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Long Read

A Care Compendium: Chapter Two

Explore more of the projects created through our Home Work commissions series in Chapter Two of our Care Compendium - a document of the many ways in which we are thinking, enacting and valuing care in this moment and beyond.
Date
30th Jun 2020
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Care
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Thought
Long Read

A Care Compendium: Chapter One

Want to take part in a community act of kindness, support your own arts practice, or need advice on surviving lock down? Take a moment to stop and dive into Chapter 1 of our Care Compendium.
Date
19th Jun 2020
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Care
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A long table set with a pink table cloth, tea set and decorations. A number of people sit around the table. A woman in a pink wig is serving tea. Greenery hangs down and there is lavender on the table.
Thought
Long Read

Care as a Radical Act

Chrissie Tiller asks if this could be a new way forward for UK arts?
Date
19th May 2020
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Care
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Podcast

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.
Date
10th May 2020
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Care
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Podcast

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.
Date
10th May 2020
Categories
Collectivity
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News

With For About 2020 - Call Out

With For About 2020 A slow conference for a fast evolving crisis 20 May to 17 June 2020.
Date
9th Apr 2020
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Collectivity
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A elderly woman sits in an arm chair facing a window. She is drawing on a piece of paper.
News

MORE Home Work!

Extra funding available for additional commissions
Date
7th Apr 2020
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Collectivity
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A elderly woman sits in an arm chair facing a window. She is drawing on a piece of paper.||The image shows a silhouette of an armchair facing a window and with a cat sat on the back of the chair. In the chair sits an elderly person holding a pen and drawing on paper.
News

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 to make work and connect at this time of increased precarity and anxiety.
Date
2nd Apr 2020
Categories
Collectivity
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|Members of the Heart of Glass team take part in a team meeting on Zoom. The image shows 9 faces in 9 boxes.|A hand-drawn map of St Helens shows places and spaces of care within the town.||||A group of 6 people meet on a video chat provider. There are 6 windows containing six faces, some of which are covered by objects, including a large pineapple.
News

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 communities who experience the world in many and varied ways.
Date
20th Mar 2020
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Care
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News

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 partners.
Date
17th Mar 2020
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Care
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News

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 notice.
Date
25th Feb 2020
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Care
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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
News

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)
Date
3rd Feb 2020
Categories
Collectivity
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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.
News

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.
Date
23rd Jan 2020
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Place
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||||||A group of school students gather at one end of a corridor and||A young girl in a pink coat looks up to an installation hanging over her. The installation consists of many seemingly floating and decorated disks attached together.|Two women stand in the front left of the photo, wearing television ariels attached to their heads. They were a light pink jacket with a pink collar. There is a high street scene in the background.|A group of adults sit on grass and on chairs in the middle of a playing field. They are listening to a woman with blond hair and there is an industrial scene in the background of the picture with a chimney and a red brick building.||A group of four women stand looking at some pink post its attached to a white wall|Four women stand in front of a building with a red door and woodwork and a large window. They are all wearing black tshirts with the red Heart of Glass logo printed on to them. This new logo is the words heart of glass across one horizontal line without spaces.|In the front right of the picture, a smiling woman sits in front of a keyboard and just behind her, a man looks at a laptop. In the top left hand corner of the picture a woman is sat smiling wearing a tshirt with a rainbow flag on it.|A man wearing glasses stands in front of a painted mural which features writing and white lotus flowers against a blue background. The man is holding a piece of cork on which reads 'MADLOVE'.|A group of people in various fancy dress outfits stand behind a framing device made of inflatable pink picture frames against a background of a pink tinsel curtain.|A group of people sit around a long wooden table that is decorated with pink crockery, cake stands and tea pots. Foliage hangs from the ceiling in the front of the picture and in the background a lady dressed all in pink and wearing a pink wig serves tea.
News

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.
Date
15th Jan 2020
Categories
Collectivity
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|A bell tent with a light inside stands between trees in front of a multi-storey carpark|A bell tent with a light inside stands between trees in front of a multi-storey carpark|
News

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 office space at 9-11 Haydock Street.
Date
15th Sep 2019
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Place
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News

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!
Date
11th Sep 2019
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Collectivity
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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.
Thought
Long Read

How to nurture a social arts eco system

Harvey Dimond reflects on their experience of our recent series of Artist Professional Development workshops.
Date
3rd Sep 2019
Categories
Collectivity
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Thought
Short Read

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.
Date
22nd Jul 2019
Categories
Collectivity
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