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  1. Add Hardwick Holiday Club 2025 - Hardwick Park to your Itinerary

    Hardwick Holiday Club 2025 - Hardwick Park

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    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Sedgefield

    Join us this August for Hardwick Holiday Club. Each day will offer opportunities to explore and discover a range of outdoor adventures while making new friends, playing games, and learning new skills. Holiday Club will include a themed morning…

    Dates

    From:
    11 Aug 2025to15 Aug 2025Open 09:00 - 16:00
    More info for Hardwick Holiday Club 2025 - Hardwick Park

  2. Add Durham Brass Festival: BRASS Boat Cruises New York Brass Band to your Itinerary

    Durham Brass Festival: BRASS Boat Cruises New York Brass Band

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    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Durham City

    This year, Brass Festival will take over the streets…and the water too! Cruise along the River Wear on the Prince Bishop, with our fantastic street bands onboard.

    Dates

    From:
    20 July 2025Open 13:00 -
    More info for Durham Brass Festival: BRASS Boat Cruises New York Brass Band

  3. Add Big "Bath Bomb" Science to your Itinerary

    Big "Bath Bomb" Science

    Type

    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Bargate Bank, Lanchester

    This Summer we welcome back Big Science for some more exciting and fun experiments, this time centred around bath bombs.

    Dates

    From:
    6 Aug 2025Open 11:30 - 12:30
    More info for Big "Bath Bomb" Science

  4. Add Grid Point - The EDAN Gallery to your Itinerary

    Grid Point - The EDAN Gallery

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    Type:

    Exhibition

    Seaham

    Loosely, the grid point in question will be that of the EDAN Gallery.

    Dates

    From:
    26 Aug 2025to4 Oct 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Grid Point - The EDAN Gallery

  5. Add S&DR200 - STEAM, WHEELS n’ RAILS at Locomotion to your Itinerary

    S&DR200 - STEAM, WHEELS n’ RAILS at Locomotion

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Shildon

    ‘STEAM, WHEELS n’ RAILS’ is a new period costume drama, telling the extraordinary story of the birth of the railways.

    Dates

    From:
    21 Sept 2025to23 Sept 2025
    More info for S&DR200 - STEAM, WHEELS n’ RAILS at Locomotion

  6. Add S&DR200 - Summer Celebration Festival at Locomotion to your Itinerary

    S&DR200 - Summer Celebration Festival at Locomotion

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    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Shildon

    Head down to Locomotion for a summer of fun. Locomotion’s Summer Celebration returns to Shildon from 19 July – 31 August and the programme includes steam rides, a pop-up beach, Flying Scotsman and a rolling programme of activities

    Dates

    From:
    19 July 2025to31 Aug 2025
    More info for S&DR200 - Summer Celebration Festival at Locomotion

  7. Add Passport to Nature: Pond Dipping and Identification - Hardwick Park to your Itinerary

    Passport to Nature: Pond Dipping and Identification - Hardwick Park

    Type

    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Sedgefield

    Join us for a pond dipping session as we explore the hidden aquatic world beneath the surface.

    Dates

    From:
    25 July 2025Open 08:30 - 10:30
    More info for Passport to Nature: Pond Dipping and Identification - Hardwick Park

  8. Add The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens to your Itinerary

    The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens

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    Type:

    Exhibition

    Durham

    The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists. This summer, see The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists in our family-focused exhibition which celebrates the art of the Ladybird book artists from the 1940s to the 1970s.

    Dates

    From:
    28 June 2025to31 Aug 2025
    More info for The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens

  9. Add Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby - The Witham to your Itinerary

    Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby - The Witham

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    Type:

    Comedy

    Barnard Castle

    Scott Bennett (from Live at the Apollo, Royal Varity Show and The News Quiz) tells the amazing true story of how his daughter fell ill with a rare genetic condition. Yes, it's a story about an ill baby, but it's a very funny one with a happy ending.

    Dates

    From:
    16 July 2025Open 19:30 - 21:30
    More info for Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby - The Witham

  10. Add Wicked Brunch to your Itinerary

    Wicked Brunch

    Type

    Type:

    Christmas and New Year

    West Auckland

    Join us for a spellbinding fusion of pop perfection and Broadway magic.

