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A festival celebrating the town, its attractions and its people 2 A festival to explore the past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 3 Your Town Hall Middlesbrough: Red Army TV Discover ‘In Happy Memory’ Tours - A Town of Middlesbrough Special of Felix Corbett - Transformation Rampant Sin Wed 17 Oct, 5pm - 6pm Middlesbrough’s for the 21st Century Tues 16 Oct Dickens Inn, 4 Southfield Road, first Borough Middlesbrough, TS1 3BZ Tues 16 (10.30am), Thurs 2pm - 3.30pm Organist The Courtroom, FREE 18 (10.30am), Mon 22 Thurs 18 Oct , Special TV broadcast from the makers of Boro fan TV station Red Army (10.30am & 2pm), Tues 2pm - 3.30pm 23 (2pm) & Wed 24 Oct Albert Road, Middlesbrough, TV for Discover Middlesbrough – our own bespoke TV show featuring many of the highlights to come in this year’s autumn festival. Come The Courtroom, (10.30am) TS1 2QJ FREE. Booking required. along watch and maybe take part in the recording at Dickens Inn for Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough Town Hall, free. More information:www.facebook.com/bororedarmy Albert Road, Middlesbrough, Albert Road, Middlesbrough, An illustrated talk exploring TS1 2QJ TS1 2QJ the story of drinking, crime Magical Mystery History Tour FREE. Booking required. FREE. Booking required. and rampant sin in nineteenth century Middlesbrough, and Thurs 18 Oct, 9.30am - 12.30pm In the Concert Hall of Talk & Walk: Come and see the major how those responsible for law The , , Middlesbrough Town Hall a changes we’ve made to open and order responded, by local Middlesbrough, TS5 6LA highly decorated window Transport & up new spaces for you in the historian Martin Peagam. FREE commemorates the life of Felix Town Hall building, turning this Corbett. In this illustrated talk by Travellers Come for a magical bus ride well-loved landmark into a More information and to book Neil Cooke, Middlesbrough Town as we explore the history of Mon 15 Oct venue fit for the future of this (160 max): Hall Volunteer, you will hear about Middlesbrough. 2pm - 3pm town and its amazing past. Box Office the musical life of Felix Corbett Hebrew Prayer House, Tour lead by Liz Hayward, 01642 815181 Time Traveler Martin Peagam and of the famous names, , Engagement and Learning www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk will be your guide as we travel such as Dame Nellie Melba, Ayresome Green Lane, Officer. on a restored double decker Paderewski, Sir Edward Elgar and Middlesbrough, TS5 5DW provided by The Rachmaninov, that he brought More information and to book 500 Group. to Middlesbrough in his annual FREE (donation for (20 max): During the journey our guide series of Celebrity Concerts from refreshments) Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office will bring to life places, events the year that the Town Hall was 01642 815181 Railways, airplanes, sea and characters from the history of Middlesbrough. opened until his death in 1940. transport: local historian and www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk Our tour will embrace a variety of places, events and friend of the cemetery Ian www.mytownhall.co.uk More information and to book characters important in the history of the town. Stubbs will lead this walk relating (160 max): to people associated with many The tour will end at the refurbished Town Hall, where there will be Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office forms of transport who are the opportunity to enjoy refreshments, or to return back to the 01642 815181 buried in Linthorpe Cemetery. Dorman Museum. www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk www.mytownhall.co.uk

4 image © Colin Davison A festival to explore the past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 5 Introduction to MIMA Marking the end of Middlesbrough and Teesside Archives New Exhibition the First World War Suffragettes – No Thurs 18 Oct Opening in Middlesbrough Place for Terrorists? 