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Location:Friends Community Hub6 Skinnergate,DarlingtonDL3 7NB Dates and times:Saturday 13th August 10am-4pmSaturday 20th August 10am-4pmSaturday 27th August 10am-4pm FREE Workshops: Saturday 13th August: Jade Blood: Kitchen Table Printing 10am-4pmAdrian Moule: Print Bike 10am-1pm Saturday 20th August: Jade Blood: Kitchen Table Printing 10am-4pmJade Sweeting: Screen printing 10am-4pmJohn James Perangie: Fabric Applique Printing 1pm-4pm Saturday 27th August: Jade […]

Make Music Day got in touch with Creative Darlington earlier this year and on 21 June 2022 we marked Darlington as a Great Music Place, with a day celebrating all that music brings to our lives. The day began with children from three Darlington schools singing in the Market Square, followed by an early evening […]

Women X is an exciting, fresh short film festival based in the North East of England, celebrating the achievements of emerging and established talent from women and non-binary directors, writers, and producers. Our programme strives to include stories that challenge the narrative set by mainstream media, exploring both fictional and real stories that open our […]

Tracks is pleased to announce the return of HARK! The Sound of Stories, featuring NEL UNLIT, RADIKAL QUEEN, FAITHFUL JOHANNES and BOB FISCHER! HARK! is a series of events presenting music inspired by writing. After moving online during lockdowns, HARK!’s return to a live venue features artists who are making music based on stories they’ve […]

Darlington’s urban festival Last Train Home returns for the fifth time on Saturday 3rd September. The music and comedy festival supported by Arts Council England, Creative Darlington and Darlington Borough Council takes place in venues located near to Darlington’s main railway station and is programmed to finish in time for audiences to catch the last […]

Creative Darlington commissioned the Flourish programme, devised by Helix Arts, to support artists in devising and delivering projects close to their heart involving people in Darlington. A call out for participants was made and the programme began before the outbreak of the Covid-19 Panemdic, with the programme offering advice from Helix Arts, support for artists […]

Come and celebrate Pride at the Darlington Hippodrome 11th August 2022 7:30pm with a film screening of ‘Opening the Closet Doors’ which has been made by artist Sarah Li in collaboration with the wonderful, fun and fabulous LGBTQ+ co-authors involved in the project! Tickets available on a pay what you feel basis here: https://www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/customer/booking?id=461801 The […]

Blimey! Lucretia session in the gallery at Darlington Library. Photograph Joanne Coates With restoration work at Darlington Library underway we’re looking forward to the gallery in Darlington Library reopening in 2023. The gallery shared four exhibitions last year between June and December 2021, including work by Jonny Lancaster, Dawn Broughton, The Darlington Association of Photographers […]

Darlington has hundreds of artworks within its public collections, including paintings in oil, acrylic, gouache and watercolour paintings, etchings, engravings, screen-prints, collage, embroidery and textile works, ceramics, sculpture and photography. A number of paintings in oil paint or acrylic, can currently be viewed on the Art UK website, which shares work in public collections. Over […]

Thanks to Darlington Friends exhibition boards were installed within the Friends Community Hub on Skinnergate in Darlington, and thanks to Darlington for Culture and colleagues at Darlington Borough Council, an exhibition there during Darlington Arts Festival shared the work of fantastic artists in this new space during Darlington Arts Festival 2022. Creative Darlington was delighted […]