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Teenage Craft Club
Free

Children and Young People's Activities

Teenage Craft Club

Tuesdays (Fortnightly), 6pm-7:30pm

11-19

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Spooky Ships Trail
A child wearing a black and white top, is leaning over a clipboard with a pencil and paper.

Children and Young People's Activities

Spooky Ships Trail

06 – 09 Nov 2024
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Winter Warmer Wednesdays: Creepy Crawly Palaces
Free
Two children using scissors to cut a piece of paper. One has dark short hair and the other has pal ginger hair tied in a pony tail.

Children and Young People's Activities

Winter Warmer Wednesdays: Creepy Crawly Palaces

06 Nov 2024 – 08 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Celebrate Different Collective
Free
A group of six stand round a table. They are looking at pieces of paper in front of them.

Children and Young People's Activities

Celebrate Different Collective

06 Nov 2024 – 26 Mar 2025
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Washington Young Film Makers Collective
Free

Children and Young People's Activities

Washington Young Film Makers Collective

Thursdays, 6pm-8pm

11-19

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Washington Youth Theatre (Ages 8-12)

Children and Young People's Activities

Washington Youth Theatre (Ages 8-12)

Saturdays, 10am-12pm

8-12

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Exhibitions

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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time
Free
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.

Exhibitions

Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time

06 Nov 2024 – 04 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Revisualising Women’s work
Free
A black and white image of staff standing in front of piles of wooden crates. They are wearing scarves over their heads and protective coats.

Exhibitions

Revisualising Women’s work

06 Nov 2024 – 04 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Veterans into Clay Sunderland
Free
A red brown ceramic pot. The lid, which is the same colour, is being lifted off by a white hand

Exhibitions

Veterans into Clay Sunderland

Showing in National Glass Centre Learning Gallery

06 Nov 2024 – 31 Jan 2025
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National Glass Centre

The Colour of Music - LVAC Exhibition
Free

Exhibitions

The Colour of Music - LVAC Exhibition

06 – 09 Nov 2024
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People's Art
Free
Wally Dogs - White Staffordshire earthenware pottery with gold lustre. The background is bright red.

Exhibitions

People's Art

06 Nov – 01 Dec 2024
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National Glass Centre

Washington Open Exhibition 2024: Spotlight
Free

Exhibitions

Washington Open Exhibition 2024: Spotlight

07 Nov – 21 Dec 2024
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Adult workshops & Activities

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Morning Watercolours
A hand holds a brush into blue watercolour paint in a white painting tray that has a variety of other colours in it.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Morning Watercolours

Wednesdays, 9:30am-12:30pm
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The B#'s Community Choir

Adult Workshops and Activities

The B#'s Community Choir

Wednesdays, 10am-11:30am
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Creative Age
Free
A person with long waved hair and a black top adds coloured strips of fabric to hessian.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Creative Age

06 Nov 2024 – 19 Feb 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Afternoon Watercolours
A hand holds a brush into blue watercolour paint in a white painting tray that has a variety of other colours in it.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Afternoon Watercolours

Wednesdays, 1:30pm-3:30pm
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Kiln Formed Glass
Limited Availability
A series of decorated glass tiles. The designs are from left to right; a sunflower, five brown fish swimming in a sky blue sea, a dog, a butterfly, an orange cat, seven green rectangles, and a navy blue and pink fish swimming between sea plants.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Kiln Formed Glass

5 week course running on Thursdays

07 Nov 2024

16+

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National Glass Centre

Mind on the Music
Free

Adult Workshops and Activities

Mind on the Music

Register your interest

Thursdays (Fortnightly), 1pm-3pm

30+

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Theatre & Performance

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Nightmares
Limited Availability
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.

Theatre and Performance

Nightmares

Presented by The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty

28 Nov 2024

14+

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Tinsel

Theatre and Performance

Tinsel

Wrongsemble presents Tinsel

03 – 07 Dec 2024

3+

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A Christmas Carol
Sold Out

Theatre and Performance

A Christmas Carol

Dyad Productions presents A Christmas Carol

12 Dec 2024

10+

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Mixtape Xmas

Theatre and Performance

Mixtape Xmas

The Six Twenty presents Mixtape Xmas

19 Dec 2024

14+

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Lee Kyle: Bottle It
An image of a man aggresivly holding a bottle behind smashed glass

Theatre and Performance

Lee Kyle: Bottle It

28 Mar 2025
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Film

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Lisa Frankenstein
Sold Out

Films

Lisa Frankenstein

Part of Babes in Arms

07 Nov 2024

12+

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The Taste of Things

Films

The Taste of Things

 

Part of Wednesday Matinees

13 Nov 2024

12+

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Sunderland Shorts Film Festival - Winners Showcase Screening (Part II)

Films

Sunderland Shorts Film Festival - Winners Showcase Screening (Part II)

Part of Special Events

13 Nov 2024
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Sunderland Film Club presents... The Work

Films

Sunderland Film Club presents... The Work

Part of Sunderland Film Club

21 Nov 2024

15+

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Sunderland Film Club presents... Love Lies Bleeding

Films

Sunderland Film Club presents... Love Lies Bleeding

27 Nov 2024

15+

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City-wide

The Holiday + Festive Afternoon Tea

Films

The Holiday + Festive Afternoon Tea

Part of Wednesday Matinees

11 Dec 2024

12+

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Music

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Sunderland Piano Society Recital: Bocheng Wang
A person wearing a black jacket and bow tie, and a white shirt. They have dark hair and dark eyes.

Music

Sunderland Piano Society Recital: Bocheng Wang

23 Nov 2024
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

First Friday Folk
Free

Music

First Friday Folk

First Friday of the month, 1pm-4pm
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Christmas Cabaret

Music

Christmas Cabaret

13 Dec 2024
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Special Events

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Craft Fair
Free
Four images of people dressed in warm clothes, looking at various crafted objects at National Glass Centre's Craft Fair.

Special Events

Craft Fair

16 – 17 Nov 2024
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National Glass Centre

Exhibition Preview: The Skin We Live In & Harry Griffin: My name is Harry...
Free
Vinca Petersen, Untitled from the series Raves and Riots, 2000, photograph. Courtesy of the artist

Special Events

Exhibition Preview: The Skin We Live In & Harry Griffin: My name is Harry...

21 Nov 2024
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Christmas Craft and Makers Fair
Free

Special Events

Christmas Craft and Makers Fair

23 Nov 2024
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