2.30pm - 4pm Sat 20 Oct Mon 22 Oct Tues 23 Oct Teesside Archives, 10am - 4pm, Community 2pm - 3.30pm 10.30am - 12pm Exchange House, Lunch at 1pm Teesside Archives, Exchange The Courtroom, Exchange Square, Middlesbrough Institute of House, Exchange Square, Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough, TS1 1DB Modern Art, Centre Square Middlesbrough, TS1 1DB Albert Road, Middlesbrough, FREE Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ FREE TS1 2QJ FREE Join us for a free session to 2018 marks the centenary of FREE. Booking required. find out about the collections Gilkes Street Artists Join us for our new exhibition Armistice which led to the end of A century ago, some held at Teesside Archives Cook Society opening, a day of talks, tours Open Studio Day the First World War, but how easy women obtained the vote. and how to access them for Annual Meeting and making activities and a was the process of transitioning Martin Peagam will explore your research. Take a look Sat 20 Oct shared Community Lunch. We from war to peace for the people Middlesbrough during the years behind the scenes in one of Sat 20 Oct 11am - 2pm are open from 10am to 4pm, of Middlesbrough? This talk leading up to this event. He our archive strongrooms and 10am with lunch at 13:00. All free. Gilkes Street Artists Studios, examines the public mood, the will consider the local figures visit our conservation studio The Captain Cook Brentnall Business Centre, challenges and the celebrations involved, how much support to find out how we look after Birthplace Museum, More information: 65 Gilkes Street, experienced in the town in there was for the Suffragette our collections. Stewart Park,Middlesbrough, www.visitmima.com/whats-on/ Middlesbrough, TS1 5AP 1918-19. movement tactics, the opposition TS7 8AT events/ to change, and what happened Please note this event will include FREE FREE to members More information and to book: once the law was changed. stairs. More information and to The open studio will give visitors 01642 248321 or teesside_ book: We are once again delighted an opportunity to meet and [email protected] More information and to book 01642 248321 or to be hosting this prestigious chat to the artists working in (160 max): teesside_archives@ event.option b Guest speakers will be their studios. Their current work Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office middlesbrough.gov.uk sharing their Captain Cook includes painting, printmaking, The Notorious 01642 815181 www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ knowledge throughout the day. drawing, collage and tapestry Seymour www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk teessidearchives weaving. www.mytownhall.co.uk Tues 23 Oct The Gilkes Street Artists’ Studios 2pm - 3pm are located on the first floor Join local historian p.a.morbid for (via stairs) within The Brentnall Middlesbrough Central a look at Victorian Middlesbrough’s Business Centre on Gilkes Street. Library, Victoria Square, most colourful character, William Middlesbrough, TS1 2AY White Collins Seymour. More information: £2 www.gilkesstreetartists.co.uk More information and to book: 01642 729002

Cook 250 logo options B 6 A festival to explore the past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 7 Meet Poets of Evacuees During the War Policing Victorian Middlesbrough Wed 24 Oct, 1pm - 3pm Middlesbrough Wed 24 Oct St Marys Cathedral, Dalby Way, Coulby Wed 24 Oct, 2pm - 3.30pm 12pm - 3pm Newham, Middlesbrough, TS8 OTW The Courtroom, Middlesbrough Town Hall, Boro Bookworm & Sacred FREE booking essential Albert Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2QJ Alien Comix, 41 Wilson Evacuees - Have You A Story To Tell? FREE. Booking required. Middlesbrough played a major part in the war Street, Middlesbrough, What was it like to be a policeman in Victorian effort. People made this happen, but not without A Walk Around TS1 1SA Middlesbrough? Were the police crime-fighters sacrifice. the Old and New FREE booking essential or enforcers of middle-class morality? And how Meet poets of Middlesbrough, Were you an evacuee or have close personal did the police cope with the hostility (including Village of Linthorpe mass assaults) that they met from certain Talk & Walk: established and up and stories about evacuees? Join us to hear some Wed 24 Oct coming who will be reading the fascinating and inspiring stories… quarters? This talk by Professor David Taylor of Died Abroad 10.15am - 12.15pm extensive collection of poetry Huddersfield University will answer these questions More information and to book: as it surveys the early years of modern policing in Tues 23 Oct Meet outside Dorman by local poets from the 1970’s Museum, Linthorpe Road, to the present. Host Khadim 01642 061 019 Middlesbrough. 