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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.
£3.00
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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.
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Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire
Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire
This friendly group highlights the history and achievements of local women in West Dunbartonshire. There are lots of new skills to learn and interesting projects and activities to get involved in, including a recently created Memory Box and the development of a publication about women’s lives in West Dunbartonshire.
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Poetry for Fearties – Poetry Writing Workshop
Poetry for Fearties – Poetry Writing Workshop
Our fun and fear-free poetry writing workshop for women only will help prepare you for submitting to Bold Types: Scottish Women's Creative Writing Competition.
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Mill Girls On Tour
Mill Girls On Tour
Mill Girls on Tour is a unique production - a show that intertwines poetry, theatre and music – comic and tragic, always dramatic and shimmering with glamour.
£3.00 – £5.00
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Women’s Heritage Bike Ride for Beginners
Women’s Heritage Bike Ride for Beginners
A led ride starting and ending at GWL, this 5 mile loop is for cyclists of all ages (16+) and abilities, and a great way to discover how women have used cycling to change the world, and how cycling has changed women’s lives.
£6.00 – £10.00
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The Mackintosh Festival: The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Heritage Walk
The Mackintosh Festival: The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Heritage Walk
For the Mackintosh Festival take a walk within Garnethill’s confined boundaries as we spotlight the women who pioneered European art movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
£6.00 – £10.00
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Document Human Rights Film Festival Videotheque
Pop in to the library to preview selections of the film programme for this year's Document Human Rights Film Festival during the week of 12th October.
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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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Film Screenings with Cinema for All – Provoked
Film Screenings with Cinema for All – Provoked
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. The second film in this series is Provoked.
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Trailblazers: In Conversation with Dervla Murphy: Between River and Sea
Trailblazers: In Conversation with Dervla Murphy: Between River and Sea
A unique opportunity to hear from Dervla Murphy, writer, traveler, and cyclist whose cycling adventures started in the 1960’s with a cycle ride from Ireland to India, via Iran and Afghanistan which became the subject of her first book, Full Tilt.
£3.00 – £5.00
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Fiction for Fearties – Creative Writing Workshop
Fiction for Fearties – Creative Writing Workshop
Our fun and fear-free creative writing workshop for women only will help prepare you for submitting to Bold Types: Scottish Women's Creative Writing Competition.
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Women WriteDay, Dunbar, East Lothian
Women WriteDay, Dunbar, East Lothian
One day event for women in partnership with East Lothian libraries, Scottish Book Trust and East Lothian Writer in Residence project. This one day event includes a range of workshops, including developing a Women’s Heritage walk and researching local women’s history, feminist blogging and zine writing from Glasgow Women’s Library, a playwriting workshop from Village Pub Theatre and a creative writing workshop.
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Stories Without Borders, Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Stories Without Borders, Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Mixing The Colours Publication Launch The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is a ten-day celebration of live storytelling, oral traditions and cultural diversity, bringing together a large number of Scottish and international storytellers and musicians. This year Glasgow Women’s Library are part of the Festival on Tour strand bringing audiences to Glasgow’s East End to fully […]
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The Mackintosh Festival: The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Heritage Walk
The Mackintosh Festival: The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Heritage Walk
For the Mackintosh Festival take a walk within Garnethill’s confined boundaries as we spotlight the women who pioneered European art movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
£6.00 – £10.00
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Untold Stories of East Dunbartonshire Women, Twechar
Untold Stories of East Dunbartonshire Women, Twechar
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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Memory Box Workshop at Glasgow Women’s Library
Memory Box Workshop at Glasgow Women’s Library
Following the launch of their Sharing Heritage lottery funded publication and Memory Box, experience this unique community and educational resource in the company of its creators, West Dunbartonshire women’s history group, as they showcase the written, pictorial and artefact documentation of their own and other women’s lives during the 50s and 60s. Join the group for tea and cake and find out more.
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Twilight Zine! Zine Making Workshop
Twilight Zine! Zine Making Workshop
At this workshop discover the wonderful world of fanzines and make your own unique zine that celebrates your life as an older woman (we love to show off in front of younger pups too, so all ages are welcome).
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I Shot Bi Kidude Film Screening, followed by Q&A with Director Andy Jones, presented by AiM Film Festival
I Shot Bi Kidude Film Screening, followed by Q&A with Director Andy Jones, presented by AiM Film Festival
Film screening of I Shot Bi Kidule, followed by Q&A with director Andy Jones presented by Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival.
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Love Is Strange: Film Screening – Rebecca (15)
Love Is Strange: Film Screening – Rebecca (15)
We are taking love from the page to the screen. Films to fall in love with and films to break your heart starting with Hitchcock’s classic gothic melodrama just in time for Halloween.
£3.00 – £5.00
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Black Dingo Productions presents Creepie Stool by Jen McGregor
Black Dingo Productions presents Creepie Stool by Jen McGregor
In partnership with Just Festival and Black Dingo Productions, Glasgow Women’s Library is proud to host Creepie Stool by Scottish Playwright Jen McGregor. Set in Edinburgh, 1637, this captivating historical drama tells the story of Jenny Geddes. Cabbage seller Jenny flings a stool at a minister and starts a riot in St Giles. Calvinists and […]
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