Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 17th May
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 17th May IF (U) From director John Krasinski, this funny and fantastical family comedy, could be the perfect start to summer seasons at the cinema.
Beverley Senturk Lights Up The North
“I’d already gone to bed,†says Beverley Senturk, locally famous for getting up early to photograph the Scarborough sunrise, “but when the lights came through the window, I got up and rushed out to capture them.†We’re discussing the fabled phenomenon of the aurora borealis which recently lit up the night sky of much of the northern coast (and elsewhere throughout northern Europe),…
Artwork By One Of The UK Land Artists Goes On Display At Scarborough Art Gallery
Artwork by one of UK land artist goes on display at Scarborough Art Gallery this summer in an exhibition which has been postponed following essential work on its original venue, Woodend.
Floating Sculpture On Sheffield & Tinsley Canal Gets Thumbs Up
Canal & River Trust, the charity that looks after Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, has confirmed that a new floating sculpture by internationally renowned artist Alex Chinneck has been granted planning permission. The ambitious new commission will be installed on the Tinsley Flight, close to Tinsley Marina later this year and is the first time the artist has embarked on a floating artwork.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 10th May
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. Still Showing Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (12a) From director Wes Ball (The Maze Runner) comes this highly anticipated return to this iconic sci-fi/fantasy franchise.
Screen Yorkshire Launches The Next Round Of Beyond Brontës: The Mayor’s Screen Diversity Programme
As part of plans to further grow the screen industry across West Yorkshire and support diverse communities accessing creative jobs, the region’s screen agency has launched their latest Skills Connect training programme. Beyond Brontes: The Mayor’s Screen Diversity Programme, is once again open for applications and will run a series of practical sessions over the summer months.
North East Students Showcase Skills On Blockbuster Film Production Project
A pioneering virtual production project is set to shake-up the traditional approach to digital arts training and education in the North East. Working in partnership with leading regional technical organisations, Gateshead College has brought together students from film production, scriptwriting, art, gaming, performing arts and music to produce a large-scale unique piece of work.
The Yorkshire Fossil Festival Celebrates Its 10th Birthday
The Yorkshire Fossil Festival celebrates its 10th birthday this late May Bank Holiday weekend with its first ever visit to Redcar. The popular festival has had two remarkably successful years post-Covid, with crowds flocking to Scarborough’s Spa in 2022 and Whitby Museum in 2023. This year, the team are heading to the TunedIn!
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 3rd May
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases.
Faith Museum Hosts Event Exploring First Major Art Installation
The Faith Museum presents an evening of conversation with prominent British artist Mat Collishaw and Elizabeth Oldfield, host of The Sacred podcast, in the Throne Room of Auckland Castle on Tuesday 7th May, 7pm – 9pm.
JM Finn Supports Monet In York
JM Finn is sponsor the National Treasures exhibition at the York Art Gallery featuring Monet’s ‘The Water-Lily Pond.’ National Treasures is a key strand of the National Gallery’s programme celebrating the Gallery’s Bicentenary.
Seeing A Familiar Landscape Through Different Eyes
When one of the favourite places to pursue your art is amongst the most filmed, photographed, drawn, painted and written about in the UK, it takes a special talent to create images that bring a different dimension to such a familiar location.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 26th April
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 26th April I.S.S. (15) This tense and claustrophobic sci-fi thriller comes from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish) and is breathless in every sense of the word.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 19th April
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 19th April Abigail (15) Home invasion with a toothy twist.
Emma Sparks Joy With New Art Exhibition
Abstract impressionist painter Emma Butler is to bring her vibrant, colourful landscapes to Darlington with the opening of her first solo exhibition. Entitled Joy, Emma will showcase her beautifully bold work at Gallerina, in Darlington, which is home to some of the country’s best contemporary fine artists.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 12th April
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 12th April Back To Black (12a) Marisa Abela is Amy Winehouse in this biopic from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy).
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 5th April
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 5th April Monkey Man (18) Dev Patel stars in and directs this critically acclaimed action thriller, which comes from producer Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us).
Yorkshire Coast Walk Inspires Acclaimed Print Maker Jason Hicklin
From the towering, seabird-shrouded cliffs at Bempton to the expansive sandy beach at Filey, artist Jason Hicklin’s walk has inspired a collection of etchings that provide a dramatic new vision of Yorkshire’s heritage coast. Seven prints created from the etchings, some 1 x1.5 metres in size, will get their premiere at an exhibition at Watermark Gallery in Harrogate between 12 and 27 April.
Skinningrove’s Bright New Welcome For Visitors
Andrew Liddle talks to two men who worked together on a very special local project The village of Skinningrove, hidden in a steep valley on the north-east coast between Port Mulgrave and Saltburn, is easy to overlook.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 29th March
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 29th March Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (12a) Prepare yourselves for a new empire in the MonsterVerse!
Call For Curatorial Volunteers For Film Tracing Coalmining History
A Teesside University academic is calling for volunteers to get involved in the creation of a new film about the region’s coalmining history.
Painting The Town With David Robinson
Andrew Liddle talks to a local graphic artist about his posters of Preston David Robinson is a Prestonian through and through and the clean lines of his clear, bright retro travel posters, many of them done in blues and whites and creams – “Preston colours†- are buzzing with the talk of the town where he was raised and still lives.
Demystifying Curiosity: The Bowes Museum
There is a scene in Moonraker where James Bond has just landed in California, searching for the eponymous stolen space shuttle. He is helicoptered to the home of the evil Hugo Drax and is astonished to see the mansion that, although filmed at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, in France, for the purposes of the script, 007 has been told was recreated brick by brick on the Drax estate.
Annual Sunny Bank Mills Exhibition Attracts A Record Number Of Entries
A Yorkshire annual art exhibition has attracted a record number of entries this year. The Ones To Watch exhibition at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford, is now open and runs until April 21. It is focused on talented emerging artists and makers with Yorkshire connections.
Looking Forward To Looking Back At The Bingley Gallery
Andrew Liddle talks to David Starley about his latest exhibition of local artists from the past Acclaimed Yorkshire artists like Joe Pighills, Percy Monkman and Tom Clifton Butterfield will be among the 30 local artists from the past whose work will be on view at The Bingley Gallery.
Epic Installation ‘Soundscapes’ In Skipton
Soundscapes - an immersive audio-visual installation that invites audiences on a sensory journey through the Yorkshire Dales - is now open to the public until June. Created by the immersive media artist Michaela French and composer Ben Crick, Soundscapes will showcase the diverse scenery of the Yorkshire Dales.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 15th March
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases.
National Science And Media Museum Celebrates Photography Pioneers For Women’s History Month
To mark Women’s History Month, the National Science and Media is celebrating female photography pioneers, Anna Atkins and Julia Margaret Cameron who were both instrumental in the development of modern photography.
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 8th March
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 8th March Imaginary (15) This new horror from Blumhouse sees all far from well with Chauncey, a young girl’s imaginary friend, who resides within her teddy bear.
Newburgh Priory To Host An Exciting Series Of Art Courses
The historic Newburgh Priory in Coxwold, one of Yorkshire’s "most beautiful country houses", is hosting a series of on-going art courses this year. These one-day Retreats will be tutored by award-winning Yorkshire artist Patrick Smith.