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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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.
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Mixing The Colours Story Cafe Special
Mixing The Colours Story Cafe Special
We are proud to present our first Mixing The Colours Story Café Special in the library space where our anthology entries were conceived. Delving into memories and real life events, this collection of stories captures women’s unique experiences of sectarianism, expanding our knowledge beyond a simple matter of men and football. Join us as we […]
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What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex: Marriage Discussion Group Special
What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex: Marriage Discussion Group Special
A one-off special marriage-themed discussion event in partnership with The History of Working-Class Marriage in Scotland project will give attendees the opportunity to recollect and explore their own experiences of marriage, love and relationships in a welcoming, supportive and relaxed environment.
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Sex Between the Covers: Publication, Podcast and Film Launch
Sex Between the Covers: Publication, Podcast and Film Launch
The Sex in the Women’s Library season culminates this evening with the launch of our new sexology themed publication Sex Between the Covers, our podcasts and film.
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Doors Open: Women of the Merchant City Heritage Walk
Doors Open: Women of the Merchant City Heritage Walk
Uncover the Merchant City’s hidden history during this walking tour around Glasgow’s cosmopolitan hub.
Join our tour guides on this free tour as part of Doors Open Day festival as we uncover the female stars that stud the fabric of this famous quarter.
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Doors Open at Glasgow Women’s Library
Doors Open at Glasgow Women’s Library
It’s Doors Open Day at Glasgow Women’s Library. This is one of the first opportunities to see the wonderful refurbishment by Collective Architecture of our new main events space in all its glory before we unleash the full potential of this unique library, museum and archive and begin to deliver our new, fresh artistic and cultural events within the new venue.
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Doors Open: East End Women’s Heritage Walk
Doors Open: 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 unique heritage walk as part of Glasgow Open Doors Day Festival.
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March – A Glasgow Women’s Library and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Film
March – A Glasgow Women’s Library and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Film
Premiere screening of March, which documents the large scale, pubic art event March of Women that spilled out onto the streets of Bridgeton on the eve of International Women's Day 2015.
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Untold Stories of East Dunbartonshire Women, Bishopbriggs and Auchinairn
Untold Stories of East Dunbartonshire Women, Bishopbriggs and Auchinairn
Join us at one or all of these events for tea, coffee, biscuits and informal discussion on local women from Bishopbriggs, Auchinairn, Twechar, Baldernock and throughout East Dunbartonshire. Who are the women that you most remember and why? Where did they live and what did they do? How are they remembered? From the well-known to unsung heroines, this friendly, social 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 that are happening across Scotland, including the new interactive Women of Scotland website that maps monuments to women across Scotland.
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Postponed: Film Screenings with Cinema for All – Persepolis
Postponed: Film Screenings with Cinema for All – Persepolis
We are screening 4 fabulous films which are chosen by some of the diverse women’s groups we work with and in conjunction with Cinema for All. We begin this series with Persepolis (12).
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Explorathon! WW1 and Women’s Lives
Explorathon! WW1 and Women’s Lives
As part of European Researchers Night we will be exploring the role World War 1 had on women’s lives, freedoms and welfare. In a series of short talks followed by Q&A researchers will explore how this time of great upheaval led to rapid changes in the lives of women and what the lasting implications of those changes were.
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“It’s not just about football!” Inverness Story Café Special
“It’s not just about football!” Inverness Story Café Special
Our Mixing The Colours project presents a Story Café Special in Inverness sharing short stories and poems from our anthology of the same name. For the first time women’s writing on this issue has been gathered in one publication exploring the complexity and diversity of women’s experiences. Join us as we take a journey through […]
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Fabulous Femmes: SQIFF Film Screening
Fabulous Femmes: SQIFF Film Screening
Film screening of the documentary FtF: Female to Femme shown with a selection of shorts examining a variety of perspectives, including trans, genderqueer, and working class femme experiences.
Free – £5.00
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Story Café Special – Banned Books Week
Story Café Special – Banned Books Week
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. Join us for this special event as part of Banned Books Week Scotland.
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Mixing The Colours @ Portobello Book Festival
Mixing The Colours @ Portobello Book Festival
Sectarian identities in Scotland and Northern Ireland
In our recent anthology of women’s creative writing, Mixing The Colours, Glasgow Women’s Library explores sectarian identities in Scotland through stories and poems. This event places us in discussion with Paul Burgess from Northern Ireland who is similarly interested in sectarian identities, both in his recent novel White Church, Black Mountain, and his most recent academic work The Contested identities of Ulster Protestants.