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 [...]
National lifelong learning has been out on the road again delivering our new satellite collections to various locations. Each satellite collection is a small “mini women’s library” tailor-made to suit a particular group or location then installed at venues such as community centres, public libraries and other community venues. In February I travelled to Stirling [...]
My first week in the Glasgow Women’s Library or as I call it affectionately – the feminist beehive – was amazing. But be warned! On first glance everything seems chaotic and pretty confusing. However, clarity and understanding will arise in the second week, I promise! :-) 12 busy bees working all on their own little [...]
What with one thing and another, I only made it to one event at Aye Write this year, but did I pick a good one or what? Myself, Kay and Sue headed along to the Jackie Kay and Val McDermid reading last Sunday night. It was totally packed out, which made for a great atmosphere.
