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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time
Free
A photograph by Ian MacDonald. The black and white photograph shows a group of people gathered around a canteen table with wide windows stretching across the wall to their left.

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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time

13 Sep 2024 – 04 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

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Oil Painting
A box of oil paint tubes with white lids.

Adult Workshops and Activities

Oil Painting

Fridays, 9:30am-11:30am
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Arts Centre Washington

Changing Childhoods Trail
A child wearing a black and white top, is leaning over a clipboard with a pencil and paper.

Children and Young People's Activities

Changing Childhoods Trail

13 – 14 Sep 2024

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Ian Macdonald - Fixing Time
Free
Five female canteen staff catch up at the end of their shift at Redcar Blast Furnace, 1983. They are sitting around a rectangle table. THere is a full length window behind them. .

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Ian Macdonald - Fixing Time

13 Sep – 03 Nov 2024
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time
Free
A photograph by Ian MacDonald. The black and white photograph shows a group of people gathered around a canteen table with wide windows stretching across the wall to their left.

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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time

13 Sep 2024 – 04 Jan 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave: Screening
Free
A row of terraced houses sit in the background, with a large swathe of green grass in front. On the grass are several police men wearing helmets and carrying shields and batons. They are charging at men dressed in jeans, t-shirts, and sweatshirts.

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Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave: Screening

13 Sep – 03 Nov 2024
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection Display
Free
Simon Roberts, Let This Be a Sign, 2008, photographic print. Courtesy the artist and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection. A large office space filled with computer screens. A female with blonde hair sit at a desk.

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection Display

13 Sep – 30 Dec 2024
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

North East Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt
Free
Three fabric panels covered in squares. In each square is the photo or name of a person. The three quilts are in a large stone room.

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North East Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt

13 Sep – 02 Oct 2024
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Washington Writers

Adult Workshops and Activities

Washington Writers

Fridays (Fortnightly), 12pm-2pm
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Arts Centre Washington

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National Glass Centre

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Learn & Create

Children & Families
A person pulls a funny face while holding onto a wooden machine that looks like a large telescope. Two children stand in front of them laughing.

Children and families

Enjoy creative fun with all the family!

Children & Families
Young People
A young person sits at a table in front of a laptop while another young person stands behind them playing an acoustic guitar. Both look at the computer with concentration.

Young people

Explore opportunities to ignite and nurture your creative future.

Young People
Adults
Two people take a selfie pulling faces in front of a painting. The painting is the ‘Screaming Pope’ by Francis Bacon.

Adults

Come together to try new things and connect with others.

Adults
Schools & Education
A group of school children and two adults walk around a small field of grass that is decorated with colourful, pattern origami sculptures on wire that are stuck into the grass.

Schools & Education

Explore how we can work with your school.

Schools & Education
SEND
An adult and child lie on sports mats on the floor of a gym. They are positioned across from each other with their arms outstretched towards one another.

SEND

Inclusive learning opportunities for young people.

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Young people lean over a canvas painted with a yellow and blue gradient, writing on it with pens.

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