Arts Council England

Cutting the ribbon on the new community mural

Celebrating the people and stories of Sunderland with new mural

Each hour, a fifty-second audio-visual collage will radiate through the centre of Culture House, across thirty-six screens and over three storeys.
The familiar sight and sound of Sunderland's trams will still be familiar to many people. Photo: Sunderland Libraries.

Fantastic Sunderland artwork is unique - and changes every hour!

Ed Carter, left, and Peter Brewis have been working on the project for the past year

We've spent a year creating a musical portrait of Sunderland

Durham Priory Archives and Library is the largest and most complete archive of a medieval monastery still housed in its original building, and contains three issues of the Magna Carta.

Durham Cathedral archives gain national recognition

Staff and pupils at Broadway Junior School are celebrating their award

Sunderland school celebrating award for 'teaching through creativity'

Images have been released on how Glassworks could look

First images of how proposed Glassworks Sunderland could look

Eyes of the music world to fall on Sunderland

How arts partnerships are helping to transform communities

Collage of CGI images showing proposed new gallery spaces at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Big update on attraction's two-year closure for massive redevelopment

There will be a £4m redevelopment of the site

Major redevelopment of Museum & Winter Gardens takes step closer

Dance project Rush is among The Cultural Spring's past successes.

We're looking for a new chairperson to help boost our arts projects

Venues which Sunderland Culture helps to operate

We're looking for a new Chair of Trustees - Sunderland Culture

Fireflight was a Cultural Spring community project which helped launch The Fire Station in Sunderland.

We've been awarded £1m to continue work in Sunderland & South Tyneside

The region's museums are set to benefit from a Government windfall.

Museums set for share of £20m windfall to preserve region's heritage

The exhibition goes on show in Sunderland in September

Former colliery sites 40 years on from the Miners' Strike

Adele Sande at The Fire Station

Artist formerly known as Emeli Sandé on returning to Sunderland
Sunderland is going to be “even more vibrant, even more full of creativity and talent,” says the artist formerly known as Emeli Sandé
Katy Wheeler

Actors and writers, Jonluke McKie and Ruth Mary Johnson.

Adopted young people co-develop play about adoption – Up on a Star!

We Make Culture's Paige and Ashleigh

Spectacular night celebrates The Cultural Spring's tenth birthday

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Sunderland's Museum & Winter Gardens set to undergo vital repair work

Virtual reality experiences and more at the new Southpaw Dance Studios

Chief executive of Sunderland Culture, Rebecca Ball, has been appointed to a senior role at Arts Council England. Picture by David Wood.

Sunderland Culture looking for a new boss at a crucial time

Virtual reality dance studio gearing up to open at Sheepfolds Stables

Ray Spencer. Submitted.

Theatre legend Ray Spencer on his amazing years at The Customs House

Sunderland's Summer Streets Festival line-up

Summer Streets line-up revealed, from folk favourites to New Orleans brass band

African drumming is just one of many cultural activities for Wearsiders to try.

Summer arts activities to try across Sunderland

10 years of The Mac Trust

How Sunderland has been put on the cultural map

Fulwell Junior School receives the Artsmark Platinum Award from Arts Council England. Jersey Ratcliffe, nine, and Theo Daniels, nine, with MP Julie Elliot and Mayor, Cllr Alison Smith.

Mayor and MP join children to celebrate top award from Arts Council England
Children and staff at Fulwell Junior School have been celebrating being awarded the Artsmark Platinum Award from Arts Council England, the highest recognition a school can receive for their Arts provision.
Neil Fatkin

A football-themed exhibition opens in Sunderland this month

Football exhibition opens in Sunderland in time for 2022 FIFA World Cup

Darren Henley.

Culture chief on boosting the arts in Wearside

Theatre Space North East to stage An Epic Tale of Wearside at the Fire Station.

Colourful tale of Sunderland's past and future to be staged at The Fire Station

African drumming sessions with Gem Arts are among the workshops on offer.

Cultural Spring's new season of arts workshops

Kim McDermottroe with some of her images.

Unique artistic talent brings ‘FieldJournal’ to Washington

Baby Book Club is just one of many workshops brought by The Cultural Spring.

Arts workshops across our area

ALL GONE: The dismantling of Hetton Colliery Railway, with workmen pictured on September 11, 1959.

Historic Hetton Colliery Railway bicentenary celebrations are on track

Five empty shops across Sunderland are to be used by the Cultural Spring for "about a month".

Empty shops to become arts hubs under innovative project

Andy Golding from The Point with Sunderland City Council CEO Patrick Melia

How new venues and shows are breathing new life into Sunderland city centre

Now's your chance to learn African drumming.

Cultural Spring's new activities programme

Community arts groups can now apply for up to £1,000 to help from The Cultural Spring.

Arts groups can apply for £1,000 funding from Cultural Spring

Metro call to artists

Metro offers artists 'audience of millions' with chance to decorate new fleet of...

Sunderland Youth Choir's young vocals leaders

City set to relaunch Sunderland Youth Choir

Fireflight was a Cultural Spring community project which helped launch The Fire Station in Sunderland.

Cultural Spring art project gets extra £1million to spend in Sunderland

The "City of Light, City of Stories" lantern Display lights up College Green.

Lumiere 2021 hailed a success after 140,000 visit spectacle

The Cultural Spring’s Emma Horsman, left, with Emma Scarr dropping off craft packs.

Cultural Spring arts project praised

Arts Council CEO Darren Henley on Sunderland's Cultural Recovery

How culture is key to city’s Covid recovery

One of the at-home craft packs offered by Cultural Spring

Culture project launches huge range of pay-as-you-feel workshops

BigFatBig perform at the Empire Theatre in Sunderland Picture: DAVID WOOD

Big Sing event will celebrate the songs of Sunderland

Independent, Sunderland Culture and The Bunker are among organisations to receive help to recover from the impact of the pandemic.

These are the Sunderland cultural organisations awarded Covid recovery cash

You can take part in song writing with top musicians

Free online workshops offer songwriting with top musicians to face-painting

An image from the new exhibition

Online exhibition by artists in response to Covid-19

Author Liz Million is appealing for people's lockdown experiences

Author appeals for lockdown experiences for new book about life in Ryhope

Independent in Holmeside, Sunderland.

Sunderland's Independent club awarded £91,000 from Government fund

Beamish Museum will receive almost one million pounds in government funding

Beamish Museum receives government grant

Sunderland is losing out on lottery cash for the arts

Sunderland is a loser in arts funding lottery

National Poetry Day takes place on an annual basis, celebrating and embracing poetry in all its forms, encouraging others to do the same (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when National Poetry Day 2020 will take place - and how to get involved

Why funding problems are now ‘massive’ for arts centres

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