Friends of Enemies News Polly Wright, Artistic Director of Hearth is very proud to report that her short story Friends of Enemies is published in the anthology Thursday Nights. Friends of Enemies draws on the letters to Polly’s grandmother from…
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My City My Home The project My City My Home was a creative writing competition run by SAMPAD in Birmingham, UK open to women either from or with a connection to Birmingham, Pakistan or Bangladesh. The project was part of…
The Return of Poem in Your Pocket for the 2021 Bedlam Arts and Mental Health Festival: On the 16th November 2022 the HEARTH Centre presented an evening of poetry and prose from their 2020 project ‘Tales of Lockdown’. The event…
The Return of Poem in Your Pocket Does enjoyment of a good read and beautiful poetry improve your well being? Do you find that sharing the appreciation through reading aloud increases your mental well being? Polly Wright and friends invite…
Reading for Well Being sessions Polly 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…
The Arts Council England has awarded the Hearth Centre an award of Emergency funds to support the continuation of the organisation and to develop a six month project called Hidden Histories: Living in Times of National Emergency. For this Creative…
Pictures from the Hearth Centre’s wonderful performance of Revolving Door at the Old Joint Stock in June. Actors Todd Jennings, Vimal Korpal and Carl Thornley. Photography by Cardboard Zebra Pictures from the Hearth Centre’s wonderful performance of Revolving Door at…
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,…
We would be incredibly grateful for donations to facilitate the effective presentation of this play and subsequent talk. Please click on the image for more details. Graphic by CardboardZebra We would be incredibly grateful for donations to facilitate the effective…
