International Women's Day

Come celebrate the 101st International Women's Day with loop | Garterstitch100.

Thursday 8th March
12 noon to 12 midnight
The Old Hairdressers
Renfield Lane, Glasgow, G2 5AR

More details will be posted on the BLOG.

Please note that The Old Hairdressers is not entirely wheelchair accessible, contact the venue directly for more details.

Children are welcome until 9pm but must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

 Alyana Galyana -- Bulgarian Folk Vocal Group
Viara Ivanova with Penny Chivas
 
Alyana Galyana will present Bulgarian folk songs in a traditional setting, called “sedyanka”. In the old days this was a common social practice where women from the village get together and would sing while knitting or sawing, the young ones preparing their dowry, and the old ones repairing their family's clothes. Sometimes the songs would be gossip driven, other times will be about unrequited love, or freedom songs.
 
Penny Chivas will be responding to some of these themes during an improvised performance.

Alyana Galyana’s purpose is to present an opportunity for expats and non-Bulgarians alike to experience Bulgarian culture not only in the form of Bulgarian folk music but also by learning more about the traditions and customs, the food and the history of Bulgaria.

“The 8th of March is traditionally celebrated in Bulgaria so we are all impressed with the work you guys have put into organising this as it doesn't seem to be so popular here. We all love the fact that you're involved with women's charities and would like to help raise awareness of their and your work.”

A facebook group is coming soon, it will be called Alyana Galyana.

Call of the Wild
Company of Wolves

Laments, chants, and primal polyphonies from Eastern Europe, Corsica, and the Balkans.

Drawing Living Theatre
Jenny Soep and Emma Hagen

Jenny Soep is a visual artist that specialises in drawing the live performance of original and more alternative music and arts happenings, creating dynamic illustrations that capture movement, character and atmosphere.  
She has been the official artist for the prestigious Polar Music Prize, drawing Patti Smith, The Kronos Quartet and Bjork amongst others, as well as being resident artist for various other notable arts festivals including Crossing Borders (Den Haag), Arches Theatre Festivals, Projector Animation Festival, StAnza, Triptych and even the World Porridge Making Championships.  She has had exhibitions both nationally and internationally, as well as having been featured on BBC Radio Scotland and STV news.

www.jennysoep.com
www.jennysoep.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Jenny-Soep-Drawing-The-Experience
http://vimeo.com/user1518459

Emma Hagen is an experienced drama artist and psychodrama psychotherapist who has worked with a diverse range of groups and individuals, and is passionate about combining her skills to create unique and dynamic projects. She has pioneered Therapeutic Theatre at the Citizens and Arches as part of Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, and Living Theatre at the Tron Theatre.

Together Jenny Soep and Emma Hagen are hosting a Drawing Living Theatre workshop at the International Women’s Day celebrations.
Think of a woman in your life. She could be you. What's your least favourite thing about her? What's your favourite? Drawing Living Theatre is an interactive workshop using drawing, drama and creative action methods to explore a chosen topic.  
At this particular event, the 101st year of International Women's Day, we look at one negative aspect of a woman in your life, the possibility to accept this, and celebrate the positive. There are always at least two sides, and it can be good to take a fresh look at the flip side.
This workshop will take place from 1pm-3pm. If you would like to book a place please email garterstitch100@gmail.com with Drawing Living Theatre as the email subject.

Garnethill Women’s Institute

The Garnethill Women's Institute will be leading some alternative crafting to help us think about the injustices that still exist in the world, and the 5 LOOP nominated charities that are trying to do something to alleviate them. But as there is also much to be joyous about, they will also be asking for your help in creating bespoke bunting to celebrate the inspirational women in all of our lives. Oh and cake... in true WI style, the ladies will have baked up a storm to go with your cuppa, all proceeds to the nominated charities.

The Glasgow Girls
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum - May McGurk & Lyn Mooney

Introducing women artists from Glasgow School of Art in the 1900s: looking at the work of a pioneering group of artists who began to push the boundaries of the art world in Glasgow and beyond with their work and their changing fashions.  Focusing on metal work and embroidery, including a repousse demonstration and a chance to take a closer look at a replica Daisy McGlashan dress from Glasgow Museums Textile Collection.

There will also be copper shim embossing workshops run throughout the day.

Glasgow Women’s Library

As well as being a lending library, Glasgow Women's Library houses a treasure trove of historical and contemporary artifacts and archive materials that celebrate the lives, histories and achievements of women. From Suffragette memrobilia and 1930s dress making patterns to rare 1970s Scottish Women's Liberation newsletters.
The Library supports thousands of women across Scotland every year in improving their lives through its range of support and activites that tackle a wide range of issues from poverty and women's health, to sexuality and surviving violence.
Glasgow Women's Library aims to advance the education of the general public by increasing the knowledge and understanding of women's history, lives and achievements. It provides information on a range of women’s and gender equality issues. And enables women, particularly the most vulnerable and excluded in society, to access the information, resources and services they need to make positive life choices.
One of the key aims of the library is empowering women.
You can find out more about the Women's Library at www.womenslibrary.org

In the Shadows - Dance Improvisation in Renfield Lane
Kate E. Deeming

There are stories that are only remembered in the beat of my heart. Dedicated to the women who have danced, in spite of it all, even when bodies still or silenced.

“ For me being a humanist and being an artist are one in the same. I want to ‘make work’ that celebrates our wonderful, joyful and (ultimately) loving world. “
Kate E. Deeming (born Philadelphia USA 1973) is a performance artist, writer, filmmaker, activist and brownie baker who has presented work in the USA, UK, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Canada, Syria & Lebanon. In 2010 she was commended by Scottish Parliament for her contributions to dance and peacemaking.

www.deemingdreaming.com

Isn’t It Wonderful to be a Woman
Molly Harvey and Tricia McConalogue

Molly Harvery worked for 15 years before retiring in 2003, as Project Co-ordinator of Glasgow Braendam Link which worked in partnership with families living in poverty and social exclusion.

