Author: Helen Nugent
“Where language is beyond some individuals, music becomes that language.” Manchester Camerata’s dementia programme
This is a big year for Manchester Camerata. We’re celebrating 50 years of the orchestra and 10 years of our Music in Mind dementia programme.
Read the full story..York Theatre Royal: Mathew Horne and Keith Allen talk about The Homecoming
A new production of Harold Pinter’s award-winning drama The Homecoming starring Mathew Horne, Keith Allen and Ian Bartholomew is coming to York Theatre Royal later this month. Here, Horne and Allen talk about the 1960s masterpiece.
Read the full story..Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
We all know that Northern England, home to the Industrial Revolution, has been a land of great engineers. Does that mean it must be second rank when it comes to poets, musicians and artists?
Read the full story..Festival Preview: Underneath the Stars
Underneath the Stars festival will return this summer (July 29-31, 2022) with an all-female headline bill to Cinderhill Farm, Barnsley.
Read the full story..Exhibitions: Martin Grimes’ Fault Lines and Paula Chambers’ Working Girls, The Whitaker, Rossendale
As The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rossendale approaches its first birthday since reopening, it continues to share the best emerging and established contemporary artists in its visual arts programme.
Read the full story..“The vibes were sick.” The Hara talk to Northern Soul
I first met the three-piece heavy rock outfit known as The Hara during Storm Eunice. It was one of the worst UK storms in recent memory and a day where, between the four of us, no one had thought to bring an umbrella.
Read the full story..Food Review: Northcote, Langho, Blackburn
I am many things but I am not a good cook.
Read the full story..Nein! Nein! Nein! The Covid Covers exhibition, The White Hotel, Salford
A new exhibition has invited visitors to muse over memorable headlines from the Daily Star, including Carry On Chaos, Stick It Up Yer Virus, The Dukes Of Biohazard and Psycho Seagulls Corona Rampage.
Read the full story..Exhibition: Stirrings, Rachel Goodyear, Grundy Art Gallery / Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Co-commissioned by Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool and the University of Salford Art Collection, Stirrings is the first major solo exhibition by artist Rachel Goodyear in a museum and art gallery in the North West of England and will include new large-scale drawings and a new animation.
Read the full story..Save our baby birds this spring by building ‘love nests’, says UK wildlife expert Sean McMenemy
The odds are stacked against baby birds.
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