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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feminists have been campaigning to win and keep access to sexual health education, contraception, safe and legal abortions, and parental rights for centuries. Join our friendly archivists as we explore collections which document our past struggles and look to our future.
An event to mark the publication of small white monkeys, a text written by Sophie Collins during her time at GWL supported by Book Works’ You Must Locate A Fantasy residency scheme.
We'd like to invite you to an upcoming Seeing Things trip; a tour of the Maryhill Burgh Halls and an opportunity to hear the hidden histories of some of Maryhill’s women.
To mark the halfway point of the Women Making an Exhibition of Themselves project, the Community Curators will share their ideas and vision for GWL’s new permanent exhibition and will curate a pop-up of their favourite objects from the collections stores.
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.
Collect: if is a network run by and for creative women of colour (WoC). Join us at our welcoming, informal gatherings to connect, build the network, and learn more about opportunities to use Collect:if and GWL resources to put your practice into the spotlight.
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.
Enjoy inspiring stories of the pioneers of women’s sport in the Arlington Baths Club, a beautiful Victorian swimming pool with a unique Turkish Bath, where women have been swimming since 1872.
To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2017, gather around the Story Cafe table for a sensory and culinary feast with storyteller and musician Lesley O’Brien.
Seeing Things would love you to join us on our next trip to Her Spirit Soared: Stories of Survival. This performance is part of 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women, and presents women's stories about moving on from abuse, oppression, and desperation, to triumph, liberation, and peace.
As part of 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women, we present Her Spirit Soared: Stories of survival and hope from women moving on from abuse.