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  1. Collage of images showing actors dressed as prison officers and prisoners

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: Alone I-N-S-I-D-E to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: Alone I-N-S-I-D-E

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Durham City

    On her first day prison officer Casey will be placed into The Isolation wing with the hardened officer Stafford to show her the ropes. Whilst there, Casey will encounter The Mad, The Bad and The Sad of the prison world.

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025to24 July 2025Open 20:30 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: Alone I-N-S-I-D-E
  2. Sam Slatcher smiling and playing guitar on public transport, standing with four women who are also smiling.

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: Passengers & Pioneers to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: Passengers & Pioneers

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    Type:

    Music Event

    Durham

    Original folk songs by Sam Slatcher featuring poetry from award winning North East poets that celebrates the bicentenary of the modern railway.

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025Open 17:00 -
    From:
    25 July 2025Open 17:00 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: Passengers & Pioneers
  3. Durham Fringe Festival 2025 - a group of singers performing on stage.

    Add Durham Fringe Festival 2025 to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival 2025

    Type

    Type:

    Festival

    Durham City

    Between 23rd and 27th July 2025, Durham Fringe Festival will host a spectacular array of performing arts across nine Durham City Centre venues. Audiences will be invited to explore over 110 unique acts across a programme of 270+ performances. Genres…

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025to27 July 2025
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival 2025
  4. The Three Inch Fools performing outdoor theatre at Raby Castle

    Add The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I - Three Inch Fools - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle to your Itinerary

    The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I - Three Inch Fools - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Staindrop

    Get ready for a royally ridiculous evening of musical mayhem as The Three Inch Fools return with their brand-new show: a side-splitting Tudor romp where history and hilarity collide!

    Dates

    From:
    12 July 2025Open 19:00 -
    More info for The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I - Three Inch Fools - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle
  5. Painting of a building surrounded by trees

    Add I Was Glad - Durham School Chapel to your Itinerary

    I Was Glad - Durham School Chapel

    Type

    Type:

    Music Event

    Quarryheads Lane, Durham

    The Chapel Choirs of Durham University, in collaboration with Durham Student Music, will be performing a programme of beautiful choral music on Saturday 21 June in the atmospheric acoustics of Durham School's Chapel.

    Dates

    From:
    21 June 2025Open 19:30 - 21:30
    More info for I Was Glad - Durham School Chapel
  6. The Last Hurrah advertising poster showing details of events

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: The Last Hurrah to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: The Last Hurrah

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Durham City

    The Last Hurrah examines a family of ordinary people wrapped up in secrets and choices to be made.

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025Open 15:30 - 16:30
    From:
    25 July 2025to26 July 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: The Last Hurrah
  7. Aerial view of Durham City

    Add The Brass Band Conference 2025: The Next Generation to your Itinerary

    The Brass Band Conference 2025: The Next Generation

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    Type:

    Talks

    Durham City

    The Brass Band Conference is an annual event and awards ceremony providing an unmissable opportunity for brass banders from across the country to learn, share and network.

    Dates

    From:
    27 Sept 2025
    More info for The Brass Band Conference 2025: The Next Generation
  8. Durham Singers performing in St Brandon's Church in 2023

    Add Durham Singers' Concert "Only in Sleep" to your Itinerary

    Durham Singers' Concert "Only in Sleep"

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    Brancepeth

    In their summer concert 2025, the Durham Singers will perform music for Evening prayer.

    Dates

    From:
    5 July 2025Open 19:30 - 21:30
    More info for Durham Singers' Concert "Only in Sleep"
  9. Buble and Bubbles poster with image of Michael Buble and tribute act Alex Hall

    Add Bublé & Bubbles - Party Night to your Itinerary

    Bublé & Bubbles - Party Night

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    Type:

    Christmas and New Year

    West Auckland

    Join Alex Hall as he swoons the night away with a tribute to Michael Buble.

    Dates

    From:
    19 Dec 2025Open 19:00 - 23:45
    More info for Bublé & Bubbles - Party Night
  10. Illustration of a people standing around a coffin full of money

    Add Loot by Joe Orton: A Comedy to your Itinerary

    Loot by Joe Orton: A Comedy

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Fowlers Yard, Durham

    Burying Mrs McLeavy should be a dignified affair, so how does a stash of cash come into proceedings?

    Dates

    From:
    29 June 2025Open 14:30 -
    From:
    30 June 2025to4 July 2025Open 19:30 -
    From:
    5 July 2025Open 14:30 -
    More info for Loot by Joe Orton: A Comedy
  11. Durham Brass 2025 Festival logo

    Durham Brass Festival 2025

    Type

    Type:

    Festival

    Durham

    BRASS is back in 2025 with a fantastic programme of brass-inspired events coming to Durham from 13 - 20 July, with a headline performance by Bill Ryder-Jones.

