Readers of Colour
Readers of Colour
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
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Spring Programme Launch
Spring Programme Launch
It's our Spring programme launch! Come along for a warm welcome to hear what's coming up, see the new exhibitions, browse the book sale and meet the team.
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Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce: Exhibition Launch with Special Guest Jackie Kay
Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce: Exhibition Launch with Special Guest Jackie Kay
Join us at GWL to launch inspiring new commissions by artists Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce and hear award-winning writer Jackie Kay share her new writing inspired by their work.
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Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce
Join us at GWL to experience inspiring new commissions by artists Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce.
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Connect and Create: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Connect and Create: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Check out our new connect and create writing group, on the first Saturday of every month.
Warm Welcome
Warm Welcome
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
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Hitherto Unknown: Research Workshops
Hitherto Unknown: Research Workshops
“Literary history and the present are dark with silences.” Tillie Olsen, ‘Silences’, 1978. Uncover the writers and stories silenced by the barriers of gender, class and race in this series of research workshops.
Free
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Audacious Women Festival – Firebrand Women: Generating Change Exhibition
This exhibition in partnership with the Audacious Women Festival features unique materials from Glasgow Women’s Library’s museum and archive collection.
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Story Café
Story Café
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
4 events,
Story Café
Story Café
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Free
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Women Making It
Women Making It
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
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Women in the Landscape
Women in the Landscape
From Vandana Shiva to Petra Kelly, Carol Adams to Caroline Lucas, the history of environmental action, anti-nuclear activism and peace movements is rooted in women’s work. Our Womenvironment Quiz and Timeline will tell you more about the names you know (and those you don’t), inspiring you to create your own environmental campaign slogans for change.
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Stride with Pride
Stride with Pride
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
Free
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Story Café Special: Waymaking
Story Café Special: Waymaking
At this Story Cafe Special we celebrate Waymaking, an anthology of women’s adventure writing published in October 2018.
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Collect:if
Collect:if
Collect:if is a network run by and for creative women of colour (WoC). Built on mutual support, we highlight the cultural contributions of Black and Ethnic Minority women, and nurture emerging creative voices.
Free
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Stride with Pride
Stride with Pride
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
Free
3 events,
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Seeing Things visit Glasgow Zine Library
Seeing Things visit Glasgow Zine Library
From one library to another: join Seeing Things on a trip to the recently opened Glasgow Zine library to chat to their volunteers and read some zines.
Readers of Colour
Readers of Colour
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
4 events,
Story Café
Story Café
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
Utter: Raise Your Voice
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Free
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Showgirls: Screening and Book Launch
Showgirls: Screening and Book Launch
Artist Alison J Carr presents her new short film and book drawing from her research with showgirls.
Free
2 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
4 events,
to
Connect and Create: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Connect and Create: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Check out our new connect and create writing group, on the first Saturday of every month.
Warm Welcome
Warm Welcome
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
to
Stride with Pride
Stride with Pride
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
Free
1 event,