A grey squirrel peeking over the top of a tall tree stump in a park.
Morning!
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A grey squirrel peeking over the top of a tall tree stump in a park.
Morning!
A takeaway coffee cup held up against the backdrop of the River Tees with the Infinity Bridge in the distance. It's a cold, sunny morning and the sky is a clear, cloudless blue.
The Tees Barrage.
Beautiful start to the day ☀️☕️
#SanSebCoffee #TeesBarrage
Blossom on a tree in a park, with the sun coming through the trees in the background.
Morning! 🌸
The auditorium of City Varieties Music Hall, looking towards the stage from the front row of the circle.
City Varieties Music Hall sign spanning the width of the lane outside.
Looking down The Headrow as dusk gives way to night.
Beautiful evening to be in Leeds for a magical @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social gig at City Varieties Music Hall ✨️
#Leeds #LeedsGigs
Arts centres and libraries are trusted civic spaces, and that trust is what made these UK-wide conversations on what freedom means today possible. Read Annabel and Gavin's reflections on #OurFreedom: Then and Now 👇
Sun coming up through trees in the distance, with light falling on the grassed area of parkland in the foreground. The sky is a pale blue with a few white, wispy clouds.
Morning!
A woman in a long, bright blue cape, with a small crown on her head, stands on a road. Photo by Anneleen Lindsay with West Dunbartonshire Council, Clydebank.
The journey continues. Photography exhibition Our Freedom: Then and Now will tour to 18 arts centres and libraries across the UK this year, sharing stories of people, place and belonging from communities nationwide. Also online from 18 March ourfreedom.org.uk/news/our-fre...
#OurFreedom #ThenAndNow
A colonnade, the only surviving remnant of Marton Hall, visible through trees and across a grassed area of Stewart Park, Middlesbrough.
Morning! Normal service has been resumed... ☁️
Wonderful, I'll be there!
North East pals, I'm doing a gig @drakebookshop.bsky.social on 1st June so come say hi, it's always a good do when I team up with them.
Looking down a still, calm River Tees to the Infinity Bridge in the distance. It's a sunny morning and a clear, deep blue sky is reflected in the river.
A queue for the small, blue San Seb Coffee van.
Exterior of DRAKE The Bookshop on a sunny morning under a clear blue sky.
Three books on a small, light oak table - Keshed by Stu Hennigan, Multitudes by Lucy Caldwell, and Wild Embers by Nikita Gill.
Gorgeous riverside walk this morning, starting at #SanSebCoffee and carrying on to @drakebookshop.bsky.social (where I was very excited to pick up a copy of #Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social!). Not a bad way to start the day...
#Saturday #StocktonOnTees ☀️☕️📚
I agree! Antidepressants is great, and Autofiction is a particular favourite for me.
Blue sky and thin white cloud above a grassed expanse of parkland, with the branches of a large tree coming in from the left hand side, and more trees and a lake (just visible) in the distance.
Morning!
Brilliant! And the setlist was just perfect 👌
Suede on stage, lit by multi-coloured lights, in front of a packed audience.
Oh, whatever makes her happy
On a Saturday night...
Incredible show from @suedehq.bsky.social at York Barbican 🔥🙌
Simeon Walker speaking to the audience from his piano stool in front of the Steinway he was playing this evening.
From the first notes, I just knew this was going to be an absolutely incredible evening. The wonderful @simeonwalker.bsky.social bringing the power of art, creativity, and community to Helmsley Arts Centre. Well worth the trip over the Moors on a winter Friday night ✨️
#SimeonWalker #Helmsley
A squirrel sitting on a fallen tree trunk in a park.
Morning!
Loved it! I really liked both of those pieces. Sujata Setia's A Thousand Cuts (harrowing, but compelling) and Peter Spanjer's SWIM grabbed me, too, amongst others, and I was fascinated by Nothing Can Ever Be The Same (the generative film) - looking at the tech-based stuff with a keener eye, now!
Exterior of The Little Apple Bookshop.
Exterior of the Minster Gate Book Shop.
Exterior of Oxfam Books.
Exterior of Waterstones.
And post-art exhibition? Basically spent the rest of my time in York on a bookshop tour 📚
What better way to spend a Sunday?!
Female Torso sculpture (with the wooden former behind it).
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse sculpture.
A display from the 'Wall of Women' in York Art Gallery's Centre of Ceramic Art.
York-born artist Harland Miller's canvas 'York, So Good They Named It Once' in the style of a book cover.
Went on to check out the #HaroldGosney: Making and Materials sculpture exhibition (particularly taken with Female Torso and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), before exploring the rest of the gallery. Well worth a visit!
#YorkArtGallery @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social
One of the artworks from Sujata Setia's 'A Thousand Cuts'.
Peter Spanjer's SWIM shown on double screen video.
Squidsoup's 'Submergence' - thousands of suspended, coloured lights, with people laying, sitting, and standing amongst them.
Made it by the skin of my teeth! First stop in York this morning was York Art Gallery for the final day of the #AestheticaArtPrize and #FutureTense dual exhibition ✨️
#YorkArtGallery #York
KIM HELLBERG'S RED AND WHITE ARMY! 🔴⚪️
View from high up in the North Stand at the Riverside Stadium during Middlesbrough v Preston North End.
#UTB ❤️
A robin next to a fat ball on a bird table.
Starting Saturday by joining in with the @rspb.bsky.social's #BigGardenBirdwatch
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage embarks on the next leg of his ten-year tour of the UK’s libraries, visiting N to P Libraries during the National Year of Reading 2026.
Details on how to book your tickets below 💫
simonarmitage.com/how-to-book-n-to-p-libraries-tour-2026/
@trouble-loves-me.bsky.social Look who's made it onto Bluesky! 👉 @kbrookes42.bsky.social 😊
Mist hanging low over the grassland in a park. The shot is framed by the dark, bare branches of winter trees.
Morning! Grey, misty start to the day, but still good to be out.
A copy of the book on a table next to a glass.
A packed audience listening to the host of the event on stage.
Great night at the Reimagining Middlesbrough book launch at Chapel - Whitehouse St. Brilliant to see such a packed room for poetry on a Friday night in town (and hear the cheers from the pub on the other side of the building as Boro's first couple of goals went in! 🙌)
#UTB ❤️
A person (hidden) holding up a large piece of material with text reading 'Freedom isn't survival, freedom is fighting for what you believe. Freedom is singing...' (rest of text not visible). Photo: Leticia Valverdes with Trinity Community Arts
What does freedom look like across the UK today? We’re excited to share that a major photography exhibition marking the culmination of Our Freedom: Then and Now will open at the Southbank Centre this March: ourfreedom.org.uk/news/exhibit...
#OurFreedom #RememberOurFreedom #ThenAndNow
