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The Northern Soul Awards

Manchester Cathedral

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There & Back

All Souls Church

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Ouseburn’s Street Food Saturday #2

Ouseburn Farm

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A History of the North in 100 Objects

Hexham Old Gaol

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#BrickMetro at Fenwick

Fenwick Newcastle

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OH SHE DOES LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEESIDE

SHELF Spanish City

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The Magical Reality of David Almond’s North

Seven Stories

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St. Margaret & The Dragon Arts Weekend

Left Bank Leeds

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Left Bank Choir

Left Bank Leeds

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Clubs Night

Left Bank Leeds

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The Women of Castle Howard

Castle Howard

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Ryedale Garden Photography Workshop

Castle Howard

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Mat Collishaw Exhibition

Castle Howard

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The Great Cumbrian Run

Sheepmount Athletics Stadium

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Borderlines Book Festival

Various venues across Carlisle

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Newcastle University MFA Summer Show

Newcastle University & Hatton Art Gallery

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The North’s Forgotten Female Reformers

Newcastle University Philip Robinson Library, Level 2, Special Collections and Archives exhibition space

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A History of Computing

Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle Helix

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Bridges___

The Long Gallery, Newcastle University

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Lancaster University – Research Highlights

Lancaster University

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Photographs by Tom Wood: Cammell Laird Shipyard 1993 – 1996

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

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Impacts 18

Liverpool City Centre

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Giant Spectacular: Liverpool’s Dream

Across Liverpool and Wirral

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Café Scientifique – Obesity and Cancer: The Unspoken Link

Brunswick Centre

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Sophie Lisa Beresford: North East Style

Abject 2 Gallery

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Heritage Escape Rooms

The Escape Key

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Northumberlandia

Blagdon Lane Cramlington

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This is Shanghai

Various locations near Liverpool Waterfront

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Age Does Not Define Us

The Witham Art Gallery

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Hope in the Great War

Old Low Light

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The Future of Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery

eat@Urban, Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle Helix

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Daily Walking Tour – Newcastle City Highlights

Outside JG Windows Music Shop

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D-STEM Raymond Oliver

Foyer City Campus East 2, Northumbria University

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Frederick Douglass Exhibition

Gallery North, Northumbria University

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Sculpture Trail

Newcastle University, Civic Centre & Northumbria University

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Recorded Memories – Norman Cornish

Cinema, Room 020A

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In Print

Squires Building (Second Floor 207, 216), Northumbria University

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A Brief Compendium of Named and Unnamed Objects

Sandyford Entrance, Northumbria University

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Photography Exhibition Women Anti-mining Activists Peru

Student Central Commons, Northumbria University

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Woon Gallery of Asian Art

Gallery North, Northumbria University

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Woon Shortlist Exhibition

Gallery North, Northumbria University

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John Currie – Moody and Atmospheric

Old Low Light

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Girth and Mirth

Abject Gallery

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York Mystery Plays 2018

King's Manor

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Circus! Show of Shows

Weston Park Museum

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Mark Gregg’s North Shields

Old Low Light

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Technicians Make it Happen in the North

The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

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Shattering Perceptions: The women of archaeology

Museum of Archaeology

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Fixed Price #GetNorth Menu at Porterhouse Butcher and Grill

Porterhouse Butcher and Grill

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Heritage Open Days in Tyne and Wear 2018

Tyne and Wear: Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland

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Special #GetNorth dish at Antler

Antler

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Tech Nation on Tour: Leeds

ODI Leeds

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The Imaginary Museum of the North

The Lit & Phil

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Unexpected Engagement – Jason Wilsher-Mills

20-21 Visual Arts

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Grayson Perry – The Vanity of Small Differences

20-21 Visual Arts Centre

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#getnorth2018 Inspired by Cocktail

Tiger Hornsby

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Beer: A History of Brewing and Drinking

Temple Newsam House

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Hidden Industries: Leeds 1914-18

Thwaite Mills

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Digital Landscapes

The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre

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Future Visions – A Virtual NewcastleGateshead Experience

The Zone - Northumbria University

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British Museum Treasures Come to JORVIK

JORVIK Viking Centre

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Magic & Mystery at Barley Hall

Barley Hall

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Portraits of Wildlife Trafficking

Squires Building (Second Floor), Northumbria University

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Lest We Forget?

Imperial War Museum North

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Ann C Haslam: Beyond 4 Walls

Farfield Mill

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Phil Collins: Can’t Do Right For Doing Wrong

HOME

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Young Glass

National Glass Centre

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Jurassic Gardens

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

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North Chocolates: Icon & Innovation Range

Fenwick

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Q&A: Beatles in India with Mark Lewisohn

The Beatles Story

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Take your North East Business from Good to Great

Hilton Gateshead

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Serena Korda: The Bell Tree

Speke Hall

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World Premiere of Better off Dead by Alan Ayckbourn

Stephen Joseph Theatre

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Scarborough Open Golf Week

Various Golf Courses, Scarborough Whitby & Filey

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Festival of The Bay 2018

Various venues across

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A world of: Work

Brantwood

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MAN AND MOUNTAIN: CHRIS BONINGTON

Keswick Museum

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Craft and Gift Fair at The Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel Scarborough

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Scarborough Spa Orchestra 2018 – Gala Night at Scarborough Spa

Scarborough Spa South Bay

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The Emperor’s New Clothes: Transforming 19th Century Japan

Oriental Museum

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Garden Street Food Fest

Wynyard Hall

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Great Exhibition of the North ‘Inspired by’ Menu

Artisan at The Biscuit Factory

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LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL: BEAUTIFUL WORLD WHERE ARE YOU?

