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Each season a network of venues, volunteer promoters and performers across rural areas light up their village halls and community spaces with a fantastic programme of live arts and events, contributing to a healthy, happy and vibrant rural life.

List of events

  • Lovely Assistant

    Lovely Assistant emerged from the Newcastle music scene in 2017. Their music explores the sounds...

    Armathwaite Old School Hall - 6 Mar

    Burnhope Community Centre - 7 Mar

    Middleton & Todridge Village Hall - 8 Mar

    Whittingham Memorial Institute - 9 Mar

  • Creative Highlights – Needle Felted Easter Eggs

    Join Claire Priestley of Teesdale Felt for a seasonal workshop creating beautiful needle felted Easter...

    Wingates Village Institute - 8 Mar

  • Creative Highlights – Illuminated Felt Bowls

    Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced felter, you will enjoy this illuminated...

    Bardon Mill & Henshaw Village Hall - 12 Mar

    Orton Market Hall - 15 Mar

    Penruddock Village Hall - 29 Mar

    Woodland Village Hall - 4 Apr

    Gleaston Village Hall - 7 Jun

    The Hearth Arts Centre, Horsley - 21 Jun

  • Let Us Take You To Paris

    Shut your eyes, and allow yourself to be transported back in time. To Paris, during...

    Allendale Village Hall - 13 Mar

    Edmundbyers Village Hall - 14 Mar

    Skirwith Village Hall - 15 Mar

    Helsington & Brigsteer Village Hall - 16 Mar

  • Creative Highlights – A Shortcut to Nature Journalling

    Have you wanted to create a nature journal, but don’t know where to start or...

    Barningham Village Hall - 14 Mar

    Newton & Bywell Community Hall - 29 Mar

    Allendale Village Hall - 19 Apr

    Newbrough Town Hall - 11 May

    St Thomas Church Hall, Stanhope - 23 May

    Bardon Mill & Henshaw Village Hall - 28 May

    Whittingham Memorial Institute - 6 Jun

    The Threshing Barn, Green Croft - 22 Jun

  • Creative Highlights – Carve, Paint & Print Provincetown White line

    White line printmaking was invented in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1914. It was inspired by the...

    Armathwaite Old School Hall - 18 Mar

    Soulby Village Hall - 25 Mar

    Wark Town Hall & Mechanics Institute - 24 Jun

  • The Moth

    You are invited to the world premiere of a gripping new thriller, The Moth. Two...

    St Thomas Church Hall, Stanhope - 21 Mar

    Barningham Village Hall - 22 Mar

  • Creative Highlights – Macrame Plant Hanger

    Join artist Emma Scott from Adeline and Twine for a workshop of mindful knottiness, and...

    Morpeth Library - 24 Mar

    Bardon Mill & Henshaw Village Hall - 23 Apr

  • Roald Dahl and the Imagination Seekers

    All around the world Roald Dahl’s words are disappearing, not only from books but children’s...

    Shilbottle Community Hall - 28 Mar

    Wingates Village Institute - 29 Mar

    The Stage at St Mary’s Church, Kirkby Lonsdale - 30 Mar

  • The Dreamtime Fellrunner

    The Dreamtime Fellrunner is a poetic, fun and moving exploration of Dr Julie Carter’s running...

    Levens Village Hall - 28 Mar

    Gleaston Village Hall - 29 Mar

  • Last Dance Saloon

    Two people of a certain age, with tangled pasts, find each other at a dance...

    Soulby Village Hall - 3 Apr

    St Cuthberts Church, Norham - 4 Apr

    Felton Village Hall - 5 Apr

    Bardon Mill & Henshaw Village Hall - 6 Apr

  • Nancy’s Orange + The Butterfly Collector

    Two actor-writers – Grace Kirby and Peter Macqueen – take on big issues in this...

    Newbrough Town Hall - 3 Apr

    Alston Town Hall - 5 Apr

    St Thomas Church Hall, Stanhope - 6 Apr

  • Third Class – A Titanic Story

    UNSINKABLE? UNTHINKABLE. Edward Dorking was ‘different’. Openly different. A one-man theatre show based on the...

