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![Celebrate Different at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens A group of six stand round a table. They are looking at pieces of paper in front of them.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Celebrate-Different-Takeover-Event-Credit-Colin-Davison-copy.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Children and Young People's Activities
Celebrate Different Collective
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![SMWG Trail A child wearing a black and white top, is leaning over a clipboard with a pencil and paper.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/200221A_025-scaled.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Children and Young People's Activities
Changing Childhoods Trail
4+
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![Washington-Young-Film-Makers-Collective-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Washington-Young-Film-Makers-Collective-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Children and Young People's Activities
Washington Young Film Makers Collective
11-19
Arts Centre Washington
![Washington Youth Theatre (8-12)](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Washington-Youth-Theatre-8-12.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Children and Young People's Activities
Washington Youth Theatre (Ages 8-12)
8-12
Arts Centre Washington
![Fantastic Fusing A hexagon shaped tile with an amazing pattern containing red, blue, orange, yellow, green and white glass grains and glass spaghetti.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Fantastic-Fusing-Larger.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Children and Young People's Activities
Fantastic Fusing
6+
National Glass Centre
![Washington Youth Theatre (13-18)](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Washington-Youth-Theatre-13-18.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Children and Young People's Activities
Washington Youth Theatre (Ages 13-18)
13-18
Arts Centre Washington
Exhibitions
![People's Art - Wally Dogs Wally Dogs - White Staffordshire earthenware pottery with gold lustre. The background is bright red.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Peoples-Art-Wally-Dogs.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Exhibitions
People's Art
National Glass Centre
![Ian Macdonald Fixing Time Five female canteen staff catch up at the end of their shift at Redcar Blast Furnace, 1983. They are sitting around a rectangle table. THere is a full length window behind them. .](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Ian-Macdonald-Fixing-Time-Web-image-only-570x480-1.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Exhibitions
Ian Macdonald - Fixing Time
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
![Canteen staff catching up on the day at the end of their shift, Redcar Blast furnace, Autumn 1983 - Ian MacDonald A photograph by Ian MacDonald. The black and white photograph shows a group of people gathered around a canteen table with wide windows stretching across the wall to their left.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Canteen-staff-catching-up-on-the-day-at-the-end-of-their-shift-Redcar-Blast-furnace-Autumn-1983.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Exhibitions
Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![Jeremy Deller Image A row of terraced houses sit in the background, with a large swathe of green grass in front. On the grass are several police men wearing helmets and carrying shields and batons. They are charging at men dressed in jeans, t-shirts, and sweatshirts.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Jeremy-Deller-Image.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Exhibitions
Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave: Screening
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
![Simon Roberts, Let This Be a Sign, 2008, photographic print. Courtesy the artist and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection. Simon Roberts, Let This Be a Sign, 2008, photographic print. Courtesy the artist and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection. A large office space filled with computer screens. A female with blonde hair sit at a desk.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/NGCA-Simon-Roberts.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Exhibitions
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection Display
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
![Cathedral Quilt Three fabric panels covered in squares. In each square is the photo or name of a person. The three quilts are in a large stone room.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Cathedral-Quilt.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Exhibitions
North East Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Adult workshops & Activities
![Creative Age Sep24 A person with long waved hair and a black top adds coloured strips of fabric to hessian.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Creative-Age-Sep24.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Adult Workshops and Activities
Creative Age
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![TOF_3579-copy-aspect-ratio-16-9 A hand holds a brush into blue watercolour paint in a white painting tray that has a variety of other colours in it.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/TOF_3579-copy-aspect-ratio-16-9-1.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Adult Workshops and Activities
Afternoon Watercolours
Arts Centre Washington
![Mind-on-the-Music-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Mind-on-the-Music-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
30+
Arts Centre Washington
![Here to There](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Here-to-There.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Adult Workshops and Activities
