It’s not long now until our big Kindred Guisborough weekend. Following our Art-trail week of independent shops, cafes and bistros opening up their doors to host local artists, tomorrow begins a creatively jam-packed weekend of art, music and spoken word, and I and the tiny band of supportive creatives who make up Kindred Guisborough […] READ MORE
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President Jacksons Small Blocks of Cheese at Middlesbrough Art Weekender
In 1837 President Andrew Jackson installed a 2-tonne block of cheddar in the foyer of the White House and invited the nation to come, eat cheese and discuss their concerns. Fictional White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry sparked a nation’s imagination when he resurrected the idea in the NBC television drama The West Wing. […] READ MORE
My Work Experience by Ashleigh Ellis
The week I have spent at Tees Valley Arts on work experience has been interesting as I have been able to experience things that I may not have been able to if I did not attend this week. For example I now have experienced what an academic conference is like and what goes on ‘behind […] READ MORE
House of Books – Word Cloud
Submissions are still rolling in for our House of Books call out to answer Carmen Marcus’s question – What are Libraries for? We have generated the above House of Books word cloud to examine another way of documenting these submissions. You can read the piece she wrote for us here and see guidelines as to […] READ MORE
Thorntree Women at Edinburgh Processions March
The women of the Thorntree Roses Bloom project joined thousands of other women in Edinburgh at the weekend to march in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and we were delighted to see them (in the bottom left-hand corner) on the front page of the Guardian yesterday. They had a wonderful time and […] READ MORE
House of Books – What Are Libraries For?
Two weeks ago we relaunched our monthly cultural mail, where we are inviting artists, influencers and thinkers to share their concerns, thoughts and hopes for our region. For the first take over, Saltburn based novelist and poet Carmen Marcus who reflected upon the role that libraries have played over the course of her life. Libraries […] READ MORE