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There are a few FREE tickets remaining for the Going Back Brockens 'in conversation' event at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
It's fascinating listening to Narbi & Mark talk about the project and their process.
Grab your ticket here:
www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/art...
It's fascinating listening to Narbi & Mark talk about the project and their process.
Grab your ticket here:
www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/art...
Find out more about Going Back Brockens with our artist talk, Narbi Price and Mark Hudson discuss their latest exhibition at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
www.sunderlandculture.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There are a few FREE tickets remaining for the Going Back Brockens 'in conversation' event at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
It's fascinating listening to Narbi & Mark talk about the project and their process.
Grab your ticket here:
www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/art...
It's fascinating listening to Narbi & Mark talk about the project and their process.
Grab your ticket here:
www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/art...
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Life after mining. Art. Videos. Sound installation. Lots of good stuff to enjoy at Going Back Brockens in Sunderland Museum. More at vocal.media/art/going-ba...
@narbiprice.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social @wemakeculture.bsky.social @nomorenowt.bsky.social @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
@narbiprice.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social @wemakeculture.bsky.social @nomorenowt.bsky.social @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
Going Back Brockens
Sounds, films and paintings reflect on life after industry
vocal.media
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Life after mining. Art. Videos. Sound installation. Lots of good stuff to enjoy at Going Back Brockens in Sunderland Museum. More at vocal.media/art/going-ba...
@narbiprice.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social @wemakeculture.bsky.social @nomorenowt.bsky.social @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
@narbiprice.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social @wemakeculture.bsky.social @nomorenowt.bsky.social @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
Set up complete... see you tomorrow?
Going Back Brockens opens at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens following a successful run exhibiting across Co Durham. This marks the first showing of the work in a dedicated public gallery
Preview is Thurs Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm
Link in bio for more info
Going Back Brockens opens at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens following a successful run exhibiting across Co Durham. This marks the first showing of the work in a dedicated public gallery
Preview is Thurs Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm
Link in bio for more info
September 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Set up complete... see you tomorrow?
Going Back Brockens opens at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens following a successful run exhibiting across Co Durham. This marks the first showing of the work in a dedicated public gallery
Preview is Thurs Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm
Link in bio for more info
Going Back Brockens opens at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens following a successful run exhibiting across Co Durham. This marks the first showing of the work in a dedicated public gallery
Preview is Thurs Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm
Link in bio for more info
Day one of the Going Back Brockens install is complete! The paintings look incredible Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.
Come see for yourself this Thursday, Sept 11, from 5:30-7:30pm.
Link in bio to RSVP, or just turn up.
Big thanks to TFN Production and Atlas North East for install support
Come see for yourself this Thursday, Sept 11, from 5:30-7:30pm.
Link in bio to RSVP, or just turn up.
Big thanks to TFN Production and Atlas North East for install support
September 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Day one of the Going Back Brockens install is complete! The paintings look incredible Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.
Come see for yourself this Thursday, Sept 11, from 5:30-7:30pm.
Link in bio to RSVP, or just turn up.
Big thanks to TFN Production and Atlas North East for install support
Come see for yourself this Thursday, Sept 11, from 5:30-7:30pm.
Link in bio to RSVP, or just turn up.
Big thanks to TFN Production and Atlas North East for install support
📣 One week to go!
📍 Going Back Brockens opens in Sunderland
Preview: Thu Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm @ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
All 40 paintings by Narbi Price and Mark Hudson’s soundscape, PLUS:
• 3 new Sunderland paintings
• Carl Joyce’s film series
🎟️ Free tickets here
tinyurl.com/57wp4b9a
📍 Going Back Brockens opens in Sunderland
Preview: Thu Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm @ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
All 40 paintings by Narbi Price and Mark Hudson’s soundscape, PLUS:
• 3 new Sunderland paintings
• Carl Joyce’s film series
🎟️ Free tickets here
tinyurl.com/57wp4b9a
September 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📣 One week to go!
📍 Going Back Brockens opens in Sunderland
Preview: Thu Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm @ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
All 40 paintings by Narbi Price and Mark Hudson’s soundscape, PLUS:
• 3 new Sunderland paintings
• Carl Joyce’s film series
🎟️ Free tickets here
tinyurl.com/57wp4b9a
📍 Going Back Brockens opens in Sunderland
Preview: Thu Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm @ Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
All 40 paintings by Narbi Price and Mark Hudson’s soundscape, PLUS:
• 3 new Sunderland paintings
• Carl Joyce’s film series
🎟️ Free tickets here
tinyurl.com/57wp4b9a
Auction alert! 🚨 The original Bob & Roberta Smith artwork, created for this year's Durham Miners Gala print, is going up for auction in September with Anderson & Garland to raise funds for the Gala.
