Strand: Our Work With Performers

Shifting Sands

Charting a journey of survival and hope, Shifting Sands tells a story of a woman in an abusive and controlling relationship. Alongside the film, we have developed a toolkit to promote an understanding of coercive control and how to effectively support victims.

Herland

An irregular event night at Glasgow Women’s Library, Herland distils and blends the special ingredients of GWL: illuminating learning and surprising pleasures, the historic and the cutting edge, and the bringing together of diverse audiences to discover new ideas and enjoy established and experimental women creatives work. At Herland these will be served up with good food and live music in an evocative, beautiful space.

Open The Door 2020 Calm Slam

Calm Slam:   Are you bubbling up with words but terrified of slam poetry? Do you have so much to say but can’t stand the spotlight. Don’t panic! Out Calm […]

Open the Door 2020: Calm Slam

Our Calm Slam is for every woman* who loves poetry but likes the quiet life.

Calm Slam 2023 Finalists

For this year’s Calm Slam, we asked you to respond to the theme of Open The Door 2023, ACTIVISM. We were overwhelmed and moved by the creative, thoughtful and inspiring […]

Open The Door 2023: Calm Slam

Calling all unheard poets! Submit your poem to our Open the Door 2023 Calm Slam competition!

March of Women

In March 2015 a procession of women from Glasgow and beyond gathered at Glasgow Women’s Library to march through the streets of Bridgeton to celebrate the achievements of women past […]

Voices from the Belvidere

Stories of Women from a First World War Fever Hospital Typhoid, Smallpox, Bubonic Plague, the Belvidere Fever Hospital on London Road treated them all. In our Heritage Lottery funded project, […]

Our Work With Performers

At Glasgow Women’s Library, we believe in the power of performance to amplify voices, challenge narratives, and inspire change.

No-one who harms me will go unpunished. I am a woman.

On Wednesday 8th March 2017, the In Her Shoes project launched our groundbreaking new performance to challenge hate crime against women at City of Glasgow College. A second performance followed at […]

Collect:if

Collect:if is a fabulous new network bringing together Women of Colour (WoC) who are established figures in the arts, culture and creative industries in Scotland and those who are developing their practice.

We aim to explore the challenges affecting Black and Minority Ethnic women in the Arts and create opportunities for them to progress in their field of work. Furthermore, we aim to inform and assist mainstream arts organisations in meeting the EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) standards within their service provision.

Seeing Things

Seeing Things is designed to give women the opportunity to explore cultural events across Glasgow, such as (but not limited to!) art, music, theatre or comedy, together with friendly and like-minded women. Since the start of 2014, the group has visited art and performance events in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Open The Door 2021: Calm Slam

For this year’s Calm Slam, we asked you to take inspiration from the work or history of this year’s Open the Door festival’s three historic writer/artists: Wendy Wood, Zarina Hashmi […]