Events Around Sunderland

Being a slug is hard. Everyone thinks you’re disgusting. Slug and Caterpillar are starving, and the only leaf in the garden is just out of reach. Slug thinks they should work together. Get the leaf, eat the leaf, play a game, be friends. Caterpillar has other ideas.

Party with a cast of friendly villains for an all-singing, all-dancing, colourful, energetic & magical theatre-style show that is guaranteed to entertain kids and adults alike!

Book the babysitter and party from Dusk ’til Dawn (well, midnight) with a high-energy extravaganza of fun and mayhem!

A tour of Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. Let the Pinpoint Adventure team guide you on a tour of Smallcleugh Mine, a working lead mine until the early 1900s. Explore a network of tunnels and glimpse into the arduous lives of the miners.

Accessible theatre for children and young people. Patience and Bird are waiting for rain in the dry, dusty heat of the American Dust Bowl. Clanky Jane arrives with her ‘Cloud-O-Matic’ machine, but will some crazy percussion and a bit of magic make the rain come?

Six rooms filled with a diverse range of gifts & handcrafted items including wood turning, candles, pottery , glass, soaps, jewellery, cards, photography, quilting, patchwork, soft furnishings, preserves,fashion, Christmas decorations & much much more will be available in the historic atmospheric Lumley Castle,

Chester-le-Street Theatre Group proudly presents ‘The Elephant Man’, a play by Bernard Pomerance, directed by Clark Adamson. ‘The Elephant Man’ is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century.

People of all ages and abilities from across the North East will gather in Gateshead’s Saltwell Park to dance Michael Jackson’s Thriller to try and break the world record for Largest Simultaneous Dance. Part of annual event Thrill The World, we will be joined by participants in the USA, Mexico and New Zealand.

The story is based on the life of Joseph Merrick, who lived in the Victorian era and is known for the extreme deformity of his body. Born with a congenital disorder, Merrick uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the Elephant Man.

The Brittany raised, Switzerland based 23 year old singer-songwriter and awesome guitarist was inspired by musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Pink Floyd.....his style embodies these influences with inventive riffs, moody melodies and stunning guitar solos; this is contemporary blues-rock at its best!

Book character costumes are not just for World Book Day. Dust them off, re-use and recycle them and join us on the last weekend of every month for some costume capers and plenty of fancy-dress fun.

Book character costumes are not just for World Book Day. Dust them off, re-use and recycle them and join us on the last weekend of every month for some costume capers and plenty of fancy-dress fun.

Bring your most-loved books along to our Brilliant Bookswap and share your joy of reading with a perfect stranger!  Simply take your favourite book, place a message inside explaining why you loved it so much and leave it inside the Wordlab at Seven Stories.

Bring your most-loved books along to our Brilliant Bookswap and share your joy of reading with a perfect stranger!  Simply take your favourite book, place a message inside explaining why you loved it so much and leave it inside the Wordlab at Seven Stories.

TakeOff Festival, England’s leading festival of theatre for children. 22-26 October across Durham. Performed in French and English, Hide-and-Seek (or Cache-Cache) brings to life the excitement, fear, pleasure, surprise and joy of playing this well-loved children’s game.

Wou’re invited to BALTIC Family Days, two free days of creativity and play for you and your family.Come together to explore making, painting and movement with artist Emma Cousin, and consider how we care for one another and ourselves and what might be possible when we support each other and work together.

Wou’re invited to BALTIC Family Days, two free days of creativity and play for you and your family.Come together to explore making, painting and movement with artist Emma Cousin, and consider how we care for one another and ourselves and what might be possible when we support each other and work together.

Get ready for smashing fun this October Half Term! Receive a FREE pumpkin with entry (for every full paying child aged 2 and over).

Talk Like Tigers are a twin hypnotic electro-pop band from the North East of England, whose vocals and seamless, velvet harmonies have been recorded by Sony and have taken them around the world as professional touring musicians.

Shake, rattle and roll! Bring your smallest musicians along to Sage Gateshead for weekly family music making created by our friendly and engaging live musicians especially for your baby.

See the opera singers of the future in a concert of classical song, opera arias and ensembles. Samling Institute introduces their 2019/20 Samling Academy Singers, selected by audition from among the finest young musicians in the schools and universities of the North East.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…Come along to the Northern Rock Foundation Hall at Sage Gateshead where you will join our friendly, live musicians/space travellers for an hour of music and dance that is out of this world! Who knows where in space you will end up.

The force is strong with this one! Join us this November for a musical celebration of the whole Star Wars saga so far – from The Phantom Menace to The Last Jedi.

The force is strong with this one! Join us this November for a musical celebration of the whole Star Wars saga so far – from The Phantom Menace to The Last Jedi.

Would you like be the proud owner of a Great North Elmer sculpture? Whether it’s to brighten your office, make a statement in your garden, or give to someone special as the ultimate surprise gift, you need to be at the Big Elmer Charity Auction this November!.