On the final afternoon of Newcastle’s Hoppings, the rides roared, the lights flashed and the prizes waited to be won. But beyond the machinery, MagNorth found the real spectacle of the Town Moor: thousands of people making a place together
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
For nine productive years, Crimea Street Films put terraces, factory gates and melancholy canals on the big screen – while largely overlooking the troublesome business of entertaining an audience. Now, its devoted Friends are taking the archive online
Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself
Real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will appear together on stage for the first time in a new northern production of Rona Munro’s prison drama Iron. But behind the irresistible casting story is a much darker examination of motherhood, memory and the price of a truth withheld for fifteen years
Morecambe Bay Fringe Festival has everything from cabaret and comedy to live music and spoken word for a landmark 10th anniversary edition of the festival that has underpinned a cultural renewal in the seaside town
Born from an ancient selkie story, a debilitating illness and the strange confinement of lockdown, The Ballad of Blea Wyke brings poetry, live music and a haunted North Yorkshire coastline to York and Helmsley this July
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
A vast, walk-through sculpture of colour, calm and curious corridors has landed on West Park Stray. We may be biased - but the Harrogate International Festival folk really do know how to make a place feel extraordinary
At this year’s Staithes Festival of Arts & Heritage, the North Yorkshire coast will do what it has done for generations: make room for artists. But in 2026, that invitation extends deliberately to those still finding their voice
On the final afternoon of Newcastle’s Hoppings, the rides roared, the lights flashed and the prizes waited to be won. But beyond the machinery, MagNorth found the real spectacle of the Town Moor: thousands of people making a place together
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
For nine productive years, Crimea Street Films put terraces, factory gates and melancholy canals on the big screen – while largely overlooking the troublesome business of entertaining an audience. Now, its devoted Friends are taking the archive online
Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself
Real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will appear together on stage for the first time in a new northern production of Rona Munro’s prison drama Iron. But behind the irresistible casting story is a much darker examination of motherhood, memory and the price of a truth withheld for fifteen years
Morecambe Bay Fringe Festival has everything from cabaret and comedy to live music and spoken word for a landmark 10th anniversary edition of the festival that has underpinned a cultural renewal in the seaside town
Born from an ancient selkie story, a debilitating illness and the strange confinement of lockdown, The Ballad of Blea Wyke brings poetry, live music and a haunted North Yorkshire coastline to York and Helmsley this July
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
A vast, walk-through sculpture of colour, calm and curious corridors has landed on West Park Stray. We may be biased - but the Harrogate International Festival folk really do know how to make a place feel extraordinary
At this year’s Staithes Festival of Arts & Heritage, the North Yorkshire coast will do what it has done for generations: make room for artists. But in 2026, that invitation extends deliberately to those still finding their voice
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