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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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?
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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
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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
2 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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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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The Open Archive: Our Bodies, Our Choice
The Open Archive: Our Bodies, Our Choice
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.
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Women’s History Unwrapped – Kinghorn, Fife
Women’s History Unwrapped – Kinghorn, Fife
There are ordinary heroines and extraordinary women in every community’s history, but where can you find them and how are they recognised?
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small white monkeys
small white monkeys
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.
Sold Out £3.00 – £5.00
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Seeing Things: Maryhill Burgh Halls tour
Seeing Things: Maryhill Burgh Halls tour
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.
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Hear from our Community Curators
Hear from our Community Curators
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.
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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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Collect:if
Collect:if
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.
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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
2 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.
2 events,
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Women, Water and Wheels
Women, Water and Wheels
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.
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Story Café Special: Lesley O’Brien
Story Café Special: Lesley O’Brien
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.
Free – £2.00
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Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Hear the shortlisted Bold Types writers read their stories in front of our wonderfully supportive and encouraging panel of judges.
Free – £2.00
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Seeing Things: Her Spirit Soared
Seeing Things: Her Spirit Soared
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.
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Her Spirit Soared
Her Spirit Soared
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.
Sold Out Free
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Collect:if Women of Colour in Literature
Collect:if Women of Colour in Literature
Collect:if members discuss women of colour in literature, breaking into the industry, and creating their works.
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