Photo Credit: Joanne Coates In the 35th anniversary of Jim Cartwright’s joyous and anarchic masterpiece, the residents of Road are relocated to the North East in the first show Artistic Director Natalie Ibu will direct for Northern Stage. Protest, poetry, lust and grit. Road hopes to be a vibrant, funny and moving show celebrating community and the [...]
This post is sponsored. Northumberland Folk takes place across Museums Northumberland’s four sites – Woodhorn Museum, Hexham Old Gaol, Berwick Museum and Art Gallery and Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum. I was fortunate to be able to visit 3 of the exhibitions (minus Berwick as it is too far for me) and each of the collections [...]
I could not make the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year, so I was really happy to see that there digital shows to watch in the comfort of my own home. There were options of On Demand which meant you could watch the show whenever you wanted till a certain date. There were also shows that [...]
Living in the Northumberland Countryside, you often see some strange goings on. But I have never seen so many Scarecrows before. That was because of the Bardon Mill Scarecrow 2021 competition. The residents of Bardon Mill, Henshaw, Thorngrafton, Towhouse, Westwood, Redburn and Scrogwood all decorated and created Scarecrows of all shapes and sizes. Then it [...]
It was a lovely hot summers evening so the Hirst family decided to take a stroll along Newcastle Quayside. We wanted to experience NE1 Summer in the City, as summer is almost over we thought we better take advantage of the sun and the excitement by the water. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CS9zlxmI3LT/ I first noticed this colourful sticker [...]