2pm - 3pm [email protected] Middlesbrough, TS5 6LD Hussain will be reading his work More information and to book (160 max): Hebrew Prayer House, including the first ever poem Linthorpe Cemetery, FREE Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office 01642 815181 about Middlesbrough FC in www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk Middlesbrough, TS5 5DW In the mid nineteenth century a Punjabi. There will be many www.mytownhall.co.uk FREE (donation for new Victorian village replaced more including Bob Beagrie and refreshments) the old one in Linthorpe. Join Andy Willoughby who will bring The History of the Mike McCann for a walk to the some of their University students People from Middlesbrough old village to see how people to perform their work in public Thurs 25 Oct, 1pm lived and worked overseas and lived and worked and compare for the first time. Visitor Centre, graves in the cemetery record this with the housing, industry Ferry Road, Middlesbrough, TS2 1PL distant lands where they passed and way of life in the new More information: FREE away. There were soldiers, sailors, village. www.facebook.com/borobooks travellers and other people who Bridge Supervisor, John Ivison will be giving a presentation Afterwards an opportunity to visit died in South America, Africa on the longest working transporter bridge in the world, the Christopher Dresser Exhibition and various other places, as The Tees Transporter Bridge. in Dorman Museum and for well as other parts of Europe refreshments in the Café. Opened in 1911, the “tranny” as it is affectionately known, and many other lands. This walk celebrated its centenary with a major Heritage Lottery Fund and talk will allow us to have More information: (HLF) £2.6m award for refurbishment and upgrade work. It a geography lesson learning www.menvcity.org.uk/ remains an iconic symbol of Teesside’s engineering and about them. walkingforhealth/ industrial heritage. Hear more about the long and colourful history of Teesside’s favorite industrial landmark.

8 9 Foundry Tour Joseph Banks and Raffles v Boro Captain Cook’s Thurs 25 & Fri 26 Oct his role on the Holmes - Book of Birthday 1pm - 3pm Endeavour the Month Special celebrations and William Lane Brass Foundry, Forty Foot Road, Fri 26 Oct Fri 26 Oct the Museum’s Middlesbrough, TS2 1HG 1pm 2pm - 3pm 40th Birthday FREE - small donation to the The Captain Cook Birthplace Twisted Lip (upstairs), poppy appeal Museum, Stewart Park, 11-13 Baker Street, celebrations Middlesbrough, TS7 8AT Middlesbrough, TS1 2LF Sat 27 Oct As featured on BBC Two Thirty Years of Fly Putting Ladies £3 per person or free with FREE 10.30am - 2.30pm programme Great British Railway an explorer pass Me To The Moon on a Pedestal: Journeys with Michael Portillo, A literary head to head The Captain Cook Birthplace Inspirational this is a chance to visit the Joseph Banks and his role on between two Teesside Fanzine Museum, Stewart Park, last foundry in the heart of the the Endeavour. Talk by Paul Scott heavyweights – Middlesbrough Middlesbrough, TS7 8AT Teesside Women Sat 27 Oct ironmasters district. of the Joseph Banks Society born E V Hornung’s cricketer 10.30am - 5pm £2 per person or free with At 25 years old, Joseph Banks and gentleman thief, Raffles, Thurs 25 Oct Hear an explanation of casting (showing until Sat 3 Nov) an explorer pass manufacture and tour around was appointed as the official is pitted against Melvyn Small’s 2pm - 3pm Boro Bookworm & Sacred 40th Birthday Celebrations with the facilities including the Botanist on Cook’s first great contemporary Boro version Middlesbrough Central Alien Comix, 41 Wilson St, Inner State Theatre Company original foundry building dating voyage in 1768. He quickly of Sherlock Holmes. The man Library, Victoria Square, Today marks the 40th birthday back to 1890. became an invaluable in the middle is Siren Radio Middlesbrough, TS1 1SA Middlesbrough, TS1 2AY member of the crew because and Southside Broadcasting FREE of the Museum itself and the £2 The foundry’s current project is of his ability to develop friendly founder Alex Lewczuk, joined 290th birthday of Captain Cook. commemorating the end of the relations with the islanders. by author Jennie Finch in An exhibition launch at Boro There’s plenty to celebrate at Come along and discover First World War. He developed a mutual trust this Southside Broadcasting Bookworm & Sacred Alien Comix the museum