Myth, music and the threatened North Yorkshire coast came together inside a sold-out Bluebird Bakery, as Hannah Davies, Jack Woods and PitchWitches created an evening of rare emotional power

Ninety years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, People’s History Museum is remembering the British volunteers, fundraisers, families and working people who saw fascism advancing across Europe - and decided that neutrality wasn't enough

A new community garden beneath Chapeltown’s Reflections of Carnival mural will turn a landmark public artwork into a place to pause, gather and celebrate Leeds’ Caribbean heritage

Former Green Futures participant Willow Driscoll-Duke returns as a filmmaker with a documentary about nature, belonging and young people’s environmental hopes

At Aviva Studios, Ai Weiwei has built an exhibition from empire, industry, migration, war and personal captivity. Monumental in scale, Button Up! asks Manchester to look again at the forces that made the modern world — but its most powerful object may be the button that once fell from a prisoner’s trousers

At the Royal Armouries, more than 250 objects from Mongolia reveal an empire built through terrible violence - but also through movement, communication, cultural exchange and ideas that still shape our world. Colin Petch walks through the exhibition with Interpretation Manager Matthew Wood

From his rural home near York, Drew Colson is building singular analogue guitar amplifiers from Yorkshire hardwoods - beautiful enough to become heirlooms, but made to be played

Thirty years after Mark Herman’s film gave voice to a Yorkshire community being dismantled, Amy Leach’s magnificent staging proves that Brassed Off is no period piece. With monumental performances, astonishing live brass and one unsettling glimpse of the England that followed, this is theatre of fury, grief, solidarity - and stubborn Northern hope

As Queen Anne returns to the Mersey, Liverpool is celebrating its maritime inheritance. But beneath the splendour of the Cunard Building lies another history: of class, departure and people carrying everything they owned towards an uncertain new life

At 50 MV, an artist-run gallery tucked into an unexpected corner of Merseyside, curators Luke Skiffington and James Bacchi-Andreoli have brought together 15 artists whose work stretches, cuts, folds and reassembles the language of painting. The result is an exhibition built with seriousness, instinct and a liberating sense of play

At Insights North East’s 2026 conference, one conversation cut through the language of partnership and transformation: if policymakers want lasting change, they must understand why so many people no longer trust politics to deliver it

At Children North East’s Cowgate Centre in Newcastle, poverty isn't an abstract policy problem. It's bus fares, school shoes, hospital appointments, youth work, family stress and systems that still too often expect struggling people to meet them halfway