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DEEP SEA ADVENTURES

@ The Hullabaloo

30 November 2019 - 26 April 2020

Our newest creative play installation, Deep Sea Adventures, will be in The Hullabaloo from Novembe

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NEW WRITING NORTH YOUNG WRITERS

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

11 January 2020 - 28 March 2020

Whether you’ve already got a novel on your memory stick or are looking for a bit of inspiration to give your writing a kick-start, this New Writing North Young Writers South Shields’ group is the thing you’ve been looking for...

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME

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

17 January 2020 - 19 April 2020

This FREE exhibition celebrates 100 years of council housing. In 1919 the Addison Act was introduced to create a nationwide system of public housing provision for the first time which would give working families a higher standard of housing.

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POETRY + VIDEO

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

17 January 2020 - 17 March 2020

A touring programme of video poems from around the world...

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NOVEL WRITING COURSE WITH TRACEY ICETON

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

23 January 2020 - 19 March 2020

If writing a novel is something you’ve always wanted to do then make 2020 your ‘year of the novel’...

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Lost Words Festival

25 January 2020 - 22 April 2020

A festival dedicated to a book that has become a global movement celebrating language and nature is to open later this month at The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre.

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Restoration, Redesign, Renovation: Durham Cathedral in the 19th century

@ Durham Cathedral

27 January 2020 - 10 May 2020

Discover how Durham Cathedral was transformed in the 19th century into a place of welcome for worshippers, pilgrims and tourists.

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Pre-Raphaelite Knights: Reinventing the Medieval World

@ The Bowes Museum

01 February 2020 - 03 May 2020

Explore a world of medieval myths and legends, of tales of heroic deeds and chivalric honour; for the most part the knights depicted by the Pre-Raphaelites in the 19th century were lovers as well as fighters...

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Judy Hurst – Illumination: the Gateway to Eternity

@ The Bowes Museum

01 February 2020 - 22 March 2020

Exquisite intricate works of art, some inspired by the Museum’s own collection, are on display as contemporary artist Judy Hurst returns with her latest selling exhibition.

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Youth Arts Exhibition: BRIGHT LIGHTS

@ Arts Centre Washington

03 February 2020 - 04 March 2020

Arts Centre Washington’s Youth Arts Exhibition has become a staple in our main Gallery’s calendar as its reputation has built over the last few years....

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Holes

@ Theatre Royal Newcastle

26 February 2020 - 29 February 2020

Stanley Yelnats can't catch a break. Born into a family cursed with bad luck, it comes as no surprise when he finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit.

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10CCLO

@ Arts Centre Washington

28 February 2020 - 29 February 2020

Remember these? Dreadlock Holiday, Mr Blue Sky, I’m Mandy Fly Me, Evil Woman, The Things We Do for Love, Wild West Hero, Life is a Minestrone, Art for Art’s Sake, Turn To Stone, I’m Not In Love… A few amongst many of the massive hits that make up the timeless repertoire of10CC and The Electric Light Orchestra.

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Meet me a Tree

@ The Hullabaloo

28 February 2020 - 29 February 2020

Meet me a Tree is an interactive first opera for 0-2 year olds and their carers with music by Schumann, Delibes and Handel as well as original words and music by Catherine Carter.

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KIN – National Dance Company Wales

@ Dance City

29 February 2020 - 01 March 2020

NDCWales perform poetry, sport and politics across three powerful pieces of dance.

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The Tiger Who Came To Tea

@ Gala Theatre and Cinema

29 February 2020 - 01 March 2020

A musical play adapted and directed by David Wood, based on the book by Judith Kerr

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Siobhan Phillips: Live & Unhinged

@ Tyne Theatre & Opera House

29 February 2020

Siobhan recently wowed audiences as the only female finalist in Britain’s Got Talent 2019...

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Chorister Experience Day

@ Durham Cathedral

29 February 2020

Does your child love to sing? Enjoy an afternoon making music with the Durham Cathedral Choristers, enjoying craft activities and getting a taste of life at The Chorister School, an 'excellent' school at the heart of Durham's World Heritage Site.

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GREEN EGGS AND HAM

@ Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham

02 March 2020

The perfect introduction to opera for 4-7 year olds and their families!

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Russian State Opera - Aida

@ Tyne Theatre & Opera House

04 March 2020

After the success of last year’s production of Madama Butterfly, as well as the previous Carmen and La Traviata, Russian State Opera is returning to Tyne Theatre & Opera House on Wednesday 4th March 2020 with the premiere of renowned opera, Aida.

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DOVES State of Grace

@ Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham

04 March 2020

Part road movie, part 80s noir, DOVES is a new dance-theatre work for ages 14 years+ that charts the rite of passage of two very different young women from the Deep South of the US.

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Opera North : Green Eggs and Ham

@ The Witham

04 March 2020

The perfect introduction to opera for 4 year + olds and their families, meet the hilariously persistent Sam-I-Am on a mission to persuade a grumpy grouch to try a delicious plate of green eggs and ham!