Reframing the HPV narrative
This art installation created from medical correspondence and leaflets seeks to encourage discussion around Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and reframe its numerous – yet often unspoken – narratives.
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Georgina Smith: Art, Life and Protest
We’ll celebrate the life of Scottish artist Georgina Smith through an exhibition of her lino prints. Inspired by her environment and the people close to her, her artwork often incorporates elements from her own life, including her anti-nuclear activism, for which she was imprisoned many times.
Free
Weaving a Transoceanic Web: Anti-Nuclear Solidarities between Greenham Women and Indigenous Communities
This small, interactive exhibition draws on a new open-access digital archive at GWL to reveal ‘transoceanic’ networks that stretched across the Atlantic and Pacific in the 1980s and 90s, linking Greenham women and Indigenous communities.
Free
Pouring Out, Pouring In: Mapping Women’s Work
Artist Ailie Rutherford has been working with us to visualise the complex nature of work and care for many women. This exhibition will display prints and other outcomes from the Mapping Women’s Work workshop series at GWL.
6 events,
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CineAstra: second sights, infrared sprites
CineAstra: second sights, infrared sprites
second sights and infrared sprites is a tapestry of short films that delves into spirituality, energy, and belief. Revealing connections between realms, present moments and the ethereal unknown. All films foreground an element of research, ritual or rhythm, be that submerged, unseen, felt or subconsciously known.
Free – £8
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Palestine Cinema Days: خـــيوط الســــــــــرد Stitching Palestine
Palestine Cinema Days: خـــيوط الســــــــــرد Stitching Palestine
Twelve resilient, determined and articulate women from disparate walks of life: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects, and politicians stitch together the story of their homeland, of their dispossession, and of their unwavering determination that justice will prevail.
6 events,
Women Making It Special: Turn paper into poetic crafts
Women Making It Special: Turn paper into poetic crafts
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL's bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, candle art, quilling, stone art and much more!
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun – field trip
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun – field trip
Who are the women in Dennistoun’s past? Maybe you know a Dennistoun woman whose story deserves to be remembered? In this exciting new project, we’ll discover these hidden histories and then help to develop a new women’s heritage trail and booklet. You can meet new people, take part in creative arts and crafts sessions inspired by Dennistoun stories and learn new skills in how to discover local history.
Free
5 events,
5 events,
Conversation Café
Conversation Café
If you are new to speaking English or fancy a cuppa and chat, this event is perfect for you! As part of the adult literacy and numeracy team at GWL, we are focused on building a welcoming and supportive community for all women. Join us for a conversation, tea, and games while we practise English […]
6 events,
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Story Café Special: Eco-poetry
Story Café Special: Eco-poetry
How do women poets, past and present, connect with nature and how can women today take on the challenges of the climate crisis? We’ll be sharing words of hope, fear, activism and celebration, including readings from three Ginkgo Eco-poetry prize shortlisted women poets. We’ll also be sharing a range of inspirational work from Mary Oliver […]
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Film Screening: Georgina, Art, Morality and Law
Film Screening: Georgina, Art, Morality and Law
Georgina: ‘Art, Morality and Law’ is a film made by Lin Li, featuring various items from Georgina Smith’s personal archive. In this film Georgina talks about her actions and prison experiences, and reflects on what ‘peace’ and ‘activism’ mean to her.
Free
5 events,
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun
Who are the women in Dennistoun’s past? Maybe you know a Dennistoun woman whose story deserves to be remembered? In this exciting new project, we’ll discover these hidden histories and then help to develop a new women’s heritage trail and booklet. You can meet new people, take part in creative arts and crafts sessions inspired by Dennistoun stories and learn new skills in how to discover local history.
Free
5 events,
Sound Bath & Listening Workshop
Sound Bath & Listening Workshop
These sessions will each begin with an introduction to the research and work of composer Pauline Oliveros, who founded concepts such as ‘deep listening’, teaching us new ways to focus our attention on sound.
