From handmade masks, feminist perfumes and Roller Derby t-shirts to items supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, discover how gifts from donors in the time of Coronavirus have helped us develop our unique collections and document the diverse perspectives of women across Scotland and beyond.
Our first ever online Seeing Things film club! Join our Seeing Things volunteers to hear our reactions, and share yours, to the Women in Motion: Shorts Programme, available as part of the Take One Action film festival: a special programme of short films directed by women, exploring women’s relationship to place, ancestry and their physical selves.
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women writers of colour.
Celebrate National Poetry Day with our online Story Café Special with Pauline Prior-Pitt. A warm welcome, invigorating, illuminating poems and brilliant chat awaits you!
These thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are now back for Autumn!
We’re delighted to welcome back Gillian Shirreffs to host her popular writing workshops where she shares ways that writing can be used as a powerful distraction to help manage chronic pain. New writers and those with experience welcome.
Join us online for the world premiere of the timely new play Cummings and Goings. Meet Mother as she struggles to deal with her three annoying and arrogant children – Boris, Dom and Mikey...
We’re delighted to welcome back Gillian Shirreffs to host her popular writing workshops where she shares ways that writing can be used as a powerful distraction to help manage chronic pain. New writers and those with experience welcome.
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
Alongside our Ways of Seeing symposium and exhibition, are these pre-recorded 'Shutter Speed' talks. These snapshot presentations offer a glimpse the many stories of women and photography in Scotland. Watch along to discover more about Victorian tintypes, the carte-de-viste craze or figures such as Hannah Jane Dunlop, Lady Anne Lindsay and Jessie Mann.
Submissions are open for our annual writing competition and our editing mistress-class will help you to build your boldness before you send us your work!
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women and non-binary writers of colour.
What are Scottish women’s unique ways of seeing the world through the camera lens? See the work of women photographers in Scotland in this online exhibition.
Sign up to attend the symposium ‘Ways of Seeing’: Women and Photography in Scotland, hosted online by Glasgow Women's Library, and inspired by the National Trust for Scotland’s extensive photographic collections.
Sit back and listen to talks, stories and poems that celebrate the lives of poets, writers and fighters – from suffragettes and radical women poets of the past to Scottish women fighting for workplace equality in the twentieth century.
