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We’ve just launched our new VoiceOver Challenge – to create a spectacular communication line of sound and light linking Peterlee and Horden. Would you like to be a Host or get involved? Find out more
We’ve just launched our new VoiceOver Challenge – to create a spectacular communication line of sound and light linking Peterlee and Horden. Would you like to be a Host or get involved? Find out more
A group of young dancers from East Durham we’re involved in a really special event over Easter weekend in South Shields. Commissioned by our friends at The Cultural Spring (Sunderland and South Tyneside’s Creative People and Places programme), RUSH, was a mass movement spectacle created by Southpaw Dance Company Read more…
‘IMPACT’ is a short film made by 13 young people aged 16 and 19 who took part in a BFI Network Academy programme delivered by Kids for Kids UK in partnership with East Durham College and East Durham Creates. The academy enabled local students to work with industry professionals to create Read more…
“Our visit to Enchanted Parks in December 2014 was a really fun experience, we were greeted on our trip by the event organisers and a group of people who were also going along. The atmosphere on our journey was friendly, relaxed – people were excited and intrigued. It was good Read more…
We had such good fun at our Exchanges events, talking to lots of local people in all sorts of locations – and helping them to get creative. The themes of the sessions were “skill” and “portraiture”, and were led by local artists Paul Merrick, David Gross, Nicola Balfour and Jane Gower. We Read more…
We made lots of new friends at Low Tide Day on 17th May at Seaham Hall Beach car park. Lots of people had the chance to meet artists and try out new activities, like making a self-portrait or a scary monster. The artists who took part in Low Tide Day are just some of those who Read more…
The start of Spring has really outdone itself this year. After a week of fog and gloom, we’re starting to forget what the sun looks like and it feels like November all over again. It’s hard to believe that it was only last week we were making our way to Blackhall Read more…
Thursday night saw us in East Durham College for Peterlee: The Power of the Vision, an artists’ talk and book launch. After picking up artists Jane and Louise Wilson from Durham Station, it was straight to the college to meet up withToby Paterson, make the final technical checks and get settled into our venue for Read more…
Some of you may remember that a few weeks ago The Miners’ Hymns came to the North East. We took a group from Christ Church Ladies’ Group on the coach up to the Sage in Gateshead on 5th March to see the film screened alongside a live performance by members of the Read more…
Last week we held our second Exchanges workshop at Easington Church of England Primary School where pupils and their parents and carers got creative to produce some brilliant art with the help of Nicola and Jane from Barn Arts. The themes of the workshop were skill and portraiture and everyone Read more…