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Boxing Clever: Happy Valley
Every week, Michael Telfer – aka Mike TV – recommends a box set to crack open. This week’s choice is so good it’s more of a prescription than a…
 • Michael Telfer
Artists shortlisted for Sycamore Gap memorial commission
Cast your votes from artists’ shortlist for new Sycamore Gap creation. Tony Henderson reports
From the vaults: When Five Star kept the lights on
In a series of recollections, Sam Wonfor is sharing her rather special back catalogue of memories of and personal connection to the iconic 1980s music…
 • Sam Wonfor
My life through a lens: Paul Alexander Knox
We’ve been asking asking a North East-based photographer to open up their archives and select two handfuls of images which encapsulate life as they’ve…
 • Sam Wonfor
Culture Digest 13.03.26
Our round up of some of the arts and culture stories from across the North East, which caught our attention over the past week or so
 • Sam Wonfor
Training scheme nurtures new cultural producers
Curated Place and Newcastle City Council support emerging producers with hands-on training and opportunities to stage work
David Olusoga to give South Shields lecture
The award-winning historian and broadcaster has been announced as the speaker for the long-running civic lecture.
Roger Wagner exhibition at Auckland Palace
Retrospective at Bishop Auckland brings more than 20 paintings - including two rarely seen together - to the North East
Flags are out at The Bowes ahead of Vivienne Westwood exhibition
A striking terrace installation is on display ahead of the upcoming exhibition
New Casken CD evokes landscape and culture of Northumberland
Choral tribute to poetry and place
 • David Whetstone
The things you hear people say... captured in an exhibition
Mobile blather on display
 • David Whetstone
Huge British comics archive begins auction run
Wowsers. First instalment of North East collector’s comics stash sells for £100,000. Tony Henderson reports
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