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  • November 2025

  • Tue 25
    Claiming the Normal Photography. Photographs from Reclaiming the Normal, a disability representation photography exhibition in Newcastle by Difference North East. Images show disabled people in everyday life: a woman smiling beside a sewing machine, a man with a leg amputation sitting at a table, and a woman running a market stall.

    Claiming the Normal: Photography Exhibition – Newcastle

    Featured November 17, 2025 - November 29, 2025
    Newcastle City Library 33 New Bridge St W,, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Drop in any time during Newcastle City Library’s opening hours to explore 'Claiming the Normal', a powerful photography exhibition presented as Difference north-east's celebration of Disability History Month, read more here!

  • Thu 27
    Imagining Accessible Futures - Members' Workshop Amble: A group of ten Difference North East members stand together in a bright room, smiling at the camera. Some people use mobility aids, and everyone appears relaxed and connected. The image has a purple colour overlay, reflecting the colour of the disability movement

    Imagining Accessible Futures – Members’ Workshop Amble

    Featured November 27, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
    Drywater Arts Centre The Workshop, Wellwood Street, Amble

    Imagining Accessible Futures, Members Amble: What could the world look like if everyone’s access needs were met? If our homes, streets, and workplaces truly worked for all of us—what would we be doing, creating, and celebrating together?

    Join us for a relaxed, creative session where we’ll explore the future we want to build. You don’t need any artistic experience, just your imagination and your ideas. Through simple, low-pressure creative activities, we’ll look ahead to the next year of Difference North East’s work and gather your thoughts on what matters most to our community

  • Sun 30
    Zine Workshop, Disability History Month. Two contrasting scenes of disability activism blended together with a purple and blue halftone pattern. On the left, a group of protesters hold banners reading “Benefits Cuts Kill” and “DPAC.” On the right, a person stands by a roadside holding a flag that reads “Welfare Not Warfare

    Zine Workshop: Hartlepool Art Gallery. Make Noise Without Social Media (Ages 12–15)

    November 30, 2025 @ 11:45 am - 1:45 pm
    Hartlepool Art Gallery Church St,, Hartlepool, United Kingdom

    Zine Workshop: Make Noise Without Social Media (Ages 12–15)Sunday 30 November 2025 · Time 11.45am - 1.45pm · Hartlepool Art Gallery Join artist Miki Rogers for a creative zine-making session […]

  • December 2025

  • Mon 1
    Claiming the Normal Photography. Photographs from Reclaiming the Normal, a disability representation photography exhibition in Newcastle by Difference North East. Images show disabled people in everyday life: a woman smiling beside a sewing machine, a man with a leg amputation sitting at a table, and a woman running a market stall.

    Claiming the Normal – Hartlepool

    December 1, 2025 - December 19, 2025
    Hartlepool Art Gallery Church St,, Hartlepool, United Kingdom

    Claim the Normal Created by Difference North East and photographed by Kev Howard, the project Claiming the Normal celebrates every day disabled lives, challenging stereotypes and reclaiming space for authentic […]

  • Mon 1
    How accessible is your online presence for disabled people: A laptop with a glowing turquoise or cyan screen enclosed within a decorative vintage birdcage with dark purple or black metal bars, suspended against a yellow background with a halftone dot pattern.

    Free Lunch & Learn: How accessible is your online presence for disabled people?

    December 1, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
    Online via Zoom

    How accessible is your online presence for disabled people? | Lunch & Learn with Difference North East /* Include your existing block here */ How accessible is your online presence […]

  • Wed 3
    Finding Power in Disability History. Historic images of disability protest. Overlaid with colourful geometric patterns

    Finding Power in Disability History

    Featured December 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    Billingham Library illingham Library, Kingsway, Stockton-on-Tees, Billingham, United Kingdom

    Finding Power in Disability History: Join us this International Day of Disabled People for a powerful and engaging talk that connects the past, present, and future of disability rights.

