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

Objects of Desire

Launch Text To SpeechWhat do your favourite objects say about you? What kinds of stories can they tell? What people and places are they connected to? What? These and other questions will be asked to participants of 3 Objects of Desire workshops in creative writing, digital art and making, arranged as part of the Family

Posted on 30/09/1999

Feed your mind

Launch Text To SpeechYour next hamburger and fries may well be served up against the backdrop of an award-winning poster campaign from University of Teesside students David Whaite and Lee Hallam. The “Feed your mind” competition, organised by Cleveland Arts and McDonald’s, was set up in response to the You Don’t Look Like a Reader

Posted on 31/08/1999

A Place For Poetry – Poetry in its Place

Launch Text To SpeechYarm writer Maureen Almond has been appointed writer in residence to work with communities in the Portrack and Tilery areas of Stockton. The residency is managed by Cleveland Arts and based with Stockton on line – a multi-site study centre for adult learners and local community groups. Through workshops, Maureen will be

Posted on 24/08/1999

arts are ours at Dyke House School, Hartlepool

Launch Text To SpeechAs part of the arts are ours initiative, musicians Luke Harding and David Allen have been working with a group of 12-13 year old boys from Dyke House School during the first week of May in composing and recording their own music. One outcome which the project hopes to achieve is that

Posted on 07/05/1999