Name/TitleProgramme: Gwenda's Garage
About this objectProgramme (printed on A4 paper) for 'Gwenda's Garage', a rehearsed reading of a musical work-in-progress about three women mechanics, Ros Wall, Annette Williams and Roz Wollen, who set up a garage in Sheffield's Neepsend in 1985. The garage was named in honour of record-breaking racing driver Gwenda Stewart (1894-1990).
The performance ran at the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Sheffield Crucible Theatres, on 13th and 14th November 2023. The programme states: "Our new musical is based on oral history interviews with some of the women involved with Gwenda's Garage and in political campaigns against Section 28, wider injustices and a range of feminist causes."
MakerOut Of The Archive
Date Made2023
Period1980s-2020s
Place MadeEngland, Sheffield
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 297 x W: 210 mm
Subject and Association Keywordsmusic, musicians, musical performers
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's work & labour
Subject and Association KeywordsFeminism, feminist movement
Subject and Association KeywordsSection 28, Clause 28
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://www.outofthearchive.co.uk/about:
"Out Of The Archive was founded in 2017 by Nicky Hallett and Val Regan.
It is a collaboration between writers, musicians, performers and academics and its aim is to animate archival material about LGBT+ lives, bringing hidden histories into contemporary focus. Our performances bring forgotten lives out into public spaces, to get words and voices heard in new, perhaps unexpected ways. We unlock the past in order to explore the present, to create bridges within and across communities. They give roots to an emerging (long-lived) culture, and at the same time unsettle the established space so that is no longer exclusively one thing. It is figuratively and literally ‘queered’. We work in partnerships with community groups, heritage organisations and universities. Previous partners have included: Museums Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, Out Aloud Community Choir, Jersey Heritage Archive."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwenda_Hawkes:
Gwenda Mary Hawkes (née Glubb, previously Janson and Stewart; 1 June 1894 – 27 May 1990) was notable as an ambulance driver in World War I and later as a motor racing driver and speed record holder.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeProgramme
Object numberGWL-2023-111
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved
PDF FilesGWL-2023-111 Gwenda's Garage.pdf