The sun falling on bluebells in a wooded area of a park on a sunny spring morning.

Morning!

View down a moorland valley, with bright green fields and bright blue sky with white clouds.

Saturday morning meander through the #NorthYorkMoors ☀️

Idlewild on stage at The Fire Station

Brilliant night with Idlewild at The Fire Station #Sunderland 🙌 ✨️

Boo Hewerdine playing at The Waiting Room

Memphis Gerald playing at The Waiting Room

I love Sunday nights at The Waiting Room 👌

Brilliant show this evening with Boo Hewerdine and Memphis Gerald for Elaine Palmer's #WatermillSessions ✨️

Cherry blossom against a clear blue, spring morning sky.

Morning! 🌸

Autumn tour news from the brilliant Simeon Walker, including a date at The Waiting Room in #Eaglescliffe! 🤩 🎹

Can't wait, it's going to be a gorgeous evening ✨️

View from the edge of the Cleveland Hills across to Roseberry Topping in the distance on a sunny spring morning.

Not a bad view for a Wednesday... ☀️💙

The River Tees underneath the A19 Tees Flyover on a sunny morning.

I'm lucky enough to genuinely love my job, but regardless, it was an absolute delight to be walking underneath the Tees Flyover on a Monday morning instead of driving over it! 🙌🚶‍♀️

#EasterMonday #BankHoliday #Teesside

Completely understand, and I'm sure we'll be seeing more of him soon!

Tom Joshua (guitar, vocals) (with Hannah, vocals, accompanying him) at The Waiting Room

Rick Dobbing (aka Cybill Ends) seated, playing guitar and singing at The Waiting Room

Seeing Tom Joshua is a rare treat these days, but hopefully there's more on the way 🤞 Old and new material sounded absolutely gorgeous at The Waiting Room tonight ✨️

And Rick is always superb - great way to open the show 😊👌

Trees of varying heights and shades of green against a clear, bright blue sky, reflected in a small lake in a park.

Morning!

Memphis Gerald and Kathryn Williams, both playing guitar, performing at The Waiting Room.

Gorgeous evening with Kathryn Williams and Memphis Gerald at The Waiting Room ✨️

A colourful bird appears large and blurry in front of a nest of sticks, with a hillside in the distance.

A cheeky bluetit gets up close and personal with one of our Loch Arkaig nest cameras.🙂

The ospreycam page is now live for the season! 👉 buff.ly/Ac5qZJt

Louis and Dorcha have returned between March 28th and April 11th in previous years - so keep your eyes peeled! 👀

#ospreycam #Arkaigospreys

White blossom - mostly in flower with some still in bud - on the branches of a tree in a park.

Morning!

The sun coming up through clouds and the still bare branches of a large tree in a park.

Morning!

Hope & Social on stage at the Milton Rooms.

The final night of the #HopeAndSocial spring tour at the Milton Rooms in Malton 💙

Looking out across the plaza of The Piece Hall on a sunny morning.

Beautiful day at @thepiecehall.bsky.social ☀️❤️

Hope & Social on stage in the Albany Arcade at Halifax Borough Market.

Another amazing night with #HopeAndSocial 💙

#FridayNight #LiveMusic #Halifax

Those skies 😍

Hope & Social (all wearing matching blue jackets with white trim) on stage at ARC.

Simon, lead singer of Hope & Social, singing with one foot on his piano stool and the other on his keyboard.

This band just makes me ridiculously happy. The always brilliant #HopeAndSocial at ARC tonight 💙✨️

The sun sparkling on the water of a small lake in a park, with a tree on the bank with a trunk split in two different directions.

Morning! ☀️

A room full of people seated at tables, watching poet Rowan McCabe on a small raised stage in the corner.

Lush night at TWOOMPH from Tees Women Poets with some class open mic'ers taking to the stage at Chapel, and a mint headline set from the always brilliant Rowan McCabe.

Poetry in Boro on a Friday night - love it 👌

Happy birthday to Bluemoose Books, who I have now known for 15 years.

They are 100% independent and published my novels Pig Iron (2012), Beastings (2014) and The Gallows Pole (2017) and continue on a path to literary glory.

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