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A graphic of white two mugs on a pink back ground. The mugs face each other as if in conversation. Dangling from the side of each mug is a teabag label containing a speech mark. At the top of the graphic it the text Conversations Over A Brew. At the bottom of the image Heartofglass (Heart Of Glass) is written as a single word.
Podcast

Conversations Over A Brew: Season 1, Episode 2

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
Categories
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
Categories
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
Categories
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
Categories
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
Categories
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 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.
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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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.
News

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.
Date
7th Feb 2019
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News Place
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News
Long Read

Theatre Matters: Thoughts on TORCH

Created by ANU and the women of St Helens, the site-responsive production wound its way through the town from St Helens Central train station, to a house on Charles Street and then back to the Hippodrome bingo hall. Creative consultant, practitioner and critical friend of Heart of Glass Chrissie Tiller reflects on her individual TORCH experience.
Date
30th Jan 2019
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Place
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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.
Thought
Long Read

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.
Date
24th Jan 2019
Categories
Thoughts Place
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News

Heart of Glass team ups with The Citadel to give innovative family theatre a home in St Helens

We were terribly sad to hear the news of the closure of The Citadel building. The venue is a huge part of the cultural ecology of St Helens with a history that speaks for itself.
Date
23rd Jan 2019
Categories
Collectivity
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