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ENCHANTED FOREST

@ The Hullabaloo

25 March 2019 - 02 November 2019

The Enchanted Forest was the first in a series of specially commissioned play installations which are part of the FREE activities offered at The Hullabaloo for families to enjoy.

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Norman Cornish – A Slice of Life

@ Mining Art Gallery

06 April 2019 - 13 October 2019

The works on display, which are all by Cornish have been chosen by groups from Spennymoor with others selected by Norman’s son, John, and daughter, Ann, to add a special insight into their father’s work.

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Norman Cornish – A Slice of Life

@ Mining Art Gallery

06 April 2019 - 01 January 2020

As part of a countywide celebration, the centenary of Norman Cornish’s birth will be marked by a special exhibition at the Mining Art Gallery, co-curated by members of the local community.

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Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure

@ Great North Museum – Hancock

18 May 2019 - 06 October 2019

Following visits to Dorchester, Birmingham, Belfast and Glasgow, the Natural History Museum's iconic Diplodocus skeleton cast Dippy is coming to Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Arrivals: Making Tyneside Home

@ Discovery Museum

22 June 2019 - 03 November 2019

“Immigration has always been part of our lives in society and, of course, it always will be.”Jeremy Abrahams

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Amazing Space

@ The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, South Shields

29 June 2019 - 23 February 2020

July 2019 marks 50 years since man first set foot on the Moon and to celebrate this momentous event, our latest exhibition ‘Amazing Space’ will open on 29 June.

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Hockney and Hollywood

@ The Bowes Museum

13 July 2019 - 03 November 2019

This summer we welcome Hollywood to The Bowes Museum in the form of a major photo montage by Britain's most famous living artist.

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Brilliant Bricks: A LEGO® Timeline of Northern Innovation

@ Discovery Museum

20 July 2019 - 30 November 2019

Pioneering northerners have been transforming our world with their clever inventions for centuries. This exhibition, built by LEGO® creator Steve Mayes, highlights what the North has done for the world through 45 intricate models, using 50,000 mini bricks.

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Les Misérables

@ Theatre Royal Newcastle

15 August 2019 - 05 October 2019

Tickets from £23.50

After nearly a decade since the last sell-out UK tour, Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables will play Newcastle Theatre Royal in 2019.

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Band Sundays

@ Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens

01 September 2019 - 28 September 2019

For four Sundays in September, get toe tapping and clapping here at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens. We've got some of the best local brass bands in store for you to enjoy. Bring your own deck chairs and rugs, and kick back on the grass on Sunday 8th September with Hexham Brass Band. 

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Black and White Exhibition

@ No.42

05 September 2019 - 02 November 2019

No.42 is holding its most popular exhibition of the year, Black & White. This exhibition, themed around the absence of colour, is making a comeback to the gallery space as local artists prove limited colour does not limit creativity.

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The Breath of Colour

@ Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery

10 September 2019 - 03 November 2019

Eta Ingham Lawrie returns to Bailiffgate with ‘The Breath of Colour’, her stunning new exhibition of over 30 wall hangings, capturing the light and moods of the hills and coastline of the Border region, Orkney and Snowdonia.

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Deerness Art Group Exhibition

@ Arts Centre Washington

14 September 2019 - 19 October 2019

An association of amateur artists resident in the North East, Members are exhibiting work in various mediums including oils, acrylics, mixed media and watercolour.

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Stepping Out of The Box Art Exhibition

@ Locomotion – The National Railway Museum at Shildon

14 September 2019 - 30 September 2019

This original artistic exhibition by Changing Relations aims to initiate conversations around gender roles and aspirations in the local community – inviting people to consider whether fitting ourselves into traditional masculine and feminine ‘boxes’ is always helpful.

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In My World

@ Gala Theatre and Cinema

14 September 2019 - 02 November 2019

A new exhibition will provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of young people growing up in south west Durham.

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Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story

@ Darlington Hippodrome

17 September 2019 - 21 September 2019

This sensational multi award-winning West End show first opened in 1989 and has been thrilling audiences around the world ever since...

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Count Arthur Strong

@ Gala Theatre and Cinema

18 September 2019

£21.50

As well as being the all-round entertainer we all know and love from the telly, Count Arthur Strong is also a lifelong fan of astronomy, since having been given a microscope, or whatever it is they use, for Christmas when he was a small precocious baby. In fact, it’s said the first word he spoke was ‘Uranus’.

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Terror from the Skies

@ Arts Centre Washington

19 September 2019

It’s a warm Summer’s day in the local graveyard. Hassan and Jake are skipping school and shooting the breeze, while Sheila and Joanne are tracing a shared history among the headstones...

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This is Not A Wedding

@ Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham

19 September 2019

£10.00 / £7.50 (student)

Expect to laugh, cry and shimmy along to the classics whilst four bridal-clad women attempt to entertain, delight and maintain their dignity in a desperate last ditch effort to work out what the hell it all means.

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The Blues Brothers

@ Newcastle Castle

19 September 2019

£9.50

In this 1980 musical comedy, Jake Blues (John Belushi) has been released from prison to discover that the Catholic orphange where he and blood brother Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) were raised is threatened with closure, unless they pay $5000 in property taxes. In order to raise the money and save the orphange the pair regroup with their old band The Blues Brothers.

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Jason Byrne

@ Gala Theatre and Cinema

19 September 2019

£19.50

Jason Byrne returns with his brand-new show, Wrecked But Ready. After 23 consecutive years Jason is wrecked but he is as ever ready (which is a battery, but he’s more Duracell than Eveready).