Speaking Volumes #3: Commonplacing

The third Speaking Volumes event we would like to welcome you to join us in the library for a day of commonplacing.

Speaking Volumes is a collaborative project by Glasgow Women’s Library and My Bookcase for the world-renowned biennial festival of contemporary art Glasgow International of Festival of Visual Arts (GI). For the 2016 edition of GI (8th to 25th April), My Bookcase and Glasgow Women’s Library have teamed up to create a space where reflection on the influential role of women in art is activated through the object of the book. A series of In Conversation events will happen through April.

Speaking Volumes #3: Commonplacing, Thursday 21st April, 6pm to 7.30pm

The practice of commonplacing became significant in Early Modern Europe as a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. As such, commonplacing techniques have their origins in antiquity: in the idea of loci communes – which freely translates into ‘gathering what can be shared’. In the most general sense, a commonplace book contains a collection of significant or well-known passages that have been copied and organized in some way.

We would like you to invite you to help us write a contemporary Common Place book on occasion of Speaking Volumes. Bring along to the library a book by a female writer that has been relevant for your life and practice with a selected excerpt to be shared with us. This can be a short paragraph or a short chapter which will be then captured in the Common Place Book, discovering and foregrounding the women that have been of relevance to our community.

BOOKING:
All events are free to attend and open to all. To book please visit GWL's website: http://womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-projects/speaking-volumes/

A project by My Bookcase & Glasgow Women's Library with the support of Glasgow International Festival and DINESEN company.