No nostalgia cash-ins here: Sixteen years after their last studio record, the architects of Factory Records’ most fragile, devastating beauty are back with Renascent - and the North West is gathering to honour one of its true originals
Forget manufactured indie hype. By putting a twenty-year secret - and the scar across his chest - on the cover of his debut album, Tom A. Smith just raised the stakes for British guitar music
In Sheffield, a free residential course will give 30 young people the chance to turn archive footage into a film of their own. The work begins with a question every archive has to face. Whose lives can we see?
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
As Rowetta and The Real Thing join the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Salford, The Music is Black: Live offers a chance to listen again to a region whose musical identity reaches far beyond its familiar guitar bands
From a Leeds fish and chip shop to Manchester ramblers and lifelong Liverpool friendships, British Jewish lives fill the screen at this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival. Filmmaker and Composer Benjamin Till has talked to MagNorth about belonging, the hurt behind his work and the pleasure of being seen in all your complexity.
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?
In Morecambe, The Bay International Film Festival is building an invitation that extends beyond the screen: affordable films, shared conversation and somewhere to stay for a cup of tea. As the festive build-up begins, its January return asks a useful question about how we make room for one another
At the opening of a new partnership with Newcastle’s The Biscuit Factory, art and shared food brought people together in Wooler. For Alan and Eileen Ferguson’s museum and distillery, it's another chapter in an ambition that reaches into the life and future of North Northumberland
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
No nostalgia cash-ins here: Sixteen years after their last studio record, the architects of Factory Records’ most fragile, devastating beauty are back with Renascent - and the North West is gathering to honour one of its true originals
Forget manufactured indie hype. By putting a twenty-year secret - and the scar across his chest - on the cover of his debut album, Tom A. Smith just raised the stakes for British guitar music
In Sheffield, a free residential course will give 30 young people the chance to turn archive footage into a film of their own. The work begins with a question every archive has to face. Whose lives can we see?
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
As Rowetta and The Real Thing join the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Salford, The Music is Black: Live offers a chance to listen again to a region whose musical identity reaches far beyond its familiar guitar bands
From a Leeds fish and chip shop to Manchester ramblers and lifelong Liverpool friendships, British Jewish lives fill the screen at this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival. Filmmaker and Composer Benjamin Till has talked to MagNorth about belonging, the hurt behind his work and the pleasure of being seen in all your complexity.
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?
In Morecambe, The Bay International Film Festival is building an invitation that extends beyond the screen: affordable films, shared conversation and somewhere to stay for a cup of tea. As the festive build-up begins, its January return asks a useful question about how we make room for one another
At the opening of a new partnership with Newcastle’s The Biscuit Factory, art and shared food brought people together in Wooler. For Alan and Eileen Ferguson’s museum and distillery, it's another chapter in an ambition that reaches into the life and future of North Northumberland
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
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