What's On

Bringing together ground-breaking contemporary artists with some of the most highly skilled glass makers in the country, Glass Exchange is an ambitious project led by the National Glass Centre to present four ambitious new art works in locations across the North East, including Durham Cathedral.

Join the traditional celebration of the local miners in this annual festival, returning for 2022 following the pandemic. The hugely popular Miners Festival Service at Durham Cathedral has been part of every Gala since 1897. 

This service will be livestreamed on Durham Cathedral's Facebook page.

At this service the cathedral community bids farewell to Andrew Tremlett as Dean of Durham, and the departing members of Durham Cathedral Choir.

Durham Cathedral Museum’s new exhibition, Meet Saint Bede, gives a snapshot illuminating Bede’s life and legacy with loaned objects and items from the cathedral’s collections.

As Durham Brass Festival returns for 2022, we're hosting a performance from LYR together with The Easington Colliery Band.

With the return of Durham Brass Fesitval this year, Richard Hawley and NASUWT Riverside Band take the stage. 

Meet Saint Bede this summer through free activities and trails in the cathedral, Mondays to Saturdays 10am-4pm during the school holidays.
 

Join us for an incredible night of Meat Loaf Anthems by candlelight.

The woodlands and riverbanks that surround the cathedral are a hidden gem, rich in the natural and cultural heritage of the area. The history walk is 1.5 miles long and reveals secrets about the hidden heritage of the cathedral’s woodlands and riverbanks.

On Tuesdays in the summer holidays meet the monk roaming the museum to learn more about how the medieval monks of Durham Cathedral once lived, cooked, slept and studied in the spaces that today house the museum.
 

Get a hands-on experience of the life and skills of the medieval monks who once lived at Durham Cathedral. Each week of the summer holidays have a go at different activities like dyeing fabrics, making flatbreads, and decorating manuscripts. Suitable for families with children aged 7+. 
 

Following a run of sell-out shows across the UK in 2021, experience an incredible night of Queen Anthems performed by candlelight at Durham Cathedral.

Make a fabric patchwork rainbow flag to wave in the school holidays! Sharon from the Raggy Robin sewing room will be leading these free workshops, and showing you how to hand sew a textile flag using the Japanese method of ‘boro’.

Full of song, mirth, and joy for the summer ahead, join us on Cinderella’s journey of a lifetime to a magical ball where nearly anything is possible especially if it is before midnight.

Join family and friends for what promises to be a splendid evening of the summer as you picnic under a beautiful summer sky and lose yourself in this unforgettable love story.

Following a run of sell-out shows across the UK in 2021, experience an incredible night of Queen Anthems performed by candlelight at Durham Cathedral.

Join The HandleBards at Durham Cathedral for a bicycle-powered, laugh-out-loud production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. This is an outdoor production, so please bring your own chair or blanket to sit on, a picnic to dig into, and dress for the weather!

Join us for two incredible nights of Meat Loaf Anthems by candlelight.

Come together with family and friends to listen to the live sounds of some of the greatest performers of all time in Abba and Elton John.

ROMA is a dance theatre production that explores the notions of belonging, nationhood and cross-cultural identity, told through the semi-biographical account of Anthony's English mother and Sicilian father. ?

Make it a Christmas to remember with a special screening of family-favourite The Snowman, accompanied by a live orchestra.