Apollo 19-22 September 2019

An installation for the Apollo Pavilion 50th Birthday by Steve Messam.

Playful, tactile colourful forms. a temporary interactive installation for Peterlee.

Come along and experience this inspiring temporary installation for Victor Pasmore’s Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, incorporating soft, rounded, 3D, colourful forms in contrast with the hard, angular structure of the concrete pavilion.

Visually exciting, bold, strong and interactive, this light up installation can be walked through to capture the full effect of these playful forms in a stimulating way of engaging with this iconic architecture.

If you have memory loss / early dementia diagnosis join us for fun, relaxed sessions where you can try outdoor art along with other art forms and meet new people.

Come independently or bring a friend, family member or carer.

​At the Barn at Easington, FREE minibus pick up at ASDA, Seaham at 12:30pm.

​OUTDOOR ART SESSIONS:
Fridays 1pm-3pm on 2nd, 9th, 16 & 30th August, 6th, 13th & 27th September and 4th October.

​The sessions are part of ‘Filling in the Blanks’, a 30-week creative age programme in East Durham by East Durham Creates in partnership with Equal Arts, offering people living with memory problems & dementia, their families and carers, the opportunity to take part in lively and supportive creative sessions.

Future sessions may not run on Fridays as it depends on artist availability, therefore if you would like to attend please contact cat from East Durham Creates on 0191 518 5070 or cat@eastdurhamcreates.co.uk to check details or to put your name down to attend.

If you have memory loss / early dementia diagnosis join us for fun, relaxed sessions where you can try outdoor art along with other art forms and meet new people.

Come independently or bring a friend, family member or carer.

​At the Barn at Easington, FREE minibus pick up at ASDA, Seaham at 12:30pm.

​OUTDOOR ART SESSIONS:
Fridays 1pm-3pm on 2nd, 9th, 16 & 30th August, 6th, 13th & 27th September and 4th October.

​The sessions are part of ‘Filling in the Blanks’, a 30-week creative age programme in East Durham by East Durham Creates in partnership with Equal Arts, offering people living with memory problems & dementia, their families and carers, the opportunity to take part in lively and supportive creative sessions.

Future sessions may not run on Fridays as it depends on artist availability, therefore if you would like to attend please contact cat from East Durham Creates on 0191 518 5070 or cat@eastdurhamcreates.co.uk to check details or to put your name down to attend.

Come and join us for a night filled with stories and laughter. It is a night you surely won’t forget.

Trimdon Station Community Centre presents it’s very first spoken word night BORN TO TALK! The night features a great line up of some of the best spoken word artists in the UK.

Our headline act Kate Fox
An accomplished stand-up poet, writer and performer Kate uses comedy to talk about class, gender and Northerness. She is one of the UK’s best known spoken word artists and regularly appears on Radio 4. She has supported John Cooper Clarke and is a headline act in her own right.

Scott Tyrrell
A Newcastle-based stand up poet, Scott has been writing and performing poetry and comedy since the turn of the century. An award-winning comedian as well as a multi-slam-winning poet, he has performed his work around the UK and Europe and at many festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury.

Seymour Mace
Like a surreal Vic and Bob bomb colliding with a kids’ TV show, Geordie nonsense-peddler Seymour Mace leaves his crowd uplifted and entertained. A veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe festival of over twenty years and finalist of the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Seymour Mace is a surreal oddball blessed with a wonderfully off-kilter worldview who is bound to make you laugh

Saturday 12th October

Trimdon Station Community Centre, TS29 6BS

Tickets £3. Box Office 01429 882200

Doors will be open from 7:30pm with event to start at 8pm.

Age – 14 +

Trimdon Station Community Centre brings you this event as part of East Durham Creates’ Cultural Hub programme. Born To Talk has been organised by a group of young community programmers with the aim of a regular spoken word night happening in East Durham.

Arthur and Marta are two very old puppeteers, who have been together for life.
With a magical pavilion as a focal point, they play the story of the poor orphan boy Max, who is being bullied, suppressed and is always longing to fly. But one day he meets the giraffe woman Lily, and the great love that might give him wings…
FLY is a puppet theatre drama for 5-10 year olds.
A poetic journey into a circus universe with strange characters, big emotions and captivating puppet imagery.
Fly is brought to you by TakeOff Festival, Theatre Hullabuloo.

