Rag Pickers Grotto

Launch Text To Speech“Word Explosion”, a group of young Teesside writers have transformed a shop front in Corporation Road into the Rag Pickers grotto. With the help of Middlesbrough Environment City and Buzzwords at Cleveland Arts these young people have used the story of “Ragtime” to create new and exciting things from waste products. They

Posted on 15/12/1999

Cleveland Arts’ Millennium Poet First

Launch Text To SpeechSimon Armitage has recently been named poet in residence for the Millennium Dome and has been given the job of producing a 1,000 line millennium poem. Simon is no stranger to millennium poems as in 1997 he started off Cleveland Arts’ chain poem for the millennium, in association with the WRITEAROUND Festival.

Posted on 05/05/1999