From Brian Eno in an airport terminal to Northern Soul in Wigan and music-making with people living with dementia, Manchester Camerata is spending six days showing Greater Manchester what a modern orchestra can be

The Royal Exchange has assembled an outstanding cast for Shakespeare’s great family catastrophe, with David Threlfall returning to the theatre after 27 years and Nadine Shah taking on both Goneril and the music

More than 60 authors are heading to the Baltic Triangle for a fab summer celebration of books, music, storytelling - and one or two things you probably won’t find at your local library

At Yeavering, one of early medieval Britain’s most important royal centres has almost vanished back into the Northumberland landscape. This summer, archaeology, storytelling, food and communal celebration will bring it vividly into view again

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2026 explores home, refuge, memory and belonging through two visual arts exhibitions in Liverpool this July

Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.

Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself

Real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will appear together on stage for the first time in a new northern production of Rona Munro’s prison drama Iron. But behind the irresistible casting story is a much darker examination of motherhood, memory and the price of a truth withheld for fifteen years

A vast, walk-through sculpture of colour, calm and curious corridors has landed on West Park Stray. We may be biased - but the Harrogate International Festival folk really do know how to make a place feel extraordinary

At the University of York this weekend, Firefly Festival will showcase emerging writers, performers, directors and theatre-makers at the point where training becomes public work - and where the future of UK theatre starts to take shape.

This Spring Bank Holiday, Howard Assembly Room becomes one of the North’s most interesting rooms: a place where Leeds’ electronic past, Cuban rhythm, jazz improvisation and disco history collide over three nights on New Briggate

Festival returns this July with a diverse 10-day programme