with Inner State some amazing women! showing three decades of the The event is not suiitable for children through his openness, natural special edition Discover Theatre Company performing Boro fanzine, presented by In the year that marks the or wheelchair users, flat shoes and curiosity and fascination with Middlesbrough Podcast. “Cook’s Secret recipe.” This option b editor Robert Nichols from the centenary of some women sensible clothes must be worn. their customs and way of life. short and hilarious performance being granted the right to vote, very first hand drawn, typed and will see what Captain Cook is Come and learn more about option b More information and to book: we take the opportunity to Banks and his experiences on photocopied black and white cooking for his crew and will 01642 242871 celebrate local women. board the Endeavour. issue to the present day colour they like it? More information: publication. From Ayresome to Time Traveller Martin Peagam will Birthday Cake cutting will take www.williamlanefoundry.uk the Riverside. Rioch to Pulis. To explore the lives of 100 Teesside Europe and back. 1988-2018 place around 1pm. Ladies who perhaps deserve still shooting for the moon. greater recognition. More information: More information and to book: www.facebook.com/borobooks/ 01642 729002 Cook 250 logo options B

10 A festival to exploreCook 250 logothe options B past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 11 option b The Glass Ceiling Periplum bring to life the self- Captain Cook’s Responses to Larchfield styled feminine incendiaries’, Sat 27 Oct and the men who marched Birthday Service Fascism: Stockton Community 8pm alongside these pioneers Sun 28 Oct and Middlesbrough Tues 30 Oct Centre Square, of direct action. Sensory, 4pm 10am - 12pm, 2pm - 4pm Middlesbrough, TS1 2AY spectacular and ultimately in the 1930s uplifting, this surround St Cuthberts Church, Larchfield Community, FREE Mon 29 Oct performance uses innovative Marton, Stokesley Road, , staging and pyrotechnic TS7 8JU 2pm - 3.30pm Middlesbrough, TS8 9DY Spectacular visual theatre The Courtroom, marking 100 years since the first design, new music, writing FREE Family drop-in FREE and aerial performance in a Middlesbrough Town Hall, British women were able to vote Andrew Grant, the Vicar of craft activities At Larchfield Community, gritty depiction of the struggle Albert Road, Middlesbrough, Created and performed by St Cuthbert’s church, where on the edge of Hemlington, to gain the vote and break Cook 250 logo options B Mon 29, Tues 30 Periplum. Fire & Pyrotechnics Captain Cook was baptised, will TS1 2QJ Middlesbrough, we provide through a glass ceiling. & Wed 31 Oct delivered by Lightfires. be holding a service to mark FREE. Booking required. supported living to 37 adults with The Glass Ceiling will tour James Cook’s birthday this year. 10am - 3pm learning disabilities and offer The Glass Ceiling is an ambitious During the 1930s right-wing across the Tees Valley with We will be accompanied by a Middlesbrough Town Hall, day placements to a further 65 new visual theatre work fascist groups attempted to support from the SIRF, Tees “band from Middlesbrough Sea Albert Road, Middlesbrough, adults from all over Teesside. marking 100 years since the emulate the success of Hitler, Valley Combined Authority Cadets.” We provide meaningful work first British women were given TS1 2QJ Mussolini and Franco in Europe, and 5 Borough Councils – opportunities in a variety of the right to vote. Inspired by the FREE. Booking required. by targeting areas of high Stockton, , Redcar workshops including; café, Suffragettes and Suffragists, the unemployment. & , and Drop in during the day to enjoy kitchen, bakery, craft, farm and show celebrates activists from These areas included Stockton Middlesbrough. craft activities making stained and Middlesbrough. gardens. the Tees Valley region whose glass windows, music shakers, Local historian Martin Peagam courage propelled this historic and more out of modelling Come along and enjoy a stroll will explore what happened movement to achieve political materials to take home with around our 160 acre farm and when the fascists arrived in recognition. you. All ages welcome to take see our cattle, sheep, chickens Teesside. part in creative and enjoyable and geese and enjoy lunch in activities inspired by the Town our cafe. More information and to