Legacies of the First World War Festival: Women & War

Legacies of the First World War Festival: Women & War is hosted by the Arts & Humanities Research Council WW1 Engagement Centres.

30 & 31 August, Glasgow Women’s Library & CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts

The festival in Glasgow on August 30 & 31 will be dedicated to reflecting on public history and heritage with a focus on women’s experience of war, exploring the different types of collaborative work that has been done around WW1 subjects since 2014, and to thinking about future/potential collaborations and how community organisations and academics can continue working together to explore all aspects of the past.

The festival will enable participants and attendees to better understand the challenges and opportunities of collaborative work around history, heritage and commemoration. A series of panel discussions, informal workshops, film screenings, and performances will provide an informal and friendly forum for stimulating conversations around co-produced knowledge and critical responses to history and heritage.

Friday evening’s event will focus on live performances by the University of Glasgow and musician Louise Jordan. It will also include the premiere of Versailles 1919: Return of the Dangerous Women, a new film which focuses on the International group of anti-war women who met in Zurich at the time of the negotiation of the Versailles Peace treaty in 1919. These women had first met during the struggle to win women the right to vote and had subsequently united at the Hague in 1915 to try to stop the Great War. By 1919 women across half of Europe could vote: this group of campaigners wanted women to use their newly-won right to vote for peace.

Directed by Charlotte Bill, Versailles 1919 was made by Clapham Film Unit and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Funded by the European Commission, the film can be seen as the third part in a trilogy tracing the activities of women who fought for peace and suffrage.

We welcome community organisers, heritage and creative workers, academics, local historians, and members of the public.

To register and view the full programme: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/voices-of-war-amp-peace-first-world-war-engagement-centre-6924527751