A project exploring the impact of ordinary women on Renfrewshire’s story will create a new heritage trail and more.
Kairos Women+ are excited to announce Fierce Women+, a 3-year heritage project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
On 21st August the organisation launched the project at their space for women and non-binary folk in Paisley with key partners, including the Glasgow Women’s Library, media coop and the Heritage Centre.
The project consists of three elements; an immersive women’s rights and history course that will run each year of the project, creative workshops with local artists in response to local and personal histories, and the development of a heritage trail in Paisley based on research about the history of ordinary women+ in Renfrewshire.
Kate Clark, a volunteer in the Fierce Women+ project, says: “Fierce Women+ is building on from the heritage work we’ve already done over the past few years. We’re looking to take that on and find new women, new stories and new research. We’d like to involve more people because there are more stories in Paisley and beyond, of all women.
We think of Paisley as full of mills and who worked in the mills? the women worked in the mills, but there aren’t a lot of stories. The other stories of people who were keeping Paisley going and Renfrewshire. Everyone’s story is important.”
The organisation aims to engage diverse groups of women+ (aged 16 and above) in the project, and to create a legacy for Paisley with the production of a Heritage Trail about the lives of local women from the past.
For more information about the project get in touch: info@kairoswomen.org or call 0141 3785078.