Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes By N Smith6th May 20187th May 2018 Categories: Publications Tags: arts, birmingham, books, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Here’s our book – Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes…Thrilling, magnificently audacious, the story of now… bit like the Writers Reading Group!#MBI2018For details on Reading For Wellbeing, please follow the LINK
Writer’s Reading Group to Shadow Booker Prize By N Smith18th April 20186th May 2018 Categories: In The Media Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Thrilled to announce the Hearth Centre’s Writer’s Reading Group has been selected as one of 6 reading groups to shadow the International Booker Prize by reviewing one of the short list of 6! Meet the passionate reading groups who are shadowing this year’s Man Booker International Prize – follow this LINK Watch this space -…
Short Course: Read to Write: analyse great novels to improve your writing By N Smith27th January 20188th May 2018 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Thursdays, 6.30pm to 8.30pm, on 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 May 2018. Birmingham & Midland Institute With Polly Wright Click HERE for more details on Writing West Midlands site Click HERE for the BMI’s eventsJoin a reading group with a difference to enhance your own fiction writing skills by modelling on a Master or…
Knife Act – Wednesday 14th February By N Smith26th January 20188th May 2018 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Knife Act: Wednesday Feb 14thYou are invited to a free Open Dress rehearsal of Hearth’s new production- Knife Act by Jimmy Whiteaker – a play about Self Harm. Through an entire classroom of characters, a teacher preparing for Ofsted, snippets of song and a dull detention, we see two people emerge in bright focus: a…
Classic in a Day: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte with Polly Wright – RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 17TH By N Smith25th January 20188th May 2018 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Click HERE for the BMI’s events. Click HERE for the Writing West Mid’s events.RESCHEDULED FROM 3RD MARCH TO 17TH MARCH 10am – 4pm 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS £29/£26 for Members of the BMI (lunch and refreshments not included) Jane Eyre- Great romantic novel? Feminist re-working of the Cinderella fairy tale? A perceptive…
Writer’s Reading Group Wednesday 24th January at MAC Birmingham By N Smith21st January 20188th May 2018 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment This course combines a reading group with a writing course where published texts are read and used as models to develop your own creative writing skills. The next group meet is on Wednesday, and there are also other dates running until the end of March. Please follow this LINK for details.
Literary Classics in a Day – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens By N Smith27th November 20171st December 2017 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Sat 9 Dec, 11am – 4pm | £40 (£36) | All Levels | Ages 18+ Spend a day exploring a beautiful tale of redemption in the heart of winter! Share extracts and discuss the incredible appeal of the story’s characters and themes. Who is this course for? This course is suitable for adults aged 18+…
The People: Fauré Requiem and Rutter Magnificat By N Smith13th November 20178th May 2018 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, choir, nightlife, singing Leave a comment Three members of the Hearth Centre’s Board – Polly Wright (Artistic Director) Terina Talbot and Hearth Chair Rachel Gartside will be singing Faure’s Requiem and other pieces with the wonderful choir Notorious – led by conductor Clare Edwards – at Birmingham Town Hall on Saturday November 25th at 7.30. Feel privileged to be a part!…
Literary Classics in a Day – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte By N Smith18th October 201718th October 2017 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Thu 26 Oct, 11am – 4pm | £31 (£28) | All Levels | Ages 18+ Spend a day exploring an overlooked classic. Explore the story, underlying messages and hidden meanings through reading extracts and group discussions. Please click HERE for more details.
Literary Classics in a Day – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – Sun 1st Oct By N Smith6th September 201716th September 2017 Categories: events Tags: arts, birmingham, courses, creative writing, events, writers course Leave a comment Loved the play of Jane Eyre by the national theatre at the REP? Love the book anyway? Come and spend a day exploring Bronte’s great classic at MAC on Sunday Oct 1st with Polly ( Artistic Director of hearth) Click HERE for more information and tickets.