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Listen to our second HoGcast!

HoGcast: Conversations Over a Brew is our podcast series of intimate recorded conversations exploring the stories of the people we make art with. Our second 20 minute episode focuses on art and work.

Listen to our very first podcast!

HoGcast: Conversations Over a Brew is our new podcast series of intimate recorded conversations exploring the stories of the people we make art with. Our first 20 minute episode focuses on art and mental health....

With For About 2020 - Call Out

With For About 2020 A slow conference for a fast evolving crisis 20 May to 17 June 2020.

A elderly woman sits in an arm chair facing a window. She is drawing on a piece of paper.

MORE Home Work!

Extra funding available for additional commissions

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Home Work

In addition to continuing to support the artists, freelancers, and collaborators who we work closely with through our ongoing programme, we also want to support more of you...

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Take Care / Take Action

Heart of Glass is a social arts organisation, and collaboration is at the core of what we do. We are made up of a group of individuals and...

Heart of Glass Temporary Closure - COVID-19

Like you all we have been following and experiencing the developments of the COVID-19 situation. Our priority as always is the safety of our staff, artists, communities and...

Street Hunt

In light of the temporary closure of Heart of Glass due to the COVID-19 situation, please read more here, we have decided to postpone Street Hunt until further...

Amy Pennington is dressed in black and is wearing a bright pink wig. They have a dart board hung around their neck so that the target rests on their chest. They are on stage performing, holding a microphone

Queer Company Call Out

Calling all young people living in St Helens identifying as LGBTQ+ / LGBTQ+ curious/ or an ally* (*someone who supports LGBTQ+ people, a friend or mate)

A woman sits in a room, lit only by a large lamp in the corner. The walls are green. She sits in a chair with her knees folded up in front of her. Her arm props her up, resting on the arm of a sofa. She is crying.

TORCH film selected for Manchester Film Festival 2020

We are excited to reveal the trailer for The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth ahead of its screening at MANIFF 2020.

Our 2019 Round Up

After a tumultuous year of world events, we look back on a hopeful 12 months of coming together and creating change through amazing art.

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We’ve moved! Heart of Glass has a new home in St Helens

We’re excited to announce that Heart of Glass has a new home in St Helens! Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been busy moving into our new home...

Heart of Glass is 5!

In honour of this half decade milestone and to reflect the way our organisation has grown and evolved over the past five years, we are rebranding!

On a hillside covered in a snow several groups of men are gathered. In the background we can see a factory with tall smoking chimneys. In the foreground a man in a black woolly hat and white vest is jogging towards the camera holding a set of keys. Behind him a small group of men in overalls and helmets are facing another group of men in winter coats who are holding fire extinguishers. A man dressed all in black is standing behind them with his arm raised.

How to nurture a social arts eco system

Harvey Dimond reflects on their experience of our recent series of Artist Professional Development workshops

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With For About: Art & Democracy - An illustrated round up

In May 2019, on European Parliament election day, artists, practitioners, educators, researchers and arts producers from across Europe and the USA, joined us at Ravenhead Social Club (the last Pilkington Social Club) in St Helens for our fourth annual With For About conference: Art & Democracy.

In a large bright room a collection of circles are suspended from one balcony to another, above a seating area. The circles are decorated with patterns in many different colours and shapes. A child walks underneath the suspended circles, gazing upwards and smiling.

Pupils, teachers and parents get first glimpse of ‘floating’ artwork at Lansbury Bridge School

This week we unveiled a new artwork made by pupils working with our Artist in Residence for Schools and Colleges Cathy Cross.

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Theatre Matters: Thoughts on TORCH

Created by ANU and the women of St Helens, the site-responsive production wound its way through the...

A group of men stand on a hillside, one is wearing a white vest, dark shorts and black beanie and is surrounded by a puff of smoke. Another throws a wreath towards a group of men in blue overalls and white hard hats.

Reflections - artist Stephen King on the stories behind the making of Where Things Are Different

It's January. It's cold, dark and wet. We're casting our minds back to this time last year when we huddled by the banks of the Sankey Canal to witness the opening of Where Things Are Different.