We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
Join a super team of comic creators and industry professionals as they discuss feminist comics, how to be a woman in the industry, and all things comics.
Wikipedia has a gender problem. In 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation found that only 15% of biographies on English Wikipedia are about women, and less than 10% of contributors identify as female. Join us for this Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and help to correct this imbalance!
Let us introduce you to formidable midwives, ‘the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel’ Jenny Patrick, and a hatchet-wielding temperance campaigner from Kentucky known as ‘the bar-room smasher’ on our Merchant City Women’s Heritage Walk.
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.
We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
This empowering session is for women who have experienced verbal and physical assault, intimidation or harassment motivated by prejudice based on sexuality, race, gender, disability and religion.
No acting skills required. Just enjoy an informal play reading without the stress of learning lines or the goosebumps of performing on stage. And you don’t even need to read out loud! Previous Drama Queens have told us it was “Great fun reading the plays together – something I’ve never done before.”
Aphra Behn was the first British woman to make her living from her pen. She wrote the first ‘novel’ – Orinooko; which had an anti-slavery theme. When she died, society conspired to bury more than her body. Nancy Jo Cullen, Alexandria Patience and Rose Scollard wrote Aphra, the playscript, to honour this pioneer of women’s writing. Join us for the launch of this script.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FURTHER UPDATES. Our In Her Shoes project is exploring the way that gender intersects with hate crime and behaviour targeting women’s sexuality, disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief and gender identity. As part of this project, we're inviting women with disabilities, sensory impairments, learning […]
We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
This event will celebrate the completion of GWL's zine collection being catalogued and published online making it accessible to all. As well as having the chance to hear from a panel of zine experts, there will be live music, refreshments and the chance to pick up zines from local zine makers
We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
This exhibition draws on research undertaken into some of the key figures of the Women’s Peace Crusade highlighting a sample of some of their incredible achievements. From Glasgow based activists such as Helen Crawfurd, to national and international figures such as Rosa Manus the research, curated by Fiona Dean and developed in collaboration with staff and volunteers at GWL, has tried to uncover lost connections between the lives and activities of individuals associated with the WPC.
Is creative writing something you haven’t done since you once wrote a poem about a talking starfish at school? Do you have a short story or poem inside you screaming to be let out? Or would you just like to try something different? Then why not spend Saturday lunchtime with a pen in one hand and a cup of tea in the other, letting your imagination run riot and losing yourself in writing.
Procession from Glasgow Green to GWL and launch of 'Forward! Remembering Women Peace Crusaders' exhibition. The exhibition launch will be followed by a screening of GWL and RCS’s barnstorming film, MARCH.
We are looking to expand our programme of women’s heritage walks with our first in the Southside and we need you to help us. This informal series of workshops is suitable for any women who are interested, whether you’re already a keen researcher or if this is a first step into history workshops or research, a warm welcome awaits.
In this Story Café Special, join us to discuss two favourite heroines, Katniss and Hermione: what we love about these trailblazing characters and what we loathe about their worlds. Being a geek, with like minded women, and cake - could any lunchtime be better?
No acting skills required. Just enjoy an informal play reading without the stress of learning lines or the goosebumps of performing on stage. And you don’t even need to read out loud! Previous Drama Queens have told us it was “Great fun reading the plays together – something I’ve never done before.”
Join us at Glasgow Women’s Library for a special reception for this year’s inductees and invited guests as we hold the second Outstanding Women of Scotland Awards. We will have a small number of places over and above our invited guests. Please contact us to have your name added to the reserve list.
Within Garnethill’s confined boundaries 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.
