Posts tagged with ‘events’

Dundee Women’s Festival 2011

GWL was at the Dundee Women’s Festival in March, organising workshops to complement our mobile exhibition “Between Future and Past”. At the Women’s History Bring and Tell workshops in the afternoon, Elaine told us about her admiration for her daughter, and Sheila brought some beautiful photographs of her mother as a young woman when she [...]

Storytelling with a Twist!

Clear those winter blues in November and December with Louna Productions’ feminist reinterprataions of classic tales to Storytelling with Lesley and friends at Glasgow Women’s Library.

Wigtown Community Festival 2010

Last week Morag and I travelled to Wigtown to run an oral histories workshop at the annual community festival. We drew into Wigtown square around 7 o’clock, in time to see a game of Bowls taking place in the green, and, just a few metres away, local children spilling out of the library – a lovely introduction to rural town life…

An Auction of Pleasures

Spring may have finally sprung but it is certainly not a time for resting on your laurels. At the library we are underway with preparing for a fundraising event, due to take place in September at the beautiful St Andrew’s in the Square. The Auction of Pleasures is a nod to the library’s 20 year [...]