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Recovery Positions: What We Are Made Of: Butterflies of the Night
Writing and Performance A Creative Workshop Day with with poet Winston Plowes Mothers Who Make:
Workshop Artist Gemma Nemer Saturday 23 March Poetry Special with Helen Mort,
Wednesday 13 March Saturday 16 March 2pm - 4.30pm Rachel Bower and Toria Garbutt
2pm - 4pm 11am - 4pm Thursday 28 March
A family friendly event in partnership with Workshop from 10.30am
A special writing workshop led by poet Head to The Button Tin, at the heart of Penistone Arts Week. Lunchtime Reading and Sharing -
Ralph Dartford and director Samuel James Elsecar Heritage Centre, and take part in a If you are curious about either creative writing 12.30pm - 1pm
Humphrey. day of industrious creativity with artist Gemma or the secret night-time world of moths or
Nemer. Gather in and be part of making a Join us for a morning of exploring all that it
Free activity | textile installation, using narrative, words and indeed both, then this event is for you. It’s means, how it feels and what it brings
Temperance House, Pitt Street an opportunity to exchange stories and learn in becoming and being a mother.
To book a place please email: poetry captured locally and inspired by the how to bring them alive on the page. The everyday joys and tribulations, the
HearMyVoice@barnsley.gov.uk tenacity, strength and creativity of the women We will write together about papillon de nuit
of Wentworth and Elsecar. This workshop is (as they are known in France) after looking at conflicts and revelations, the expectations
part of Gemma’s artist in residency project and frustrations, everything all rolled
Stargazing Adventure creatively exploring the connections and some live, humanely captured specimens from into one. Renowned Yorkshire poets and
with Ray Hearne stories of the Fitzwilliam family along with the night before by Winston Plowes, who is authors, Helen Mort, Rachel Bower and Toria
Friday 15 March the people of Wentworth, Elsecar and passionate about both the worlds of poetry Garbutt will share their poetry and personal
7.15pm - 10.30pm (approx.) and lepidoptery. Just bring an open mind and
surrounding areas. This work is supported by a willingness to share. experiences of being mothers and how they
Writing from observation couldn’t get more Great Place Wentworth and Elsecar heritage work to find balance in being both poet
literal! Come and get your imagination fired with art led activities taking place throughout Free activity | and Mum.
up and into focus, head out with us to Hoober 2019 and 2020. Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum, There will also be opportunities to create
Taylor Hill, Cawthorne, Barnsley S75 4HQ
Observatory for some cosmic consideration. For more details, about ways to To book a place please email: your own work and connect with others
Let’s envision for a few moments that get involved in the project email HearMyVoice@barnsley.co.uk over a brew, or two.
South Yorkshire night-sky and beyond; its GreatPlace@barnsley.gov.uk or check out
constellations, its heavenly bodies and errant www.facebook.com/GreatPlaceWE/ Babies and children welcome.
passers-by, and let’s discover in our own Ian McMillan Welcomes Free activity |
Free activity | Barnsley’s New Poet Laureate!
words ways of expressing those untapped The Cooper Gallery, Sadler Room
The Button Tin, Elsecar Heritage Centre. Monday 25 March Booking essential via Eventbrite.
feelings; awe? delight? struck dumbness?
To book a place please email: 6.15pm - 7pm
What’s written in those stars for you?
HearMyVoice@barnsley.gov.uk Refreshments served from 5.30pm
Free | Hoober Observatory
(meet Barnsley Centre - transport provided) Join us for the Laureate’s showcase, where our
current Barnsley Poet Laureate, Ian McMillan, Image credit: Emma Aylett
Jump on the minibus with Ray, leaving will be handing over his crown to welcome
Parkway Cinema in Barnsley at 7.15pm and
returning approx. 10.30pm. Barnsley’s new Poet Laureate, Eloise Unerman.
Eloise has been an apprentice poet for a
Booking is essential for this event, please while preparing for the role, writing poems
email: HearMyVoice@barnsley.gov.uk
inspired by the Barnsley Museums’ sites and
collections.
Free activity | Experience Barnsley
The Hear My Voice festival is funded by To book a place please email:
Barnsley TUC Training Ltd. HearMyVoice@barnsley.gov.uk