Sex Between the Covers
Flashpoints, milestones and sexual revolutions in the collections of GWL: this is a capsule exhibition of objects and texts on sex that have made social, cultural and political waves.
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Bàrdachd Boireannach ann an Alba/Women’s Poetry in Scotland
Bàrdachd Boireannach ann an Alba/Women’s Poetry in Scotland
Bàrdachd Boireannach ann an Alba/Women's Poetry in Scotland. Glasgow Women’s Library presents an exploration of women’s writing from medieval & modern Scotland.
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Mixing The Colours Workshops in Dalreoch
Mixing The Colours Workshops in Dalreoch
Mixing The Colours workshops for the Clients and Carers from Dalreoch Day Care Centre.
These workshops will feature readings of extracts from the Mixing The Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism anthology which provide a unique showcase of women’s insights, and participants will have the opportunity to share their own experiences and visions for the future of Scotland. Participants will also receive a copy of the Mixing The Colours book.
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Mixing The Colours Workshop in Dalreoch
Mixing The Colours Workshop in Dalreoch
Mixing The Colours workshops for the Clients and Carers from Dalreoch Day Care Centre.
These workshops will feature readings of extracts from the Mixing The Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism anthology which provide a unique showcase of women’s insights, and participants will have the opportunity to share their own experiences and visions for the future of Scotland. Participants will also receive a copy of the Mixing The Colours book.
1 event,
Femme Fatales and Fragile Frails: Women in Pulp Fiction
Give the up-and-down to our exhibition celebrating the pleasures of pulp – the lurid covers, the over-the top characters, the double-crosses, the double-dealings and the double Ds.
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Pulp Queens
Pulp Queens
Come along and read tales of palookas and grifters, gumshoes and guns, house dicks and hoosegows, heists and flimflams, roscoes and rats, suckers, stiffs, stool-pigeons and suckers.
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Pulp Queens
Pulp Queens
Come along and read tales of palookas and grifters, gumshoes and guns, house dicks and hoosegows, heists and flimflams, roscoes and rats, suckers, stiffs, stool-pigeons and suckers.
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East End Women’s Heritage Walk
East End Women’s Heritage Walk
Discover the hidden heroines of Glasgow’s East End by joining our tour guides on Glasgow Women’s Library’s newest heritage walk.
£6.00 – £10.00
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Autumn/Winter Programme Launch (Afternoon)
Autumn/Winter Programme Launch (Afternoon)
Our Autumn/Winter programme launches on 11 August with two special events at the library. Come along to meet the GWL team for trailers, tasters and treats as we launch an alluring Autumn programme of screenings, Story Café reading events, performances, workshops, exhibitions and talks.
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Mixing The Colours @ Just Festival
Mixing The Colours @ Just Festival
Since June 2013, the Glasgow Women’s Library Mixing The Colours project has supported and facilitated women’s discussion and creative writing on the theme of sectarianism and how it affects women in Scotland, their families and communities. In March 2015, the project published Mixing The Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism, an anthology of creative writing by women […]
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Autumn/Winter Programme Launch (Evening)
Autumn/Winter Programme Launch (Evening)
Our Autumn/Winter programme launches on 11 August with two special events at the library. Come along to meet the GWL team for trailers, tasters and treats as we launch an alluring Autumn programme of screenings, Story Café reading events, performances, workshops, exhibitions and talks.
2 events,
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Mixing The Colours @ Just Festival
Mixing The Colours @ Just Festival
Since June 2013, the Glasgow Women’s Library Mixing The Colours project has supported and facilitated women’s discussion and creative writing on the theme of sectarianism and how it affects women in Scotland, their families and communities. In March 2015, the project published Mixing The Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism, an anthology of creative writing by women […]
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Memory box launch party, West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
Memory box launch party, West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
The Women of West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group host a party to launch their Memory Box Community and Educational Resource.
The Clydebank launch event is by invitation only – for more information please contact Morag on 0141 550 2267 or email morag.smith@womenslibrary.org.uk
3 events,
Drop-in exhibition from the Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire project
View the West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Memory Box and the collection of written, pictorial & artefact documentation of West Dunbartonshire’s women’s social life experiences during the 1950’s & 60’s which have been gathered by the group during this year long project.
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Workshop and memory box sessions with West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
Workshop and memory box sessions with West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
An opportunity to experience this unique community and educational resource in the company of its creators as they showcase the intriguing and inspiring written, pictorial & artefact documentation of their own and other local women’s lives during the 1950’s and 60’s. Also find out how this resource can be loaned out for use at schools, community groups, local events, and/or for display in community venues!!
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Story Café Special with Maggie Ritchie
Story Café Special with Maggie Ritchie
Our warm and welcoming Story Café is the perfect way to relax over lunchtime. Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa, and enjoy listening to wonderful short stories, novel extracts and poems by women writers from around the world.
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Memory box launch party, West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
Memory box launch party, West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
The Women of West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group host a party to launch their Memory Box Community and Educational Resource.
4 events,
Drop-in exhibition from the Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire project
View the West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Memory Box and the collection of written, pictorial & artefact documentation of West Dunbartonshire’s women’s social life experiences during the 1950’s & 60’s which have been gathered by the group during this year long project
to
Workshop and memory box sessions with West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
Workshop and memory box sessions with West Dunbartonshire Women’s History group
An opportunity to experience this unique community and educational resource in the company of its creators as they showcase the intriguing and inspiring written, pictorial & artefact documentation of their own and other local women’s lives during the 1950’s and 60’s. Also find out how this resource can be loaned out for use at schools, community groups, local events, and/or for display in community venues!!
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Clydeside Women’s Heritage Bike Ride – new tickets released!
Clydeside Women’s Heritage Bike Ride – new tickets released!
Let us guide you from the Riverside Museum to the Velodrome along the glorious Cycle Route 75 while we share tales of “bike face”, cycling Suffragettes, pioneering female bike mechanics, and other stories involving women and cycling.
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Mixing the Colours: Edinburgh Fringe Sundays (in Partnership with Appletree Writers)
Mixing the Colours: Edinburgh Fringe Sundays (in Partnership with Appletree Writers)
The Mixing The Colours project at Glasgow Women's Library explores the issue of sectarianism in the context of wider gender inequality. Funded by the Scottish Government as part of their Tackling Sectarianism Programme, GWL presents readings by Mixing The Colours participants and writers from our publication.
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Story Café
Story Café
Our warm and welcoming Story Café is the perfect way to relax over lunchtime. Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa, and enjoy listening to wonderful short stories, novel extracts and poems by women writers from around the world.
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Mixing The Colours – Book Reviewing Workshop
Mixing The Colours – Book Reviewing Workshop
In March 2015, Mixing The Colours published our anthology of women’s writing gathered in the course of the project and as part of our Dragon’s Pen Writing Competition. The Mixing The Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism anthology features a range of short stories and poetry, including specially commissioned works by Magi Gibson, Denise Mina and Eleanor […]
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Seeing Things Planning Meetings
Seeing Things Planning Meetings
If you would like to be getting out to see more things happening in Glasgow then this group might be for you! Find out more about the group and the kinds of things which we go to at our Seeing Things planning meetings.
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Story Café
Story Café
Our warm and welcoming Story Café is the perfect way to relax over lunchtime. Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa, and enjoy listening to wonderful short stories, novel extracts and poems by women writers from around the world.