On the final Bank Holiday of summer, Leeds West Indian Carnival filled Chapeltown with music, masquerade, food and tens of thousands of people. MagNorth went looking for the smaller stories inside one of the North’s greatest public celebrations

For 16 performances this autumn, one of London’s grandest theatres will belong to the shipbuilders of Tyneside. Sting’s newly reimagined musical The Last Ship brings the world of Wallsend to Theatre Royal Drury Lane - and gives northern audiences a compelling reason to follow it south

After its largest audiences in ten years, Morecambe Bay Fringe is looking beyond the boundaries of a single town. Its 2027 ambition could connect performers, venues and communities from Lancaster to Grange-over-Sands - with the railway becoming part of the festival itself

Run by volunteers and screened in places where films are not usually found, Scalarama Leeds returns this September. First, its programmers are gathering at Hyde Park Picture House for Postcards from the Edge, free popcorn - and the unveiling of this year’s gloriously unpredictable programme

Given a few hours to wander before Choral Evensong, MagNorth found a city being photographed, performed and quietly shared - from Chicken Parmos and ghost walks to a floating bar, an indignant Italian gent and the stillness of the Minster

Goole created a perfect Yorkshire Day filled with music, history and local pride. Then came the robes, the retainers and a civic establishment in danger of mistaking itself for the county

We went to photograph a seaside town in the middle of summer. Instead, we met dancers, pirates, treasure hunters, sisters, surfers - and two box-office stars with only one fan between them