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Writing for Performance – Playwriting for Muslim Women. Credit: GWL
Jul 31
1:30pm to 3:30pm Event Series

Writing for Performance: Muslim Women’s Stories

Open Book Workshop at GWL. Credit: Open Book
Aug 2
10:00am to 11:30am

Open Book

Free
A selection of old Tennant’s tins featuring images of women. On one Ann is shown sitting on a rock wearing a swimsuit. At the bottom of the can ‘On the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond’.
Aug 3
6:30pm to 8:00pm

Canned: Feminism, sexism and Tennent’s Lager Lovelies

Free
Writing for Performance – Playwriting for Muslim Women. Credit: GWL
Aug 7
1:30pm to 3:30pm Event Series

Writing for Performance: Muslim Women’s Stories

Alberta Whittle, Still from Holding the Line, 2020. Two women of colour stand in deep water, facing each other with their hands pressed together. A small low boat floats in the water behind them.
Aug 14
Saturday, 14th August, 2021 to Saturday, 16th October, 2021

Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism

Writing for Performance – Playwriting for Muslim Women. Credit: GWL
Aug 14
1:30pm to 3:30pm Event Series

Writing for Performance: Muslim Women’s Stories

Three books standing on a shelf with a plant. The books are New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, which has a black cover with a photo of a black woman looking directly at the reader, her hands clasped behind her head; Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Matsuda Aoko, a yellow cover with a dark abstract shape in the top half, and an illustration of the knees of two women in skirts sitting beside each other; Queenie, by Candace Carty-Williams, a deep pink cover with the head of a black woman in profile, her face not visible, and long braids pulled up into a bun.
Aug 18
6:00pm to 7:30pm Event Series

Readers of Colour

Aug 19
1:00pm to 2:30pm

Story Café Special : Life Support

Free
Portrait of Diljeet Bhachu Credit: Diljeet Bhachu
Aug 19
7:00pm to 8:00pm

In Conversation with…

Free
Writing for Performance – Playwriting for Muslim Women. Credit: GWL
Aug 21
1:30pm to 3:30pm Event Series

Writing for Performance: Muslim Women’s Stories

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