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Created: 11 April 2016

Still time (until 24 April 2016) to visit the Glass Beats [Link removed 12/12/23 as no longer available on the external website] at National Glass Centre, Sunderland. Young people with additional needs worked with glass musician Brendan Murphy, glass artist Zoe Garner and ceramics artist Rob Winter to make and play glass and ceramic instruments.  They performed their music at St Peter's Church, Sunderland.

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Created: 07 February 2015

To Bedale in North Yorkshire, for an evaluation session with Mowbray School for their Heritage Schools project, to find out what the students think about their local heritage. This is part of English Heritage's national project Heritage Schools to encourage and upskill schools to use their local heritage to teach all areas of the curriculum. Bedale has the last surviving Leech House, where leeches were kept for medicinal purposes, and it was used until the early 1900s.

National Glass Centre, Sunderland, launched its Digital Storytelling exhibition - people made short films about their memories of the glass-making industry.  Students from Bishop Barrington School made glass art works inspired by the stories. Read the report in the Sunderland Echo here.

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Created: 03 February 2015

We should never take for granted the right to vote, a right which many have died for and a right which in some countries is not available.

The preview showing was to raise funds for Journey to Justice , an exhibition and series of events to raise awareness of the civil rights struggle and to encourage people to take part in social justice action.  Journey to Justice is starting in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the exhibition opening at Discovery Museum on 4 April 2015.