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North East Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt
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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.

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North East Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

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

Children and Young People's Activities

Changing Childhoods Trail

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave: Screening
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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.

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Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave: Screening

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Ian Macdonald - Fixing Time
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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. .

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time
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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.

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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time

04 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Heritage Open Days: Volunteer History Tours
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A group of people stand in a white gallery space. They are all turned to look at a colourful artwork on the wall.

Special Events

Heritage Open Days: Volunteer History Tours

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Mind on the Music
Free

Adult Workshops and Activities

Mind on the Music

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Thursdays (Fortnightly), 1pm-3pm

30+

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Arts Centre Washington

Here to There
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Adult Workshops and Activities

Here to There

Delivered by Helix Arts

Thursdays, 2pm-4pm

55+

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Arts Centre Washington

People's Art
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Wally Dogs - White Staffordshire earthenware pottery with gold lustre. The background is bright red.

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People's Art

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National Glass Centre

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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.

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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time

04 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

The Skin We Live In: Portraits from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection
Free
A barrel of a cannon points from left to right. The whole cannon has been covered in a shiny pink cloth. A female, also dressed completely in pink, bends at a right angle and sticks her head into the cannon. The cannon and the female are standing on very dry grass.

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The Skin We Live In: Portraits from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection

04 Jan – 02 Mar 2025
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Harry Griffin: My name is Harry, these are my pictures and they are nice
Free
The comedian Joe Lycett stands in front of a theatre dressing room mirror. There are lights around the mirror. He is reflected reading a prompt card. He is using is mobile phone. Tour manager and photogrtapger Harry Griffin sits at the back of the room taking a photograph of Joe. Coats and clothing are hung up at the back of the room

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Harry Griffin: My name is Harry, these are my pictures and they are nice

Showing in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection Space & Pop Recs Ltd.

04 Jan – 02 Mar 2025
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Revisualising Women’s work
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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.

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Revisualising Women’s work

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

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Veterans into Clay Sunderland

Showing in National Glass Centre Learning Gallery

04 – 31 Jan 2025
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National Glass Centre

Re-imag(in)ing WORK: Photographs from the IPRN Changing Faces Collection
Free
An abstract forest scene with four pictured in green boiler suits. One man, situated to the left of the picture sits on the woodland floor looking up. The other three men push against a giant pine trunk. In the distance is a red coloured water slide and a pine lodge. The sky is extremely misty.

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Re-imag(in)ing WORK: Photographs from the IPRN Changing Faces Collection

Showing in Sunderland Creatives Gallery

04 Jan – 30 Mar 2025
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National Glass Centre

Menagerie
Free
A grey ceramic elephant stands against a gradient grey background. The elephants head is facing left.

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Menagerie

Showing in the National Glass Centre Gallery

04 Jan – 31 May 2025
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National Glass Centre

Kate Henderson: Each Deep Breath
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Abstract monochrome images of sections of a face intertwined with a butterfly.

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Kate Henderson: Each Deep Breath

Showing on National Glass Centre Riverside entrance screen.

04 – 12 Jan 2025
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Glass Zoo
Free
A gold bird shaped artwork with a clear glass head.

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Glass Zoo

Showing in the Balcony Gallery

04 Jan – 01 Jun 2025
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National Glass Centre

Inga Hamilton: The Things That Nonhuman Animals Make
Free
A ring made of brown glass

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Inga Hamilton: The Things That Nonhuman Animals Make

Showing in the Research Gallery

04 Jan – 09 Mar 2025
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National Glass Centre