Helmsley Walled Garden began life feeding great houses. Today, beneath the castle and inside old brick walls, it is doing something quieter, deeper and perhaps more necessary: feeding confidence, companionship, memory and belonging
At Howard Assembly Room, DJ E.A.S.E and the original Nightmares on Wax band reunited to honour Chris Dawkins - not with solemn nostalgia, but with soul, laughter, bass, memory and the unmistakable sound of Leeds coming home
Born from a radical model developed in Brazil’s favelas, The Agency of Change is now an independent charity - with roots in Manchester, Bolton and beyond. Its message is simple, and urgent: young people are not problems to be managed. They are leaders waiting to be trusted
As Horizons Festival returns to HOME for Refugee Week 2026, MagNorth looks at why this free celebration of migration, creativity and community is more than a cultural weekend - it is a vital act of representation in a city shaped by global stories
A major student finance shake-up will let adults access loans for shorter, flexible higher-level courses from 2026. With 37 approved colleges and universities across the North, this could be a quiet revolution for people balancing work, childcare, debt, geography and second chances.
Manchester-based Short Supply are turning 100 half-formed, saved-for-later ideas into real-life public experiments. It is funny, scrappy and deliberately low-fi - but beneath the fridge exhibitions and IKEA sculptures sits a serious question for northern artists: what happens when you stop waiting for permission?
The 404 International Festival of Art & Technology comes to the UK for the first time this summer - and it is arriving not in London, but across Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland. For the North East, that matters.
At Jamaica House in Chapeltown, a new memorial garden now carries the names of 49 Caribbean RAF veterans who made Leeds their home. In a week when anti-migrant politics again pushed into the national foreground, their story offers a powerful correction to Britain’s memory: these men were not a footnote to our history. They helped make it.
As local election results redraw the political map, the North must refuse the easy cruelty of scapegoating refugees and migrants - and choose, instead, the courage of truth, solidarity and welcome
The team behind one of the North’s most influential underground venues are launching a new Blackpool festival with a world premiere by Mica Levi and a major BBC Philharmonic collaboration
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