GemArts is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their magnificent Masala Festival this July with a week-long programme of the very finest South Asian arts and culture that’s set to bring the heat. Now firmly established as one of the real cultural highl…

The Festival of Thrift is one of our favourite, north-east based festivals, and it seems that plenty of others love it too judging by how many people it attracts each year. And for their 2026 iteration, the festival is returning to Kirkleatham in Redcar o…