‘Holmes transforms ancient terrors into endearing companions, questioning where folklore sits in sanitised modern times.’ Hanna Dhaimish reviews ‘Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash’ at South Square Centre, Thornton, on until 5 Oct 2025. corridor8.co.uk/article/dale...

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Celtic mythology describes certain places as having a 'thin veil’ between worlds, separating the mundane everyday from the otherworld – that parallel

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on hometown solo shows, cultural assets that the owners don't want to look after anymore, memorialisation and ambivalence via pals, old bandmates and a big boat tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/what...

What Is a Working-Class Artist?

A new exhibition in post-industrial Wearside ventures beyond stereotypes to present a nuanced vision of labour history, defying the obstacles working-class creatives face in modern Britain.

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berwick got me on the xl bully sheep algo

there hasn’t been a song of the summer yet because we can’t hear it over the screaming

Really interesting talk from @timjerrome.bsky.social just now on finding queer histories in rural records, on the subject of a lack of northern representation it might be worth checking out the @nenature.bsky.social archive - could've said this in person but wandered off before I thought of it 🤪

How it always goes in wars, austerity, entire election campaigns and governments, this genocide. Everyone who matters unites in the period where the horrors might yet be averted to ensure they proceed unimpeded, and that anyone who says they should be is stomped into the earth. Later: silence.

who up chongin they salmons

corridor8.co.uk/publications... Our new publication is out now! Barkle and Tranklements: Art Writing from the Midlands is a 192-page collection of essays, fictions, surveys and rituals from nine writers from across the Midlands, edited by Ben Barra and Lesley Guy. Buy one today!

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i'm going to go to this, i don't really know anyone else who's going though, have a pint with me

Tribune@tribunemagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.

this was great, more cultural events with very good content but also an explicit call to hang out, please

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What a night! Thanks to all who came down and made it so special. And thanks to @garethdennis.uk, Jake Trelease, Lyndsey Ayre and Yara Rodrigues Fowler!

getting in a fistfight because me and the boys can't decide if "making your robot talk like Hitler" is a Simpsons Homer & Mr Burns B-plot episode, a Community Pierce & Abed A-plot episode, a 30 Rock Jack & Pete C-plot episode, or a Data & Geordi 2-part cliffhanger TNG episode

having a classic 'public art in a whimsical small town' time at the moment getting passed back and forth between the town council and county council because nobody knows who's supposed to give permission relating to this www.gov.uk/government/p...

Flying flags: a plain English guide

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monkmode is over it's scriptorium girl summer (one of the projects i'm producing at work is a 'sci-fi scriptorium' and i'm making a mood board for the imaginationless)

just a bit of fun!

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesss, Southern Reach Reddit... you're all grown up now. 😭

A second heartwarming story about Brits walking around has turned out to be a massive scam

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I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

having some absolutely atrocious work dreams at the moment, last night i was trying to interview 40 people simultaneously for a shit amorphous job that only paid 10k

there we r

Corridor8@corridor8.bsky.social · last yr.

What happened in June, you ask? Fear not, all is here! Catch up with the free-to-read activity on our site in this recent newsletter, delve into our paid long read on the Substack from @pdkmitchell.bsky.social‬, frolic in the summer fields of art writing from the top half of England, etc, etc:

i wrote about some of the strangeness from my life for the last ten years, working for arts organisations, universities and other institutions on temporary contracts all over the north of england, in the style of a terribly sincere personal essay, and that's VERY interesting

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'An aim of these salons was also to soothe my own fatigue and cynicism towards marketing and audiences...' Over on SUBSTACK - Lauren Velvick reflects on her nomadic career and the strategies she's used to find connection in a precarious art world. open.substack.com/pub/corridor...

trying to get a trans pope chant going in newcastle

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

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'Not quite fifteen years ago, on a very cold morning, my friend called me over to marvel at a little stalactite that had formed on a water pipe in our studio...' April's newsletter comes from Merseyside with a confession from artist-led studios past 😱 corridor8.substack.com/p/march-apri...

March-April Newsletter: springing into the new quarter

The month has been a busy one for our writers across all the regions and creating in community has never felt more important...

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i saw a real seal the other day, i live in a town with seals now, chongin pure salmons

devastating to be making a 5 hour train journey from Berwick to Blackburn today in the UK after this one from Wrocław to Krakow last week 🥲

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February-March Newsletter: it's happening

The first reviews of Midlands exhibitions are live and our experiments in funding since 2020 have yielded opportunity...

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On Substack our newest board member @alexniven.bsky.social reflects on how experiences of contemporary art from his childhood in Northumberland trouble our received ideas about where experimental and innovative creative work happens. Read & subscribe now: corridor8.substack.com/p/radical-ge...

Radical, Generative, Affirmatively Bizarre Margins

by Alex Niven

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I've been 'creative producing' this deeply silly artwork over the past few months and now it's happening - here's the Museums Northumberland volunteers as giant monks projected on the walls of Berwick Barracks in Berwick Parade by Matthew Rosier 🤪

posh people being exasperated is the worst sound in the world

one of the sort-of-friends i had in the last place i lived for a temporary contract has died, her partner just had to let people know on instagram, i'd quite often see them around huddersfield and say hello, they were really lovely, i feel very sad for him