Working with men’s crees and community groups across East Durham towns and villages since 2022, The Six Twenty Theatre company have co-created a project celebrating their hobbies, interests and fandoms - bowling, music collecting, building Meccano, pigeon fancying, beekeeping, and wrestling are big passions authentically retold.

Centred around the concept of gathering around a campfire with food to share stories, artists from the The Auxiliary drew out untold stories from East Durham residents (co-creators) through gathering, listening, walking, music, drawing, making ceramics and open & safe space building.

Artists Andrew Wood has created a ‘game space’, representative of a digital version of the new town of Peterlee as it turns 75. It’s impossible to tell the story of Peterlee, its 75 years, or to chart its course forward without first reckoning with its multitude of canceled futures.

Digital Residency artist Alistair Flindall re-tells the incredible (but true!) stories of Bishop Auckland Football Club through his mural and Augmented Reality works - unlocking fascinating local heritage of the most successful amateur club in English Football history for new audiences.

Artists Bex Harvey and Sarah Li worked with the young people from the Youth Hub at Dawdon Youth and Community Centre (DYCC), exploring the archives from Durham University. They discovered that Durham Castle has a bust of Sappho, influencing conversations and many questions, perhaps the most thought-provoking being, “Are there any queer landmarks in Durham?”

OWTSIDE is No More Nowt’s public micro gallery installed outside on the side of Community House in Peterlee, right in the middle of a residential neighbourhood, with a rolling programme throughout 2024.

Listen now: Me Lost Me (Jayne Dent), performance co-commission recording of collaged voice and electronics exploring the disorientating cycles of shift work in mining.

A pioneering arts project, lead by The Barn at Easington and artists Sharon Bailey and Nicola Balfour, designed to develop approaches to provide holistic, creative and therapeutic support to birth mothers and their children who have been severed by addiction.