developed by Glasgow Women’s Library and Women’s History Scotland. Hear the fascinating stories of women already featured on the website and find memorials to women in your own local area
Badges of Honour celebrates the stories of women's badge-wearing in women's activism and lives, past and present. Join us for the Exhibition Launch where there will be badge making workshops and guest speakers including Fiona Hayes, Curator of Social History at the People's Palace and GWL 21 Revolutions Artist Delphine Dallison.
An exhibition on how badge-wearing women changed the world. The culmination of our year-long Heritage Lottery funded project exploring women’s badge wearing.
Uncover the Merchant City’s hidden history during this walk around Glasgow’s cosmopolitan hub.