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Review: Durham Book Festival

by multiple writers• 1st November 2020

Durham Book Festival is an annual event, usually held in the picturesque cathedral city of Durham; this year however, events have shifted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our...

Newcastle’s bookshops: a tale of quality over quantity

by Ellen Dunn• 1st November 2020

Ellen Dunn takes us around her favourite North East bookshops...

Arts & Cats

by Leanna Thomson• 26th October 2020

Leanna Thomson heads to CatPawCino, a cat cafe on the Tyne, to try out their 'drawing with cats' event....

Review: poet Sasha Dugdale in conversation with Tara Bergin

by Anth Graham• 21st July 2020

Anth Graham reviews the poet Sasha Dugdale's live lecture as part of Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts' 'Inside Writing' online poetry festival. ...

Writing OCD: an interview with the creator of ‘Ladybones’

by Sophia Kypriotis• 9th March 2020

The one hour, one-woman show ‘Ladybones’ has taken its audience by storm with its hard-hitting yet accessible foray into the reality of living with OCD. Sophia...

Trinkets and Treasures: students tackle the exhibition of memories

by Katerina Vasilaki• 2nd March 2020

Do you remember the first time you went to the cinema last year? Or the first time you travelled by train the year before that? Trinkets and Treasures is an exhibition that...

Review: Dominic Lee on ‘The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson’

by Dominic Lee• 2nd March 2020

Political satire ‘The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson’ made its way to the Northern Stage last weekend after a number of hit shows around the country. The play...