A special event will be held at Newcastle Cathedral tonight (March 20) to remember people whose lives have been lost to suicide. It will be hosted by the organisers of the North East Speak Their Name suicide memorial quilt, which is currently on display at the city centre landmark. Comprising 120 individually crafted squares, each …
About 15 years ago, I invented something which was pretty nifty. It was a piece of breastfeeding underwear which made every top a breastfeeding top, so new and nursing mums could get back into their favourite clothes while keeping their postnatal tummy comfortably wrapped up*. *Can’t tell you how easily the marketing spiel just tripped …
As a parent of autistic children, writer Jill Franklin has spent many years seeing how they have been misunderstood while trying to find a way through systems which weren’t built with them in mind. “As the saying goes, if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person,” she says talking about her award-winning …
Opening act of Durham Brass trumpets coal mining heritage A live performance of an album which encompasses the rise and fall of coal mining will kick off the Durham Brass festival on July 5. Acclaimed band, Public Service Broadcasting will perform Every Valley at Durham Cathedral on the opening night of the popular event, which …
Artist and comic, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) was in Gateshead this afternoon (March 15) to join forces with Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and unveil the Baltic Open Submission exhibition. The group exhibition features the work of 104 North-East-based self-taught and hobbyist artists and includes painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, film, and installation pieces. It opens …
I can’t remember my dad not having a beard. But I know he didn’t have one for the first eight-or-so years of my life And I can also tell you the day he decided to grow one (well, not the actual date, but the happenings thereof). It was in 1983-ish and in his role as …
The National Theatre is supporting Laurels Theatre in the development of its latest production. The fringe theatre in Whitley Bay has been earmarked for funding by the prestigious venue and its Generate Programme, to bring together a group of creatives to workshop a new piece of theatre. This week, Laurels founders Jamie Eastlake and Steve …
For the past eight years, the Christmas mornings of thousands of children across the North East have been made immeasurably better thanks to Jason Cook. It was 2015 when the comedian and writer heard on the radio that 40,000 youngsters in the region would be waking up to no presents on Christmas Day. Partly fuelled …
If I had the mind of a conspiracy theorist, I may have tabled the notion among trusted and similarly paranoid pals that unseen forces were in play, doing everything they could to scupper my interview with Dom Joly. Exhibit A: The copy of the comedian, broadcaster, film-maker and author’s latest book his publicist had kindly …
A poignant farewell celebration to mark the end of much-loved theatre company, Curious Monkey will pack out Gosforth Civic Theatre on Friday night (March 15). Curious Monkey Grand Finale promises to be an emotional and joyful evening as the curtain comes down on a decade of the North East’s trailblazing Theatre Company of Sanctuary, which …
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