Why County Durham should be awarded the 2025 City of Culture DURHAM has it all. Cathedral, castles and coast; city and country. The dark skies of the north Pennines and the bright lights of Lumiere. A county with a deep industrial heritage and the broadest moors, and the friendliest people with the widest smiles. It would be so appropriate for this unique county of immense diversity to become the first new style City of Culture in 2025. The rules now allow a wide group of communities to pool resources to bid, and a declaration in favour of Durham would bring the widest of cultures together.
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• 19 Jul 2021
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
The Castle Players
The Bowes Museum
SATURDAY S performance of this romp through the 37 plays of England s Bard was a big day, and not just for the Castle Players.
While the Players have endured months of stage inactivity, those of us on the other side have been starved of our fix of live entertainment.
I had tickets to see singer Elles Bailey at the Sage, in Gateshead, on March 17, last year. It was cancelled at the last minute as the scale of the pandemic was becoming evident and since then. nothing.
I suspect I was not alone in delighting in the simple act of turning up to be entertained. It was a sell-out and word had reached that the previous evening’s show at Mickleton had gone down a storm. We were ready.
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18 Jul 2021
BLUSHING BRIDE: The Helleu plaque
In the latest of her occasional columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at some of the unique items on show at The Bowes Museum, where she is a volunteer.
IN a Bowes Museum guide book dated 1996, there is a picture of a small porcelain bust of a rather forlorn looking woman. It is titled The Bride. Made by Worcester, the enamelled colours are meant to make it look more lifelike, but instead they seem to add to the feeling of sadness from her expression beneath her spotted net veil.
And yet, the bridal veil which dates back to Greek and Roman times was supposed to hide a bride “from evil spirits who might want to thwart her happiness”.
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