EMBLAZE Reading is a space for reading, expanding your literary horizons, discussing stories, and maybe making some new friends along the way.

Sue Campbell has been creating change all her life. Starting as a young PE teacher on Manchester’s Moss side, she saw first hand the transformative power of sport.

Looking for a laid-back comedy night where anything can happen? Pint and a Laugh is the place to be!

Do you worry about holding people’s attention during presentations? Unsure where to start when faced with writing an essay or preparing for an interview? How can you sharpen up your communication skills?

We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome award-winning novelist Natasha Brown back to Mr B’s, to chat to us about her bold and provocative new novel, Universality.

Poetry Film Club presents an evening of poetry based short films exploring our communities.

Screening at the Museum of Bath at Work is Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of The Personal History of David Copperfield.

A golden lantern shining above the city or a looming presence overshadowing Bath, Beckford’s Tower is a story of beauty and brutality. Join Professor Robert Beckford and Professor Shawn Sobers in conversation as they discuss their related histories.

You’ll find a wooly welcome for all in these friendly groups! Knitting, crochet, cross stitch, weaving, all fibre arts are welcome!

Rachel Clarke is a bestselling writer (Dear Life and Breathtaking) and NHS Doctor whose books explore subjects that are often taboo, bringing her unique understanding of end-of-life care and compassion for the dying

Join us for an energising workshop filled with imaginative writing prompts and based on a new theme each week!

Geoffrey Breeze has more insights, quotes and enquiries than Wikipedia. His poems swagger across seven decades, through the decline of empire and industrialisation, confronting crime, pop culture, computers and culture clashes then sharing heartbreakingly tender love poems and a direct face off with mortality.

Join Dr Joanne Rush for an inspiring session exploring how historical fiction can challenge traditional narratives and bring forgotten lives to the foreground.

When we get stuck while writing, it is often because two competing energies are locked together in conflict. In this workshop, authors Yvonne Jewkes and Andy West show how to begin by writing from the unconscious and how to end with a lucidly crafted piece of work.

With two thousand years of history, a long roll-call of fascinating residents and visitors, and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a treasure trove for curious minds.

Taking place in the stables, this screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s short film Strange Way of Life is a fantastic exploration of masculinity, queerness, and the image of the cowboy in traditional Hollywood features.

With two thousand years of history, a long roll-call of fascinating residents and visitors, and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a treasure trove for curious minds.

Want to build your confidence as a writer? Using the therapeutic tool of FreeWriting, this workshop is designed for writers on any stage of their writing journey to both deepen and nurture their relationship to writing.

Join Andrew on a fascinating and informative walk around Bath and unlock the secrets of our city inscribed in stone

Looking for a laid-back comedy night where anything can happen? Pint And A Laugh is the place to be! This vibrant event is perfect for anyone who loves discovering raw, new talent or simply enjoys a good laugh over a drink.

Chimes is a monthly spoken word event, held at the Back Bar at The Bell in Bath. It is an example of collaboration  between  local creatives through the Bell and Bath Spa University Emerge Residency Programme

Join us for an informative, illustrated and almost certainly controversial talk exploring the gripping and untold story of why Britain looks the way it does, celebrating our national treasures and lamenting our failures.

Three Bean Salad podcast brings a live show to Bath for the first time as part of Curious Minds: a festival to ignite ideas.

Spend your lunchtime with Dr Amy Frost (Bath Preservation Trust) for a walk through the City looking at the changes and challenges to designing with Bath’s historic style in modern times.

Join our monthly writing club at Kingsmead Street Bottle! Working on our own projects in the company of other creative people can ignite our love of writing and transform what we write.

Fiona Sampson, acclaimed poet and biographer of Mary Shelley, will be in conversation with Manderley press Publisher Rebeka Russell to discuss a new collection of Mary Shelley’s work - all of which was written during, and inspired by, the short yet influential time she spent living in Bath.

Babel Book Club is a vibrant local book club for books in translation that brings together curious minds to explore the world through literature.

Have you ever wondered what prisons are really like? Are they ‘holiday camps’ as the popular media would have us believe? Should they look and feel like places of punishment to deter people from committing crimes?

Three Bean Salad podcast brings a live show to Bath for the first time as part of Curious Minds: a festival to ignite ideas.

Anyone Can Be a Podcaster! is a fun, welcoming, and beginner-friendly podcasting workshop that will empower you to tell your story. No prior experience required!

You’ll find a woolly welcome for all in this friendly group! Knitting, Crochet, cross stitch, weaving, all fibre arts are welcome!

Hidden away in the centre of the city is the Museum of Bath Architecture, which will play host to screening of new release Architecton followed by a discussion with local architect firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.

