The Story of Theatres – An Evening with Political Writer in Residence Amber Massie-Blomfield 15th October – 15th October 2019 8:00 pm Amber Massie-Blomfield travelled from the tip of Cornwall to the Isle of Mull to discover Britain’s most astonishing theatres. In rural communities and the inner-city, Amber found haunted halls, stages hewn from granite …
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Near Future – An Evening with Writer in Residence Suzannah Evans 8th October – 8th October 2019 8:00 pm Join poet Suzannah Evans as she reads from her 2018 poetry collection Near Future and discusses her writing experiences. Set in an all-too-imaginable Earth where resources are insufficient for human existence and asteroid storms threaten the solar system, …
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Writing: Finding Success Through Failure – An Evening with Writer in Residence Emily Morris 13th August – 13th August 2019 8:00 pm ‘Failure is a success if we learn from it’ wrote a certain William Gladstone. But how can a pen, paper or even a laptop liberate us? In this evening event, Writer in Residence …
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Alibis in the Archive 2019 21st June – 23rd June 2019 Back by popular demand, Alibis in the Archive (in association with the Crime Writers’ Association and The Detection Club) returns for a third year to bring some of the UK’s best-loved crime writers to Hawarden. Over a weekend of talk sessions and murder mystery evenings, this …
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Subverting Shakespeare 10th May – 12th May 2019 In June 1594, in a gruesome public demonstration of state power, Elizabeth I’s personal physician, Roderigo Lopez, was hung, drawn and quartered. Lopez was a Portuguese Jew, and his grizzly execution epitomised the atmosphere of zealous anti-Semitism which seems to have characterised Shakespeare’s England. But, in writing The …
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  The Book of Books: Rare Books and Religious Texts 29th April – 29th April 2019 7.30 pm Want to see and learn more about rare books? Join Gladstone’s Library’s own Gary Butler for this hour-long talk on the history of the book through some spectacular, and unusual, examples from the library’s collections of religious …
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Agony in the Garden: Art and Faith from Eden to Gethsemane 26th April – 28th April 2019 Artists have, for centuries, vividly imagined gardens as places of abundance and desolation, as the settings for temptation and transformation and as the stage for human and holy drama. This course explores gardens real and imagined in visual …
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Fantastic Stories and Where to Find Them – A Masterclass with Writer in Residence Oliver Emanuel 16th March – 16th March 2019 10:00 am Join internationally award-winning playwright Oliver Emanuel for a day masterclass filled with practical writing exercises intercut with discussions on why we tell stories – and what makes a good one. The …
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Dragons and Writing Visually – An Evening with Writer in Residence Oliver Emanuel 12th March – 12th March 2019 8:00 pm At least 50% of theatre is visual but playwrights are seldom considered to write the visuals so much as the words actors speak. In Oliver’s career he has written a play without words. He …
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The Whiplash Line – Art Nouveau and Symbolism 8th March – 10th March 2019 In the ‘Belle Epoque’ an elegant and sinuous period style flourished. Deriving from Pre-Raphaelitism and the Arts and Crafts Movement, and inspired by the organic growth of such natural forms as poppies, convolvulus, hair and water; Art Nouveau soon became the dominant …
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