Speaking Volumes reading room project will create space to reflect on the influential role of women in art through the object of the book. It is part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts (GI) a biennial festival of contemporary art showcasing the best of local and international art and the project is a collaboration between My Bookcase and GWL.
Bring along a bite of lunch and relax while you listen to specially selected stories and powerful poetry handpicked from the rich GWL collection of women writers being read out loud and bring your own thoughts to the supportive discussion.
From the well-known to unsung heroines, this friendly 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 happening across Scotland.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
GWL are embarking upon an exciting series of discussions that will explore the challenges affecting Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women in the arts and open up the potential for creating a new network based at GWL. We invite you to participate in Collect:if.
Over the May Day weekend, Glasgow will host the Radical Film Network festival and unconference at a range of venues across the city. This unique and innovative constellation of events brings together the collective efforts of activists, academics, and cultural workers from over twenty organisations engaged with radical film culture in Scotland. GWL are thrilled to be included in the programme and will be taking this opportunity to put Feminist Film Making in the spotlight.
Over the May Day weekend, Glasgow will host the Radical Film Network festival and unconference at a range of venues across the city. This unique and innovative constellation of events brings together the collective efforts of activists, academics, and cultural workers from over twenty organisations engaged with radical film culture in Scotland. GWL are thrilled to be included in the programme and will be taking this opportunity to put Feminist Film Making in the spotlight.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
It’s a huge pleasure to welcome prize-winning author Marion Molteno to Story Café. Her latest novel, 'Uncertain Light', captures the world of international aid workers and peace negotiators, and is set high in the mountains of war-torn Tajikistan.
Check out some of the useful, quaint and downright outrageous advice contained in the archives of Glasgow Women’s Library and the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Choose your favourites as we create our own exhibition of some of the top tips and short films.
Exhibition showcasing outcomes from the Palestinian Embroidery workshops which took place through Spring. Alongside these new works we present documentation of traditional Palestinian embroidery from partners in the West Bank.
Launch event for an exhibition showcasing outcomes from the Palestinian Embroidery workshops. The opening event will include presentations from workshop participant Olivia Mason and Noora Husseini, founder of Taita Leila, a social enterprise inspired by the long and rich tradition of Palestinian embroidery, linked via the Internet to Glasgow Women’s Library from Ramallah.
An unmissable Herland evening of unfettered fun, fiendish questions and feministy facts.
This symposium places Jenny Wartnaby's research on the history of the feminist anti-violence movement in Scotland alongside other exciting work in this area. Speakers include Lesley Orr, Sarah Browne, and Hannah Austin.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
Get the date in your diary early to celebrate the launch of Glasgow Women's Library's Summer 2016 programme.
Get the date in your diary early to celebrate the launch of Glasgow Women's Library's Summer 2016 programme.
Susan Calman launches her new book 'Cheer Up, Love' at Glasgow Women's Library. Muriel Gray will be In Conversation with Susan at the launch, and the event also offers you the chance to purchase a copy of the book.
Women and the economy in a post election Scotland Workshop hosted by Scottish Women's Budget Group.
Join women from history, such as Mary Barbour and Agnes Dollan, on this pioneering women’s heritage walk that reveals the hidden histories of Glasgow’s West End: from pipe-smoking forewomen to revolting schoolmistresses. A unique and inspiring insight into the hitherto unsung women who made the West End.
Restless Natives is a cross-platform multi-venue cultural festival championing independent purveyors of music, film, food, drink, business and numerous other fields within Scotland. It entails seven solid days of high quality cultural events in the East End of Glasgow, and our Women of the East End Heritage walk is part of it.
If you are interested in joining the Seeing Things group, which gives women the opportunity to see things like art exhibitions and theatre, together with other women, please get in touch with GWL or join the Seeing Things Planning meetings this Spring to find out more.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
TYCI and Glasgow Women's Library are proud to present renowned writer and performer Lindy West in conversation at GWL, celebrating the release of her much-anticipated upcoming book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman.
We reveal what really goes on behind the scenes through this exhibition of drawings by artist and GWL volunteer Eilidh Nicolson.
This exhibition, which runs from Friday 3rd June to Saturday 11th June, will showcase the work of the brilliant Young Critics project.
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month: if you are new to GWL find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programmes and projects and get a full tour and your questions answered.
Experience our fantastic women’s history walking tour which digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the histories of women buried in Glasgow’s Necropolis. Our tour guides will tell the stories of both the notorious and forgotten women buried in these atmospheric surroundings.