Here to There
Delivered by Helix Arts
55+
Arts Centre Washington
![SEND-Image-3-aspect-ratio-16-9 A stack of coloured rectangular card sat on orange tissue paper. In the background are teenagers working on craft activities.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/SEND-Image-3-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Adult Workshops and Activities
Autonomy's Summer Social
Creative activities for autistic adults (16-25) and their carers
Autistic adults (16-25)
National Glass Centre
![Figure-Drawing-for-Beginners-2-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Figure-Drawing-for-Beginners-2-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Adult Workshops and Activities
Figure Drawing for Beginners
18+
Arts Centre Washington
Theatre & Performance
![Occupational-Hazard-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Occupational-Hazard-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Theatre and Performance
Occupational Hazard
Presented by ACCA
14+
Arts Centre Washington
![OTHELLO-A4-LANDSCAPE-IMAGE-ONLY-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/OTHELLO-A4-LANDSCAPE-IMAGE-ONLY-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Theatre and Performance
Othello
Presented by Elysium Theatre Company
12+
Arts Centre Washington
![The Hidden Garden](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/The-Hidden-Garden.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Theatre and Performance
The Hidden Garden
Presented by Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah
5+
Arts Centre Washington
![Daisy-Donald-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Daisy-Donald-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Theatre and Performance
Daisy Donald
Presented by Blackbird Creative Arts
Arts Centre Washington
![NIGHTMARES-IMAGES-crop-aspect-ratio-16-9 A person wearing a suit in a dark blue room, eyes cast down in sadness. There is a reflection of them at the bottom of the image but it's face is distorted to look goulish.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/NIGHTMARES-IMAGES-crop-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Theatre and Performance
Nightmares
Presented by The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty
14+
Arts Centre Washington
![Tinsel](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/1920--1080-TINSEL.png?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Theatre and Performance
Tinsel
Wrongsemble presents Tinsel
3+
Arts Centre Washington
Film
![A Passion for Vaux](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/A-Passion-for-Vaux.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Films
A Passion for Vaux - Sunderland's Lost Brewery
Presented by Lonely Tower Film and Media
Arts Centre Washington
![Mayor-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Mayor-aspect-ratio-16-9-1.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Films
Sunderland Film Club presents... Mayor
Part of Sunderland Film Club
12+
Arts Centre Washington
![R18RCR81-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/R18RCR81-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Films
Sunderland Film Club presents... We Need to Talk About Kevin
15+
City-wide
Music
![Songs from the City A group of three musicians playing a variety of musical instruments.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Songs-from-the-City-scaled.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Music
Songs from this City
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![A person with red hair sits down to the left and on the right is an open piano.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Sarah-Beth-Briggs-Carolyn-Mendelsohn-piano-scaled.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Music
Sunderland Piano Society Recital: Sarah Beth Briggs
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![FF3-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/FF3-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Music
First Friday Folk
Arts Centre Washington
![Swing-Band-Dance-Night-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Swing-Band-Dance-Night-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Music
Swing Band Dance Night with The Bright Street Band
Arts Centre Washington
![Qween-UK-high-res-Poster-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Qween-UK-high-res-Poster-scaled-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Music
QWEEN UK
16+
Arts Centre Washington
![Crocodile-and-Underpass-banner-780-x-480-aspect-ratio-16-9](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Crocodile-and-Underpass-banner-780-x-480-aspect-ratio-16-9.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Music
The Ballad of the Crocodile and the Underpass
Arts Centre Washington
Special Events
![Grayson Perry Guided Tours V2 A group of people stand in a white gallery space. They are all turned to look at a colourful artwork on the wall.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/Grayson-Perry-Guided-Tours-V2.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Special Events
Heritage Open Days: Volunteer History Tours
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
![Heritage Open Days Image 1 A large pink H sits above the words Heritage Open Days. These words are blue except Open which is pink.](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Heritage-Open-Days-Image-1.jpg?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Special Events
Heritage Open Days
National Glass Centre
![Make your own pumpkin Autumn 2024 A glowing hot orange pumpkin with black speckles being heated by a hot blue flame](https://images.sunderlandculture.org.uk/uploads/2024/08/Make-your-own-pumpkin-Autumn-2024.png?resize=13%2C10&gravity)
Special Events
Glass Pumpkin Demonstrations
National Glass Centre