• Letting Off Steam – Walking Tour WA

    About this event Travel & Outdoor • Hiking Meet at Cardinal Hume's Statue opposite Central Station and finish at the Boiler shop. Join us to celebrate the 200th anniversary of…

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty

    Overview Blackeyed Theatre, in association with Theatre Royal Winchester and South Hill Park Adapted by Nick Lane from the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Composer – Tristan Parkes “When…

  • 1825 Tour | September

    Thursday 25th September | 11am The Lit & Phil: the first 32 years What would you see in Newcastle from the time the Lit & Phil was founded in 1793…

  • Hopetown Darlington – S&DR200 Festival

    S&DR200 Festival S&DR200 is a 9-month international festival taking place across County Durham and Tees Valley in 2025, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first journey on the Stockton…

  • Titans of Steam Gala

    TITANS OF STEAM GALA  Legends of the railway  As part of this year’s S&DR200 celebrations, Hopetown Darlington will be front and centre of the festival as the home of the…

  • Titans of Steam: Footplate Tours

    A truly unique opportunity for an intimate encounter with some of the most iconic locomotives* in the UK today. Visits begin in the Viewing Gallery at Darlington Locomotive Works, accessed…

  • Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

    Bold. Shocking. A slice of musical history. Who’s on stage The ball of energy that is Nil Venditti, the Principal Guest Conductor of our home band, Royal Northern Sinfonia. Plus…

  • ‘The Storytellers’ by Luxmuralis

    Wednesday 8 to Sunday 12 October 2025 Escape into a world of light and sound projections that brings storytelling to life. Gaze up at illuminations on Durham Cathedral’s centuries-old architecture…

  • An Evening with Professor Alice Roberts

    AN EVENING WITH PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTS DOMINATION – THE RISE AND FALL OF AN EMPIRE Join Professor Alice Roberts as she takes us on an investigative journey to establish who…

  • Civic Centre – WA – Walking Tour

    About this event Travel & Outdoor • Hiking Meet and finish on Ceremonial Way. Newcastle Civic Centre is a venue like no other - it is a combination of our…

  • West Walls and Blackfriars – Walking Tour

    About this event Travel & Outdoor • Hiking Meet at Grey’s Monument and finish in the cloister garth of Blackfriars. More of Newcastle’s Town Wall survives than those in most…

  • Mark Steel: The Leopard in my House

    “The consultant had told me he was confident I had throat cancer that had spread into the lymph glands. Joyfully, I held his hand, and looked up to the heavens…