Palaces, Ballrooms and Battling Betty McAllister: Hidden histories of art and culture in Glasgow’s East End

A woman is holding a piece of paper and facing a group of people sitting on the ground in front of her. The room is old fasg=hioned and wooden, with arches with glass over its doors.

A woman is playing the violin, barefoot, in an old fashioned wooden room. There is musical equipment placed around her.

A woman dressed in a bright long coat, is standing barefoot and speaking at something ahead of her. There is a speaker placed behind her, behind which, there is a sign stating "Glasgow Women's Library".

Two rows of women are standing in front of a seated crowd, They are holding pieces of paper and there are a couple microphones placed in front of them. Behind the women three are multiple bookshelves, carrying books.

Glasgow Women’s Library

Ruth Barker and Kim Moore made work in response to Glasgow Women’s Library’s East End Women’s Heritage Walk.

Barker uses live performance and spoken word poetry to re-tell ancient myths through the lens of her own unconscious associations. She produced a new meditative sequence of short aural pieces evoking the stories of women including Saint Teneu, and the lost witch Maggie Wall.

We run. We walk. We run is a new sound piece created by Kim Moore using binaural recordings of real and unreal spaces inspired by histories and stories of women of Glasgow’s east end. Both artists’ sound pieces to be experienced in and around Bridgeton, the new neighbourhood of Glasgow Women’s Library.

This programme included two guided walks, two performances and the launch of audio tours that can be downloaded throughout the Festival.

Supported by Glasgow International and the Goethe Institute.