In dialogue with artists, organisations and arts workers, the library runs an itinerant programme of events including workshops, exhibitions, screenings and talks at venues in the region and further afield. Please get in touch if you would be interested in collaborating, we are always excited to work with new people.
25 February 2023: New writing by Kate Sweeney with readings and a performance by Nicky Rushton. At Cobalt Studios as part of the WANE Library’s Writing Commission 2022.
24 September 2022: Two events in Middlesbrough launching Fiona Larkin’s new publication ‘Soft Power Soft Fictions’ part of our co-commission with MIMA.
4 August 2022: Open Library day and Reading Group with texts from The Hundreds by Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver, and Seventeen of Sixty-Eight by Ingrid Pollard.
15 July 2022: Open Library day and Reading Group with texts from Fieldworking by Laura Harrington and The Last Frontier by Kelly Richardson.
17 June 2022: Open Library day and Reading Group with texts from LOST NARRATIVES: The work of Catherine Bertola and The Knucklebone Floor by Linda France.
5 May 2022: An evening of short video works by Tamara Krikorian, Tina Keane, Stuart Marshall and others at Squires Cinema, Northumbria University.
12 March 2022: Workshop at BALTIC with artist Rachel Clewlow mapping our personal and local environments with paint and collage.
19 February 2022: Introducing the WANAWAL collection, this workshop explores visual and written ways of sharing personal and untold memories.
January – April 2022: The Library is in residence at Northumbria University. Find details of Open Library times.
10 December 2021: Join us for a group reading activity with new donations from our residency at MIMA. Everyone welcome.
26 November 2021: A discussion event about artist-led library models and an introduction to the Women’s Art Library est. 1983.
17 November 2021: Workshop at BALTIC with artist Rosie Morris drawing the spatial landscape of Ad Minoliti’s exhibition ‘Biosfera Peluche / Biosphere Plush’
November 2021 – March 2022: Painting workshops about landscape with north east based artists part of Ad Minoliti’s exhibition at BALTIC.
29 October 2021: Hear Navigator North share their work supporting artists and creative practice in the Tees Valley.
1 October 2021: Jade Sweeting presents new print work dedicated to every woman who rides a motorcycle, at Middlesbrough Art weekender.
27 August 2021: Introducing co-commissioned artist Fiona Larkin who will be responding to the MIMA and WANE collections.
July – December 2021: Our next series of monthly events taking place at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
30 July 2021: Hear about how the WANE Library began and what we will be doing during our 6 month residency at MIMA.
June 2020: Holly Argent speaks to Jayne Dent about her project with material from the library, ‘the waves like braids, unravelling’.
November 2019 – May 2020: Musician Jayne Dent spends time in the library composing a new piece of music.
18 – 20 October 2019: The Library is resident at Freelands Foundation running collective reading exercises with new instruction cards.
23 May 2019: A screening of films by Sandra Lahire alongside Penny Remfry’s poster collection and the launch of Scarlet Women 15 (1983/2019).
8 September 2018: Workplace Programme – Join us for a closing event celebrating the Women Artists of the North East Library exhibition.
6 September 2018: Workplace Programme – Sam Ainsley gives a talk about her practice and years of experience working in arts education.
3 September 2018: Workplace Programme – An eclectic film programme of works from documentary, animation to installation, by artists and filmmakers associated with the North East.
1 September 2018: Workplace Programme – An event expanding on Harriet Sutcliffe’s work ‘Archival-Constructions’ in the exhibition.
23 August 2018: Workplace Programme – Three presentations of re-worked versions of performance and drawing by artists in the Library’s programme at Workplace Gallery.
21 August 2018: Workplace Programme – A showing of Veronica 4 Rose (1982) by Melanie Chait following the lives of young lesbians in Newcastle, Liverpool and London.
20 August 2018: Workplace Programme – An evening of films from Kate’s Liston, Joyce Wieland and Ella Bergmann-Michel expanding on Kate’s work in the show.
15 – 21 August 2018: 23 August 2018: Workplace Programme – New collaborative print work enters the exhibition.
11 August 2018: Workplace Programme – Curator Michelle Hirschhorn-Smith shares experiences working at Zone Gallery in Newcastle in the 90’s.
6 – 12 August 2018: Workplace Programme – Sophie Buxton brings her studio practice of translation and reproduction into the gallery space.
4 August 2018: Workplace Programme – Curator Becky Gee talks about her research into Tynemouth born artist Louisa Hodgson (1905-1980).
18 July – 26 August 2018: A Group exhibition including the WANE library at Southwark Park Galleries. Curated by George Vasey.
22 June – 9 September: Curated group exhibition and public programme at Workplace Foundation, Gateshead.
21 June 2018: A feminist walk of the city devised with Prof Maggie O’Neill for The Sociological Review Conference 2018, Gateshead.
26 May 2018: Anybody can make a zine! This workshop offers an introduction for beginners and seasoned zinesters.
21 April 2018: Event making a Reading List in the BALTIC Library as part of the Self Publishing Artists Market.
25 February 2018: An afternoon exploring the archive and work of Carole Luby. In collaboration with Dawn Felicia Knox.
27 January 2018: Dee Heddon from The Walking Library conducts a walking event in the streets of Newcastle with the WANE Library and The Northern Charter.