When Joe Hodgson was asked to celebrate Goole’s bicentenary, he avoided the heritage clichés and wrote from inside the town instead. MagNorth meets the Sandra’s Wedding songwriter whose poems, records and civic imagination all begin with the same radical act: paying attention
York Unlocked is back this October with free access to more than 25 remarkable buildings and spaces across the city. Some can simply be walked into; for others, you’ll need to be ready when booking opens on 4 September
After its largest audiences in ten years, Morecambe Bay Fringe is looking beyond the boundaries of a single town. Its 2027 ambition could connect performers, venues and communities from Lancaster to Grange-over-Sands - with the railway becoming part of the festival itself
Part doll’s house, part art-school fever dream and part institutional hall of mirrors, David Steans’ new exhibition at Leeds Arts University uses paper, collage and architectural models to explore how creative worlds - and the places governing them - are constructed
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Find Your SetIn Henry Roberts’ new one-man play, a young man’s anonymous encounters with other men collide with the relationship and identity he presents to the world. Touring northern venues this autumn, Close Enough to Touch asks what shame becomes when someone cannot find the words to describe what they want
York Unlocked is back this October with free access to more than 25 remarkable buildings and spaces across the city. Some can simply be walked into; for others, you’ll need to be ready when booking opens on 4 September
A monumental new artwork has transformed an overlooked Newcastle wall. But behind it, something much more significant is taking shape: a new creative campus offering North East talent another route into music, performance, film and television - and another reason not to leave the region to begin
A permanent seafront mural will honour the photographer whose Last Resort pictures changed how Britain saw New Brighton. But the town’s proposed tribute goes beyond one wall—inviting children and residents to decide how its next portrait should look
This September, the North York Moors is inviting us to put down the phone, quieten the noise and rediscover the restorative power of walking, making, listening and paying attention
That pebble fits perfectly in the palm. The shell would look lovely on a bathroom shelf. But on coastlines already being remade by tides, storms and millions of summer visitors, when does a harmless souvenir become something we should leave behind?
A Yorkshire Dales charity has helped build a national recycling network for redundant tree shelters. But with millions of plastic guards still scattered across Britain’s woodlands, campaigners say their eventual removal must be planned - and paid for - before the first tree goes into the ground
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The curlew’s cry remains one of the defining sounds of the Yorkshire uplands. Keeping it there will require communities, conservationists and farmers to begin working together long before next year’s mowing starts
A felled oak, a boyhood in Scriven and a bunch of flowers carried home from a garage have found their way into Thomas James Butler’s most personal exhibition. In Harrogate, the Yorkshire artist asks us to look again at the natural world - while there is still time
After its largest audiences in ten years, Morecambe Bay Fringe is looking beyond the boundaries of a single town. Its 2027 ambition could connect performers, venues and communities from Lancaster to Grange-over-Sands - with the railway becoming part of the festival itself
Part doll’s house, part art-school fever dream and part institutional hall of mirrors, David Steans’ new exhibition at Leeds Arts University uses paper, collage and architectural models to explore how creative worlds - and the places governing them - are constructed
Linocuts, collagraphs, monoprints and wood engravings will fill the Chapel and Harriet Room at York Cemetery when York Printmakers return for their annual fair - a free weekend celebrating original art, handmade processes and the people behind the press
