After travelling across three continents to explore how theatre can confront violence against women and girls, JoJo Kirtley brought the learning home. In Sunderland, schoolgirls, community groups and survivors are creating something larger than a podcast: a model of culture built around care, agency and the right to be heard

Preserved beneath the Fenlands for five millennia, England’s black oak carries the memory of a vanished landscape. At Blackburn Cathedral, Richard Durrant will bring an extraordinary guitar into conversation with the monumental Table for the Nation

Short Supply’s first MagNorth feature was about refusing to wait for permission. Now Mollie and Bek are taking one orange chair to Edinburgh - and asking what happens in the fragile moment before an idea enters the world

After a lifetime shaped by rules, artist Joe Giles discovered abstract painting at 34. One remarkable year later, his work is selling, exhibitions are taking shape - and the colour is refusing to stay inside the lines

At Energising Britain North East & Yorkshire 2026, the climate transition wasn't an abstract policy debate. It was a cathedral roof, a football club, a chip shop, a housing charity - and a group of Bradford schoolkids showing the grown-ups what agency looks like

Today is World Press Freedom Day - a moment not only to think about journalists working in war zones or authoritarian states, but to ask what kind of information ecosystem we want here in the North of England.

As 2Faced Dance bring their powerful new production TOMORROW to Leeds, Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald speaks about masculinity, silence and the realities of male mental health - and why this is a conversation that cannot wait.

In a York pub, two friends are quietly confronting the North’s loneliness crisis - one empty seat at a time.

How one York Young Person and her family found confidence, clarity - and a future - through a technical route