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Reading for Well Being sessions and Writers Reading Group News
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Reading for Well Being sessionsPolly Wright, artistic director of the Hearth Centre is running Reading for Well Being sessions at the MAC- starting on September 17th. Reading for well being is a shared reading approach in which short stories and poems are read aloud and the enjoyment is shared. Click here for detailsHurry, Hurry HurrySign…

Writers Reading Group Online at the MAC
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Writers Reading Group Online at the MACSign up for our wonderful Writers’ Reading Group Online  this spring at the Midlands Arts Centre! As usual we meet fortnightly on Wednesdays , for a six week course, starting on April 21st.As it’s online- you can sign up from wherever you are in the country. Click here for full details of…

Cradle to Grave – 30th June 2018
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The Hearth Centre invites you to celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS with a reading by actors from the Hearth Centre of the play Cradle to Grave by Mandy Ross.3pm Saturday 30th June 2018 at the Community Room, Middleton Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7HPFollowed by tea and 70th birthday cake, and sharing our NHS storiesFunded…

Revolving Door at The Old Joint Stock 26/27th June
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Please head on over to The Old Joint Stock Website for details and tickets.The play is always followed by a forum for discussion on the subject of suicide prevention. On June 27 2018 this will be in the form of a conversation between Dr Erin Turner and Jonny Benjamin OBE  about suicide prevention. Jonny attempted…

Writer’s Reading Group to Shadow Booker Prize
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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
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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
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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…