Design: Tom Joyes
As part of ‘anywhere in the universe’, we have invited the award-winning journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy to read excerpts from recent writing, including her newly commissioned text written in parallel with the work of Rabiya Choudhry at Glasgow Women’s Library.
Ramaswamy is the first of five writers commissioned to write alongside artists’ works during ‘anywhere in the universe’. Her fragment of narrative non-fiction accompanying Rabiya Choudhry’s illuminated artworks, ‘Give light and people will find the way (Ella Baker)’ will be available to pick up from Glasgow Women’s Library as well as Dennistoun Library, Shettleston Library for the duration of the project.
Rabiya Choudhry, ‘Give light and people will find the way (Ella Baker)’ (2022) installation view Glasgow Women’s Library 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Isobel Lutz-Smith.
Chitra Ramaswamy is an author and journalist. Her latest book,‘Homelands: The History of a Friendship’(Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a 98-year-old German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga and winner of the 2022 Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Her first book, ‘Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy’ (2016) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble, and Message From The Skies. She writes for The Guardian, is the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, and broadcasts for BBC radio.
Project Details
This event takes place at Glasgow Women’s Library.
Refreshments will be available from 1.30pm.
The event starts at 2pm.
Tickets
Location
Glasgow Women’s Library
23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
Transport links: Bridgeton Station
Access
Glasgow Women’s Library is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are available.
Further details from womenslibrary.org.uk
A piece of narrative non-fiction by Chitra Ramaswamy was an accompanying text to Rabiya Choudhry’s commission for Glasgow Women’s Library, Dennistoun Library and Shettleston Library.