You can watch or bid - more detail soon! 👀🤝
You can watch or bid - more detail soon! 👀🤝
September 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Auction alert! 🚨 The original Bob & Roberta Smith artwork, created for this year's Durham Miners Gala print, is going up for auction in September with Anderson & Garland to raise funds for the Gala.
You can watch or bid - more detail soon! 👀🤝
You can watch or bid - more detail soon! 👀🤝
Today is your last chance to experience the Going Back Brockens exhibition at St. Mary's in Horden 👀👇
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
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August 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Today is your last chance to experience the Going Back Brockens exhibition at St. Mary's in Horden 👀👇
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
Going Back Brockens heads to Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens!
🖼️ First full public gallery show PLUS 3 new paintings by Narbi Price
Also Carl Joyce’s film series Where We Belong
🗓️ Preview: Sept 11, 5:30 - 7:30pm
📍 Then Sept 12 - Jan 3
🎟️ Free tickets: www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/goi...
🖼️ First full public gallery show PLUS 3 new paintings by Narbi Price
Also Carl Joyce’s film series Where We Belong
🗓️ Preview: Sept 11, 5:30 - 7:30pm
📍 Then Sept 12 - Jan 3
🎟️ Free tickets: www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/goi...
August 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Going Back Brockens heads to Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens!
🖼️ First full public gallery show PLUS 3 new paintings by Narbi Price
Also Carl Joyce’s film series Where We Belong
🗓️ Preview: Sept 11, 5:30 - 7:30pm
📍 Then Sept 12 - Jan 3
🎟️ Free tickets: www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/goi...
🖼️ First full public gallery show PLUS 3 new paintings by Narbi Price
Also Carl Joyce’s film series Where We Belong
🗓️ Preview: Sept 11, 5:30 - 7:30pm
📍 Then Sept 12 - Jan 3
🎟️ Free tickets: www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/goi...
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Going Back Brockens is in its final week at Horden church. Meanwhile, looking back at where it began - a disused warehouse in a Bishop Auckland shopping centre - offers ideas about regenerating town centres. More at talkingnortheast.substack.com/p/newgate-wa...
August 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Going Back Brockens is in its final week at Horden church. Meanwhile, looking back at where it began - a disused warehouse in a Bishop Auckland shopping centre - offers ideas about regenerating town centres. More at talkingnortheast.substack.com/p/newgate-wa...
Still a few days left to catch the current iteration of the Going Back Brockens exhibition in St Mary's, Horden. Free and all welcome.
4pm - 5:30pm every day until this Sunday, 31 August.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
4pm - 5:30pm every day until this Sunday, 31 August.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
August 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Still a few days left to catch the current iteration of the Going Back Brockens exhibition in St Mary's, Horden. Free and all welcome.
4pm - 5:30pm every day until this Sunday, 31 August.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
4pm - 5:30pm every day until this Sunday, 31 August.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
Thanks to everyone who has visited the Going Back Brockens exhibition so far.
We're open every day until August 31, 4pm- 5:30pm, St. Mary's church, Horden.
Free and all welcome.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
We're open every day until August 31, 4pm- 5:30pm, St. Mary's church, Horden.
Free and all welcome.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
August 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thanks to everyone who has visited the Going Back Brockens exhibition so far.
We're open every day until August 31, 4pm- 5:30pm, St. Mary's church, Horden.
Free and all welcome.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
We're open every day until August 31, 4pm- 5:30pm, St. Mary's church, Horden.
Free and all welcome.
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
Finishing tweaks to the soundscape courtesy of Tom at TFN Production.
Going Back Brockens continues at St Mary's church in Horden, launching this Friday at 5pm.
Going Back Brockens continues at St Mary's church in Horden, launching this Friday at 5pm.
August 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Finishing tweaks to the soundscape courtesy of Tom at TFN Production.
Going Back Brockens continues at St Mary's church in Horden, launching this Friday at 5pm.
Going Back Brockens continues at St Mary's church in Horden, launching this Friday at 5pm.
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Thanks to Kate Liston and @corridor8.bsky.social for their thoughtful review of the first outing of Going Back Brockens in Bishop Auckland.
Read all about it below.
@nomorenowt.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social
corridor8.co.uk/article/goin...
Read all about it below.
@nomorenowt.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social
corridor8.co.uk/article/goin...
Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike — Corridor8
The Level 1 Car Park hums under fluorescent strip lighting. In one corner, a ticket machine awaits; in another, a set of blue fire doors stands open next
corridor8.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thanks to Kate Liston and @corridor8.bsky.social for their thoughtful review of the first outing of Going Back Brockens in Bishop Auckland.
Read all about it below.
@nomorenowt.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social
corridor8.co.uk/article/goin...
Read all about it below.
@nomorenowt.bsky.social @buildingculture.bsky.social
corridor8.co.uk/article/goin...
