She Made the Library
The final exhibition in GWL's 25th year is a photographic portrait of women who helped to create the Library, and is a powerful and fascinating record of the growth of a unique organisation through collaborative working.
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Speaking Out: Recalling Women’s Aid in Scotland Exhibition – Glasgow Women’s Library
GLASGOW WOMEN'S LIBRARY - To celebrate and mark the 40th anniversary of Scottish Women’s Aid, Speaking Out is gathering the unique stories of people involved with Women’s Aid throughout the years. This collaboratively curated exhibition features oral history recordings alongside material from the Scottish Women’s Aid archive.
Mon-Weds & Fri 9:30am-5pm, Thurs 9:30am-7:30pm, Sat 12-4pm, CLOSED Sun
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Seeing Things: Creative Conversations with Leila Aboulela
Seeing Things: Creative Conversations with Leila Aboulela
Join Seeing Things for a talk by award-winning author Leila Aboulela whose work explores themes of identity, migration and islamic spirituality!
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Story Café Special: National Poetry Day
Story Café Special: National Poetry Day
What better way to celebrate National Poetry Day than at our Story Cafe poetry picnic with Nalini Paul and writers from the Glasgow Women Poets Anthology reading and talking about their work!
Free – £2.00
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
Come along to our new and much-anticipated GWL singing group and celebrate the power of our collective voice!
Free
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SQIFF Presents: We Are Failing
SQIFF Presents: We Are Failing
We celebrate and assert our right to fail at life as individuals and communities with SQIFF's screening of DIY, lesbian short film Big Queer Failure. Filmmakers Rebecca Tritschler and Ellie Fawcett will be with us as well as artist and DJ Natasha Lall writer of novella SQUELCH, a tale of biphobic and racist microagressions on London’s queer scene.
Get Tickets Free – £8.00
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Time to spread your wings and try something new? GWL has bitesize learning and fun on offer fortnightly including scrap booking, badge making, creative writing and film screenings.
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Women Who Widnae Haud Their Wheesht in World War One
Women Who Widnae Haud Their Wheesht in World War One
Through talks, discussion and film we will explore the commonalities of experience between women who marched for peace in Glasgow and Manchester in 1916 and 1918 and learn about pioneering peace activism during WWI.
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Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens is an armchair drama group without the limelight – informal play readings with no performance at the end. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll be amazed! You’ll be amused!
Free – £2.00
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Bold Types: Creative Writing for Fearties
Bold Types: Creative Writing for Fearties
Want to put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) but intimidated by that blank page staring at you? Our Fearties sessions are the ideal place to fire up your literary mojo.
Get Tickets Free – £2.00
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Reading Group for Muslim Women
Reading Group for Muslim Women
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
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Seeing Things: Visit to Luiz Roque’s HEAVEN at Tramway
Seeing Things: Visit to Luiz Roque’s HEAVEN at Tramway
Join us for a trip to see Luiz Roque's film installation HEAVEN at Tramway, with an introduction from Holly Rumble. The film HEAVEN, takes the trans issue to an hypothetical universe of the second half of the 21st century.
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Speaking Out: Exhibition Tour with Audio Extracts
Speaking Out: Exhibition Tour with Audio Extracts
Using extracts from oral history interviews conducted as part of the Speaking Out project, we frame the exhibition through the voices of women associated with the Women’s Aid movement over its 40+ years of history.
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The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
From the bustle of Sauchiehall Street to the quiet and leafy back streets, Garnethill is full of surprises and has been home to many remarkable women, including Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and the trailblazing Glasgow Girls, who we’ll be celebrating as part of the Mackintosh Festival.
Sold Out £6.00 – £10.00
3 events,
GWL Sunday Brunch on Subcity Radio
GWL Sunday Brunch on Subcity Radio
Our Sunday Brunch Show, hosted by a different staff member each month, will ease you from your slumber with live chat, guest artists, writers, poets, activists, great playlists and tasty morsels from our upcoming events.
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Women’s History Unwrapped – Clydebank
Women’s History Unwrapped – Clydebank
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
Free
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Story Café Special: Sister Creatures
Story Café Special: Sister Creatures
Discover women’s creative writing on animals and the natural world at our Story Café Special this week with GWL's own Rebecca Jones.
Free – £2.00
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Women’s History Unwrapped – Dumbarton
Women’s History Unwrapped – Dumbarton
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
Free
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
Come along to our new and much-anticipated GWL singing group and celebrate the power of our collective voice!
Free
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Time to spread your wings and try something new? GWL has bitesize learning and fun on offer fortnightly including scrap booking, badge making, creative writing and film screenings.
3 events,
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Women’s History Unwrapped – Bearsden
Women’s History Unwrapped – Bearsden
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
Free
4 events,
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Women’s History Unwrapped – Kirkintilloch
Women’s History Unwrapped – Kirkintilloch
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
Free
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Black Women’s Voices: An Evening of Film, Performance and Discussion
Black Women’s Voices: An Evening of Film, Performance and Discussion
Join Engender, NUS Scotland and the Glasgow Women’s Library for an evening of short film, spoken work and discussion exploring issues of history, identity, and feminism for black and minority ethnic women.
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Document Film Festival: Grab and Run
Document Film Festival: Grab and Run
GWL have teamed up with Document Human Rights Film Festival to present Grab and Run by Roser Corella, a film that provides a close-up look at a tradition where women are married after being kidnapped by the men who become their husbands.
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Speaking Out: Zine Workshop
Speaking Out: Zine Workshop
Creating positive, collective responses to violence through the power of art is part of feminist history. Join us for a zine workshop that will do just that!
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4 events,
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Story Café
Story Café
There's tales and poems from women writers from around the world to inspire you at our lunchtime Story Cafés this Autumn, so warm up with a cup of tea and become part of the story.
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
Come along to our new and much-anticipated GWL singing group and celebrate the power of our collective voice!
Free
3 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Time to spread your wings and try something new? GWL has bitesize learning and fun on offer fortnightly including scrap booking, badge making, creative writing and film screenings.
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1 event,
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Story Café Special: Ajay Close
Story Café Special: Ajay Close
We're delighted to welcome back Ajay Close to Story Cafe to read from her latest novel on the complex bond between mothers and daughters.
Free – £2.00
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Women’s History Unwrapped – Mile End Mill, Paisley
Women’s History Unwrapped – Mile End Mill, Paisley
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
Free
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Bold Types: Editing Mistress-Class
Bold Types: Editing Mistress-Class
Our editing mistress-class will support you to polish your writing gem until it sparkles, and give you the boost you need to be bold.
Get Tickets Free – £2.00
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Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
Drama Queens is an armchair drama group without the limelight – informal play readings with no performance at the end. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll be amazed! You’ll be amused!
Free – £2.00
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Seeing Things film screening: Flame by Ingrid Sinclair
Seeing Things film screening: Flame by Ingrid Sinclair
A Seeing Things trip to see Ingrid Sinclair’s 1996 film Flame showing at GWL. The film is set in Zimbabwe in the 1970s and is about the women fighters in the National Liberation Army who are fighting against white oppression. It focuses on two friends, Florence and Nyasha and their experiences during this war.
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African Lost Classics: Flame
African Lost Classics: Flame
Africa in Motion presents African Lost Classics, a project aiming to screen some of the greatest African films that have been neglected or forgotten, or that have simply been lost to the archives.
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Jane Austen in the Library
Jane Austen in the Library
Listen to readings from Jane Austen's novels and extracts from her letters over a delightful afternoon tea with the Jane Austen Society Scottish Branch.
£2.00 – £3.00