April 2020
POSTPONED: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Exhibition
At the library for one day only before it’s showing at Tenement House, Shutter Hub brings together an exciting exhibition of women’s photography in response to the ‘Ways of Seeing’ symposium.
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POSTPONED: ‘Ways of Seeing’: Women and Photography in Scotland
How have women photographers in Scotland taken control of their own image? This symposium will reveal neglected stories of Scottish women in photography, including feminist social documentary photographer Franki Raffles, folklorist Margaret Fay Shaw and more.
Find out more »CANCELLED: Story Café
Put a spring in your step at Story Café and hear stories and poems by women writers from around the world! From edge-of-your-seat espionage to tales of heart-warming tenderness, Story Café will spark your curiosity and freshen your perspective.
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POSTPONED: ‘Ways of Seeing’: Women and Photography in Scotland Reception Event
We warmly invite you to an informal reception celebrating the 'Ways of Seeing' women's photography exhibition which is at the library for one day only before it’s showing at Tenement House.
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Linder’s Bower of Bliss: Online Film Exhibition
An exclusive opportunity to see Linder's art film Bower of Bliss in full. The original film was revealed as part of Linder's Flag & Film commission at GWL for Glasgow International 2018 and in 2020 we see the second installment added to create this new film.
Find out more »CANCELLED: Women Making It
Be invigorated this Spring with our bitesize learning sessions where we’ll be scrapbooking, badge making, watching films together and much more. Warm and relaxed drop-in sessions, these are perfect if you enjoy craft activities or you’re looking to make new friends!
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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 friendly relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections. We’d love to welcome you here!
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Writing for Performance: Muslim Women’s Stories
These workshops place Muslim women at the heart of their own creative experience and provide the space, time and support needed to tell your stories in your own terms. These sessions are led by experienced playwright and producer, Sara Sharaawi, who will share skills to help you build tension and write dialogue as well as give you the unique chance to work with professional actors and artistic director Jemima Levick!
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POSTPONED: Open Book
These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book sessions are back for spring, and now led by poet Alice Tarbuck or writer Beth Godfrey.
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CANCELLED: Play Reading with a Twist!
Following workshops with a local playwright, the Sakinah Women's Group will take to the stage for this dazzling play reading with tea and buns.
Find out more »Create and Connect: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Join our connect and create writing group immersive programme, taking place one Saturday a month!
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CANCELLED: Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
It’s time for Lights! Action! Tea! once again in our friendly and relaxed regular No-Acting-Required Drama Queens sessions. Come along and join us!
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CANCELLED: Women Making It
Be invigorated this Spring with our bitesize learning sessions where we’ll be scrapbooking, badge making, watching films together and much more. Warm and relaxed drop-in sessions, these are perfect if you enjoy craft activities or you’re looking to make new friends!
Find out more »CANCELLED: Writing for Performance: Showcase
Be inspired, moved and entertained by the work that Muslim women have created and developed as part of our Stellar Quines play-writing workshops this Spring!
Find out more »CANCELLED: Fiction Writing to Help Manage Chronic Pain
Explore the ways writing can be used as a powerful distraction to help manage chronic pain, in these creative writing workshops led by writer Gillian Shirreffs.
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POSTPONED: Ingrid Pollard
Following a residency at GWL in 2019 this solo exhibition by artist and researcher Ingrid Pollard reveals her responses to materials held in the Lesbian archive at GWL. Part of Glasgow International 2020.
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POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
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POSTPONED: Ingrid Pollard: Exhibition Launch
Join us for the preview of Ingrid Pollard’s new exhibition, proudly commissioned by GWL and part of Glasgow International 2020. Alongside an introduction to the work this event will include a performance curated by Ingrid to mark the occasion.
Find out more »POSTPONED: Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
Step away from busy Sauchiehall Street to (re)discover bohemian Garnethill through the history of its women on this popular heritage walk.
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CANCELLED: Fiction Writing to Help Manage Chronic Pain
Explore the ways writing can be used as a powerful distraction to help manage chronic pain, in these creative writing workshops led by writer, living with MS, Gillian Shirreffs.
Find out more »Readers of Colour
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women writers of colour.
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POSTPONED: Story Café Special: Brave Your Day with Charley Gavigan
In this Story Cafe Special, Charley Gavigan will explore the power of stories to unite us in these uncertain times, and share insights from her own personal journey.
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POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »Find Your Words: Slam Poetry
In this workshop, performance poet Courtney Stoddart will boost your skills and confidence while you experiment with slam poetry, whether you’re yet to write your first poem or you’re a slam regular!
