Assembly House 10th Birthday Party

Come along and join us in celebrating 10 years of Assembly House.

We’d love to invite you to our fancy dress party, featuring local artists and performers throughout the evening with a DJ set from Merrez Bal to end the night!

Make sure to come in full costume to be in for a chance of winning our best dressed competition! You can also expect a raffle with some unmissable prizes, as well as an creepy cocktails.

Creating Tactile Objects: Pewter Casting Workshop

Explore the art of casting in a dynamic one-day workshop tailored for individuals aged 16 and above.

Join artist Aaron McPeake to create a series of moulds that turn everyday objects into unique, tactile sculptures.

Throughout the day, you’ll have the opportunity to work with pewter and jesmonite, offering a rich hands-on experience and an opportunity to expand your material knowledge.

This workshop emphasises engaging with materials through senses beyond sight, and we warmly invite blind and partially blind participants to join us.

Moulding & Casting: workshop for families and children

Join us for this engaging one-day workshop exploring basic casting techniques.

Under the guidance of artist Aaron McPeake, you’ll create your own unique moulds and cast objects using various materials, including plaster and wax.

This workshop is designed particularly for families and children aged 8 to 16 years. We’re emphasising engaging with materials through senses beyond just sight, and warmly welcome blind and partially blind participants.

Mid Life

Vivid, rebellious and joyful - Mid Life is a frank, comedic exposé of menopausal Mid Life. Join us as we laugh, roar and disco dance our way through our midlife!

Mid Life sold out in venues across the UK in 2020. Rewritten and revamped, this upbeat, life-affirming show is packed with razor sharp humour and disco. It draws its themes from real life experiences of women in midlife and ends with a dance party for all to join in.

Driftwood

An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging. From the company that produced hit shows Peak Stuff and How Not To Drown.

Two brothers on a beach need to figure out what to do with their dad - but the sea has other ideas. Mark and Tiny walk the shore of Seaton Carew in the North East. Their dad is dying, and their town is crumbling. Family rifts and political divides try to pull them apart, while a figure made of driftwood stalks the shore at night.

Inside Giovanni's Room

Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room, a full-length dance production inspired by one of the most important novels of the 20th century, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.

Set in 1950s Paris, the new dance work follows Baldwin’s narrative, influenced by its themes of love, sexuality, guilt, and self-acceptance. All these bearing relevance to identity within the human experience.