book Hall building. Take the opportunity to have a (160 max): look around our farm shop and Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office More information and to book: the display of craft work for sale. For the safety of the performance, 01642 815181 Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office On the day there will be the please be aware there are no www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk 01642 815181 opportunity to take part in craft dogs and bicycles allowed within www.mytownhall.co.uk the performance site. www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk activities in the main hall, with some of the people we support. Advice for parents, this show is not No need to book. recommended for children under 8 years More information: www.cvt.org.uk image: Dawn McNamara Photography

12 A festival to explore the past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 13 Trials & Tribulations Hocus Pocus - Courtroom Half Term mini dramas for Wed 31 Oct & Fri 2 Nov everyone to join in 1pm - 3pm Dorman Museum, Linthorpe Tues 30 Oct Road, Middlesbrough, 2pm - 3.30pm TS5 6LA The Courtroom, £1 per child Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Road, Middlesbrough, Torchlight Tour at Drop in family craft activities TS1 2QJ with a Harry Potter and Halloween theme. FREE. Booking required. Teesside Archives Tues 30 Oct Friends of Nature’s Based on genuine 6pm - 7pm Fancy dress is not mandatory Middlesbrough Police Court Abbi Steedman World - Bird Garden but it does make things more records from the end of Teesside Archives, Exchange Halloween fun. Party the 19thC and early 20thC House, Exchange Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 1DB Handicap Your £2 donation will go to South recreated for fun. Scripted for Thurs 1 Nov you to take part and feel what it FREE Tees Diabetes Family Support Wed 31 Oct 11am - 1.30pm was like to be part of the court Group. Join us for a torchlight tour Registration from 5.45pm; Nature’s World Secret proceedings. What was the Park at Hemlington Viewley of the archives and a look race starts at 6.15pm; Gardens, Ladgate Lane crime? Who did it? How were Centre shops car park. they punished? Then escort the at selected items from our Finish around 8.30pm Middlesbrough,TS5 7YN prisoners as they are ‘sent down’ collections. You will get a unique Habinteg Centre, 6 Cresswell FREE into custody in the Police Cells view behind the scenes of an Close, Hemlington, TS8 9QB on their way to punishment. iconic Middlesbrough building £2 charity donation Friends of Nature’s World invite rarely accessible to the general you and your family to our first More information and to book public. Join us this Halloween for “Bird Garden Party”. From the (160 max): Please note this event will include a terrifying trot around common sparrow and robin to Middlesbrough Theatre Box Office stairs. Places are limited so contact Hemlington Lake in the annual the elusive woodpecker and 01642 815181 us now to book: Abbi Steedman Halloween owl, join us to celebrate and www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk 01642 248321 or Handicap. Choose your support all the wonderful birds www.mytownhall.co.uk teesside_archives@ creepy course from the 5k and found at Nature’s World! middlesbrough.gov.uk 2k options and meet in the www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ Habinteg Centre afterwards More information: teessidearchives for terrifying treats and Witches’ www.friendsofnaturesworld.co.uk Brew*. (*tea)

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North East on Film - MIMA Exhibition Wilton at Night Cook v Kirk Middlesbrough and Middlesbrough Thurs 1 Nov Fri 2 Nov Archive Screening Collection Tour 6pm - 8pm 1pm - 2pm SABIC, Wilton Centre, Redcar, TS10 4RF Middlesbrough Central and Home Movie Thurs 1 Nov FREE Library, Centre Square, Event 1.45pm - 2.45pm TS1 2AY Middlesbrough Institute of This guided coach tour of Wilton International is a FREE Thurs 1 Nov Modern Art, Centre Square rare opportunity to see some of the UK’s leading 1pm - 3pm Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ process industries at night. The skyline looks A great opportunity to view the 250th anniversary of the Cook voyages through the lens of Gene Middlesbrough Central FREE. No need to book. magnificent in the dark and inspired Director, Ridley Library, Victoria