Free workshops are being held to help create a women's history walk in Lenzie.
Trails and Tales is an arts and heritage learning programme - created by East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture (EDLC) Trust - which is uniting artists and communities to celebrate local history.
The aim of the workshops is to inspire the creation of a walk in Lenzie to highlight interesting stories of women who lived and worked locally.
Trails and Tales is working with Glasgow Women’s Library on the three sessions - being held on Thursdays 16, 23 and 30 March - from 6.30pm-8.30pm at Lenzie Meadow Primary School, Moss Road G66 4HW (Classroom 3-5).
- Session 1 - see examples of walks by other groups and create the outline of a short women’s heritage walk in Lenzie using local knowledge and stories gathered through Trails and Tales
- Session 2 - an outdoors walking session to test the route planned in session 1
- Session 3 - decide what your local walk will look like, and which women and themes will feature.
Councillor Anne Jarvis, Chair of EDLC Trust, said, "The Trails and Tales Programme has been very successful in bringing local history to local people through working with artists, giving them an opportunity to join together and learn about their shared past.
"If you have an interest in women’s history and outdoor walking please come along and work with experienced colleagues from Glasgow Women’s Library to design your own women’s history walk for Lenzie.
"Over three sessions, you will learn how to develop and plan a history walk from stories and memories of local women.
"I am pleased we have been able to organise this event - reflecting the Trust and Council's commitment to equality and celebrating shared history."
The workshops are being held shortly after International Women's Day (March 8) - a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
Find out more information on the local events by visiting the website.
The EDLC Trails and Tales programme - supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland - aims to generate research, conversations and creative responses to learning to inform the design and creation of a series of outdoors sculptural arts and heritage trails across East Dunbartonshire. One of the themes is women's history - highlighting important figures and stories in East Dunbartonshire's past.
For more information visit www.edlc.co.uk, www.trailsandtales.org and www.womenslibrary.org.uk
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