Free – £10.00
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Online Event: Creative Writing Workshop: Revisiting Words from HPV Narratives
Online Event: Creative Writing Workshop: Revisiting Words from HPV Narratives
Being diagnosed with any medical condition can generate a wide range of reactions and feelings. Can creative writing help to acknowledge and understand them while positively impacting our sense of agency? Let’s put this into practice. Drawing from the Reframing the HPV Narrative installation on display at the GWL, which is inspired by medical correspondence and […]
Free
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Online Event: Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Online Event: Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Prepare to be spellbound by our shortlisted writers, as they read out their stories and poems on this year’s theme, Adventure! Our wonderfully supportive and encouraging judges are: award-winning children's author Maisie Chan, whose debut novel, Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths, won the Jhalak Prize in 2022; writer Kirsten MacQuarrie, whose work has been […]
Free
6 events,
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun
Who are the women in Dennistoun’s past? Maybe you know a Dennistoun woman whose story deserves to be remembered? In this exciting new project, we’ll discover these hidden histories and then help to develop a new women’s heritage trail and booklet. You can meet new people, take part in creative arts and crafts sessions inspired by Dennistoun stories and learn new skills in how to discover local history.
Free
Women Making It
Women Making It
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL's bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, candle art, quilling, stone art and much more!
5 events,
Conversation Café
Conversation Café
If you are new to speaking English or fancy a cuppa and chat, this event is perfect for you! As part of the adult literacy and numeracy team at GWL, we are focused on building a welcoming and supportive community for all women. Join us for a conversation, tea, and games while we practise English […]
5 events,
Story Café
Story Café
Travel the world, one tale at a time, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around. From awe-inspiring adventures to gentle journeys amongst nature, our Story Café is sure to spark your curiosity and reinvigorate your lunchtime. Book your spot, pull up a chair and become part of […]
Free
5 events,
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun
Discover Women’s History in Dennistoun
Who are the women in Dennistoun’s past? Maybe you know a Dennistoun woman whose story deserves to be remembered? In this exciting new project, we’ll discover these hidden histories and then help to develop a new women’s heritage trail and booklet. You can meet new people, take part in creative arts and crafts sessions inspired by Dennistoun stories and learn new skills in how to discover local history.
Free
6 events,
Readers of Colour – Glasgow
Readers of Colour – Glasgow
As the days get shorter here in Scotland, Readers of Colour will be using the darker nights to get into some ghost stories.
Free
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Open Archive: Protest Placards
Open Archive: Protest Placards
As 16 Days of Activism 2023 gets underway, we’re celebrating with a colourful display of protest placards recently donated to our collections. From snappy slogans scrawled on card, to elaborately hand-painted posters, each sign represents a voice demanding to be heard. Drop in to peruse our placards, meet some of the makers, and kick back […]
Free
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This is Who We Are – Digital Volunteering at GWL
This is Who We Are – Digital Volunteering at GWL
From podcasting to blogging, from cataloguing to digitising, GWL’s volunteers are playing an important role in highlighting and making our activities and collections more accessible to more people.Hear from the Volunteering Programme team about the challenges and successes of involving volunteers in these digital roles, and from volunteers about their involvement and what it means […]
Free
Readers of Colour – Edinburgh
Readers of Colour – Edinburgh
As the days get shorter here in Scotland, Readers of Colour will be using the darker nights to get into some ghost stories.
Free
6 events,
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POSTPONED: Online Event: The Witching Tide: In Conversation with Margaret Meyer
POSTPONED: Online Event: The Witching Tide: In Conversation with Margaret Meyer
*Please note this event has been postponed, and will be re-scheduled in the New Year.*We’re thrilled to welcome writer Margaret Meyer, to read from and talk about her atmospheric, emotive and powerful debut novel, The Witching Tide. Inspired by England’s deadliest witch hunt, which swept across East Anglia in the 17th century, The Witching Tide […]
Free
Readers of Colour – Online
Readers of Colour – Online
As the days get shorter here in Scotland, Readers of Colour will be using the darker nights to get into some ghost stories.
Free
5 events,
Women Making It
Women Making It
Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL's bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, candle art, quilling, stone art and much more!