‘Storylines Live’ is a night of poetry, songs and films that have been inspired by life today along the world’s oldest public passenger railway. Live poetry, music and films from award-winning poets, songwriters and filmmakers (including – left to right –…

How may Shaun the Sheeps can you handle? 10? 20? 50? More? Brace yourself for the amazing ‘Shaun the Sheep on the Tyne Art Trail’. This summer I’m going sheep rustling. My aim? To track down each and every single Shaun the Sheep that have been dotted arou…

Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu’s latest is a sprawling state-of-the-nation drama with an all-too timely depiction of the resurgence of nativism in the EU/globalisation era. In an ominous prologue, a six-year-old boy witnesses something awful in …