Friday 25th October 1pm – 2pm
Blackhall Community Centre, TS27 4LG

Tickets £7
Box Office 0191 5867396

Being a slug is hard. Everyone thinks you are disgusting. Slug and Caterpillar are starving, and the only leaf in the garden is just out of reach. Slug thinks they should work together. Get the leaf, eat the leaf, play a game, be friends. Caterpillar has other ideas. Slugs are gross, they are covered in slime and they have terrible taste in music. Things get sticky.

Enter the undergrowth to SQUISH, SQUELCH and PLAY your way through your way through this hilarious, surreal show for 2-5 years and their families, told with a handful of words and lots of SLIME.

Saturday 26th October 12-1pm or 2pm -3pm
Greenhills Centre, Wheatley Hill, DH6 3JS

Tickets £2
Box Office: 01429 820214

Being a slug is hard. Everyone thinks you are disgusting. Slug and Caterpillar are starving, and the only leaf in the garden is just out of reach. Slug thinks they should work together. Get the leaf, eat the leaf, play a game, be friends. Caterpillar has other ideas. Slugs are gross, they are covered in slime and they have terrible taste in music. Things get sticky.

Enter the undergrowth to SQUISH, SQUELCH and PLAY your way through your way through this hilarious, surreal show for 2-5 years and their families, told with a handful of words and lots of SLIME.

Saturday 26th October 12-1pm or 2pm -3pm
Greenhills Centre, Wheatley Hill, DH6 3JS

Tickets £2
Box Office: 01429 820214

Join the one-eyed magician Count Ocular and friends for a gothic, vaudeville experience in the bizarre world of the Cabaret of Curiosities. In a modern reimagining of the traditional puppet booth show, otherworldly creatures appear in a variety of unique puppetry acts that will amaze, bemuse and entertain.

Expect tabletop puppetry, close-up magic, original music, laughter, wonder and mystery in an intimate extravaganza for the whole family.

Suitable for children ages 3+

When: 31st October 2pm – 3pm

Where: Blackhall Community Centre, TS27 4LG

Tickets £3

Box Office: 0191 5867396

Enter CIC present their Festival of Remembrance Concert which will also be performed at Durham Cathedral and St Pauls Cathedral. Enter CIC will perform their theatre show;
Honored Remembrance which commemorates those who have lost their lives due to servitude to the UK. There will also be a performance from Enter CIC’s choir and a workshop to make your own material poppy, which will be used during the performance.
This performance is part of Shotton Community Centres Festival of Remembrance.
This is suitable for all ages.

Sunday 17th November 12.30pm – 3pm
Shotton Community Centre, DH6 2PA

Tickets £2
Box Office 0191 5264213

Its a Christmas Eve, and having tumbled to Earth through the night sky, Elva sets out on a journey to find her best friend – a little girl she hasn’t even met yet. Has the lost present got what it takes to find her way through the cold winter night? Will she arrive in time for Christmas morning? Will Elva be everything the little girl wished for?

Written by Topsy Turvy Theatre especially for children aged 3-7 and brought to life using handmade puppets, original music, and delightful storytelling. The Lost Present is an enchanting tale about true friendship.

Where: Greenhills Community Centre, Wheatley Hill Community Association, DH6 3JS Durham

When: Saturday, 30 November 2019 from 14:30-15:30

Ticket prices – TBC

Jack & The Beanstalk, a GIANT of a pantomime!
Jack, a poor country boy, trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, which grow into an enormous beanstalk reaching up into the clouds. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an unfriendly giant. The giant senses Jacks presence and cries “Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!”
Will Jack be able to escape the giant?

Jack and The Beanstalk is an original script written to deal with the issues of the day – fast moving, relevant and funny.

Tuesday 3rd December 5.30pm -7.30pm
Shotton Community Centre, DH6 2PA

Tickets £2
Box Office 0191 5264213