Events & Activities

East Durham Dementia Friendly Choirs & Jumpin’ Hot Country Cantina Festival presents: JUMPIN’ HOT CANTINA CHOIR

Come be part of an exciting new East Durham community scratch choir and perform at the Jumpin’ Hot Cantina Festival 2019!

All are welcome to join this unique, fun summer singing experience in a safe, supportive and exciting space. We are a Dementia Friendly, Family Friendly and inclusive choir.

Drop in Music Workshop Sessions

All are welcome! Light refreshments and music materials provided.

Blackhall Community Centre, Hesleden Road, TS27 4LG
Wednesday 17th & Friday 26th July 11am -1pm

Seaham Jubilee Centre, 1 Charles St, Seaham SR7 7SG
Wednesday 17th & Friday 26th July 2pm – 4pm

Pop up Choir and Performance The Barn at Easington, Thorpe Lea East Easington Colliery, Peterlee SR8 3UT
Saturday 27th July 11am – 1pm (support with transport can be provided)

For further info:
Tel: 07779558547
email: dementiafriendlychoirs@gmail.com
website: www.northern-roots.org.uk

East Durham Dementia Friendly Choirs & Jumpin’ Hot Country Cantina Festival presents: JUMPIN’ HOT CANTINA CHOIR

Come be part of an exciting new East Durham community scratch choir and perform at the Jumpin’ Hot Cantina Festival 2019!

All are welcome to join this unique, fun summer singing experience in a safe, supportive and exciting space. We are a Dementia Friendly, Family Friendly and inclusive choir.

Drop in Music Workshop Sessions

All are welcome! Light refreshments and music materials provided.

Blackhall Community Centre, Hesleden Road, TS27 4LG
Wednesday 17th & Friday 26th July 11am -1pm

Seaham Jubilee Centre, 1 Charles St, Seaham SR7 7SG
Wednesday 17th & Friday 26th July 2pm – 4pm

Pop up Choir and Performance The Barn at Easington, Thorpe Lea East Easington Colliery, Peterlee SR8 3UT
Saturday 27th July 11am – 1pm (support with transport can be provided)

For further info:
Tel: 07779558547
email: dementiafriendlychoirs@gmail.com
website: www.northern-roots.org.uk

East Durham Dementia Friendly Choirs & Jumpin’ Hot Country Cantina Festival presents: JUMPIN’ HOT CANTINA CHOIR

Come be part of an exciting new East Durham community scratch choir and perform at the Jumpin’ Hot Cantina Festival 2019!

All are welcome to join this unique, fun summer singing experience in a safe, supportive and exciting space. We are a Dementia Friendly, Family Friendly and inclusive choir.

Drop in Music Workshop Sessions

All are welcome! Light refreshments and music materials provided.

Blackhall Community Centre, Hesleden Road, TS27 4LG
Wednesday 17th & Friday 26th July 11am -1pm

Seaham Jubilee Centre, 1 Charles St, Seaham SR7 7SG
Wednesday 17th & Friday 26th July 2pm – 4pm

Pop up Choir and Performance The Barn at Easington, Thorpe Lea East Easington Colliery, Peterlee SR8 3UT
Saturday 27th July 11am – 1pm (support with transport can be provided)

For further info:
Tel: 07779558547
email: dementiafriendlychoirs@gmail.com
website: www.northern-roots.org.uk

IncludFEST Durham 2019

A fully inclusive and accessible arts festival for children, young people and families

“Myths and Legends”: The Knights of Hardwick – protectors of the sacred elements await your company – decide which of the orders to join:  Air, Water, Fire or Earth.

Watch performances, take part in workshops and make arts and crafts

Saturday 27th July 2019 1pm – 5pm

Tickets £2

Hardwick Park, Sedgefield, County Durham, TS21 2DN

Trimdon Station Community Centre will be providing transport and tickets from the centre for members of their local community to attend the festival. For further information or to book your place contact Derek on 01429 882200.