    When: Wednesday, 3 December 2025
    Time: Talk 1:00pm – 2:00pm (starts 1:15pm)
    Refreshments and relaxed questions: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
    Where: Billingham Library, Kingsway, Stockton-on-Tees, Billingham TS23 2LN
    Cost: FREE (but booking is essential)

  • Thu 4
    Community Cuppa Redcar: A digital artwork in vivid purple tones showing a patterned teapot with white flower-like designs, alongside a stack of green biscuits. On the left, a vertical dark green banner reads “Difference NE” in large white text. Below, in smaller yellow and white text: “Do you want to fight for disability rights? Join.

    Canceled Community Cuppa at Redcar’s Footprints Café

    December 4, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
    Footprints Community Café, Redcar 14a High St,, Redcar, United Kingdom

    Community Cuppa at Redcar's Footprints Café Thursday 4th December, 1:30pm - 2:30pm Footprints Community Café, Redcar How's life where you are? @ Footprints Café Where do you face barriers in […]

  • Mon 8
    Mary Greaves, Local Disability Hero. A stylised photograph of Mary in a an old-fashioned wheelchair-bike

    Mary Greaves, Local Disability Hero

    December 8, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Online via Zoom

    As part of Disability History Month, Christopher Hartworth will be delivering a presentation and talk about Mary Greaves, a Disability Activist from Whitley Bay who was involved in lobbying for […]

  • Tue 9
    Imagining Accessible Futures - Newcastle City Library. A group of Difference North East members sitting together in a bright room, everyone appears relaxed and connected. The image has a purple colour overlay, reflecting the colour of the disability movement

    Canceled Imagining Accessible Futures – Members’ Workshop Newcastle City Library

    December 9, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
    Bewick Room, Newcastle City Library Bewick Hall (Level 2) Newcastle City Library Charles Avison Building, 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Imagining Accessible Futures - Newcastle City Library. A creative workshop for Difference North East members. What could the world look like if everyone’s access needs were met? If our homes, streets, and workplaces truly worked for all of us, what would we be doing, creating, and celebrating together?

  • Wed 10
    Imagining Accessible Futures: Northern Stage. A group of Difference North East members sitting together in a bright room, everyone appears relaxed and connected. The image has a purple colour overlay, reflecting the colour of the disability movement

    Canceled Imagining Accessible Futures – Members’ Workshop Northern Stage

    December 10, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
    Northern Stage Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RH, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Imagining Accessible Futures: Northern Stage: What could the world look like if everyone’s access needs were met? If our homes, streets, and workplaces truly worked for all of us: what would we be doing, creating, and celebrating together?

  • Thu 18
    Our Voice, our Agenda. Stylised graphic showing the Angel of the North in purple with the words “Our Voice, Our Agenda” across its wings, set against a textured purple background. Colourful outlines of the Tyne Bridge and the Tees Transporter Bridge appear below, symbolising the North East of England.

    Our Voice, Our Agenda: December 18, 2025

    Featured December 18, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
    Online via Zoom

    About the Event: Our Voice, Our Agenda, December 2025 Join us for Our Voice, Our Agenda (OVOA), Thursday, December 18, 2025, 12:30 PM, for an independent forum created by and […]

  • June 2026

  • Wed 17
    disabled people climate emergency power. Event promotional graphic for D.C.A.F. — Disabled Climate Action Forum. The background shows an aerial photograph of a residential neighborhood severely flooded, tinted in deep purple. In the upper left is a headshot of Dr. Danielle Johnson, smiling, with shoulder-length dark hair. The D.C.A.F. logo — a circle containing a line drawing of two hands cradling a globe — appears prominently on the left. Overlapping text on the right reads "Climate Justice" and "Disability Justice" in large stylized lettering. A dark teal banner at the bottom contains yellow italic text: "Do you want to fight for disability rights? Join!" followed by bold white text: "Difference NE

    When the power goes out, who gets forgotten? Disabled Climate Action Forum: June Meeting

    Featured June 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Online via Zoom

    Disabled people, Climate Emergency & Power: When the power goes out, who gets forgotten? As a Disabled people you might fear you already know the answer. Disabled People, Climate Emergency, […]

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