Tricia McConalogue is Project Co-ordinator of Bridging the Gap which works with refugees and asylum seekers, helping them to integrate into the Gorbals community, and works with schools in the area, assisting Primary 7 pupils in their transition to secondary school.

www.bridging-the-gap.org

Molly and Tricia will talk about women and their survival in challenging situations in Glasgow - poverty, unemployment, abuse, addiction etc.

Lorna Callery

Artist/Writer/Educator - interested in exploring the space between visual art and literature.

On The Stage Of The Present
Tom Pritchard

Tom is a freelance performer, teacher and maker based in Glasgow. Since December 2010 he has directed the multidisciplinary improvisation research On The Stage Of The Present. He will present aspects of this work throughout the day.

www.onthestageofthepresent.posterous.com

Pip Pip YEAH!
Clare Nicolson

Pip Pip YEAH! will take us into the evening with an all-girl soundtrack of R&B, soul, country and rock & roll, so we can dance our socks off!

Re-Draw with 28 Drawings Later
Victoria Evans
Workshop - 28 Drawings Later 'Re-Draw'

Victoria Evans is a visual artist working mainly on large scale oil paintings. She also runs an online group drawing exhibition and social networking experiment called 28 Drawings Later. Participants are invited to make a drawing a day for the 28 days of February, share them online, and see what happens. This leap year ther project is being extended into an ‘offline’ exhibition which will form the starting point for the Re-Draw drawing workshop for International Women’s Day.

The sights and smells of make-up can conjure up thoughts and memories, especially about the women in our lives - as well as evoking thoughts of our own childhood and teenage experiments. Almost every woman and very many men have created art from their own faces at some point in their lives or another. 'Redraw' invites you to reinvent these mysterious feminine objects along with some more traditional drawing materials to make art on paper.

http://www.facebook.com/28DrawingsLater
www.victoriaevansartist.blogspot.com

Sally Beaumont talks about Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Scotland

Sally Beaumont is indirectly involved with International Women’s Day through NEWS, The Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women, The Lydia Project, Women’s Aid, the Church of Scotland and as member of the Iona Community.

She will talk about asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland, as she has personal experience of hosting them. The people that Sally has worked with are men and women from countries like Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, China and Zimbabwe. All countries that are too dangerous to send people back to.

Sarah Banjo

Sarah Banjo is a quirky cat/singer/songwriter/mother/wife/woman/banjo attack system from Cellardyke who likes swimming in the sea deepity deep deep deep. Her songs of love and pity take you on a colourful trip through lands of quick wit and fists, always with a hopeful look on bittersweet life. This happy cat with the arched back plays a magical mix of folk – pop – doowop. In 2008 she released her first self-penned EP ‘Siller Songs’ produced by Steve Mason. This year sees her newest release out on Ubisano records featuring RM Hubbert.

sarahbanjo.bandcamp.com

Spinning with Make It Glasgow
Ashley Holdsworth

Ashley Holdsworth owns Make It Glasgow, a social space for pursuing textile crafts in the Merchant City.  She offers tuition in sewing, knitting, crochet and spinning to the public, organises events and private craft parties and supports tutors and workshop facilitators to develop their practice.

Make It Glasgow hosted knitting and stitching sessions for the centenary of International Women's Day in 2011.

Ashley has brought her Ashford spinning wheel today for demonstration; why not have a go?

http://www.facebook.com/makeitglasgow
www.makeitglasgow.co.uk

What Do You See When You Look In The Mirror?
Monica Brown

Monica Brown will be hanging around the ladies toilets asking women what they see when they look in the mirror and recording their responses. The responses will be edited together and played out in the listening booth on the Mezzanine.

http://lightsoutlisteninggroup.wordpress.com/

Women’s Support Project
Jan Macleod

Jan will be talking about the work that the Women’s Support Project does here in Glasgow. The Women’s Support Project is actively working against violence against women, increasing including public education and campaigning against sexual exploitation.

www.womenssupportproject.co.uk
www.facebook.com/pages/Womens-Support-Project/117243951779?v=wall&ref=search

Words Per Minute

Words Per Minute is a monthly performance event that provides the audience with ten minute bursts of the best live spoken word, short film, dance, performance and music in Scotland today. We were picked as one of the best literary salons in the UK by BBC Radio 4's Front Row and were voted number 46 in The List's Hot 100 in 2011. For news of upcoming events see wordsperminute.org.uk

Who we are individually:

Helen Sedgwick is a writer, editor, musician and scientist. Her fiction and non-fiction has been widely published, she's co-host of Words Per Minute, co-editor of Fractured West magazine and review editor of Gutter magazine, and she would love you to visit her at helensedgwick.com

Kirsty Logan is a fiction writer, literary magazine editor, and book reviewer. Her fiction and poetry has been published in over 80 anthologies and literary magazines, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is currently working on a novel, Rust and Stardust, and a short story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales. She has a semicolon tattooed on her toe. Say hello at kirstylogan.com

Kirstin Innes is a writer and arts journalist, twice winner of the Allen Wright Award, and founder of Words Per Minute. She has just finished her first novel, Fishnet, which was longlisted for the Mslexia First Novel Prize. You can visit her at kirstininnes.com

Voicebeat

Voicebeat is a multicultural singing group, or world music community choir, based in the West End of Glasgow.  We sing songs from around the world in easy unaccompanied harmony, often in foreign languages, in an informal, lively, supportive atmosphere.

www.voicebeat.org
www.myspace.com/glasgowvoicebeat