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

After the riots, they wrote letters to their city. Now Britain is being invited to hear them
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Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.
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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

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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

After the riots, they wrote letters to their city. Now Britain is being invited to hear them
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Can you sing, act and maintain your composure when somebody mentions an underproved focaccia? Ilkley Musical Theatre Society is holding auditions for its spring 2027 production of The Great British Bake Off Musical

There's never been a more important moment to positively impact a young person's life
Former Green Futures participant Willow Driscoll-Duke returns as a filmmaker with a documentary about nature, belonging and young people’s environmental hopes
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Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.
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The people who know Nidderdale’s rivers, becks and footpaths best are being asked to help identify invasive species before they spread further. A few minutes spent recording what we see could contribute to years of better-informed conservation work

Milvus milvus: The formerly endangered migrant - that is now one of the North's most successful breeders
At Aviva Studios, Ai Weiwei has built an exhibition from empire, industry, migration, war and personal captivity. Monumental in scale, Button Up! asks Manchester to look again at the forces that made the modern world — but its most powerful object may be the button that once fell from a prisoner’s trousers
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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
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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