Square, Opening of the Scott to base the dramatic opening shot of the sci-fi Roddenberry`s world of Star Trek with some intriguing views on the legacy of James Cook to Middlesbrough, TS1 2AY Join our Assistant Curator for a classic Blade Runner on Wilton’s skyline at night. tour of our new exhibition which Cleveland Art 21st century science fiction and to vote for your FREE looks at the Middlesbrough favourite captain. Society Winter Cook 250 logo options B North East Film Archive has Collection from a queer a treasure trove of films, perspective. Exhibition More information and to book: CTLHS Lectures celebrating the past 100 years The exhibition showcases Thurs 1 Nov www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ Sat 3 Nov of the region’s history. Come artworks from the Middlesbrough 5pm - 7pm wilton-at-night-tickets-49591629900 10.30am - 1pm and watch archive films of Collection by artists whose life The Heritage Gallery at Dorman Museum, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough and the north or work deviate from long- Cargo Fleet, Cargo Fleet Middlesbrough, TS5 6LA east and bring down your own held norms around gender and Offices, Middlesbrough Talk & Walk: FREE old cine films and videos and sexuality. Following the tour, we talk to us about adding them to take a behind the scenes look Road, Middlesbrough, For King & Country Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society is the region’s film archive. TS6 6XJ at the Middlesbrough Collection Fri 2 Nov celebrating its Golden Jubilee. Founded in 1968, the which comprises artworks from FREE 11am - 12pm Society has been at the forefront of encouraging and More information: 1900 to the present day. publicizing research into the heritage of the area, www.northeastonfilm.com Our region’s original and Hebrew Prayer House, authentic art group - delivering lectures and day-schools and publishing More information: Linthorpe Cemetery, Cleveland Art Society, used the outcomes of research throughout that time. www.visitmima.com/whats-on/ Middlesbrough, TS5 5DW to reserve the end of year For this meeting, the topics are Westerdale During the events/ FREE (donation for refreshments) calendar slot for their Annual Time of the Knights Templar and Home Comforts. The Exhibition. They are delighted Army, Navy, Air Force personnel and civilians Role of the Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North to land at the Heritage Gallery and Merchant Navy people died in the conflict Riding 1914-1919. Two different periods of history, two and promise, as usual, a between 1914 and 1920. This Walk and Talk different topics, all fascinating! special treat for the admirers will explore a selection of them buried in or Come and join Members of the Cleveland and of that inescapable art form - commemorated in the cemetery and will also Teesside Local History Society at one of our regular painting. point the way to find out more. meetings.

16 A festival to explore the past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 17 Middlesbrough: Thirty Years of Fly EXHIBITIONS My Town My Future Me To The Moon Exhibition Fanzine Cook’s Sites Until Thurs 18 Oct Sat 27 Oct - Sat 3 Nov Exhibition During Library Opening 10.30am - 5pm Hours Boro Bookworm & Sacred Mon 15 Oct - Sun 28 Oct Middlesbrough Central Alien Comix, 41 Wilson St, Museum open Tues - Sun, Library, Victoria Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 1SA 10.30am - 3.30pm Middlesbrough, TS1 2AY FREE The Captain Cook Birthplace FREE Museum, Stewart Park, An exhibition launch at Boro Bookworm & Sacred Alien Comix Middlesbrough, TS7 8AT Middlesbrough residents have been taking part in fun showing three decades of the £4 per adult, £2.50 The Cleveland workshops to tell their stories Boro fanzine, presented by concesstions, £10 explorer about the town. They’ve Art Society Winter editor Robert Nichols from the pass for a family of up to worked with Mark Williams, Exhibition very first hand drawn, typed and 3 adults and 2 children for a photography tutor from photocopied black and white the 2018 season Middlesbrough Community Check Dates issue to the present day colour Learning, and creative writing 5pm - 7pm publication. From Ayresome to Using a magnificent series of tutor Natalie Scott, to learn The Heritage Gallery at Harry Potter: A the Riverside. Rioch to Pulis. To large format photographs taken how to take