Blog posts

Originally the Barnsley Mechanics Institute and Public Hall built by Henry Harvey in 1877, and later the home to a...

Winning a national competition is always going to be a game-changer for a rising talent, and it was no different...

We had a catch up with Sioda Adams who worked with her sister Keira Martin to create Good Blood, a...

We are pleased to announce the launch of Teenage Wildlife, a new multi-generational community engagement project, which will encourage Barnsley...

Proper Job Theatre Company, based in Huddersfield, create and tour new exciting work, produce large-scale theatre events and support and...

I’m Georgia, and I’m currently in my third year of a History BA. Recently I started to think about potential...

Four years ago, at the age of 46, I began a new career as a model.  As a grey-haired, curvy,...

Composed by John Marchant, Jeremy Gluck and GSA Swansea. Punk is still the music anybody can play, a dream you...

We wanted to introduce you to Keira Martin, dancer, choreographer, maker and working class Yorkshire lass from Barnsley. Throughout the...

In 2019 working with writers Vicky Morris, James Nash and artist Seleena Laverne Day, we enabled members of three Barnsley...

TurnAround Dance Theatre are a group created by three sisters Ellen, Lily and Grace who grew up in rural Lancashire...

The CARP project exists to support all artists in their creative practice, including visual artists like Michael Steer who was...

Anna Holmes and Sam Ford founded Northern Rascals after training together at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Finding that...

Beth Powlesland & Eithne Kane are co-artistic directors of Kapow – Dance Circus Theatre, whose mission is to spread the...

“No to transcendence and spiritual values, heroic scale, anguished decisions, historicising narrative, valuable artefact, intelligent structure, interesting visual experience.” Robert...

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...

During a time when the arts face huge challenges, artist Michael Steer, whose exhibition I WAS HERE has been installed...

Back in February I had a chat with Kathryn Roberts, due to play The Civic with her partner Sean Lakemen...

Diversity enriches every aspect of our lives, from the food we eat, the way we speak, the music we listen...

We announced on Monday 12th October that we were lucky enough to receive some funding from the DCMS Culture Recovery...

In this last part of our series of four blogs looking back over a year of Community Engagement, we shine...

Up until last year, The Civic had only occasionally taken touring theatre companies into non-traditional venues, including village halls, libraries...

In this blog we take a look at #OurNorth, which was a season long programme of exhibitions, pop-up events and...

Twelve months ago, we launched our then new Community Engagement programme; part of a wider audience development plan, its aim...

Like most arts centres across the country, on March 17th we took the very difficult decision to temporarily close our...

Ashley Gregory gives us the low down… I’ve been undertaking an internship as a gallery assistant here at The Civic...

Back in the late 90s, Head Master Andy Platt was looking for some inspirational figures to teach his students about...

Cross The Sky, our resident theatre company had the shock of their lives recently when, during a rehearsal, pop star...

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse”…...

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