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Director/Managing Editor of Corridor8 https://corridor8.co.uk/
Creative Producer for The Living Barracks/Berwick Shines in Berwick-upon-Tweed
all over the north of england all of the time
Director/Managing Editor of Corridor8 https://corridor8.co.uk/
Creative Producer for The Living Barracks/Berwick Shines in Berwick-upon-Tweed
all over the north of england all of the time
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‘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...
Hanna Dhaimish reviews ‘Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash’ at South Square Centre, Thornton, on until 5 Oct 2025.
corridor8.co.uk/article/dale...
Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash — Corridor8
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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September 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
‘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...
Hanna Dhaimish reviews ‘Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash’ at South Square Centre, Thornton, on until 5 Oct 2025.
corridor8.co.uk/article/dale...
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.
tribunemag.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
berwick got me on the xl bully sheep algo
August 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
berwick got me on the xl bully sheep algo
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there hasn’t been a song of the summer yet because we can’t hear it over the screaming
July 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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 🤪
July 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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 🤪
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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.
July 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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
July 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
who up chongin they salmons
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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!
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!
Barkle and Tranklements — Corridor8
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July 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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!
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!
i'm going to go to this, i don't really know anyone else who's going though, have a pint with me
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.
DMG 2025: Communism in the Coalfields
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…
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July 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
i'm going to go to this, i don't really know anyone else who's going though, have a pint with me
this was great, more cultural events with very good content but also an explicit call to hang out, please
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!
Thanks to all who came down and made it so special.
And thanks to @garethdennis.uk, Jake Trelease, Lyndsey Ayre and Yara Rodrigues Fowler!
July 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
this was great, more cultural events with very good content but also an explicit call to hang out, please
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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
July 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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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July 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
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)
July 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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!
Yesss, Southern Reach Reddit... you're all grown up now. 😭
July 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
just a bit of fun!
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A second heartwarming story about Brits walking around has turned out to be a massive scam
July 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A second heartwarming story about Brits walking around has turned out to be a massive scam
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
July 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
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:
June Newsletter: we have been awandering
Post-strawberry moon and summer solstice tidings ~
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July 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
there we r
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
'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.
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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...
Temporary arts contracts have made a reluctant nomad of me, and that's VERY interesting
By Lauren Velvick
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May 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
trying to get a trans pope chant going in newcastle
April 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
trying to get a trans pope chant going in newcastle
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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...
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...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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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 😱
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April's newsletter comes from Merseyside with a confession from artist-led studios past 😱
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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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April 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
'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...
April's newsletter comes from Merseyside with a confession from artist-led studios past 😱
corridor8.substack.com/p/march-apri...
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Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm!
April 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm!
i saw a real seal the other day, i live in a town with seals now, chongin pure salmons
April 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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 🥲
March 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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 🥲