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POSTPONED: Ingrid Pollard: Artist’s Talk
Join Ingrid Pollard as she discusses her multi-layered practice and her solo exhibition following time spent in the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre, a collection that makes up one third of GWL's overall archive.
Find out more »May 2020
Women Making It
Be invigorated this Spring with our bitesize learning sessions where we’ll be scrapbooking, badge making, watching films together and much more. Warm and relaxed drop-in sessions, these are perfect if you enjoy craft activities or you’re looking to make new friends!
Find out more »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 friendly relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections. We’d love to welcome you here!
Find out more »Open Book
These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book sessions are back for spring, and now led by poet Alice Tarbuck or writer Beth Godfrey.
Find out more »Story Café
Put a spring in your step at Story Café and hear stories and poems by women writers from around the world! From edge-of-your-seat espionage to tales of heart-warming tenderness, Story Café will spark your curiosity and freshen your perspective.
Find out more »POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »Find Your Words: Slam Poetry
In this workshop, performance poet Courtney Stoddart will boost your skills and confidence while you experiment with slam poetry, whether you’re yet to write your first poem or you’re a slam regular!
Find out more »Create and Connect: Monthly Creative Writing Group
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Join our connect and create writing group immersive programme, taking place one Saturday a month!
Find out more »Women of the Gorbals Heritage Walk
Our Women of the Gorbals heritage guided walk is back, introducing the resourceful, creative and determined women who’ve called this area home over the centuries.
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Story Café
Put a spring in your step at Story Café and hear stories and poems by women writers from around the world! From edge-of-your-seat espionage to tales of heart-warming tenderness, Story Café will spark your curiosity and freshen your perspective.
Find out more »POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »Drama Queens: Play Reading for Pleasure
It’s time for Lights! Action! Tea! once again in our regular No-Acting-Required Drama Queens sessions. Come along and join us!
Find out more »This Is Who We Are
At this session, Adele Patrick will be sharing learning from her recent Clore Leadership Fellowship, which gave her opportunity to reflect on how GWL has grown, what makes it tick and bring back new thinking on feminist leadership to the organisation.
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Women Making It
Be invigorated this Spring with our bitesize learning sessions where we’ll be scrapbooking, badge making, watching films together and much more. Warm and relaxed drop-in sessions, these are perfect if you enjoy craft activities or you’re looking to make new friends!
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Patchworking the Lesbian Archive
Come and learn radical sewing skills and be part of a collaborative lesbian history quilt in this workshop! No sewing experience required!
Find out more »Necropolis Women’s Heritage Walk
Who were the women buried in the Necropolis? Join our popular guided tour of this Victorian cemetery to find out…
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Open the Door
This year we invite the digital world to Open the Door by hosting our women’s writing festival entirely online, focusing on environmental and ecofeminist ideas.
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POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »Summer Open Day
Our Summer Open Day is the perfect time to get to know the Library. There’s a chance to see exhibition previews, browse the second hand book sale, meet the team, have a guided tour, and pick up a copy of our hot-off-the-press Summer Events Programme! Drop by, have a cuppa, and learn more about who we are and what's on offer.
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Readers of Colour
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women writers of colour.
Find out more »Story Café Special: Grey Hen Press
Enjoy the wit and wisdom of older women poets at this Grey Hen Press Story Café Special.
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POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »The Life and Art of Artemisia
To celebrate the National Gallery exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings, we’re hosting a talk about the life and work of this exceptional woman, one of the most talented painters of her generation.
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Women Making It
Be invigorated this Spring with our bitesize learning sessions where we’ll be scrapbooking, badge making, watching films together and much more. Warm and relaxed drop-in sessions, these are perfect if you enjoy craft activities or you’re looking to make new friends!
Find out more »POSTPONED: Performing the Past
Over a hundred years ago, Scotland caught ‘pageant fever’ and thousands of performers dressed up and brought the past to life in front of captivated audiences the length and breadth of the nation. Come along to this afternoon of talks, performance and discussion exploring a largely forgotten craze.
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June 2020
Open Book
These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book sessions are back for spring, and now led by poet Alice Tarbuck or writer Beth Godfrey.
Find out more »POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »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 friendly relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections. We’d love to welcome you here!
Find out more »POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »POSTPONED: Making Her Mark: Celebrating Women in Renfrewshire
Can you name a Renfrewshire heroine? How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? Bring your stories and ideas to this exciting new project. A chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops and make friends.
Find out more »