***Apologies
for cross posting***
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
the reader organisation
19
Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7ZG
tel: +44 (0)151 794 3849
www.thereader.org.uk