    Dates

    From:
    20 Dec 2025Open 11:00 - 15:00
    More info for Wicked Brunch

  11. Add Bishop Auckland Market to your Itinerary

    Bishop Auckland Market

    Type

    Type:

    Markets

    Bishop Auckland

    Stroll through the stalls, savour delicious local treats, and soak up the friendly atmosphere. Every Thursday and Saturday 8:00-17:00

    Dates

    From:
    1 Jan 2025to31 Dec 2025
    More info for Bishop Auckland Market

  12. Add The Curators Series: Joséphine Bowes as a Collector of Ceramics in the 19th Century to your Itinerary

    The Curators Series: Joséphine Bowes as a Collector of Ceramics in the 19th Century

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    Type:

    Lecture

    Barnard Castle

    Explore Joséphine Bowes' journey as a collector, focusing on her passion for ceramics in this insightful talk by Curator of Fine Art and Design, Dr. Howard Coutts.

    Dates

    From:
    24 July 2025Open 14:30 - 15:30
    More info for The Curators Series: Joséphine Bowes as a Collector of Ceramics in the 19th Century

  13. Add Artist Makers - The Bowes Museum to your Itinerary

    Artist Makers - The Bowes Museum

    Type

    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Barnard Castle

    Make time for making; join in and get creative. An opportunity to try out new techniques, materials and experiment with the Museum’s team of artists, makers and designers in the Create Space.

    Dates

    From:
    4 Jan 2025to3 Jan 2026Various Opening Times
    More info for Artist Makers - The Bowes Museum

  14. Add Remembrance Sunday 2025 - Beamish, The Living Museum of the North to your Itinerary

    Remembrance Sunday 2025 - Beamish, The Living Museum of the North

    Type

    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Beamish

    We will be holding special commemorations at the museum for Remembrance Sunday.

    Dates

    From:
    9 Nov 2025
    More info for Remembrance Sunday 2025 - Beamish, The Living Museum of the North

  15. Add Pool - EDAN Art Gallery to your Itinerary

    Pool - EDAN Art Gallery

    Type

    Type:

    Exhibition

    Seaham

    The word 'Pool' has a range of what appear to be very different meanings although they are all related through some notion of 'coming together and sharing'. We can think of anything from pools of water, through pooled gambling 'The Pools', shared…

    Dates

    From:
    3 June 2025to12 July 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Pool - EDAN Art Gallery

  16. Add Re-Take That - Durham Cathedral to your Itinerary

    Re-Take That - Durham Cathedral

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    The College, Durham

    Re-Take That is the ultimate Take That party night, bringing the world’s biggest boy band’s greatest hits to life – live on stage. 

    Dates

    From:
    12 Sept 2025Open 19:30 -
    More info for Re-Take That - Durham Cathedral

  17. Add S&DR200 - Young Railway Photographer of the Year exhibition at Locomotion to your Itinerary

    S&DR200 - Young Railway Photographer of the Year exhibition at Locomotion

    Type

    Type:

    Exhibition

    Shildon

    The exhibition will feature the winning entries from a competition to find the UK’s most promising young railway photographers.

    Dates

    From:
    1 June 2025to31 Dec 2025
    More info for S&DR200 - Young Railway Photographer of the Year exhibition at Locomotion

  18. Add The Wind in the Willows by Illyria - Durham Cathedral to your Itinerary

    The Wind in the Willows by Illyria - Durham Cathedral

    Type

    Type:

    Family Fun

    Durham

    Enjoy Kenneth Grahame's timeless tale of friendship, laughter and the lure of adventure! Enjoy the story where it is set: in the great British outdoors, and told by award-winning performers, Illyria Outdoors Theatre.

    Dates

    From:
    13 Sept 2025Open 19:00 - 20:45
    More info for The Wind in the Willows by Illyria - Durham Cathedral

  19. Add Funny Way To Be Comedy: Cally Beaton to your Itinerary

    Funny Way To Be Comedy: Cally Beaton

    Type

    Type:

    Comedy

    Barnard Castle

    A funny show about a deadly serious subject, a celebration of and for the female of the species. Invisible no more.

    Dates

    From:
    29 Oct 2025Open 20:00 - 22:00
    More info for Funny Way To Be Comedy: Cally Beaton

  20. Add Fawlty Towers Weekend to your Itinerary

    Fawlty Towers Weekend

    Type

    Type:

    Comedy

    Durham

    You will arrive Saturday lunch time where you will be greeted by Basil, Sybil and Manuel who will check you into your rooms. Afternoon Tea will be served at 4.00pm with the help of the Fawlty Towers Team.

    Dates

    From:
    2 Aug 2025to3 Aug 2025Open 14:00 -
    More info for Fawlty Towers Weekend