inspirational Cargo Fleet, Cargo Fleet History of Magic Europe and back. 1988-2018 by New Zealand photographer photographs and write creative Offices, Middlesbrough still shooting for the moon. Until Sun 4 Nov option b stories, poems, and narratives Mark Adams, Cook’s Sites Road, Middlesbrough, More information: about what Middlesbrough Museum open Tues - Sun, documents the places Cook TS6 6XJ www.facebook.com/borobooks/ means to them. We invite you to 10.30am - 3pm, Last came from and takes us on FREE a tour of his discoveries that view the work featuring images Admission 2.45pm helped shape his own life and from across the town. Our region’s original and Dorman Museum, that of 18th century Britain. Middlesbrough: My Town authentic art group - Cleveland Linthorpe Road, My Future has been funded Art Society, used to reserve the Middlesbrough, TS5 6LA including magical and end of year calendar slot for by Arts Council . FREE non-magical creatures, their Annual Exhibition. They wizarding school supplies, More information: are delighted to land at the www.mytownmyfuture.co.uk The Harry Potter: A History of an apothecary and vampire Heritage Gallery and promises, Magic exhibition features slayer’s toolkit, and welcoming Cook 250 logo options B as usual, a special treat for the various artefacts from the ghost, all displayed within a admirers of that inescapable art museum’s collections relating miniature Diagon Alley and a form - painting. to mythology and folklore, sample of Hogwarts’ interior.

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Mon 15 Oct Talk & Walk: Transport & Travellers 2pm - 3pm Hebrew Prayer House Tues 16 Oct Your Town Hall Tours: Transformation for the 21st C 10.30am Middlesbrough Town Hall Middlesbrough: A Town of Rampant Sin 2pm - 3.30pm Middlesbrough Town Hall Wed 17 Oct Red Army TV Discover Middlesbrough Special 5pm - 6pm Dickens Inn Thurs 18 Oct Your Town Hall Tours: Transformation for the 21st C 10.30am Middlesbrough Town Hall Magical Mystery History Tour 9.30am - Starts at The Dorman 12.30pm Museum ‘In Happy Memory’ of Felix Corbett - 2pm - 3.30pm Middlesbrough Town Hall Middlesbrough’s first Borough Organist MIMA Autumn Exhibitions Introduction to Teesside Archives 2.30pm - 4pm Teesside Archives Check dates Sat 20 Oct Cook Society Annual Meeting 10am The Captain Cook Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Centre Square, TS1 2AZ Birthplace Museum Tues, Wed, Fri and Sat 10am - 4.30pm, Thurs 10am - 7pm, Sun 12pm - 4pm MIMA New Exhibition Opening 10am - 4pm MIMA FREE Gilkes Street Artists Open Studio Day 11am - 2pm Gilkes Street Artist Studios Middlesbrough Institute of social and political activism, folk made quilt that has been crafted Mon 22 Oct Your Town Hall Tours: Transformation for the 21st C 10.30am & Middlesbrough Town Hall Modern Art (MIMA)’s autumn traditions and colonial legacies, over many months by Cloth Club, 2pm season exhibitions feature a solo shaped by her upbringing in a a constituent group who meet to presentation and two group working class Punjabi Hindu family learn and share skills in textiles. Marking the end of the First World War in Middles- 2pm - 3.30pm Teesside Archives brough displays that show the importance in Liverpool. We look at the Middlesbrough of making as a way of expressing Making, a Life, is an exhibition Collection from a queer Tues 23 Oct Middlesbrough and Suffragettes: 10.30am - Middlesbrough Town Hall identity, and shaping community. of the work of the Cumbrian folk perspective and showcase No Place for Terrorists? 12pm Join us on our opening day for artist Peter Hodgson and includes artworks by artists whose life 2pm Middlesbrough Town Hall talks, tours and making activities. pieces in diverse materials or work deviate from long- Your Town Hall Tours: Transformation for the 21st C Artist exhibitions include British including ceramics, leather, held norms around gender and The Notorious Seymour 2pm - 3pm Middlesbrough Central Asian artist Chila Kumari Burman horn, textiles, wood, print-making, sexuality. The focus of this show Library who makes prints, sculptures writing and film. Part of this display, is political and activist, and it Talk & Walk: Died Abroad 2pm - 3pm Hebrew Prayer House and films. Her work focuses on is a newly made piece, The includes themes around racism, themes of female empowerment, Middlesbrough Quilt, a hand- sexism and class inequalities.