    Dates

    From:
    13 July 2025to20 July 2025
    More info for Durham Brass Festival 2025
  12. Spanish Poet, Playwright and Artist Federico Garcia Lorca

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: LORCA & Margot to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: LORCA & Margot

    Type

    Type:

    Theatre

    Owengate, Durham City

    Lorca and Margot collide in a double bill. Forget about Brexit and join your European cousins for a night of clown, mime and absurdity.

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025to25 July 2025Open 20:00 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: LORCA & Margot
  13. Castle lit up at night and a skull on the lawn in front of it

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: Who Killed t’Duke to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: Who Killed t’Duke

    Type

    Type:

    Theatre

    Durham City

    Who killed t’Duke is a classic whodunnit set in Medieval England where the Marx Brothers meets Murder Mystery! All that’s left of William Longbotham, Duke of Snetterdale is his ghost, which still roams this Earth today waiting for his killers to be…

    Dates

    From:
    26 July 2025to27 July 2025Open 14:00 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: Who Killed t’Duke
  14. Legs coming out of a mouth

    Add The Rocky Horror Show - Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre to your Itinerary

    The Rocky Horror Show - Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre

    Type

    Type:

    Theatre

    Durham

    'Let's do the Time Warp again' as DULOG presents the ultra-camp cult classic sci-fi satire and celebration of self-expression: The Rocky Horror Show!

    Dates

    From:
    19 June 2025to21 June 2025Open 19:30 - 23:30
    More info for The Rocky Horror Show - Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
  15. Illustration of a cardboard box, with text above that says, 'occupy'.

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: Occupy to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: Occupy

    Type

    Type:

    Theatre

    Durham

    Where did we come from? Where are we going? When is Mother’s Day 2025? We would very much like to know. And where can we find answers? The Internet. And who could possibly show us the entirety of the Internet within the limits a tight 50-minute…

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025Open 10:00 -
    From:
    26 July 2025to27 July 2025Open 10:00 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: Occupy
  16. Karen Hall playing cello

    Add Durham Fringe Festival: Delusions and Grandeur to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: Delusions and Grandeur

    Type

    Type:

    Music Event

    Durham City

    Featuring Suite Number One in G Major by JS Bach and personal comedic pieces crafted in Idiot classes.

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025to27 July 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: Delusions and Grandeur
  17. Rock of Ages wording and logo

    Add Rock of Ages to your Itinerary

    Rock of Ages

    Type

    Type:

    Theatre

    Chester-le-Street

    Rock of Ages takes you back to the time of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair!

    Dates

    From:
    11 June 2025to14 June 2025Open 19:15 - 22:00
    More info for Rock of Ages
  18. Bill Ryder Jones with some Alpacas

    Add Durham Brass Festival: Bill Ryder-Jones & NASUWT Riverside Band presents "Iechyd Da" to your Itinerary

    Durham Brass Festival: Bill Ryder-Jones & NASUWT Riverside Band presents "Iechyd Da"

    Type

    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Durham City

    Following Bill’s recent collaborations with the BBC Concert Orchestra, this show will bring a bold new reimagining of Iechyd Da to this year’s Durham Brass Festival.

    Dates

    From:
    15 July 2025Open 19:30 -
    More info for Durham Brass Festival: Bill Ryder-Jones & NASUWT Riverside Band presents "Iechyd Da"
  19. RSCM singing break, exterior shot of Auckland Palace and photo of Joanna Forbes L'Estrange.

    Add Singing Break at Auckland Palace to your Itinerary

    Singing Break at Auckland Palace

    Type

    Type:

    Music Event

    Bishop Auckland

    An inspirational and uplifting weekend of singing in the company of composer, singer and music director Joanna Forbes l'Estrange in the magnificent setting of Auckland Palace. Participants will have the opportunity to sing Joanna's major new work, A…

    Dates

    From:
    10 Oct 2025Open 13:00 - 16:00
    More info for Singing Break at Auckland Palace
  20. Event advertising poster with images of Mozart and Schubert

    Add An Evening of Mozart and Schubert with Innominata Choir and Orchestra to your Itinerary

    An Evening of Mozart and Schubert with Innominata Choir and Orchestra

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    Annfield Plain

    An Evening of Mozart and Schubert with Innominata Choir and Orchestra.

    Dates

    From:
    14 June 2025Open 18:30 - 20:30
    More info for An Evening of Mozart and Schubert with Innominata Choir and Orchestra
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