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  1. 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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    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

  2. Durham Brass Festival: Streets of Brass

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    Children/Family events

    Durham City

    Durham City comes alive in July with some of the very best street bands from the UK and beyond in ‘Streets of Brass’.

    Dates

    From:
    19 July 2025to20 July 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Durham Brass Festival: Streets of Brass

  3. Add Durham Fringe Festival: COUAC … Physical Comedy to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: COUAC … Physical Comedy

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    Type:

    Comedy

    Durham City

    This wordless show is an invitation to reflect on the place of nature and technology in our lives and the importance of preserving our humanity.

    Dates

    From:
    23 July 2025to25 July 2025Open 14:30 - 15:30
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: COUAC … Physical Comedy

  4. Add Frozen Princess Party - The Manor House Hotel & Spa to your Itinerary

    Frozen Princess Party - The Manor House Hotel & Spa

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    Christmas and New Year

    West Auckland, Bishop Auckland

    Join us in The Great Hall of Arendelle for Afternoon Tea where we will meet Queen Elsa, Princess Anna & Holly the elf

    Dates

    From:
    14 Dec 2025Open 15:00 - 19:00
    More info for Frozen Princess Party - The Manor House Hotel & Spa

  5. Heritage Open Days 2025

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    Heritage Open Days

    Heritage Open Days is England's largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,000 local people and organisations, and thousands of volunteers.

    Dates

    From:
    12 Sept 2025to21 Sept 2025
    More info for Heritage Open Days 2025

  6. Add Bunch of Fused Glass Flowers Workshop & Cream Tea to your Itinerary

    Bunch of Fused Glass Flowers Workshop & Cream Tea

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    Arts & Crafts

    Lanchester

    Join us and Nat from Northern Sky Designs for an afternoon of creative fun at our Fused Glass Bunch of Flowers Workshop.

    Dates

    From:
    10 Aug 2025Open 13:00 - 16:00
    More info for Bunch of Fused Glass Flowers Workshop & Cream Tea

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

    The Brass Band Conference 2025: The Next Generation

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    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. Add Step into Storytime: Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell - Hardwick Park to your Itinerary

    Step into Storytime: Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell - Hardwick Park

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    Type:

    Children/Family events

    Sedgefield

    Outdoor discover sessions involving storytelling, crafts activities, interactive trails, games and woodland play.

    Dates

    From:
    19 Aug 2025Open 10:00 - 13:00
    More info for Step into Storytime: Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell - Hardwick Park

  9. Add Enchanted Objects: Adornment and Personal Protection from Amulets to the Mobile Phone to your Itinerary

    Enchanted Objects: Adornment and Personal Protection from Amulets to the Mobile Phone

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    Exhibition

    Durham City

    Contemporary artist Dinah Kelly shines a light on the protective powers and symbolism of charms, talismans and amulets.

    Venue

    Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham City

    Dates

    From:
    13 June 2025to9 Nov 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Enchanted Objects: Adornment and Personal Protection from Amulets to the Mobile Phone

  10. Add Children's Halloween Party to your Itinerary

    Children's Halloween Party

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    Type:

    Halloween

    Peterlee

    Get ready for a spooktacular night of fun at Peterlee's Children's Halloween Party.

    Dates

    From:
    31 Oct 2025Open 17:00 - 19:00
    More info for Children's Halloween Party

  11. Add Viking Weekend - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens to your Itinerary

    Viking Weekend - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens

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    Type:

    Family Fun

    Durham

    On Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 September head to Ushaw for their Viking Weekend where history comes alive!

    Dates

    From:
    27 Sept 2025to28 Sept 2025Open 10:00 - 16:00
    More info for Viking Weekend - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens

  12. Add Riverbanks History Walk - Durham Cathedral to your Itinerary

    Riverbanks History Walk - Durham Cathedral

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    Walking Event

    The College, Durham

    Discover the hidden history of the woods and riverbanks that form the spectacular setting for the cathedral. Explore their historic features and trace their change from defensive site to Victorian pleasure garden on this 1.5-mile-long walk.

    Dates

    From:
    28 June 2025Open 10:30 -
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    26 July 2025Open 10:30 -
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    30 Aug 2025Open 10:30 -
    From:
    27 Sept 2025Open 10:30 -
    More info for Riverbanks History Walk - Durham Cathedral

  13. 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

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    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

  14. Add The Barricade Boys – West End Party at Auckland Palace to your Itinerary

    The Barricade Boys – West End Party at Auckland Palace

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    Music Event

    Bishop Auckland

    Direct from London, these four dazzling performers are taking the world by storm. From the heart-wrenching emotion of Les Misérables to the toe-tapping harmonies of the Jersey Boys, The Barricade Boys will take you on a musical journey like no other.

    Venue

    The Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland

    Dates

    From:
    28 June 2025Open 19:30 -
    More info for The Barricade Boys – West End Party at Auckland Palace

  15. Add Durham County Show to your Itinerary

    Durham County Show

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    Type:

    Agricultural Show

    nr Thornley

    The annual Durham County Show.

    Dates

    From:
    5 July 2025to6 July 2025
    More info for Durham County Show

  16. Add Tom Hume: Retrospective - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens to your Itinerary

    Tom Hume: Retrospective - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens

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    Type:

    Exhibition

    Durham

    The first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Tom Hume, a Durham-based artist and art teacher.

    Dates

    From:
    8 Nov 2025to31 Jan 2026
    More info for Tom Hume: Retrospective - Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens

  17. Add GOING BACK BROCKENS: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike to your Itinerary

    GOING BACK BROCKENS: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike

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    Type:

    Exhibition

    Bishop Auckland

    Opening on Friday 13 June at The Warehouse in Newgate Centre, Bishop Auckland, GOING BACK BROCKENS: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike, is a three-part exhibition across County Durham that sees North East artist Narbi Price and writer…

    Dates

    From:
    13 June 2025to5 July 2025Various Opening Times
    From:
    12 July 2025Open 12:00 - 15:00
    From:
    22 Aug 2025
    More info for GOING BACK BROCKENS: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike

  18. Add St Cuthbert's Golf Day - Ramside Hall Hotel, Golf and Spa to your Itinerary

    St Cuthbert's Golf Day - Ramside Hall Hotel, Golf and Spa

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    Type:

    Golf Events

    Durham

    Ramside Golf Day in aid of St Cuthbert's Hospice.

    Dates

    From:
    5 Sept 2025
    More info for St Cuthbert's Golf Day - Ramside Hall Hotel, Golf and Spa

  19. Add The Stick Man Trail at Hamsterley Forest to your Itinerary

    The Stick Man Trail at Hamsterley Forest

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    Type:

    Family Fun

    Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland

    Families can join a new forest adventure as the much-loved character Stick Man, based on the beautiful picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, returns to Forestry England Hamsterley.

    Dates

    From:
    12 Feb 2025to31 Jan 2026
    More info for The Stick Man Trail at Hamsterley Forest

  20. Add A Midsummer Night’s Dream -Three Inch Fools - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle to your Itinerary

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream -Three Inch Fools - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle

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    Theatre

    Staindrop

    Join us for a magical evening as we welcome back the brilliant Three Inch Fools to perform Shakespeare’s most iconic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in the atmospheric setting of Raby Castle’s open-air theatre.

    Dates

    From:
    2 Aug 2025Open 19:00 -
    More info for A Midsummer Night’s Dream -Three Inch Fools - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle