The Hearth Centre is a centre for Health, Education and the Humanities with Art at the Heart. Hearth uses the arts to animate key issues in mental health, social care and the humanities, and promote well being - which we do through theatre productions and literary events and courses.

Tales of lockdown winners announced

We received many wonderful submissions of poetry, prose, art and videos to our Arts Council funded Tales of Lockdown blog  on the theme of Living in Times of National Emergency and we have been posting them over the last year. The following pieces are the ones which really caught our eye, and were also endorsed by a high number of online hits on the site itself and through social media. Well done to all of our winners. The blog is still online so please take a look again.

We are also open to submissions for post lockdown reflections, answering the question- How was Lockdown for You?  You can write about anything you like- but here is the list of Grayson Perry’s themes which might lead you to some interesting thoughts! 

Nature; Family; Work; Travel; Food; Dreams

Special commendations for visual work and more poetry. Click on the title to access.