Hats off to my council, Durham County Council, who have managed to protect all of it's 39 libraries, mobile library & home delivery service. Long may that continue. I'm happy to be a casual librarian helping out the local service covering where necessary.

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Ready for another song?! 👀 My new single ‘You Wanted This’ will be yours next Wednesday 24th!!!

This one’s a biggy. I’m mega excited to share it with you 🤠

Pre-save 🔗 slinky.to/youwantedthis

📸 by the incredible Ellen Dixon

Got an itch to try recording your poems, or even making a podcast, but don't know where to start or what you need?

Come to our Playspace tomorrow Sat 20th at arcstockton where we'll have a LOAD of techy toys to play with!

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Badges for Secret Victorian organisation protecting the crown from the rum and uncanny?
Available from a Man dressed in Dark Tweed pretending to be selling books?
I could not possibly comment...

#steampunk SCI-FI SCARBOROUGH #menindarktweed #books

Amid growing awareness of the impact social media has on our collective mental health, and particularly on young, developing minds, communication skills facilitator Kate Alderton shares insights about her post-screening sessions at our Super Connected events.

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🎶 Exciting News at Darlington Library! 🎶
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Unlock your musical potential with our brand-new beginners course in Music Production! 🎵
Watch this space for further info.... 👀

Are you an artist, a producer, programmer, funder, or member of local authority staff, who is committed to working in or supporting the Outdoor Arts sector? Take a look at this professional development opportunity with OutdoorArtsUK ⬇

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DO YOU WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL?

WRITERS’ BLOCK offer a year-long programme of workshops, mentoring, author masterclasses and meetings with agents

There are 14 places, including 4 reserved for working class writers.

Apply here:

writersblocknortheast.com/2024

Number 15 in this month’s Official Folk Album Charts! 😭🖤🍾⭐️

This has long been a big dream of mine. Can’t believe I made the top 20 with my debut record! Thanks everyone who has helped make this happen, especially you lot the listeners.

CONGRATULATIONS MIKE!

Mike Edwards was on our 2020-21 programme and we couldn’t be more chuffed for him!

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A tribute the the cinematic beginnings of Sir Ridley Scott. At one point it was mooted to be “a massive, to-scale, scary-as-hell statue of the Alien from Aliens in the centre of our town”.

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first run of BLERoom magazines The Black Light Engine Room Press

Pre Christmas, the Keep The Children Safe tape raised £1500 for MAP. Our digi only, smaller scale, KTCS II has just raised another £500. Thank you for the support

April end will see Women Invented Noise (not Industrial Coast) III

All profits on this one to Action Aid

This brilliant article from Mark Beaumont inspired me and Kate Alderton. Arts Council England ran with it, and now we're touring 🙏

Reclaiming #GigEtiquette and rebooting the #SilentMovie in the 21st Century. Thank you Mark 🙌
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I just watched this wonderful documentary about Tish Murtha. She's an amazing female photographer, so I was pleased to see it on BBC4 the other day. Behold! My Demon Snapper badge! I got it for my small contribution to the crowdfunding campaign. #tishmurtha

We’ve a brilliant day celebrating 50 years of Teesside Archives with the opening of our first exhibition.

Thanks to all that came! We’re looking forward to reopening to the public next week so that everyone can come to see our “Treasures of Teesside Archives” 🥳 #Archive30

Last weekend I completed filming my final major project. This week I’ve been focusing on helping other classmates with their final major projects.

#FinalMajorProject #TeessideUniversity #Film

Buzzing to have made it onto this feature, thank you Gareth for the very kind words about Between the Moon and the Milkman!

The deadline is April 11th - have we got your application yet? 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Local folk singer Amelia Coburn has opened up about the discrimination she's faced due to her Teesside accent: bbc.in/3J27m1W