Thursday 21 October 5.30pm to 7.30pm

After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married. From the early ’60s to the present day, the tireless community activists persevere through many battles, both personal and political. Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir return with a love story of two remarkable women whose commitment to each other is an inspiration to us all.

This screening will be followed by an introduction by GWL Archivist Hannah Little to some of the rare and fascinating gems from the national lesbian archive including the magazines, books and other materials that Edie and Thea and other lesbians of the 1960s in America and Britain created and consumed and discover some of the other enduring partnerships that are represented and recorded within this unique lesbian history resource in Scotland.

Booking is essential. For more information or to book your place click here to send us an email or you can call us on 0141 248 9969.

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In this new programme Glasgow Women’s Library invite women to find out about how to put the ME in Media.  Join us to discover how books, film, music, magazines and other media can influence us and how we can bite back!  In this programme we will use media to express ourselves and connect with others and explore media from a positive perspective, boosting our self esteem and confidence.

Cinema Feminista
How are women represented in film, and what happens when they get behind the camera? This 8 week course will give you the opportunity to enjoy thought provoking films that look at issues women face today.

Starts Wednesday 6 October, 5.30pm to 7.30pm

This is an 8 week course supported by DACE. On alternate weeks we will discuss the films and focus on the representation (and misrepresentation) of women in film and the psychology that underlies this.

This course is a partnership with DACE and is supported by ILA Scotland, we can help you arrange your ILA prior to attending.

Booking is essential. For more information or to book your place click here to send us an email or you can call us on 0141 248 9969.

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Saturday 2 October, 5pm – 7.30 pm, CCA Cinema

This session will give you the opportunity to enjoy the film “Boys Don’t Cry” with Hilary Swank and Chloe Sevingny.  A real-life story dealing with issues around gender identity and sexuality.  Directed by Kimberly Peirce (Cert 18).  A thought provoking film that raises issues that young women face today with time to chat about this afterwards.   

Booking is essential. For more information or to book your place click here to send us an email or you can call us on 0141 248 9969.

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Arts & Crafts Sessions
Monday, 6 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Tuesday, 7 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Monday, 13 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Monday, 20 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Monday, 27 July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Film Screening
Tuesday 14th July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – FILM SCREENING Water; Water tells the tale of brow-beaten oppressed widows in early 1900’s India

Workshops
Tuesday 21st July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WORKSHOP

Tuesday 4th Aug – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – WOMEN & POLITICS;
Get your voice heard (To be confirmed)

Outings
Tuesday 28th July – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – Visit to the St Mungos
Museum, The Glasgow Cathedral and The Necropolis

Monday 3rd Aug – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – Visit to the Peoples Palace, Glasgow Central Mosque and Picnic at Glasgow Green

Please let us know if you would like to sign up for any sessions.  Call us on 0141 552 8345 or contact us through the website.

Working along side CINENOVA (The Women’s Film and Video Distributor), Glasgow Women’s Library and Transmission Gallery presents I for India, by Sandhya Puri.

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy 2 Super 8 cameras, 2 projectors and 2 reel-to-reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For forty years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home – images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket – his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn respond with their own ‘cine-letters’ telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life.

As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility, the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges give way to the darker reality of alienation, racism and a family falling apart.

A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion on migration and settlement in Scotland since the 1940’s. We will be keen to hear personal testimonies of women settling in a new country and highlight & celebrate the contribution they have made.

Screening at Transmission Gallery, 45 King Street, Glasgow
Thursday, 27th November at 7pm

To book a place, please contact the Library.