Rabiya Choudhry: Illuminated Artwork
As we move out of the darkest days in winter we are collaborating with The Common Guild to host a new artwork by Rabiya Choudhry on the façade of our building.
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Donor Stories Display
Donor Stories Display, Saturday 4th March to Saturday 29th April, Free GWL Archive and Museum Donations. Credit: GWL Our amazing donors have supported and grown our museum, archive, and book collections for the last 30 years. These donations make us a space that centres and represents a diverse range of women’s lives. This season we […]
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Story Café Special: Trishna Singh OBE
Story Café Special: Trishna Singh OBE
We’re thrilled to welcome Trishna Singh OBE to read from and talk about her new memoir, A Silent Voice Speaks.
Free – £2.00
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Discover Women’s Heritage in Dennistoun, at Glasgow Women’s Library
Discover Women’s Heritage in Dennistoun, at Glasgow Women’s Library
Who are the women in Dennistoun’s history and how are they remembered? Do you know of any local women from the past or present whose story deserves to be told?
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Second Guessing
Second Guessing
Just four years since the coercive control legislation came into force in Scotland, we'll be screening two films exploring the coercive control from its victims perspective.
Free
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Open Book
Open Book
These vibrant and thoughtful Open Book sessions focus on a different theme each month, such as Home, Grow and Transform, or Garden, and use poetry and short stories as prompts for your own creative writing. Perfect for seasoned writers and beginners alike, get your creative juices flowing and join our warm and supportive writing community.
Free
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Women Making It
Women Making It
Join us this Spring for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting, including visual journaling, canvas art, candle design & printing, zine making and much more! The drop-in sessions are open to all women. We are especially keen for local women to use the GWL space for socialising, meeting like-minded women and take part in fun & creative learning.
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Olivia Plender: Our Bodies are Not the Problem
Olivia Plender: Our Bodies are Not the Problem
Olivia Plender: Our Bodies are Not the Problem , Fourth Session Saturday the 15th of April, 1pm to 3.30pm, GWL, Free Image detail from Olivia Plender's installation The Problem is Not Our Bodies, The Problem is Power, 2021 courtesy of the artist Following her redesign of our community room, inspired by the book Our Bodies, Ourselves, Olivia […]
Free
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Story Café Special: Scotland’s Witches
Story Café Special: Scotland’s Witches
We’ll be delving into contemporary Scottish writing inspired by Scotland’s witch-hunts, including Hex by Jenni Fagan and A spell in the wild by Alice Tarbuck. We’ll also be finding out more about some of the ‘witches’ we honour in our Women’s Heritage Walks, and exploring what it means to be a witch today.
Free – £2.00
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Reviving Folk Songs of Azarbaijan
Reviving Folk Songs of Azarbaijan
Iranian singer-songwriter, Farzane Zamen is inviting you to join her Album Launch. Introducing her album through storytelling and music performance.
Free
4 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Join us this Spring for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting, including visual journaling, canvas art, candle design & printing, zine making and much more! The drop-in sessions are open to all women. We are especially keen for local women to use the GWL space for socialising, meeting like-minded women and take part in fun & creative learning.
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World Book Night Giveaway Party!
World Book Night Giveaway Party!
We love a party… a party with free books? Even better! Let us entice you with lashings of tea and cake, as we kick back, relax and get lost in the wonderful world of stories
Free
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Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
From the bustle of Sauchiehall Street to quiet and leafy back streets, this bohemian enclave is full of surprises and has been home to many remarkable women who have made Garnethill one of the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspots in Glasgow.
£6.00 – £10.00
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Reading Group for Muslim Women
Reading Group for Muslim Women
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on themes of interest to women.
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Responders of Colour: Project, Book and Testimony
Responders of Colour: Project, Book and Testimony
"Just our wayward selves pretending to belong" - From ‘First Response to the Archives’ by Nadia Maloney An evening of readings and discussion to celebrate Responders of Colour, Tuesday 25th April, 7pm to 8.30pm, Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh, £3/free Featured Speakers: Hannah Moitt, Jazmin Hundal, Lesa Ng, Myra Ariyaratnam, Nadia Maloney, Nasim Rebecca Asl Responders of Colour […]
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Mapping Women’s Work
Mapping Women’s Work
Photography by Angela Catlin, Artwork by Ailie Rutherford We're really excited to have artist Ailie Rutherford and the FEN Library in our space this Spring and Summer. Ailie is working with us in visualising the complex nature of work for many women* juggling multiple jobs and is inviting participants with experience of this juggling work […]
Readers of Colour – Online
Readers of Colour – Online
Readers of Colour is a thriving community of Women* and Nonbinary Readers of Colour who come together to read writing by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Colour.
Welcome to the online sessions!
We meet the last Thursday of the month, 6pm - 7.15pm online.
Free
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Chitra Ramaswamy Reading event
Chitra Ramaswamy Reading event
Image courtesy of The Common Guild. As part of ‘anywhere in the universe’ The Common Guild’s project addressing the public library, we have invited the award- winning journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy to read excerpts from recent writing, including her newly commissioned text written in parallel with the work of Rabiya Choudhry. Photo courtesy of Canongate publishing. […]
Free
Readers of Colour – Glasgow
Readers of Colour – Glasgow
Readers of Colour is a thriving community of Women* and Nonbinary Readers of Colour who come together to read writing by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Colour.
Welcome to the Glasgow sessions!
We meet the last Saturday of the month, 2pm - 3.15pm at Glasgow Women's Library.
Free
2 events,
Readers of Colour – Edinburgh
Readers of Colour – Edinburgh
Readers of Colour is a thriving community of Women* and Nonbinary Readers of Colour who come together to read writing by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Colour.
Welcome to the Edinburgh sessions!
We meet the last Sunday of the month, 5.15pm - 6.30pm at Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh.
Free