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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

👻👻 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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

Morning!

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 11d

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 · 16d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

#UTB 🙌

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

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 25d

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 · 26d

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 · 29d

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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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 28

The magnificent Mercury Rev at @kustockton.bsky.social ✨️

Five piece band Mercury Rev on stage at KU Stockton

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 25

Morning!

A path leads towards a small lake in a park, surrounded by trees of varying heights and shades of green.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fun Friday night watching Sherlock at the brilliant Open Air Theatre in Grosvenor Park, Chester, run by @storyhouselive.bsky.social ✨️

Audience watches Sherlock at the open air theatre in the round as night falls in Grosvenor Park

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · Aug 22

We’re thrilled to announce 22 photographers from Open Eye Gallery's Socially Engaged Photography Network will be capturing stories from #OurFreedom: Then and Now, culminating in a national exhibition in 2026. Meet them & learn more: ourfreedom.org.uk/news/new-nat...

@artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Person (face out of shot) holding a camera

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 18

Artists, there's still time to submit proposals for Timepiece, a new audiovisual installation for #CultureHouseSunderland. Take a look and apply by Mon 1 Sept 👇

⏰ Artists (and artistic collectives), a reminder that we're seeking someone to work with Culture House Sunderland and The Space to develop, produce and install Timepiece, an audiovisual artwork th...

⏰ Artists (and artistic collectives), a reminder that we're seeking someone to work with Culture House Sunderland and The Space to develop, produce and install Timepiece, an audiovisual artwork that w...

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 17

Legends! 🙌 My fabulous friends Patrick & Lauren have completed an epic 63 mile #pALEgrimage from Scarborough to Stockton to help raise vital funds for the Great North Air Ambulance Service. If you'd like to give them a hand, you can contribute here: gofund.me/b7b917fa

#TheGoldenSmog #pALEgrimage25

Donate to pALEgrimage 2025 Supporting the Great North Air Ambulance, organized by Patrick Hollifield

As part of this year's Palegrimage, we are taking another bi… Patrick Hollifield needs your support for pALEgrimage 2025 Supporting the Great North Air Ambulance

gofund.me

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 17

Morning!

Two ducks (and a young moorhen in the background) on a small lake in a park.

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · Aug 16

Gorgeous stuff from @thelakepoets.bsky.social and Eve Simpson at the Old Cinema Launderette in #Durham last night ✨️

The Lake Poets (Marty Longstaff, guitar & vocals) playing at the Old Cinema Launderette

Eve Simpson (guitar & vocals) playing at the Old Cinema Launderette

The sign outside the Old Cinema Launderette in Durham

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