The objectives of Aurora are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education about the arts within the community at large. We do this by the promotion, production, exhibition, performance and encouragement of the arts including but not exclusively - visual, performing and media arts. Thanks for visiting the Blog, we hope to keep you all up to date with what’s going on and what’s coming up! Please let us know of any events or news items that you have that may be of interest to other members.

Living North Fairs - Applications now being taken

[ November 4, 2010 to November 7, 2010. ]

Living North Christmas Fair (Newcastle) Gosforth Park
November 4th – 7th November 2010

Living North Christmas Fair (Durham and Tees Valley)
Hardwick Hall
November 12th – 14th 2010

Living North Christmas Fair (Yorkshire)
Yorkshire Event Centre November 26th – 28th November 2010

We are delighted to invite you to apply to exhibit at Christmas events in the Durham and Tees Valley area [...]

Stewart & Co. At Meldon Park

Stewart & Co. At Meldon Park is located about 6 miles outside of Morpeth, near Hartburn and we are looking to increase the amount of local crafts we sell and local producers we work with.
The cafe and shop is set within a Victorian walled garden where plants and vegetables are also grown for sale in [...]

Right Up Your Street

Right Up Your Street
An Invitation
to get involved and share your passion.
The Learning Revolution Festival celebrates all kinds of informal adult learning and the difference that learning makes to individuals, communities & organisations.
Throughout October, hundreds of events across the country will highlight the wide variety of learning that’s taking place.
The month will give people who are already taking [...]

Christmas 09 @ Milsom Place, Bath

[ December 5, 2009 to December 6, 2009. ] The show scheduled for Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th December (private view on Friday 4th December) coincides with the 11 day open air Bath Christmas Market which runs from 26th November to 6th December. There were 224,000 additional shoppers in the city for this event in 2008.

Following the quality of the event in Assembly Rooms [...]

Shopping Extravaganza at Ramside Hall Hotel

[ October 8, 2009 to October 9, 2009. ] We are having a Shopping Extravaganza at Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham over 2 days - the 8th and 9th of October 2009. With 1800 sq. mts. of shopping space and free parking for 600 cars this shopping extravaganza will be a resounding success.

Stalls are being marketed and are selling fast.   The Ramside Shopping Extravaganza [...]

The British Art Gallery

Welcome to the British Art Gallery,
I am writing to inform you of a new and exciting venture that will bring the British Art world to the forefront.
We have designed and built a website to showcase the many talented artists we have in Britain.
Please feel free to view the website and if you are interested in [...]

Aurora Book Opportunity - LAST CALL

Just a gentle reminder to those who wish to be involved with the Aurora Book (Aurora members only). Deadline is here, so let us know as soon as possible.

Aurora has been given match funding for the production of a 2009 directory. This will be in a similar format to the previous years versions and any [...]

Donation of Weaving Yarn

Is there a Community project somewhere outside the Durham or Gateshead areas which might be able to make use of about 20 kilos of surplus carpet yarn for a weaving project.
It’s going spare as I no longer have use for it and I really do not want to “bin it”. Please get in touch if [...]

Cloudhouse Cafe search for willow artists.

Occupying the premises of the former grocers shop at Townfoot, Cloudhouse Cafe offers delicious, fresh home cooking, cakes and baking.
They are looking for basketweavers and willoswsculptors who may be interested in exhibiting in the gallery. Please contact them for more information:
Claudia Bolling
claudia@cloudhousecafe.co.uk
01578 760221 / 730720

Spam, spam, spam, spam!

As with all blogs we face a constant battle against spam, junk mail and bogus posts by spamming software. Because of this we had to put a hold on comments for the last couple of weeks. We think we more or less have this under control now so we’ve re-opened to blog to receive comments [...]

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