THE UK's leading street arts festival is back and 2007 is its 20th birthday.
Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) is widely recognised as helping to raise the profile of street theatre and outdoor performance across the country.
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but during March, you can hear live music for free, every lunchtime at BBC Radio Cleveland.
The Lunchtime Sessions will showcase a range of local music and other performances in the BBC Radio Clevelands new reception area on Newport Road in Middlesbrough.
Organisers of Middlesbrough's free annual live music festival, Middlesbrough Music Live are asking the public who they would like to see appear at this years event.
Taking place this year on Sunday 3rd June, Middlesbrough Music live attracts over 40,000 people to the one day event and this year promises to be another fantastic day out. Between 10 and 15 stages of Music and Comedy will rock Middlesbrough and rattle the foundations of the town centre!
A SEASIDE town could be transformed into the set of a Hollywood blockbuster starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law. The Northern Echo can reveal that film director Joe Wright plans to use Redcar beach, in east Cleveland, to shoot scenes for his latest movie, based on Ian McEwan's best-selling novel Atonement.
RESIDENTS who would normally never visit a theatre are to have shows brought to them.
Not only will they have the opportunity of watching a stage performance, but they will be offered hands-on experience in its production.
Drama group Three over Eden is organising theatre workshops followed by performances in neighbourhoods across Middlesbrough at the end of this month, after winning an Awards for All lottery grant of £3,750.
The workshops will be run in conjunction with community organisations, and the ensemble will take their cue for the theme and content of the plays from the feedback they receive.
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