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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 5h

Fantastic night at The Waiting Room with Chris Helme & Simon Snaize. Great way to round off the weekend! 👌

Chris Helme and Simon Snaize, both seated with guitars, playing at The Waiting Room.

Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 11h

Also nipped into The Stores, caught the final day of the 'Memory of a journey' peg doll exhibition, and had a wander around the lovely Walled Garden. (And I bought an annual pass, so I'm looking forward to some more visits to Preston Park Museum over the next 12 months!)

Rose arch over a path in the Walled Garden.

Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 13h

Can't recommend this highly enough - it's such a beautiful experience, focused on our connections with each other and the natural world. If you haven't been yet, there's still time - it's on until Sunday 4 January (I'll definitely be going back!).

prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/corridors

Corridors - Preston Park

Corridors is a breath-taking new installation by internationally acclaimed artist Rebecca Louise Law.

prestonparkmuseum.co.uk

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 13h

From the river, I headed up to the fantastic new Spence Building at Preston Park Museum to to see #Corridors, a stunning exhibition by Rebecca Louise Law 🌸🌻

Glass exterior of the Spence Building extension to Preston Park Museum on a sunny autumn day. The sky is bright blue above, with just a smattering of thin white cloud visible.

A 'corridor' between two walls of preserved flowers, with lighting creating shadows on the floor.

Close up of some of the preserved flowers, with colours including orange and pink.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 14h

Change of location this Sunday morning, and a beautiful river walk by the Tees at Preston Park ☀️🍂

The River Tees seen through the trees on the riverbank on a sunny autumn day. The blue sky and white clouds above are reflected in the water.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 1d

Just a few highlights from today's #TwisterellaFest, another brilliant day of live music in the heart of Boro 🙌❤️ #UTB

Mezanmi (Fran O'Hanlon) seated, singing and playing guitar, in the Teesside Uni SU Lounge at Twisterella. In front of him is a keyboard and other equipment he used to play other songs.

Parissa Zarifi, singing and playing guitar, in the Teesside SU Lounge at Twisterella

The lead singer of Swim School (rest of the band out of shot) on stage, singing and playing guitar, at Twisterella

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 10th birthday, @drakebookshop.bsky.social! 🥳 🥂 📚

Starting Saturday with a visit to Stockton. Would have been rude not to, wouldn't it? On #BookshopDay as well!

My favourite bookshop, and one of Teesside's best independents 🧡

#ChooseBookshops @booksaremybag.bsky.social

Exterior of the double-fronted Drake The Bookshop on Silver Street in Stockton. The sky above the tall buildings is blue with thin white clouds.

A glass of 'Nosecco' being held up in front of a table with flowers, a cake, snacks, and more drinks being poured.

Back at home, a pile of books and a couple of pin badges, from my visit to Drake The Bookshop, sit on the middle table of a set of 3 light oak side tables.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 2d

One of my all-time favourite bands ❤️

Brilliant night watching Idlewild at @boilershop.bsky.social in Newcastle 🙌

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant evening in conversation with the Northern Writers Panel of Christy Ducker, David Mark and @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social talking about writing and place at Sunderland Libraries' City Library. Thanks to the writers and @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social for this insightful,entertaining session!

Writers Christy Ducker, David Mark, and Harry Man seated in front of a Royal Literary Fund banner. Christy and David are listening as Harry reads.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 5d

👻👻 Getting in the spooky season mood? I'm running an online writing workshop focused on the ghost story this month! 👻👻

📆 Wednesday 22 October, 7pm

Book here: www.amylordauthor.com/events 🎃 #WritingCommunity

writing workshop the ghost story
Wednesday 22 October 7pm-8.30pm on zoom £15/£7 amylordauthor.com

writing workshop the ghost story
Wednesday 22 October 7pm-8.30pm £15/£7
Create your own haunting this Halloween, as we explore and experiment with the ghost story.

In this fun writing workshop, we’ll think about what makes a chilling or creepy ghost story, while focusing on a key aspect: the spirit themselves.

We’ll think about who’s doing the haunting – and why – and who’s being haunted.

This workshop will take place on Zoom. There are a limited number of places available for those on a low income.

We’ll be doing a variety of writing exercises during the session, which will be designed to get you working on a ghost story of your own.

amylordauthor.com

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic night with Hope & Social at @thecrescentyork.bsky.social 💙

Roll on @nathbrudenell.bsky.social in two weeks' time! 🙌

Eight piece band Hope & Social on stage at The Crescent in York.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 7d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 7d

Morning!

