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.
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a friendly relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections. We’d love to welcome you here!
Let Olga Wojtas inspire you to write something new this summer in response to the work of some of the women artists at Edinburgh Art Festival 2019
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!
Collect: if is a network run by and for creative women of colour. 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.
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!
Dip a toe into Edinburgh Art Festival this summer with this beginner-friendly day tour of some of the fabulous, international women artists featured.
Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Dr. Melanie Ramdarshan Bold discuss inclusive representation in fantasy and YA. Come with questions, stay for the book signing and reception.
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Join our connect and create writing group, on the second Saturday of every month.
Wander the tree worlds, tundra, dystopias and utopias of women’s sci-fi writing from the 1660s to the present day at our Sci-Fi Story Café Special!
It’s time for Lights! Action! Tea! once again in our regular No-Acting-Required Drama Queens sessions. Come and join us!
Created by South African theatre practitioner Firdoze Bulbulia this theatre piece will use music, film installations and spoken word to draw on real memoirs of female activists and resistance movements in South Africa and beyond.
Celebrate the launch of our LGBTQI+ Heritage Trail and hear from our History Detective volunteers as they talk about how they used the collections to research. We’ll start by exploring the archives at the library and then we’ll take you on a guided walk that celebrates Glasgow’s Queer past and writes LGBTQI+ people back into history.
This Garnethill walk will take you from the bustle of Sauchiehall Street to quiet and leafy back streets, highlighting the many remarkable women who have made this bohemian enclave one of the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspots in Glasgow.
Seeing things will visit House of an Art lover to see the Tessa Lynch and Rachel Adams Exhibition
It’s a huge pleasure to welcome Book Bunk co-founder and writer Wanjiru Koinange to Readers of Colour to share her writing and her work with us. Her debut novel, The Havoc of Choice, is a story about family, politics and journeying through a fractured country in a delicate time, based on events surrounding the 2007 Kenyan general election.
It’s our Autumn 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.
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!
As part of our evening Autumn Programme Launch, Book Bunk will be showcasing their brilliantly bold vision for transforming public libraries in Nairobi into dynamic, inclusive spaces, with heritage, public art and shared experiences at their core.
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!
A big, warm Story Café welcome to Book Bunk co-founder and writer Wanjiru Koinange. Her debut novel, The Havoc of Choice, is a story about family, politics and journeying through a fractured country in a delicate time, based on events surrounding the 2007 Kenyan general election.
Hear some of the women’s voices who worked in Scotland's textile industry through recent oral history recordings, and see materials from the archives of Stoddard-Templeton and Paisley’s Coats & Clarks this Saturday afternoon.
Let our tour guides lead you gently along cycle paths, through Glasgow Green and beside the Clyde, while sharing fun and fascinating facts about the history of women’s cycling.
Sgeulachdan Gàidhlig aig Leabharlann nam Ban còmhla ri Marion F. NicIlleMhoire agus Mòrag Law! Come and hear readings by Marion F. Morrison and Morag Law in Gaelic and English this Story Café Special!
These two days form the Women & War Festival which will reflect on history and heritage with a focus on the experiences of women in World War One. Share in some of the exciting projects that have taken place since 2014 and consider how community organisations and academics can continue working together to explore aspects of the past and increase women’s visibility.
RESCHEDULED: The Reading group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
