For over twenty years the Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) team has been working with women from all backgrounds and from across Glasgow, supporting them with their reading, writing and numbers. This showcase is brought to you by our learners, volunteers and staff and shows the variety of ways we make learning fun, creative and informal, as well as highlighting some of the amazing work our learners have done.
In the Folds is an installation created by Alexandra Compton, a writer and artist from Bridgeton, Glasgow.
These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are led by Kathrine Sowerby, a poet and writer based in Glasgow.
Touch Tales celebrates and addresses our need for more wide-spread and unashamed acts of platonic connection and care. Through storytelling, writing, conversation and gentle sensation-led movement, we invite you to share your histories and memories of meaningful touch.
Starting near the site of the Royal Maternity Hospital on Rottenrow, our guides will lead you through the historic streets of this cosmopolitan hub.
Touch Tales celebrates and addresses our need for more wide-spread and unashamed acts of platonic connection and care. Through storytelling, writing, conversation and gentle sensation-led movement, we invite you to share your histories and memories of meaningful touch.
Join us this Spring for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting sessions, including clay work, basket weaving, quilling, and much more.
Drawing on archives from GWL and MayDay Rooms, this exhibition revisits the peace movement’s material history.
Join us for these interactive workshops to listen in and think with Middle Eastern feminists.
In recognition of Earth Week 2025 we’re highlighting green activism and ecofeminist responses to the climate crisis at our Spring Open Archive.
Join us for a conversation, tea and games while we practise English and Scottish words and phrases and learn about each other’s lives and cultures.
Rediscover the joy of being read to, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.
This Women Making It Special we will be joined by writer and artist Alexandra Compton for a special event combining writing, origami, and activism.
If you are passionate about books and love to share them with others then this group is for you!
On the launch date of Donna Moore’s new historical crime fiction novel, The Devil’s Draper, a follow up to The Unpicking, we’re celebrating with the author who will share her historical research and read from the book.
