Summer Social & Library Launch

29.08—28.07.25
The Work Room studio

SUMMER SOCIAL & LIBRARY LAUNCH

The Work Room are pleased to invite you to join us for an early evening social celebrating our small but growing dance library resource!

Our library collection is a developing resource housed in TWR studio resource room, and utilised by our members while in residence. It has been founded with generous donations from members, including the inherited collections of valued Scottish dance community members, the late Janice Claxton, Rosina Bonsu & Anna Krzystek.

From January - May 2025, we hosted a volunteer placement with member Anne Kjaer, who did brilliant, patient, work colour coding, cataloguing and categorising our library archive digitally. You can now browse the full catalogue here: https://theworkroom.librarika.com/search/categories

We would like to celebrate and share our newly organsied library, and make this resource more widely accessible to members through a new lending system. We invite members to join us for a library open day, to celebrate and come together around our newly organised resource.

This will be a light and informal members gathering, bring a book, have a browse of the collection over a drink and a snack. We may invite some members to share a few extracts from their favourite passages of dance-related books.

The social will run from 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm. Some members may wish to stay on to catch TWR members Sadiq Ali & Vee Smith presenting their work The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Girl and Tentacle Boy in Tramway at 6:45 pm that evening.

LIBRARY OPEN DAY

DONATE A BOOK - if you have a dance book you’d like to donate to the library (please see the categories below), please bring it along to donate to our collection.

RETURN A BOOK - a kind ask for members who have taken books home from the library while on residency to please return these to us to be catalogued

TAKE A YOGA BOOK - we have a large number of yoga books that were part of Rosina Bonsu’s collection, that don’t feel so relevant to TWRs dance library, but we would like to find homes with artists, students and yogis alike. Please come along if you’d be interested in inheriting one or some of Rosina’s yoga books.

Valuing research and exchange as a foundational part of developing creative projects and practice, we are looking forward to growing this resource and sharing our library with members.

EVENT INFO

The Summer Social & Library Launch

DATE: Friday 29 August

TIME: 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm

PLACE: The Work Room studio & resource room

Please RSVP so we know you'll be coming along by emailing producer@theworkroom.org.uk RSVP

ACCESS

The Work Room studio is on the first floor of Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE, and can be accessed by lift or stairs.

There is level access to the studio from the street. The Work Room has two gender-neutral wheelchair-accessible toilets, a kitchen with tea and coffee making facilities and a range of seating options (including chairs with and without arms, a comfy sofa, bean bags and ergonomic height-adjustable desk chairs).

There will be snacks and refreshments served at this event. If you have any allergies or access requirements you'd like to discuss in advance, please get in touch on producer@theworkroom.org.uk or call the office 0141 423 3864 (10 am - 5 pm Mon - Fri)

TRAVEL FUNDS- For out-of-town members who wish to attend, or members requiring accessible transport such as taxis, we can offer reimbursement of travel expenses. Please let us know if you want to make use of the funds by emailing producer@theworkroom.org.uk and keep a hold of any receipts.

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