💥 Install day in Horden - the final stop of GOING BACK BROCKENS in County Durham.
Free entry - all welcome
Launch event: Friday August 22 - 5pm - 7pm
Then every day until August 31, 4pm - 5:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Blackhills Rd, Horden, SR8 4SD
Free entry - all welcome
Launch event: Friday August 22 - 5pm - 7pm
Then every day until August 31, 4pm - 5:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Blackhills Rd, Horden, SR8 4SD
August 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
💥 Install day in Horden - the final stop of GOING BACK BROCKENS in County Durham.
Free entry - all welcome
Launch event: Friday August 22 - 5pm - 7pm
Then every day until August 31, 4pm - 5:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Blackhills Rd, Horden, SR8 4SD
Free entry - all welcome
Launch event: Friday August 22 - 5pm - 7pm
Then every day until August 31, 4pm - 5:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Blackhills Rd, Horden, SR8 4SD
If begins! Set up for the final leg of the Going Back Brockens showcase is underway. See you Friday?
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
August 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
If begins! Set up for the final leg of the Going Back Brockens showcase is underway. See you Friday?
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
nomorenowt.org/big-projects...
Unheard voices from 30+ years ago return to Horden for the final Co Durham stop of the Going Back Brockens exhibition!
Soundscape, Paintings and short films all in the stunning surrounds of St. Mary's church.
Aug 22, 5pm
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary celebrations.
More info: link in bio
Soundscape, Paintings and short films all in the stunning surrounds of St. Mary's church.
Aug 22, 5pm
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary celebrations.
More info: link in bio
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Unheard voices from 30+ years ago return to Horden for the final Co Durham stop of the Going Back Brockens exhibition!
Soundscape, Paintings and short films all in the stunning surrounds of St. Mary's church.
Aug 22, 5pm
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary celebrations.
More info: link in bio
Soundscape, Paintings and short films all in the stunning surrounds of St. Mary's church.
Aug 22, 5pm
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary celebrations.
More info: link in bio
An artists' talk in the only radical bookshop in the North East? We've got you covered 👀👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
August 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
An artists' talk in the only radical bookshop in the North East? We've got you covered 👀👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
This Wednesday! Grab your ticket here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
TALK: Mark Hudson & Narbi Price in conversation with The People’s Bookshop
🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 7pm (doors 6:30)
🎟️ Booking link in bio
Join us for a special in-convo on painting, place, and memory 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
📖 We’ll also reflect on the book, 30 years later.
Followed by Q&A.
🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 7pm (doors 6:30)
🎟️ Booking link in bio
Join us for a special in-convo on painting, place, and memory 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
📖 We’ll also reflect on the book, 30 years later.
Followed by Q&A.
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This Wednesday! Grab your ticket here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
www.tickettailor.com/events/peopl...
Going Back Brockens - the final Co Durham Show!
📅 Fri 22 Aug, 5pm
📍 St Mary’s Church, Horden
🎟️ Free entry - all welcome
🔊 Unheard 1990s interviews from Horden by Mark Hudson
🎨 New post-industrial landscape paintings by Narbi Price
🎬 Short films by Carl Joyce
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary
📅 Fri 22 Aug, 5pm
📍 St Mary’s Church, Horden
🎟️ Free entry - all welcome
🔊 Unheard 1990s interviews from Horden by Mark Hudson
🎨 New post-industrial landscape paintings by Narbi Price
🎬 Short films by Carl Joyce
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary
August 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Going Back Brockens - the final Co Durham Show!
📅 Fri 22 Aug, 5pm
📍 St Mary’s Church, Horden
🎟️ Free entry - all welcome
🔊 Unheard 1990s interviews from Horden by Mark Hudson
🎨 New post-industrial landscape paintings by Narbi Price
🎬 Short films by Carl Joyce
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary
📅 Fri 22 Aug, 5pm
📍 St Mary’s Church, Horden
🎟️ Free entry - all welcome
🔊 Unheard 1990s interviews from Horden by Mark Hudson
🎨 New post-industrial landscape paintings by Narbi Price
🎬 Short films by Carl Joyce
Part of Horden’s 125th anniversary
TALK: Mark Hudson & Narbi Price in conversation with The People’s Bookshop
🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 7pm (doors 6:30)
🎟️ Booking link in bio
Join us for a special in-convo on painting, place, and memory 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
📖 We’ll also reflect on the book, 30 years later.
Followed by Q&A.
🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 7pm (doors 6:30)
🎟️ Booking link in bio
Join us for a special in-convo on painting, place, and memory 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
📖 We’ll also reflect on the book, 30 years later.
Followed by Q&A.
July 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
TALK: Mark Hudson & Narbi Price in conversation with The People’s Bookshop
🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 7pm (doors 6:30)
🎟️ Booking link in bio
Join us for a special in-convo on painting, place, and memory 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
📖 We’ll also reflect on the book, 30 years later.
