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New Beginnings: Get Into Reading Conference, Friday Night Supper and Readers’ Day, 8th – 9th January 2010, Blackburne House, Liverpool

Tickets for the whole New Beginnings experience are only £120 (£80 for the Friday conference). Click here to book.

“Wellbeing and good mental health come from connecting with other people – family, friends or colleagues – and from taking part in something worthwhile. Get Into Reading provides both of these, as well as the sheer pleasure of the book.  Reading aloud, or listening to someone read aloud, is a relationship-building shared experience.” Professor Louis Appleby, CBE, National Director for Mental Health

 

The Reader Organisation, working in partnership with the University of Liverpool, NHS Wirral, Mersey Care NHS Trust and Liverpool PCT, is planning New Beginnings, our first national Get Into Reading Conference, which will share findings and best practice from our innovative reader development and social outreach programme, Get Into Reading. The Readers' Day will include a series of creative and inspiring workshops as well as panel discussions and reading recommendations.

 

Confirmed speakers for New Beginnings include: Susan Blishen (Mental Health Foundation), Dr Jane Davis (Founder and Director of The Reader Organisation), Kathy Doran (Chief Executive, NHS Wirral), Dr David Fearnley (RCPysch Psychiatrist of the Year; Medical Director and Deputy Chief of Mersey Care NHS Trust), Brian Keenan (author) Blake Morrison (author, journalist and Chair of The Reader Organisation), Stuart Smith (Executive Director Children, Families and Adults Services, Liverpool City Council), and Alan Yates (Chief Executive, Mersey Care NHS Trust).

 

A list of workshops for the conference – one in the morning, one in the afternoon – is now available: click here to see details.

 

Please contact Claire Speer for further information or booking enquiries: [log in to unmask]

 

 

Jen Tomkins
Communications Manager

Currently reading Modern Poetry in Translation: Frontiers

New Beginnings: Get Into Reading Conference and Readers’ Day, 8th-9th January 2010
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the reader organisation
19 Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7ZG
tel: +44 (0)151 794 3849
www.thereader.org.uk

 

 

 


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