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 8d

The brilliant John Bramwell at Middlesbrough Cathedral tonight ✨️

John Bramwell sitting on a tall stool, playing guitar and singing.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 9d

Truly wonderful night with Barry Hyde and Faithful Johannes (@fjwords.bsky.social) at Hark! The Sound of Stories at Darlington Library ✨️

(Well worth the trip down the A66 on a wet and windy Friday night!)

#HARK @tracksdarlington.bsky.social

Barry Hyde seated at a keyboard, playing and singing, against a backdrop of Darlington Children's Library, with gig lighting and fairy lights.

Faithful Johannes, standing and singing, against a backdrop of Darlington Children's Library, with gig lighting and fairy lights.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 14d

Brilliant day at S&DR200 in Stockton town centre watching Southpaw Company's #STEAM, and #GhostTrain: The Arrival by Avanti Display and Walk the Plank 🚂 ✨️

#SDR200 #StocktonAndDarlingtonRailway

Fireworks shoot up into the night sky above a replica of Locomotion 1 sitting on top of a huge stage set for Ghost Train: The Arrival

A replica railwaybwagon carrying a clock bearing the words 'Stockton Darlington'

Dancers performing in Southpaw Company's STEAM on Stockton High Street

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 19d

Who knew there was such beautiful music to be made with a bunch of toy instruments?! Fun, chilled out Tuesday night at the Hope & Social Club at The Attic, Leeds ✨️💙

Hope & Social playing in the middle of a seated audience at The Attic in Leeds.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 21d

Morning!

Sun shining on a grassy area of parkland, with trees in the middle and far distance. The sky is bright blue above with thin white clouds.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 23d

#UTB 🙌

The crowd cheers a winning Boro team under the floodlights at the Riverside Stadium

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 28d

I adored What Girls Do In The Dark, and I was hanging on to every word again in This Is How I Fight, the incredible new collection from @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social 🥀 ✨️

(Nine Arches Press, June 2025)

Rosie Garland's book, with a pink, wilted rose on the front cover, sits on a small, light oak side table, with a coffee in a Golden Smog mug next to it.

A poem from the collection, titled The logic of the situation:

These are the girls with shields up and huddling out of sensor range; girls whose only communication is classmates demanding the answers to last night's homework, who are geek and gawky-awkward, brimful with science and maths and art and history, none of it filling their empty quarters. Girls bent double with the struggle to contain their turmoil, who never see themselves reflected in the lives of pretty girls nor in the TV shows that are their only company.

These are the girls on stun, till they see him stride onto the bridge of his starship. Spock: half-human, half-Vulcan, pointed ears and upswept eyebrows, a vortex of green-blooded otherness. Tonight, on red alert and shuffled to the edge of their seats, these are the girls discovering a being who shares their struggles, who understands the vigilance needed to conceal a core of churning magma.

These are the girls who hug the TV for one hour each week, resonating with new life and new connection, as Spock negotiates the ion storms of being both and neither. Girls who realise, for all his difference, he is not lonely; who dare to believe that if Spock can build a federation of friends and lovers, if he can calculate the probabilities of failure and do it anyway, then so can they, even if it takes till Stardate Whenever.

These are the girls who hang on, counting the years marooned on hostile planets where hope shrinks to a dot in the centre of a viewscreen. Girls who practice the Vulcan disciplines of patience and concealment, who lay in a course for the future, carrying the alien knowledge they are not alone, who have faith that out beyond Antares is a universe of civilisations where optimism is not confined to black-and-white TV screens, but floods galaxies with bright and brilliant colour. Ahead, Warp Factor Maybe.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 28d

Morning!

The sun shines on fallen, copper-coloured leaves on the grass, underneath trees that are still green. The sky is a clear, bright blue.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Sep 10

So good to see the brilliant @gilllandry.bsky.social again at The Cluny tonight. It's been far too long, but also worth every minute of the wait ✨️

#CinnamonCanyonBlues

Gill Landry (solo) on stage at The Cluny, singing and playing guitar.

Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Sep 7

Morning!

An expanse of blue sky and white clouds above a line of trees in a park.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Sep 5

Incredible night with Dupla, Baby Said, Mt Misery, and Loren Heat at @teessideuni.bsky.social Students' Union 🙌

The spirit of the Westgarth lives on ❤️

#LiveMusic #MiddlesbroughGigs #UTB

Dupla on stage, taken from the back of an enthusiastic crowd watching them

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · Aug 27

"It's time to look more seriously at the role of arts centres as civic anchors... increasingly central to the health and wellbeing of communities" - says our Co-Director Annabel Turpin in this piece for Museums Journal (@museumsassociation.org): www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

As councils cut back, art centres step up - Museums Association

The role of arts centres as community hubs has never been more important, says Annabel Turpin

www.museumsassociation.org

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