This autumn we are revisiting the incredibly fruitful collaboration with Gaada visual art workshop in Shetland. Weemin’s Wark (Shetland dialect Women’s Work) exhibition aims to increase the visibility of women’s contribution to contemporary island culture by providing a safe space in which to examine notions of labour and positivity for women and allies who challenge […]
As we continue to do the work of looking back to move forwards in our 30th anniversary year, we will also be celebrating 10 years since our 21 Revolutions exhibition and publication launched, showcasing the work of 21 writers and 21 artists commissioned to produce exciting new stories, essays and works of art inspired by […]
Through her collaboration with artist Eloise Moody and BBC Radio 4 the cleaner/caretaker of Glasgow Women's Library, Doreen Kelly, gives insight into her often hidden world.
Our GWL Origin Stories display explores key points in our grassroots beginnings through archival materials and oral history interviews with GWL’s founders and early instigators Adele Patrick, Kate Henderson and Sue John.
These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book sessions are back in 2022. Open Book, Monday 26th September, 10am to 11.30am, Online, Zoom, Free, 16+, Women* Only Read poems and short stories together as prompts for your own creative writing. Each session focuses on a theme such as Home, Grow and Transform, or Garden. This is one of […]
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
We’re delighted that our Story Café is back in person! Travel the world, one tale at a time, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.
CANCELLED: These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are back in person at the library this Autumn. Open Book, Tuesday 4th October, Tuesday 1st November, Tuesday 6th December, 10.30am to 12.30am, GWL, Free, 16+, Women* Only Credit: GWL Each session focus on a different theme each month – such as Home, Grow […]
A warm welcome back to Grey Hen Press, whose beautiful anthologies showcase the wit and wisdom of older women poets. Pull up a chair around our virtual table as we celebrate National Poetry Day, with poems exploring the natural world.
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting including visual journaling, zine making, candle design & printing, stone art and much more!
This guided Heritage Walk, the last of the season*, shares the stories of many remarkable women unearthed by our Women’s History Detectives.
You’ll walk in the footsteps of suffragettes, rent strikers, and the first female students of the University of Glasgow, and learn about Rachel Hamilton, a pipe-smoking labourer and special constable, and other “wild women” who built this part of Glasgow, and whose contributions can still be felt today.
Join our celebration of ways that women can use textiles to speak, protest and build community!
This exhibition showcases a beautiful new textile piece made survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse, alongside examples of women’s textiles from our archives.
Join Playwright Natalie McGrath at the end of a week in residence at GWL. A week spent exploring the exciting collections of the Lesbian Archive to inspire ideas for a brand new play entitled Cusp.
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting including visual journaling, zine making, candle design & printing, stone art and much more!
We’re delighted that our Story Café is back in person! Travel the world, one tale at a time, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.
The Three Decades team and the founders of Glasgow Women's Library, Kate Henderson and Adele Patrick, invite you to this 30th anniversary Open Archive where we will be looking at materials that tell the story of GWL and how we have developed, evolved and thrived as an organisation.
She Settles in the Shields is an oral history book published in 2011 by Glasgow Women’s Library to acknowledge and celebrate the lives of migrant women who settled in Pollokshields, a vibrant area of Glasgow. She Settles in the Shields: 10 years on, Intergenerational Story Café , Sunday 30th October, 2pm-3.30pm, Pollokshields Burgh Hall, Free […]
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are back in person at the library this Autumn. Open Book, Tuesday 4th October, Tuesday 1st November, Tuesday 6th December, 10.30am to 12.30am, GWL, Free, 16+, Women* Only Credit: GWL Each session focus on a different theme each month – such as Home, Grow and Transform, […]
Through two gentle workshops, inspired by Shetland’s knitted lacemaking traditions, we will re-imagine care and landscape. We’ll begin by experiencing hand-knitted lace through touch – feeling the wool, the time of knitting, and all the stitches in between!
Through two gentle workshops, inspired by Shetland’s knitted lacemaking traditions, we will re-imagine care and landscape. We’ll begin by experiencing hand-knitted lace through touch – feeling the wool, the time of knitting, and all the stitches in between!
Turning 30 has put us in reflective mood! And we’re eager to share what we’re learning with anyone who’s interested in our work or who’s also working with individuals and communities to challenge inequality.
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting including visual journaling, zine making, candle design & printing, stone art and much more!
