At Leeds Arts University, David Steans has built a gallery inside a gallery from paper, scraps and institutional unease. MagNorth meets the artist and curator Dr Marianna Tsionki to ask what a university gallery can make possible - for artists, students and a city
The Teesside producer’s dark and defiant new single takes aim at the politicians, media moguls and think tanks profiting from division - and turns their language into a declaration of solidarity
Neil Tennant, Susanna Clarke and Christopher Eccleston will help draw audiences to Durham this October. But behind the names is a larger ambition: to rebuild human connection, open up the world of books and ensure northern talent no longer has to leave the region to find opportunity
More than 60 artists and makers will open studios, homes, galleries and workshops for Berwick’s first town-wide Open Studios. It is a chance to see the creative life already presentand - and to ask how public investment can help it flourish
John Cooper Clarke, Jackie Kay and Salena Godden are among the celebrated writers heading to Morecambe—but this festival’s most important work may be happening closer to home, as local poets, children and first-time performers claim their place on the programme
Punks, goths, emos, metalheads, rockabillies and the gloriously unclassifiable will inherit Manchester this October, as the city’s first Alternative Fashion Week puts subculture - and the people who create it - firmly under the lights
A new partnership between The Biscuit Factory and Ad Gefrin is set to take contemporary art from Newcastle to Wooler bringing artists, audiences and Northumberland’s long traditions of making into the same room
From sketches made in the middle of a gig to murals shaped by lyrics and paintings about identity, a new York exhibition asks what music looks like after the last note has faded
A lost pair of shoes. A classmate’s notebook. The money to buy a goldfish. At Hyde Park Picture House, five rarely seen Iranian films reveal how the smallest childhood struggles can illuminate poverty, authority, disability and the structures governing adult life
A conservatoire, a recent graduate and an influential educator have reached the Parliamentary Jazz Awards shortlist. Together, they tell a larger story about what sustained northern cultural investment makes possible
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
They learnt their craft in one of Britain’s great colliery bands. Now the musicians behind Dizzy Brasscals are replacing competition pieces with Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Oasis - and asking Manchester to supply the vocals
At Leeds Arts University, David Steans has built a gallery inside a gallery from paper, scraps and institutional unease. MagNorth meets the artist and curator Dr Marianna Tsionki to ask what a university gallery can make possible - for artists, students and a city
The Teesside producer’s dark and defiant new single takes aim at the politicians, media moguls and think tanks profiting from division - and turns their language into a declaration of solidarity
Neil Tennant, Susanna Clarke and Christopher Eccleston will help draw audiences to Durham this October. But behind the names is a larger ambition: to rebuild human connection, open up the world of books and ensure northern talent no longer has to leave the region to find opportunity
More than 60 artists and makers will open studios, homes, galleries and workshops for Berwick’s first town-wide Open Studios. It is a chance to see the creative life already presentand - and to ask how public investment can help it flourish
John Cooper Clarke, Jackie Kay and Salena Godden are among the celebrated writers heading to Morecambe—but this festival’s most important work may be happening closer to home, as local poets, children and first-time performers claim their place on the programme
Punks, goths, emos, metalheads, rockabillies and the gloriously unclassifiable will inherit Manchester this October, as the city’s first Alternative Fashion Week puts subculture - and the people who create it - firmly under the lights
A new partnership between The Biscuit Factory and Ad Gefrin is set to take contemporary art from Newcastle to Wooler bringing artists, audiences and Northumberland’s long traditions of making into the same room
From sketches made in the middle of a gig to murals shaped by lyrics and paintings about identity, a new York exhibition asks what music looks like after the last note has faded
A lost pair of shoes. A classmate’s notebook. The money to buy a goldfish. At Hyde Park Picture House, five rarely seen Iranian films reveal how the smallest childhood struggles can illuminate poverty, authority, disability and the structures governing adult life
A conservatoire, a recent graduate and an influential educator have reached the Parliamentary Jazz Awards shortlist. Together, they tell a larger story about what sustained northern cultural investment makes possible
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
They learnt their craft in one of Britain’s great colliery bands. Now the musicians behind Dizzy Brasscals are replacing competition pieces with Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Oasis - and asking Manchester to supply the vocals