Followed by Q&A.
🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 7pm (doors 6:30)
🎟️ Booking link in bio
Join us for a special in-convo on painting, place, and memory 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
📖 We’ll also reflect on the book, 30 years later.
Followed by Q&A.
It's been quite a ride so far >> we took Going Back Brockens to Durham Miners Gala 🎪
Built and deconstructed a gallery in a marquee in 36 hours 😮
No easels. No wires. Just ambition + teamwork 💪
Thousands came. It was lovely.
Next stop: Horden, August 22📍
🧡 to everyone who helped make it happen.🙏
Built and deconstructed a gallery in a marquee in 36 hours 😮
No easels. No wires. Just ambition + teamwork 💪
Thousands came. It was lovely.
Next stop: Horden, August 22📍
🧡 to everyone who helped make it happen.🙏
July 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It's been quite a ride so far >> we took Going Back Brockens to Durham Miners Gala 🎪
Built and deconstructed a gallery in a marquee in 36 hours 😮
No easels. No wires. Just ambition + teamwork 💪
Thousands came. It was lovely.
Next stop: Horden, August 22📍
🧡 to everyone who helped make it happen.🙏
Built and deconstructed a gallery in a marquee in 36 hours 😮
No easels. No wires. Just ambition + teamwork 💪
Thousands came. It was lovely.
Next stop: Horden, August 22📍
🧡 to everyone who helped make it happen.🙏
📣 LAST CHANCE to get a limited-edition Bob and Roberta Smith print. All proceeds support the Durham Miners Gala.
💥 This year's official print is only available until 5pm today, Weds 16 July.
👉 Order now before the edition closes:
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
💥 This year's official print is only available until 5pm today, Weds 16 July.
👉 Order now before the edition closes:
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
July 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📣 LAST CHANCE to get a limited-edition Bob and Roberta Smith print. All proceeds support the Durham Miners Gala.
💥 This year's official print is only available until 5pm today, Weds 16 July.
👉 Order now before the edition closes:
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
💥 This year's official print is only available until 5pm today, Weds 16 July.
👉 Order now before the edition closes:
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
📣You have until 5pm on Wednesday to get an official 2025 Durham Miners Gala print by renowned contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith for the incredible solidarity price of only £50😮
🖼️Buy some art, support the cause
💥All proceeds support the Gala
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
🖼️Buy some art, support the cause
💥All proceeds support the Gala
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
July 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📣You have until 5pm on Wednesday to get an official 2025 Durham Miners Gala print by renowned contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith for the incredible solidarity price of only £50😮
🖼️Buy some art, support the cause
💥All proceeds support the Gala
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
🖼️Buy some art, support the cause
💥All proceeds support the Gala
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
💥 Next stop for Going Back Brockens - Durham Miners' Gala this Saturday!
Catch us in the Redhills Art Tent:
🎨 GBB exhibition
🎥 Where We Belong short films
🎤 Narbi Price & No More Nowt on stage at 10:15am
Big thanks to The Gala & Redhills for supporting.
See you on the field ✊
More info in bio
Catch us in the Redhills Art Tent:
🎨 GBB exhibition
🎥 Where We Belong short films
🎤 Narbi Price & No More Nowt on stage at 10:15am
Big thanks to The Gala & Redhills for supporting.
See you on the field ✊
More info in bio
July 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
💥 Next stop for Going Back Brockens - Durham Miners' Gala this Saturday!
Catch us in the Redhills Art Tent:
🎨 GBB exhibition
🎥 Where We Belong short films
🎤 Narbi Price & No More Nowt on stage at 10:15am
Big thanks to The Gala & Redhills for supporting.
See you on the field ✊
More info in bio
Catch us in the Redhills Art Tent:
🎨 GBB exhibition
🎥 Where We Belong short films
🎤 Narbi Price & No More Nowt on stage at 10:15am
Big thanks to The Gala & Redhills for supporting.
See you on the field ✊
More info in bio
🎨 We visited Bob & Roberta Smith’s Ramsgate studio to sign off We Are Still Here! - the official 2025 Durham Miners Gala art print.
💥 Time-limited edition >> order by 16 July to support the Gala!
🔗 Link in bio
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
💥 Time-limited edition >> order by 16 July to support the Gala!
🔗 Link in bio
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
July 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🎨 We visited Bob & Roberta Smith’s Ramsgate studio to sign off We Are Still Here! - the official 2025 Durham Miners Gala art print.
💥 Time-limited edition >> order by 16 July to support the Gala!
🔗 Link in bio
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...
💥 Time-limited edition >> order by 16 July to support the Gala!
🔗 Link in bio
www.friendsofdurhamminersgala.org/2025_gala_ar...