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About Edgeways

We aim to advance education in the arts and to provide facilities in the interests of social and cultural welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation. We use Drama, Music, other performing arts and the arts generally, for the benefit of those people who do not usually participate in or have access to the arts, including those people on the margins of society.
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'A Sense of Tiptoe'

Karen Hayes’ second collection of poetry was published by Holland Park Press in November 2020.

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'As Time Goes By'

On Wednesday 8th December our collaboration with Ability Productions finally Premiered in Oldham. The whole film will be free to view soon but in the meantime here's a sneak preview...

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'As Time...'

In February 2020, before the last performance of ‘fell’ we ran a workshop for some young people from Mahdlo. Afterwards one of the youngest asked to speak to me. His name is Eoghan and he told me wanted to be a writer. He asked if I would help him to write a play. I said, ‘yes’. Of course. Then came lockdown...

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Fell

Edgeways, in association with ACE, Cumbria Youth Alliance, and Kirkgate Arts, ran a series of workshops in West Cumbria around the themes of bullying, masculinity, emotional resilience and abuse.
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The Houses Along the Wall

A Pembrokeshire Poetry Cycle. This was Karen’s collection of poems triggered initially by the little pieces of pottery which constantly wash up on the beach at Newport Sands. Tesserae, the first poem in the cycle, formed part of A Cargo of Curiosities.

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The Reading Room

Have you ever thought that you could make your life story into a book?
Autobiography does not have to be just the life-stories of the famous. Everybody has a story to tell and we all have something to say.
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A Cargo of Curiosities

A pop-up museum based at the Grade II* listed Alkrington Hall East in Manchester which housed the 18th century Leverian collection.
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