The Auxiliary

🌱 Foraging For Stories Workshop for 11 to 16 year olds 🌱

Led by Carmen Marcus and Grace Stubbings, this workshop offers young people a chance to explore the natural world through language, sound, and the senses. Following a sensory trail, participants respond to creative prompts, experiment with different forms of writing, and engage in deep listening exercises with microphones. Their individual responses are woven together into a collective "word journey," a single shared piece built from everyone's voice.

This workshop offers a space to slow down, notice, imagine, and create in response to the environment around us.

It’s free to attend; sign up here: https://ForagingforStories.eventbrite.co.uk

📍 The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough
🗓️ Wed 1 July
⏰ 5pm - 7pm

Alongside our free daytime events, Sonic Arts Week also features six gigs from local promoters. You'll need tickets, so grab them while you can!

First up tonight is Saint Abdullah & Eomac — Saint Abdullah's analogue hardware and Eomac's digital production create a complementary palette of raw textures, heavy sampling and extreme contrasts. Saturday brings two heavyweight sound systems to the building for Teesside Dub Club. And on Monday, Glyn Maier comes to Cafe Etch, weaving his backgrounds in physics and music composition into ambient electronic works shaped by natural landscapes and organic rhythms.

🔊 Fri 26 June: Industrial Coast Presents Saint Abdullah & Eomac
The Auxiliary Project Space | 7pm - 11pm

💥 Sat 27 June: Teesside Dub Club x Sir Racha Sound System x Abzu Sound System
The Auxiliary Project Space | 7:00pm - 2am

🎶 Mon 29 June: Industrial Coast Presents Glyn Maier
Cafe Etch | 7pm - 11pm

🎟️ Get your tickets here: https://www.sonicartsweek.com/tickets

💥🔊 Sonic Arts Week 2026 Opens This Evening! 🎶💥

SAW kicks off with the launch of Moments in Sound, an exhibition bringing together immersive sound installations by Floris Vanhoof, Nell Catchpole and Vivienne Griffin. From electromagnetic transmissions and expanded instruments to resonant objects rooted in the landscapes of Teesside.

The exhibition opening is accompanied by a special evening of live performances featuring Vivienne Griffin with Oona Lowther on cello, Nell Catchpole on violin, Dale Frost with a light-reactive drum solo, and Floris Vanhoof presenting a 16mm film and synthesiser audiovisual performance.

📍 The Auxiliary Project Space, 31 Station Street, Middlesbrough
📅 Thursday 25 June, 6pm - 11pm

6:00pm Open
6:45pm Floris Vanhoof
7:45pm Vivienne Griffin, Oona Lowther, Nell Catchpole
8:45pm Dale Frost

🔗 The full SAW26 programme is now live on our site: https://www.sonicartsweek.com/programme

🌱 workshop: Foraging For Stories with Carmen Marcus & Grace Stubbings 🔊

Foraging For Stories is an exploratory workshop inviting young people to connect with nature through words, sound, and sensory experience. Guided along a sensory trail, participants will respond to creative prompts, experiment with writing, and take part in deep listening activities using microphones. Together, they’ll create a “word journey,” where individual contributions come together to form a shared piece. As part of the wider Foraging For Stories project, voices and sounds gathered during the workshop will contribute to a larger audio experience exploring the ecology of Teesside.

This workshop offers a space to slow down, notice, imagine, and create in response to the environment around us.

This workshop is for people aged 11-16 years old.

📍 The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough
🗓 Wed 1 July
⏰ 5pm - 7pm

🎟️ This is a free ticketed event, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foraging-for-stories-tickets-1990393233742

🔊 welcomes We Make Sound 🎵

Through their songs, soundscapes and radio interviews, We Make Sound tell local stories, explore new ideas and express themselves creatively, these projects are then broadcast and exhibited across the region. We Make Sound has featured on BBC Radio Tees, Sonic Arts Week, Wintertide Festival and Hartlepool Carnival. The project leaders are highly experienced professional musicians. We Make Sound meets at The Studio in Hartlepool.

Inspired by all the Sonic Arts Week artists and performers? Come and make your own sounds at this drop-in workshop with We Make Sound. You don’t need any previous experience - our friendly team will get you making your own fun sounds in no time. Listen in headphones or join in with others, WMS will introduce you to different easy-to-use sound and music making machines and technology. Have a go, have fun and find your inner sound artist.

Suitable for ages 8 and above.

Proudly supported by Borderlands.

📍 Captain Cook Square (Next to Waterstones), Middlesbrough
🗓 Sat 27 June & Sat 4 July
⏰ 11am - 4pm

🔗 Find out more about Sonic Arts Week 2026 on our site: https://www.sonicartsweek.com/