What’s On at the Writers Centre

By South Coast Writers Centre director Sarah Nicholson

As we cruise together towards the end of the year, Coledale Community Hall is wrapping up with December’s Film Club and the South Coast Writers Centre’s end-of-year celebration event.

On December 3 at Film Club – the last one for 2022 – director Graeme Thornburn will present a screening of As It Is In Heaven (2004), or in Swedish: Så som i himmelen. The story revolves around a world-class conductor, Daniel Daréus (Michael Nyqvist), whose demanding career and high-profile life takes its toll on his health. A complete physical and emotional breakdown causes him to turn his back on his career and return to Norrland, the village of his youth in a remote part of northern Sweden, for a low-key recovery out of the spotlight. Reluctantly, he agrees to help the local choir hone their harmonising skills. His big-city ways bristle with the townsfolk, but the process of drawing out the singers’ hidden gifts reinvigorates his own dormant passion for life. The choir develops and grows, and the conductor makes both friends and enemies and finds love.

On Sunday, 11th December, the South Coast