An inspirational Sheffield social enterprise aims to turn commercial filmmaking into free opportunities for young people. With workshops, a first short film and a project documenting the city’s manufacturing heritage, Surge Films is tackling a question that reaches beyond the screen: who gets the chance to tell our stories?

A childhood question becomes a journey through Britain’s past as Darlington-born Alicia McKenzie brings her family show to South Kirkby. Through Red Ladder Local, she is also asking who gets to see themselves in history - and where theatre can reach them

Debs Newbold brings the life of Grace O’Malley to Yorkshire with a show built from words and shared imagination. Behind the seafaring adventure lies a question that connects its sixteenth-century subject to its community-hall audiences: whose stories get space?

As Southport band Bobhowla revisit a song about the infected blood scandal, an archive recording of Andy Burnham brings an unexpected political resonance. But songwriter Howard Doupe wants attention to stay with the people still living with its consequences

Earlier this month, we reported an appeal to look for a rare fungus in Nidderdale’s grasslands. Now biodiversity officer Dr Kelly Harmar has found it herself - a discovery that adds to our understanding of the dale, while leaving some intriguing questions unanswered

From medieval revenants to Bram Stoker’s letters, a free Leeds exhibition traces the undead through folklore, medicine, theatre and forbidden desire - revealing how each age gives its fears a face

As Northern Ballet brings Cinderella and live orchestral music to Newcastle Theatre Royal, its latest tour offers a reminder of what the North’s cultural institutions make possible - from a first encounter with dance to the skilled work sustained at its home in Leeds

An enormous straw goat, a candle-lit procession and a weekend of music, storytelling and local craft. Ad Gefrin’s Yule Gaderung returns this November with an invitation to gather as the nights draw in

From remote peatlands in the Falkland Islands to familiar becks in Yorkshire, ecologist David Higgins has spent his career studying landscapes shaped by water. His return to Nidderdale opens a wider conversation about farming, wildlife and how the dale prepares for a changing climate

As SA Performing Arts Centre marks a quarter-century in Newcastle, its anniversary offers a timely companion to our conversation with Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: a story about the people, relationships and places that help the North East’s creativity grow

A Leeds restaurant serving kosher and halal food, friendship along the Pennines and a Manchester gala led by Daniel Auteuil. The UK Jewish Film Festival’s 30th edition brings comedy, documentary, history and contemporary Jewish life to northern screens this November

Six years of collaboration, a quarrelsome double act and a family story waiting to be heard. As Gateshead’s Lawnmowers marks its 40th anniversary, a new production with Murmur Theatre brings learning-disabled artists’ creativity and experience to stages across the North East and Yorkshire