**Workshop with Tin Arts for IncludFEST – Thursday 25th July time – TBC**

Join Trimdon Station Community Centre to work with arts organisation Tin Arts to create knights armour and fairy-tale objects to take to the Go & See visit to IncludFEST

Large-scale Printmaking FREE Family Course

FREE food + FREE bus from Easington Miners’ Welfare at 9:45am

The Barn at Easington, Thorpe Lea East, Easington Colliery SR8 3UT

Wednesday 31st July 10am-2pm

Create large-scale Cyanotype body prints by lying on a specially-dyed fabric, out in the sunshine for up to 20 minutes. As this happens the sun will change the dye to a blue colour. The fabric will then be washed in water to reveal fabulous body-shaped flags. Each flag will then be hung on the Easington coastline to make a wonderful display and celebration of people dancing in the landscape.

This is an outside course – dress for weather and great outdoors.

Long trousers / long sleeves due to nettles and ticks.

Max 50 people so booking is essential

To book email thebarnateasington@hotmail.com

For more information please contact Gary on

0191 569 5311 or email gary.miller@eastdurhamtrust.org.uk

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.

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, and 6th & 13th September.

​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, and 6th & 13th September.

​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.

A Community Tale with Popples Tales presents Adventure to the Green Hill

Book Launch Party!
Greenhills Centre, Stephens Terrace,
Wheatley Hill DH6 3JS
Thursday 29th August 2:00pm-3:30pm

Joe Jiggle bum is a little caterpillar who longs to be bright and colourful, just like the flowers. With no idea how to be as vibrant as he longs to be, until the day he wriggles up Green Gregory, a scarecrow who has never left his post or seen the world beyond his field.

Join the adventurous pair as they set off towards where all the flowers go, in a trip to find what they are looking for, a journey to The Green Hill.

For further information on Let’s Create please contact Gary on 0191 569 3511 or email gary.miller@eastdurhamtrust.org.uk

Eggs on Legs

Garlic Theatre conjure a poetic, Dr Suess world full of eggcentric puppets and music to make you roll around with laughter.

Meet a family of zany Eggs on Legs, living in a pocket of the globe. One day the wind blows a huge egg into their tree and they are excited to play with it. But what happens if it hatches and can they protect it from the slithery snake?

A cracking family show bursting with wonder and surprise – you will never look at an egg in the same way again.

For ages 3-8

When: Friday 30th August

10am – 11am

Where: Greenhills Community Centre, Stephens Terrace, Durham, DH6 3JS

Tickets – £2 per child, adults & under 12 months free

Funded through East Durham Creates Cultural Hubs Programme

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, and 6th & 13th September.

​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.

Eggs on Legs

Garlic Theatre conjure a poetic, Dr Suess world full of eggcentric puppets and music to make you roll around with laughter.

Meet a family of zany Eggs on Legs, living in a pocket of the globe. One day the wind blows a huge egg into their tree and they are excited to play with it. But what happens if it hatches and can they protect it from the slithery snake?

A cracking family show bursting with wonder and surprise – you will never look at an egg in the same way again.

For ages 3-8

When: Friday 30th August

3pm – 4pm

Where: Eastlea Community Centre, Stockton Road, Seaham SR7 8DX

Tickets – £2 per child, adults & under 12 months free

Funded through East Durham Creates Cultural Hubs Programme

Multiverse Arcade (100 Years of Play)

“What will you do when you’re in charge?” you are asked. Add your voice – the future is in your hands. This playful, empowering and thought-provoking event is created with Young Writers’ City at Excelsior Academy and Queen’s Hall Youth Theatre.

Multiverse Arcade inspires young people’s thinking about citizenship. It invites them to explore and talk about the social and environmental issues that they care about. It aims to inspire and build young people’s confidence about the future roles they might take to influence change, through voting, volunteering and social action. Multiverse Arcade connects to art, design and technology through inventive use of motion triggered video, sound and visual design.

Saturday 31st August 12-4pm

Dawdon Youth & Community Centre, Queen Alexandra Road, Seaham SR7 7NH

Free to attend

Multiverse Arcade was commissioned by Great Exhibition of the North. It is funded by Virgin Money Foundation, Arts Council of England, Wellsley Trust Fund via Community Foundation and Barbour Foundation.

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, and 6th & 13th September.

​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, and 6th & 13th September.

​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.

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