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: PERSPECTIVES | Venture Arts | Clay Workshop with Barry and Michael

As a part of Venture Arts' PERSPECTIVES programme of events and exhibitions, join two exhibiting artists Barry and Michael in a one-off workshop exploring their creative practice involving working with text in ceramic. Thursday 15 November 2pm-4pm £7 - Limited spaces (this event cannot be booked via the House please click on the link below) Photo credit: Ellie Walmsley and Artwork: London, London by Michael Beard, 2018. ​

: October Half-term Family Crafts

Get ready for Halloween with our spooky crafts this half-term. We'll be making blood-curdling bats and weird wands at the House. Come and join us if you dare... £1 per child (with accompanying adult with House entrance ticket)

: Sunday talk: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Join Dr Diane Duffy for a lunch-time talk on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this bicentennial anniversary year of the book's first publication. This classic novel has captured the imagination of generations with its terrifying story of a creature brought to life by man. Learn how the book - one of the first books of science fiction - explores the ethics of science, a topic that

: Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome – Stories from the Portico

The Portico Library and Seven Arches Publishing are launching their second edition of the Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome - Stories from the Portico at Elizabeth Gaskell's House on Sunday 30 September 2018 at 1.30 – 4.00 pm. Readings by Alison Padley-Woods (short-listed author for The Times Chicken House prize) and by children whose winning writing is published in the 2018 edition of ‘ Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome - Stories from the Portico’. There will

: Bonnets at Dawn – Pub Quiz

The literary Thunderdome that is Bonnets at Dawn is back, and this time they are challenging Team Gaskell to a pub quiz. So, if you know your Margaret from your Molly, and your Mr Thornton from Mr Hamley, then this is the quiz to come to. Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman (aka Bonnets at Dawn) go head to head to compare and contrast the lives and work of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and other Nineteenth-century women