Giant poem “My Street” to be revealed

Launch Text To SpeechAs part of the Middlesbrough New Deals Schools Writing Project, the poet Pat Borthwick has been working with Year 4 pupils at St Francis RC Primary School, Whinney Banks. On Wednesday April 4th at 1.30 pm a giant poem entitled ‘My Street’, created by the whole class, will be erected on an

Posted on 02/04/2001

International Drama & Performing Arts Club

Launch Text To Speecha fusion of South Asian and British traditions Are you aged 16-24? Are you interested in international drama and performance arts? If so then Cleveland Arts and Azaad’s Streetlink project have organised a new weekly drama and performing arts club at Middlesbrough’s International Centre celebrating a fusion of South Asian and British

Posted on 29/03/2001

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Launch Text To SpeechThe Verb Garden and Cleveland Arts have joined forces with Leeds based Route Publishing to promote Linton Kwesi Johnson at The Cornerhouse, Middlesbrough on Sunday 25 March at 7.30 pm. Tickets are priced at £8.00 (£7.00 concessions). Linton Kwesi Johnson is revered as the world’s first reggae poet, ‘the alternative poet-laureate’ Time

Posted on 16/03/2001

Sir Maurice Sutherland Passes Away

Launch Text To SpeechCleveland Arts regrets to confirm that long-standing board member Sir Maurice Sutherland has passed away. He leaves his wife Margaret and a step-son, togheter with a son and step-daughter by earlier marriages. Sir Maurice served Cleveland Arts as a trustee and director for many years, only tendering his resignation due to ill

Posted on 13/03/2001

This Is Billingham/This Is Not Billingham

Launch Text To SpeechChildren from Pentland Primary School and Northfield Comprehensive school will be showcasing their creative visions of a mythical Billingham at a performance/exhibition of artwork, poetry, digital animations, photography and movement at Billingham Community Centre, The Causeway, Billingham on Friday 23rd March starting at 6.30pm. The work has come from a pilot project

Posted on 07/03/2001

Hartlepool Remembers The Holocaust

Launch Text To SpeechSaturday, January 27th 2001 is the first Holocaust Memorial Day, which is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Berkenau. The day will be marked by a national ceremony held at Westminster Central Hall, and other events are planned across the UK Holocaust Memorial Day provides an opportunity to ensure that the crimes

Posted on 15/01/2001

Masquerade: The Art of The Vampire

Launch Text To SpeechCapital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. Karl Marx, Das Kapital If there is in this world one story that has been attested, it is that of Vampires… Will we all be damned for not believing in them.

Posted on 15/01/2001

Rag Pickers Grotto

Launch Text To Speech“Word Explosion”, a group of young Teesside writers have transformed a shop front in Corporation Road into the Rag Pickers grotto. With the help of Middlesbrough Environment City and Buzzwords at Cleveland Arts these young people have used the story of “Ragtime” to create new and exciting things from waste products. They

Posted on 15/12/1999