Working with textile artist Paria Goodarzi, women from Sakina Group in Glasgow have designed their own creative prints for scarves. This exhibition showcases their work which uses symbols, images and empowering statements to explore and celebrate women’s activism.
Take a peek at some of our literary treasures, from poetry to pulp fiction at our Women’s Words exhibition. We will showcase celebrated writers from our Open the Door Festival.
Come find ‘Tiny Territories’; an exhibition of paper sculptures & photos of unnoticed objects & places.
Daring discoveries, tenacious trailblazers, awesome adventures . . . women’s writing is rich with stories of expeditions and journeys that have inspired others and changed the way we see the world we live in.
Find your inner lyricist and feel the powerful resonance of contemporary protest song at this beginner-friendly workshop with singer-songwriter Penny Stone.
Seeing Things is a group that meet up to see art, performances and cultural events put on by women across Glasgow and beyond. We think it’s more fun to go to see things together, and we usually have a cup of tea or coffee afterwards. Our trips are always free. It would be great if you could come along!
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
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.
Looking for the co- in your writing? Want to try out collaboration in a supportive, welcoming space? Come to Open Waters, a co-writing workshop facilitated by authors Laura Tansley and Micaela Maftei on building bridges and meeting in the middle.
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.
Reinvent your lunchtime at Story Café! Stories and poems from around the world, all washed down with tea and friendly chat. Pull up a chair and become part of the story!
Explore the history of LGBTQ women from the 1920s to the present day in our Open Archive this Summer!
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Join our connect and create writing group, on the second Saturday of every month.
Join GWL’s Create and Connect Writing Group at this year’s Harpies, Fechters, and Quines festival for an evening of powerful readings.
It’s a huge pleasure to welcome Canadian-born poet Alycia Pirmohamed to Story Café. Alycia's writing explores what it means to be the daughter of immigrants, and grapples with language loss, cultural identity and displacement.
Join GWL at Edinburgh Central Library to hear some of the compelling women's voices writing in the aftermath of World War One.
It’s time for Lights! Action! Tea! once again in our regular No-Acting-Required Drama Queens sessions. Come along and join us!
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, film screenings and much more. Friendly and relaxed drop-in sessions, perfect if you're new to the Library!
Join the Seeing Things volunteers for great Saturday out in Pollockshields.
The Reading group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
Reinvent your lunchtime at Story Café! Stories and poems from around the world, all washed down with tea and friendly chat. Pull up a chair and become part of the story!
** This event has been cancelled.**
Following on from the fun and hilarious adaptation of Abbess of Crewe by our Drama Queens, this Summer we're experimenting with a new short story adaptation. Come along for play writing fun. No experience required!
We’re going out and about with Seeing Things to visit St Mungo’s Museum and see an exhibition about Anne Frank, finishing with some relaxed creative writing inspired by diaries and the museum .
Celebrate the launch at GWL of 'Home Where Home Is Not', an ambitious exhibition by Glasgow-based artists Sogol Mabadi and Birthe Jorgensen reimagining fixed notions of home, and what it means to be of more than one place.
Seeing things visits Sudanese house as part of the Refugee Festival
Home Where Home Is Not is an ambitious exhibition by Glasgow-based artists Sogol Mabadi and Birthe Jorgensen reimagining fixed notions of home, and what it means to be of more than one place. This exhibition is across both GWL and Platform, Easterhouse.
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group to discover and chat about new women writers of colour.
Join us for an afternoon with Refugee Tales contributors Jackie Kay and Sameena Zehra, and listen to the stories of those who have suffered under the UK’s policy of indefinite detention, an issue which could not be more prevalent in today’s climate.
At this Story Café Special, GWL’s Donna Moore will talk about her work-in-progress about militant suffragette Lavender Guthrie: aka Laura Grey, Pantomime Girl.
Join Seeing Things for an afternoon with friend of Refugee Tales Sameena Zehra, and listen to the stories of those who have suffered under the UK’s policy of indefinite detention, an issue which could not be more prevalent in today’s climate.
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, film screenings and much more. Friendly and relaxed drop-in sessions, perfect if you're new to the Library!
Join us to celebrate Refugee Festival Scotland with an afternoon of spoken word and performances by local refugee groups on the theme of Belonging.
Scandal, vice, radicalism, regeneration and revival… Discover another side to this area as we retrace the footsteps of women who gave birth in the Maternity Hospital on Rottenrow and picture ourselves as the jury in a sensational Victorian murder trial in an arsenic poisoning case.