    Berwick Library - 10 Apr

    Grasmere Village Hall - 11 Apr

    Middleton & Todridge Village Hall - 12 Apr

    Wark Town Hall & Mechanics Institute - 13 Apr

  • Ma Bessie’s Prohibition Party

    With a lifelong love of reggae and the music of the Caribbean, Julia Titus (aka...

    Ireleth Temperance Hall - 10 Apr

    The Stage at St Mary’s Church, Kirkby Lonsdale - 11 Apr

    Dufton Village Hall - 12 Apr

  • Creative Highlights – Let’s Enjoy Watercolour!

    Enjoy the freedom of playing with watercolours, learning new tips and techniques on the way....

    Arnside Educational Institute - 12 Apr

    Grasmere Village Hall - 27 Jun

  • The Mountain Witch

    An adventurous tale from Speedwell Dance of seasons gone awry, an ancient and powerful witch...

    Arnside Educational Institute - 19 Apr

  • Counter’s Creek

    Counter’s Creek is an acoustic folk band who play original music inspired by the music...

    Newbrough Town Hall - 25 Apr

    Lesbury Village Hall - 26 Apr

    Murton Village Institute - 27 Apr

  • Scaffolding

    Sheridan is having a bad day. Her church is closing, Adult Social Care are on...

    The Club, Kirkby Stephen - 25 Apr

    Amble Parish Hall - 26 Apr

    The Hearth Arts Centre, Horsley - 27 Apr

  • Patrick Monahan: The Talkinator

    It’s the year 2024 and there’s a lot of talk about AI taking over humans....

    Grasmere Village Hall - 1 May

    Penruddock Village Hall - 2 May

    Newton & Bywell Community Hall - 3 May

    Whittingham Memorial Institute - 4 May

  • Catherine MacLellan & Lucy Farrell

    Though they grew up half a world apart, multi-award-winning songwriters Catherine MacLellan (Prince Edward Island,...

    Orton Market Hall - 7 May

    Boldron Village Hall - 8 May

    Wark Town Hall & Mechanics Institute - 11 May

  • Sarah McQuaid in Concert

    Sarah McQuaid’s lush, chocolatey voice combines with her engaging personality, “subtle mastery onstage” (Huffington Post)...

    The Hearth Arts Centre, Horsley - 8 May

    The Cheviot Centre, Wooler - 9 May

    Lazonby Village Hall - 10 May

    Dufton Village Hall - 11 May

  • Fault Lines

    Fault Lines blends stunning dance with immersive digital imagery, evocative writing, and cinematic music, to...

    Gilsland Village Hall - 9 May

    Appleby Public Hall - 10 May

  • Sons of Town Hall

    Welcome to the mythic world of Sons of Town Hall, the international, waterborne duo of...

    Hepscott Parish Hall - 14 May

    Appleby HUB - 15 May

    Gilsland Village Hall - 16 May

    Great Whittington Village Hall - 18 May

    Blyth Library - 20 May

    Wingates Village Institute - 21 May

    Allendale Village Hall - 22 May

  • Touki: Plastic Man

    Touki – the collective created by British-Senegalese musician Amadou Diagne and Franco-American Cory Seznec –...

    Humshaugh Village Hall - 17 May

  • Steel

    Two lads. Twelve hours. One million pounds. On the wet West Cumbrian coast, James and...

    Casterton Village Hall - 29 May

    Amble Parish Hall - 30 May

    Arnside Educational Institute - 31 May

  • The Bench

    A Moving Tale of Love, Loss…. and Football. A touching and humorous tale of two...

    Askham & Helton Community Centre - 29 May

    Kentmere Institute - 30 May

    Hamsterley Village Hall - 31 May

    Great Whittington Village Hall - 1 Jun

  • Hattie Whitehead

    Hattie Whitehead was raised on folk and jazz greats of the sixties and seventies. Her...

    Levens Village Hall - 30 May

    Orton Market Hall - 31 May

    Cotherstone Village Hall - 1 Jun

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