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Learn Gregorian chant

2:46pm Friday 13th August 2010

A DAY of Gregorian chant will be held at St Chad’s College, Durham, with tutor is Philip Duffy, an expert in this music.

Lectures on English literature

2:47pm Friday 13th August 2010

A SERIES of eight free lectures exploring aspects of English literature starts next week, organised by postgraduate students at Durham University to reveal latest research in English studies to a wider, non-specialist audience.

Stage school goes all Disney

Leading cast members

1:55pm Friday 6th August 2010

A THEATRE school is staging its biggest show yet.

Folk gathering offers days of music and dance

1:56pm Friday 6th August 2010

DURHAM’S annual threeday Folk Gathering starts on Thursday with a varied lineup of performers, some of whom are acting as tutors at this week’s Folkworks summer schools.

Beauty and the Beast, Gala Theatre, Durham

1:56pm Friday 6th August 2010

A TALE as old as time – though the actors are young – it’s plain to see, and when the music ends, the audience to its feet ascends, not unexpectedly.

Favourite things of the famous

PAINTERLY APPROACH: images by actor and film director Peter Capaldi

2:07pm Friday 30th July 2010

A DIVERSE collection of selfrevealing illustrations drawn by celebrities grace the walls of Durham Art Gallery.

Party is ready to swing and ring

TRADITION: members of the Green Ginger Morris Dancers, from Hull, during last year’s Folk Party

2:31pm Friday 23rd July 2010

THE streets will resound to the jingling sounds of morris dancers’ bells this weekend for the 21st Durham Folk Party.

Tunes on a lyre from long ago

Andy Lowings plays a modern-day Gold Lyre of Ur watched by Jennifer Sturdy

2:33pm Friday 23rd July 2010

MUSIC played on a replica of the oldest stringed instrument ever found formed part of golden jubilee celebrations at a museum in Durham City.

Portaiture and pictures on pub beer mats

2:32pm Friday 23rd July 2010

CELEBRITY names and local talent come together tonight for an event organised by Empty Shop in collaboration with the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery.

Actor with tunes at his fingertips

3:34pm Friday 16th July 2010

COMEDIAN and actor Craig Charles, who is also a DJ, is demonstrating his turntable skills in Durham today.









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