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Martin Carthy & Dave Burland 60th Anniversary Folk Concert
Originally the Barnsley Mechanics Institute and Public Hall built by Henry Harvey in 1877, and later the home to a...
READ MORE >>Lost Voice Guy: “Of course, I’ve missed people laughing at my jokes as well. It’s the best noise in the world.”
Winning a national competition is always going to be a game-changer for a rising talent, and it was no different...
READ MORE >>Q&A with Sioda Adams
We had a catch up with Sioda Adams who worked with her sister Keira Martin to create Good Blood, a...
READ MORE >>Teenage Wildlife
We are pleased to announce the launch of Teenage Wildlife, a new multi-generational community engagement project, which will encourage Barnsley...
READ MORE >>Proper Job take on The Trial
Proper Job Theatre Company, based in Huddersfield, create and tour new exciting work, produce large-scale theatre events and support and...
READ MORE >>Volunteering at The Civic – what’s it like?
I’m Georgia, and I’m currently in my third year of a History BA. Recently I started to think about potential...
READ MORE >>Ageism in the fashion industry- Are times changing?
Four years ago, at the age of 46, I began a new career as a model. As a grey-haired, curvy,...
READ MORE >>An interview with Jamie Reid
Composed by John Marchant, Jeremy Gluck and GSA Swansea. Punk is still the music anybody can play, a dream you...
READ MORE >>Welcome Keira Martin
We wanted to introduce you to Keira Martin, dancer, choreographer, maker and working class Yorkshire lass from Barnsley. Throughout the...
READ MORE >>What are zines?
In 2019 working with writers Vicky Morris, James Nash and artist Seleena Laverne Day, we enabled members of three Barnsley...
READ MORE >>CARP Story – TurnAround Dance Theatre
TurnAround Dance Theatre are a group created by three sisters Ellen, Lily and Grace who grew up in rural Lancashire...
READ MORE >>CARP Story – Michael Steer
The CARP project exists to support all artists in their creative practice, including visual artists like Michael Steer who was...
READ MORE >>CARP Story – Northern Rascals
Anna Holmes and Sam Ford founded Northern Rascals after training together at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Finding that...
READ MORE >>CARP Story – Kapow Dance Circus Theatre
Beth Powlesland & Eithne Kane are co-artistic directors of Kapow – Dance Circus Theatre, whose mission is to spread the...
READ MORE >>Jasper Pedyo in conversation with Jamie Huckbody
“No to transcendence and spiritual values, heroic scale, anguished decisions, historicising narrative, valuable artefact, intelligent structure, interesting visual experience.” Robert...
READ MORE >>Cross The Sky – Rainbow Project
Cross The Sky are The Civic’s resident theatre company, made up of actors with learning and physical disabilities and co-ordinated for us by three specialist artists and...
READ MORE >>Welcome to the Jungle – Michael Steer
During a time when the arts face huge challenges, artist Michael Steer, whose exhibition I WAS HERE has been installed...
READ MORE >>Kathryn Roberts -“It’s amazing because it means I get to go on tour with my best mate”
Back in February I had a chat with Kathryn Roberts, due to play The Civic with her partner Sean Lakemen...
READ MORE >>Black Creativity Matters: An interview with Jasper Pedyo
Diversity enriches every aspect of our lives, from the food we eat, the way we speak, the music we listen...
READ MORE >>A message from our CEO Helen Ball
We announced on Monday 12th October that we were lucky enough to receive some funding from the DCMS Culture Recovery...
READ MORE >>Community Engagement- Workshops
In this last part of our series of four blogs looking back over a year of Community Engagement, we shine...
READ MORE >>Community Engagement – Theatre in the Community
Up until last year, The Civic had only occasionally taken touring theatre companies into non-traditional venues, including village halls, libraries...
READ MORE >>Community Engagement – #OurNorth
In this blog we take a look at #OurNorth, which was a season long programme of exhibitions, pop-up events and...
READ MORE >>Community Engagement – An Introduction
Twelve months ago, we launched our then new Community Engagement programme; part of a wider audience development plan, its aim...
READ MORE >>Introducing Online [email protected] and Faiza Omar
Like most arts centres across the country, on March 17th we took the very difficult decision to temporarily close our...
READ MORE >>What’s it like to be an intern at The Civic?
Ashley Gregory gives us the low down… I’ve been undertaking an internship as a gallery assistant here at The Civic...
READ MORE >>The story behind No Horizon, the Musical
Back in the late 90s, Head Master Andy Platt was looking for some inspirational figures to teach his students about...
READ MORE >>Superstar visits Cross the Sky!
Cross The Sky, our resident theatre company had the shock of their lives recently when, during a rehearsal, pop star...
READ MORE >>The Night Before Christmas
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse”…...
READ MORE >>Hello and Welcome
Hello everyone Welcome to our new website. We hope you like our new look and you can find everything you...
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