20 A festival celebrating the town, its attractions and its people A festival to explore the past, present and future of life in Middlesbrough 21 Mon 29 Oct Family Drop-In Activities 10am - 3pm Middlesbrough Town Hall LISTINGS CONTINUED... Responses to Fascism: Stockton and Middlesbrough 2pm - 3.30pm Middlesbrough Town Hall Wed 24 Oct Your Town Hall Tours: Transformation for the 21st C 10.30am Middlesbrough Town Hall in the 1930s A Walk Around the Old and New Village of Linthorpe 10.15am - Meet at The Dorman Tues 30 Oct Family Drop-In Activities 10am - 3pm Middlesbrough Town Hall 12.15pm Museum Larchfield Community 10am - 12pm & Larchfield Community Meet Poets of Middlesbrough 12pm - 3pm Boro Bookworm & 2pm - 4pm Sacred Alien Comix Trials & Tribulations - Courtroom mini dramas for 2pm - 3.30pm Middlesbrough Town Hall Evacuees During the War 1pm - 3pm St Marys Cathedral everyone Policing Victorian Middlesbrough 2pm - 3.30pm Middlesbrough Town Hall Torchlight Tour at Teesside Archives 6pm - 7pm Teesside Archives Thurs 25 Oct The History of the Transporter Bridge 1pm The Transporter Bridge Wed 31 Oct Family Drop-In Activities 10am - 3pm Middlesbrough Town Hall Visitor Centre Hocus Pocus Half Term 1pm - 3pm Dorman Museum 2pm - 3pm Middlesbrough Central Putting Ladies on a Pedestal: Abbi Steadman Halloween Handicap Registration Habinteg Centre Library Inspirational Teesside Women 5.45pm William Lane Foundry Tour 1pm - 3pm William Lane Brass Thurs 1 Nov Friends of Nature’s World - Bird Garden Party 11am - 1.30pm Nature’s World Foundry North East on Film Middlesbrough Archive Screening 1pm - 3pm Middlesbrough Central Parlaiment Rd and Gresham Rd 6pm - 7.30pm Off the Ground Café Library Fri 26 Oct William Lane Foundry Tour 1pm - 3pm William Lane Brass MIMA Exhibition and Middlesbrough Collection Tour 1.45pm - MIMA Foundry 2.45pm Joseph Banks and his role on the Endeavour 1pm The Captain Cook Opening of the Cleveland Art Society Winter Exhibition 5pm - 7pm The Heritage Gallery Birthplace Museum Wilton at Night 6pm - 8pm SABIC, Wilton Centre Raffles v Boro Holmes - Book of the Month Special 1pm - 2pm Twisted Lip Fri 2 Nov Hocus Pocus Half Term 1pm - 3pm Dorman Museum Sat 27 Oct Thirty Years of Fly me to the Moon Magazine 10.30am - 5pm Boro Bookworm & Sacred Alien Comix Talk & Walk: For King & Country 11am - 12pm Hebrew Prayer House Captain Cook’s 250th and Museum’s 40th Birthday 10.30am - The Captain Cook Cook v Kirk 1pm - 2pm Middlesbrough Central Celebrations 2.30pm Birthplace Museum Library The Glass Ceiling 8pm Centre Square Sat 3 Nov Cleveland and Teesside Local History Lectures 10.30am - 1pm Dorman Museum Sun 28 Oct Captain Cook’s Birthday Service 4pm St Cuthberts Church

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