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All of our Projects and Events

Projects and Events

Explore all of our projects and events (past, present and future) below.

In the middle of a large room with wooden beams and dividers a man stands throwing a cloud of jigsaw pieces and glitter in to the air above his head. An audience look in to the air towards the cloud, some smiling.

1. Planning Your Project (Artist Professional Development)

Planning your project is the first workshop in a series of six practical artist professional development sessions for artists working within socially engaged practice.

In a dark theatre 3 large screens suspended to one side. The screen show blueprint maps. A large circle of tables has a person sat at each table and are lit from above. To the side of the stage another table with one person faces towards the circle.

Split Britches: Unexploded Ordnances

Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) is a theatre piece by Split Britches, explores ageing, anxiety, hidden desires and how to look forward when the future is uncertain.

Close up portrait of artist Le Gateau Chocolat with long false eyelashes and colourful eyeshadow.

Le Gateau Chocolat

The opera-occasional, lycra-loving, black-beard, drag-diva Le Gateau Chocolat will present a unique performance of his newest treat, RAW CACAO, in collaboration with a local brass band.

Artist Kitty O'Shea kneels on a stage filled with pink light. Kitty wears an all pink outfit and pink wig. She is singing in to a microphone and gesturing out to the the audience with her arm.

I Heart Thursdays: Kitty's Pick and Mix

Something new, and something that we’re really excited about – I Heart Thursdays is all about making connections.

Artist Selina Thompson stands on rocky ground next to a grey sea and clouded sky. She is draped in a long piece of navy fabric which bellows and flies in the wind. Next to Selina on the ground is a mallet and a large chunk of pink salt.

salt.

The critically lauded Selina Thompson presents the multi-award winning salt. Her visceral, vulnerable and beautiful one woman show retracing of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle.

Still image from the film Rank and File. A black and white image of a group of men leaning on a fence and behind them a police officer.

The Rank & File

The Rank & File is based on the Pilkington Glass strike that took place in St. Helens in 1970, although for legal reasons the BBC insisted that the firm be renamed Wilkinsons and the action relocated to the Potteries.

Screenwriter and Novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce stands on a beach against a blue sky holding an ice cream cone with a flake in the air.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

11th Oct — 13th Oct 2018

In partnership with St Helens Libraries, we are celebrating Libraries Week with esteemed writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce, who will be delivering a series of readings from his popular books including Millions and Sputnik’s Guide to Life.

The back of a woman stands in the middle isle of an empty church wearing a bright, orange headscarf and scarf around their shoulder.

Larry Achiampong: Sunday's Best

5th Oct — 16th Nov 2018

Sunday’s Best is a large-scale video projection which brings together the vivid sounds and images of praise and worship sessions in a Ghanaian community church.

We look over the shoulder of a woman with long dark hair. She is reading a piece of paper with the title 'The New Rules of Public Art'

Artist Professional Development for Socially Engaged Practitioners

Heart of Glass, with Mark Devereux Projects, is delighted to announce a series of six practical artist professional development sessions for artists working within socially engaged practice.