Built from the anonymised life stories of minority Buddhist communities in Britain and Japan, a new digital artwork by Sian Fan enters the uncertain territory between fear and belonging - without attempting to hold either still

Its British story began in a North Yorkshire village, with a mission to shelter people society had rejected. More than 140 years later, one of the country’s longest-established social care charities has a new name - and wants to make considerably more noise

A conservatoire, a recent graduate and an influential educator have reached the Parliamentary Jazz Awards shortlist. Together, they tell a larger story about what sustained northern cultural investment makes possible

Philip Stokes wanted theatre to generate the visceral excitement of a rock gig. Twenty years later, his dark postwar thriller has travelled from a room in Leeds to Australia and New York - and is now coming home through Red Ladder Local

At Salford Museum & Art Gallery, visitors are being invited to walk across an artwork and change it permanently. Behind the playful proposition lies a more honest account of recovery - collective, unpredictable and shaped by every person encountered along the way

A train window can reduce a place to scenery: beautiful, fleeting and largely unexplained. A new community arts project is asking the people who live on a railway line connecting Leeds and Morecambe, to put the voices, memories and hidden histories back into the landscape

For more than a decade, Kenny Dunn has quietly helped to care for New Brighton. Now the familiar figure in orange hi-vis has been made part of the town’s landscape - as the first subject of a new mural series celebrating its unsung heroes

The British Fashion Council says its new national programme will move opportunity beyond London. As Fashion Britain arrives in Newcastle, its real test will be whether local students and designers gain more than a brief turn beneath the industry spotlight

In Henry Roberts’ new one-man play, a young man’s anonymous encounters with other men collide with the relationship and identity he presents to the world. Touring northern venues this autumn, Close Enough to Touch asks what shame becomes when someone cannot find the words to describe what they want

This September, the North York Moors is inviting us to put down the phone, quieten the noise and rediscover the restorative power of walking, making, listening and paying attention

Part doll’s house, part art-school fever dream and part institutional hall of mirrors, David Steans’ new exhibition at Leeds Arts University uses paper, collage and architectural models to explore how creative worlds - and the places governing them - are constructed

Record grades and record university acceptances headline A-level results day. Beneath them sits England’s widest regional attainment gap - and a financially strained university sector hungry for domestic students. For northern families, “you can still get a place” is not the same as “this is the right place for you”