Do you work in the creative, digital or Tech space? If yes, this is the perfect place to meet other like-minded individuals in the Bath and Bristol area.

Author, journalist and life-long book lover Lucy Mangan joins us at Mr B’s to talk about her new book, Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives.

Gabriel Gatehouse, award-winning journalist and broadcaster, is on hand to help us unpack and unpick what may lie ahead as we embark on another four years of Trump’s presidency.

Join us for an energising workshop filled with imaginative writing prompts and based on a new theme each week!

Spend your lunchtime with Dr Amy Frost (Bath Preservation Trust) on a walk through the lost historic streets of Widecombe exploring the impact of the 1960s-70s infamous Sack of Bath and revealing how traffic demands resulted in large scale demolition.

Bestselling and award-winning children’s author Joanna Nadin will lead you on a two-hour bootcamp with essential industry information, writing exercises to get the ideas flowing, and a Q&A.

Join Sunday Times Bestsellers, Jennie Godfrey and Samuel Burr as they talk you through everything they’ve learned about becoming published authors

Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted — and more anxious than ever. Artists live with uncertainty constantly — but instead of waiting for the future, they run towards making it

With two thousand years of history, a long roll-call of fascinating residents and visitors, and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a treasure trove for curious minds.

Award-winning writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare offers a map through the mental health system and how it can provide the help we need, when we most need it.

Don’t miss this special festival event with with bestselling author Jennie Godfrey and novelist, academic and class obsessive Joanna Nadin) as they dissect the Rivals revival, class attitudes in the 1970s and 1980s, and the issue of class in women’s fiction and the publishing industry at large.

With two thousand years of history, a long roll-call of fascinating residents and visitors, and a host of strikingly-designed streets and buildings, Bath is a treasure trove for curious minds.

The 7 Hills returns with their latest instalment "The Spring Sessions," an all-day musical celebration. 

Join bestselling author and psychotherapist Julia Samuel and her two psychotherapist daughters, Emily and Sophie Samuel as they invite us into the therapy room with a focus on the often complicated world of family dynamics.

Looking for a laid-back comedy night where anything can happen? Pint And A Laugh is the place to be! This vibrant event is perfect for anyone who loves discovering raw, new talent or simply enjoys a good laugh over a drink.

Join Dr Molly Conisbee (University of Bath) for a free and fascinating walking tour exploring some of Bath’s lesser known hidden histories.

Award-winning biographer and historian Anne Sebba presents an extraordinary and never before told account of the only entire female orchestra in any Nazi prison camps.

Join us for a free (but ticketed) talk by the creators of the Bath Hidden Histories Walk, Dr Molly Conisbee from the University of Bath and Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce from the University of York.

What if being “a bit weird” is actually completely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles is a sign of strength rather than weakness?

Anyone Can Be a Podcaster! is a fun, welcoming, and beginner-friendly podcasting workshop that will empower you to tell your story. No prior experience required!

In every newsroom around the world there’s a daily editorial conference to decide the news agenda and this is your chance to join in.

We are very excited to welcome travel writer and friend-of-the-shop Dan Richards back to Mr B’s to talk about his new book, Overnight.

Join internationally published poet Joanne Rush for a gentle and friendly workshop that aims to take some of the mystery out of writing poems… without losing any of the mystique!

You’ll find a woolly welcome for all in this friendly group! Knitting, Crochet, cross stitch, weaving, all fibre arts are welcome!

The start of great art is a curious mind! Come and discover Bath’s emerging artists and performers in this Up Late pop-up exhibition at the Holburne Museum.

From Austen to Bridgerton, Bath has long been the centre of the period drama aesthetic but how does the representation on screen affect our view of the reality? 

We are delighted to welcome novelist and poet Joe Dunthorne to Mr B’s to discuss his extraordinary non-fiction debut, The Children of Radium.

Who was the real Churchill? Hero, villain, soldier, statesman, imperialist, rebel, visionary, throwback, myth?

Nestled at the edge of the Circus, The Museum of East Asian Art is the only UK museum that focuses on the art of East and South-East Asia. This screening of Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring (1949) takes place in the intimate setting of the museum’s third floor display.

In 1992 Harry Baker was born in Bath. In 2015 he was named captain of Poetry Team GB and allowed to take any two poets in the country with him to represent on the international stage.

An unmissable conversation between Elif Shafak, best-selling novelist and essayist and fellow British-Turkish author Alev Scott

Reel Life Monsters shambles back to Burdall's Yard with a double bill of transfemme directed horror films, in celebration of Trans Day of Visibility.