Various Locations, Liverpool

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Great North Children’s Hospital – Display Boards

Outside Great North Children's Hospital

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Great Exhibition of the North ‘Inspired by’ Menu

Hinnies Restaurant

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John Moores Painting Prize 2018

Walker Art Gallery

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Hepple Gin Afternoon Tea

Cafe 21 at Fenwick

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Double Fantasy – John & Yoko

Museum of Liverpool

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Great Northern Supper Clubs

Fenwick Newcastle

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SEED portrait exhibition

Outside Biomedicine West Wing entrance, Times Square, Life Science Centre

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Catwalking: Fashion through the Lens of Chris Moore

Bowes Museum

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Chow Down

The Piece Hall

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Rachel Laycock ‘Note to Self’ – South Transept

Hartlepool Art Gallery

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“The power of the line”, “Four genres four artists”;”Water + Colour”

Blandscliff Gallery and Studio

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Great South Tyneside: A taste of the borough’s great art, design and innovation in 10 objects

South Shields Museum & Art Gallery

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Build A Rocket

Stephen Joseph Theatre

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Land of Oak & Iron

Land of Oak & Iron

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Great Exhibition of the North ‘Inspired by’ Menu

Dobson & Parnell

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Restricted Forest

WITTON COUNTRY PARK

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Staithes Festival 2018

78 Staithes Ln

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Stuart Langley ‘Amusements’

Hartlepool Art Gallery

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Flowers of the Dales Festival

Venues across the Yorkshire Dales

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Grainger Market

Grainger Market

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Battle of Britain Lace Panel: Then and Now

Gawthorpe Hall

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Doncaster Art Club Annual Exhibition

Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery

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WOR CATHERINE: FACT AND FICTION

The Word

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Sentius Tectonicus

Segedunum Roman Fort & Museum

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PhotoClub Exhibition 2018

Newcastle City Library

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Quayside Sunday Market

Quayside Sunday Market

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Newcastle Farmers Market

Newcastle Farmers Market

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Great Exhibition of the North ‘Inspired by’ Menu

Blackfriars Restaurant

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Northumberland Golf Club / GET North Special Offer

Northumberland Golf Club

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Poetry in Motion

One hundred Go North East buses throughout the region

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TOUCH exhibition

Hexham General Hospital

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Talking Statues

George Charlton Memorial Fountain in Saltwell Park

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Festival of Thrift

Kirkleatham Museum

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Elizabethan Banquets

Lumley Castle Hotel

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Mister Finch: The Wish Post

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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InSight

Cafe from Crisis

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Fusion: Adventures in digital art

Eureka! The National Children's Museum

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The Great North Engineering Experience

The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

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Katrina Palmer: The Coffin Jump

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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The Rise of Manchester University: Industry, Engineering and Science (Heritage Tour)

Sackville St Building, Manchester University

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Great Northumberland

Northumberland (various venues)

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Killingworth Billy and The Willington Waggonway

Stephenson Railway Museum

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Great Northumberland: Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: Contagion

The Gymnasium Gallery

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Great Northumberland: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

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Great Northumberland: Mark Fairnington at Cherryburn

Cherryburn Station Bank

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Great Northumberland: Spirited at The Granary Gallery

The Granary Gallery

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Great Northumberland: Anya Gallaccio at Lindisfarne Castle

Lindisfarne Castle

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Bodies of Evidence: How Science Unearthed Durham’s Dark Secret

Palace Green Library

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Great Northumberland: Kielder Art & Architecture

KielderWater & Forest Park

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Souvenirs upon Tyne

Souvenirs upon Tyne

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Whickham Hermitage Community Garden

Whickham Hermitage Community Garden

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STEAMD Symposium

Darlington Hippodrome

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Mural Painting: George Stephenson

The Biscuit Room

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Longframlington Gardens

Longframlington Gardens

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North East Art Collective

45 Eldon Garden

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Monsters! The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly

The Word, National Centre for the Written Word

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AIR at the Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas

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Tanfield Railway

Tanfield Railway

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The Banqueting House Open Days

Gibside

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Newcastle City Guides Walking Tours

Various locations around NewcastleGateshead

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BBC Newcastle Interactive Studio Tours

BBC Newcastle

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The Shop at The Station Time Capsule Art Project

The Shop at The Station

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The Northern Powerhouse Brew Series

Wylam Brewery

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Glitch Gaming Festival

Metro Radio Arena

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The T-Shirt: Cult | Culture | Subversion

The Civic

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Kynren

Bishop Auckland

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The Bradford Bubble Up!

City Park

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The Arts Society Presents

Tyneside Cinema

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folly! 2018

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal

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Great Northumberland: Summer at Woodhorn Museum Pitmen Painters: Resurfacing

Woodhorn Museum

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Tees Valley Youth Orchestra Leavers Concert

Stockton Parish Church

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The Spirit of the North

Historic England, Bessie Surtees House

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​Arts’ Steamers

Newcastle Central Station

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Art in Newbiggin

Newbiggin Maritime Centre

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Great Yorkshire Art at the Mercer Art Gallery

Mercer Art Gallery

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Towns and cities across the North of England can get involved in the biggest event in England this year by putting forward events, experiences and performances inspired by Great Exhibition of the North, which takes place from 22 June — 09 September in NewcastleGateshead.

Submissions are welcome from events and performances across the North that are open to the public or the business community and celebrate great art and culture, design, and innovation. Events that meet the criteria will be officially recognised as part of the ‘Inspired by’ programme.

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