April 2019
Women’s Words Exhibition
Take a peek at some of our literary treasures, from poetry to pulp fiction at our Women’s Words exhibition. We will showcase celebrated writers from our Open the Door Festival.
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Textiles and Activism
Working with textile artist Paria Goodarzi, women from Sakina Group in Glasgow have designed their own creative prints for scarves. This exhibition showcases their work which uses symbols, images and empowering statements to explore and celebrate women’s activism.
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Tiny Territories
Come find ‘Tiny Territories’; an exhibition of paper sculptures & photos of unnoticed objects & places.
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Readers of Colour
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
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Book Party Giveaway
Grab your free book, tune into our story-themed soundtrack, and try your luck at our fiendishly fun book quiz.
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Seeing Things at GWL- Creative Sparks: Abbess of Crewe
Join our Seeing Things group for the world premiere of an adaptation of Muriel Spark's Abbess of Crewe! As always, it will also be a lovely opportunity to meet like-minded folks, to get to know GWL, and to see which creative masterpieces one of the many groups who are active within GWL have managed to produce.
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Creative Sparks: The Abbess of Crewe
Join us for the worldwide premiere of a dramatic reading of GWL’s Drama Queens adaptation of Muriel Spark’s The Abbess of Crewe.
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Utter: Raise Your Voice
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
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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 women’s issue.
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Women Making It
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
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The Secret Garden Writing Workshops: Spring
Come connect to your writing and celebrate the changing seasons with our series of three gentle creative writing sessions. Wrap up warm and bring along a thermos of tea for these workshops in the atmospheric (but chilly) Secret Garden, hidden in the heart of Edinburgh.
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Be Like Teflon: Jasleen Kaur Book Launch
Share food and conversation at the launch of Be Like Teflon, a new artist book by Jasleen Kaur.
Find out more »Stride with Pride
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
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The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill
Within Garnethill’s confined boundaries we spotlight the women who pioneered European art movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
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May 2019
Story Café Special: Sonia Purnell
Prepare to be dazzled by the epic, untold story of Virginia Hall, a fearless American woman who infiltrated wartime France to become the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied Spy.
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Connect and Create: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Check out our new connect and create writing group, on the first Saturday of every month.
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Warm Welcome
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
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Open Book
Read poems and short stories together as prompts for your own creative writing - perfect for seasoned writers and beginners alike.
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Story Café Special: Women in the Landscape
Our mental health and wellbeing benefit when we nourish our connections to landscape, earth and nature.
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Women Making It
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
Find out more »Women of the Gorbals Heritage Walk
Our only Women’s Heritage Walk south of the river, this guided tour will take you on a time travelling journey from the Napoleonic Wars to the modern day New Gorbals.
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Story Café
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
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Save the Date: Open the Door 2019
Scotland’s first ever festival for Scottish women’s writing returns for its third edition, and this time we’re expanding into a two-day event. Expect creative workshops, in-depth discussions, open mic sessions and plenty of performances from the best literary talent this country has to offer.
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Open the Door: Friday Evening Herland
Scotland’s first ever festival for Scottish women’s writing returns for its third edition. Expect creative workshops, in-depth discussions, open mic sessions and plenty of performances from the best literary talent this country has to offer.
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Open the Door: Saturday Daytime Discussions
Scotland’s first ever festival for Scottish women’s writing returns for its third edition. Expect creative workshops, in-depth discussions, open mic sessions and plenty of performances from the best literary talent this country has to offer.
Find out more »Open the Door: Saturday Evening Herland
Scotland’s first ever festival for Scottish women’s writing returns for its third edition. Expect creative workshops, in-depth discussions, open mic sessions and plenty of performances from the best literary talent this country has to offer.
Find out more »Story Café
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
Find out more »Summer Programme Launch
It’s our Summer programme launch! Come along for a warm welcome to hear what’s coming up, see the new exhibitions, browse the book sale and meet the team.
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Women Making It
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
Find out more »Story Café: Women, Environment, Adventure
Daring discoveries, tenacious trailblazers, awesome adventures . . . women’s writing is rich with stories of expeditions and journeys that have inspired others and changed the way we see the world we live in.
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Songwriting to Inspire Change
Find your inner lyricist and feel the powerful resonance of contemporary protest song at this beginner-friendly workshop with singer-songwriter Penny Stone.
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Readers of Colour
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
Find out more »Story Café
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
Find out more »June 2019
Warm Welcome
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
Find out more »Open Book
Read poems and short stories together as prompts for your own creative writing - perfect for seasoned writers and beginners alike.
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