September 2020
Seeing Things- Women in Action: Short Films
Our first ever online Seeing Things film club! Join our Seeing Things volunteers to hear our reactions, and share yours, to the Women in Motion: Shorts Programme, available as part of the Take One Action film festival: a special programme of short films directed by women, exploring women’s relationship to place, ancestry and their physical selves.
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Making Her Mark
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
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Readers of Colour
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women writers of colour.
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October 2020
Online: National Poetry Day with Pauline Prior-Pitt
Celebrate National Poetry Day with our online Story Café Special with Pauline Prior-Pitt. A warm welcome, invigorating, illuminating poems and brilliant chat awaits you!
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Online: Open Book
These thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are now back for Autumn!
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Online: Fiction Writing to Help Manage Chronic Pain
We’re delighted to welcome back Gillian Shirreffs to host her popular writing workshops where she shares ways that writing can be used as a powerful distraction to help manage chronic pain. New writers and those with experience welcome.
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Online: Drama Queens: In Our Own Words
Join us online for the world premiere of the timely new play Cummings and Goings. Meet Mother as she struggles to deal with her three annoying and arrogant children – Boris, Dom and Mikey...
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Online: Fiction Writing to Help Manage Chronic Pain
We’re delighted to welcome back Gillian Shirreffs to host her popular writing workshops where she shares ways that writing can be used as a powerful distraction to help manage chronic pain. New writers and those with experience welcome.
Find out more »Making Her Mark
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
Find out more »Online: Bold Types: Editing Mistress-class
Submissions are open for our annual writing competition and our editing mistress-class will help you to build your boldness before you send us your work!
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Making Her Mark
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
Find out more »Online: Readers of Colour
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women and non-binary writers of colour.
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Online: Ways of Seeing Exhibition
What are Scottish women’s unique ways of seeing the world through the camera lens? See the work of women photographers in Scotland in this online exhibition.
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Online Symposium: ‘Ways of Seeing’: Women and Photography in Scotland
Sign up to attend the symposium ‘Ways of Seeing’: Women and Photography in Scotland, hosted online by Glasgow Women's Library, and inspired by the National Trust for Scotland’s extensive photographic collections.
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Online: Story Café Special: Radical Women
Sit back and listen to talks, stories and poems that celebrate the lives of poets, writers and fighters – from suffragettes and radical women poets of the past to Scottish women fighting for workplace equality in the twentieth century.
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November 2020
Online: Open Book
These thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are now back for Autumn!
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Making Her Mark
How are women’s lives reflected in Renfrewshire’s towns and villages? How are they celebrated or remembered? These sessions are a chance to try out something new, take part in creative workshops, make friends and contribute to an exciting end of project exhibition in Paisley in 2021.
Find out more »Online: Story Café Special: International Crime Fiction
Are you drawn to stories of murder, mayhem and intrigue? Captivated by flawed detectives and villainous perpetrators? Then this International Crime Fiction Story Café is for you! Join Dr Noir in conversation with Sheena Kamal and Lilja Sigurðardóttir.
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Online: Memory is a Weapon
This film screening, spoken word, performance and discussion event draws together Black women artists and activists from Scotland and across the world to reflect and reimagine new futures during and post-COVID-19.
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Online: Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase
Be dazzled by our bold writers in this online Bold Types Creative Writing Showcase. We’ll be cheering them on as they share stories and poems on the theme of FUTURE, in front of our panel of encouraging judges.
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Online: Readers of Colour
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women and non-binary writers of colour.
Find out more »Online: Story Café Special: Moose, Mosquitos and Bears…Oh My
Hear adventures in remote Alaskan villages and traditional Yup’ik folktales, as well as readings from Kathleen Jamie’s surfacing in this Story Café Special.
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Online: Winter Warmer: Fiction Writing to Help Manage Chronic Pain
Following on from Gillian Shirreff's enjoyable writing workshops for women with chronic pain, you asked for more! We’re delighted that Gillian is back to bring you a winter warmer writing session exploring setting the scene for your stories.
Find out more »December 2020
Online: Story Café Special: Women in the Landscape
Listen to readings from some fabulous women writers who have connected in different ways with our built and natural heritage at this online Women in the landscape Story Café.
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Online: Winter Warmer: Fiction Writing to Help Manage Chronic Pain
Following on from Gillian Shirreff's enjoyable writing workshops for women with chronic pain, you asked for more! We’re delighted that Gillian is back to bring you a winter warmer writing session exploring setting the scene for your stories.
Find out more »Online: Creative Writing for Fearties: Cinema Memories
This online Creative Writing for Fearties Special is inspired by memories of cinema-going in the 1930s!
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Online: Open Book
These thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are now back for Autumn!
Find out more »Online: Story Café Special: Once upon a time, there was an engineer…
In this Story Café Special, Nina Baker will talk about 120 years of women engineers and scientists in novels, play, graphic art and film!
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Online: Readers of Colour
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women and non-binary writers of colour.
Find out more »January 2021
Online: Creative Writing for Fearties: Cinema Memories
This Creative Writing for Fearties Special is inspired by memories of cinema-going in the 1930s!
Find out more »Weemin’s Wark
The Weemin's Wark exhibition aims to increase the visibility of women’s contribution to contemporary island culture by providing a safe space in which to examine notions of labour and positivity for women and allies who challenge structures of social and institutional inequality.
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Online: Readers of Colour
Join Readers of Colour online to discover and chat about poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction by women and non-binary writers of colour.
Find out more »February 2021
Online: Open Book
These thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are now back for Autumn!
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