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WE ARE THE BORO! 😍

#UTFB ❤️✨️

'Arts centres, like universities, are places where new ideas and new ways of seeing the world are explored.' Michael Eades, Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London, in @artsprofessional.co.uk on the partnership with Future Arts Centres www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

📢 We’re delighted to share that Future Arts Centres has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - marking the start of a new partnership grounded in shared values of creativity, community, and civic engagement. 🔗 Learn more: futureartscentres.org.uk/future-arts-...

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Saturday in #Bradford 📚☕️🎭

Ending October with reflections from our recent Members’ Meeting which tackled the capital challenge head-on. From urgent repairs to future-proofing, the message was clear: arts centres are civic infrastructure. Investing in them means investing in community: futureartscentres.org.uk/building-for...

💡 Arts centres are delivering culture with purpose - supporting wellbeing, learning, and local regeneration. Future Arts Centres’ latest Sector Insight Report shows a resilient, community-rooted sector ready to lead - with the right support. 📖 Read it here: futureartscentres.org.uk/new-sector-i...

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All you'll need is here 💙 The brilliant Hope & Social at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social last night ✨️

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Gorgeous set from Yoshika Colwell, opening for Fionn Regan in Great Ayton last night ✨️

Fantastic night at The Waiting Room with Chris Helme & Simon Snaize. Great way to round off the weekend! 👌

Change of location this Sunday morning, and a beautiful river walk by the Tees at Preston Park ☀️🍂

Just a few highlights from today's #TwisterellaFest, another brilliant day of live music in the heart of Boro 🙌❤️ #UTB

Happy 10th birthday, @drakebookshop.bsky.social! 🥳 🥂 📚 Starting Saturday with a visit to Stockton. Would have been rude not to, wouldn't it? On #BookshopDay as well! My favourite bookshop, and one of Teesside's best independents 🧡 #ChooseBookshops @booksaremybag.bsky.social

One of my all-time favourite bands ❤️ Brilliant night watching Idlewild at @boilershop.bsky.social in Newcastle 🙌

Brilliant evening in conversation with the Northern Writers Panel of Christy Ducker, David Mark and @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social talking about writing and place at Sunderland Libraries' City Library. Thanks to the writers and @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social for this insightful,entertaining session!

👻👻 Getting in the spooky season mood? I'm running an online writing workshop focused on the ghost story this month! 👻👻 📆 Wednesday 22 October, 7pm Book here: www.amylordauthor.com/events 🎃 #WritingCommunity

Fantastic night with Hope & Social at @thecrescentyork.bsky.social 💙 Roll on @nathbrudenell.bsky.social in two weeks' time! 🙌

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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The brilliant John Bramwell at Middlesbrough Cathedral tonight ✨️

Truly wonderful night with Barry Hyde and Faithful Johannes (@fjwords.bsky.social) at Hark! The Sound of Stories at Darlington Library ✨️ (Well worth the trip down the A66 on a wet and windy Friday night!) #HARK @tracksdarlington.bsky.social

Brilliant day at S&DR200 in Stockton town centre watching Southpaw Company's #STEAM, and #GhostTrain: The Arrival by Avanti Display and Walk the Plank 🚂 ✨️ #SDR200 #StocktonAndDarlingtonRailway

Who knew there was such beautiful music to be made with a bunch of toy instruments?! Fun, chilled out Tuesday night at the Hope & Social Club at The Attic, Leeds ✨️💙

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#UTB 🙌

I adored What Girls Do In The Dark, and I was hanging on to every word again in This Is How I Fight, the incredible new collection from @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social 🥀 ✨️ (Nine Arches Press, June 2025)

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So good to see the brilliant @gilllandry.bsky.social again at The Cluny tonight. It's been far too long, but also worth every minute of the wait ✨️ #CinnamonCanyonBlues

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Incredible night with Dupla, Baby Said, Mt Misery, and Loren Heat at @teessideuni.bsky.social Students' Union 🙌 The spirit of the Westgarth lives on ❤️ #LiveMusic #MiddlesbroughGigs #UTB

"It's time to look more seriously at the role of arts centres as civic anchors... increasingly central to the health and wellbeing of communities" - says our Co-Director Annabel Turpin in this piece for Museums Journal (@museumsassociation.org): www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

The magnificent Mercury Rev at @kustockton.bsky.social ✨️

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Fun Friday night watching Sherlock at the brilliant Open Air Theatre in Grosvenor Park, Chester, run by @storyhouselive.bsky.social ✨️

We’re thrilled to announce 22 photographers from Open Eye Gallery's Socially Engaged Photography Network will be capturing stories from #OurFreedom: Then and Now, culminating in a national exhibition in 2026. Meet them & learn more: ourfreedom.org.uk/news/new-nat... @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Artists, there's still time to submit proposals for Timepiece, a new audiovisual installation for #CultureHouseSunderland. Take a look and apply by Mon 1 Sept 👇

Legends! 🙌 My fabulous friends Patrick & Lauren have completed an epic 63 mile #pALEgrimage from Scarborough to Stockton to help raise vital funds for the Great North Air Ambulance Service. If you'd like to give them a hand, you can contribute here: gofund.me/b7b917fa #TheGoldenSmog #pALEgrimage25

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Gorgeous stuff from @thelakepoets.bsky.social and Eve Simpson at the Old Cinema Launderette in #Durham last night ✨️

Here we go again... #UTB 🔴⚪️

Mint night with @weathership.bsky.social, George Bailey and his band, and Tom Blackwell in the beautiful surroundings of Middlesbrough Town Hall's Courtroom ✨️

If you weren't able to attend this research event which saw Future Arts Centres joining with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social to explore the role arts centres play in the UK's arts sector and the funding environment they operate in, you can now watch the recording online 👇

Incredible evening at Newcastle Fringe Festival, watching two shows at The Old Coal Yard - first up was Carol Ann Duffy & John Sampson with Earth Prayers, then the always captivating Inua Ellams with Search Party ✨️ Quite the night for a poetry fangirl like me! 🤩

Really special night at Alphabetti Theatre watching Eve Simpson, Mike McKenzie, The Lake Poets, and Dara Dubh at Songs From South Shields (& The World) Writers' Round as part of #NewcastleFringeFestival ✨️

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Lush visit to Leeds to catch up with a friend. Lovely chance to visit some of our favourite spots again, including the gorgeous #LeedsCornExchange 😊