The Marra Project

Category: Updates

  • The Marra Project celebrates its first anniversary

    The Marra Project has been delivering community-focussed events for a year now, and we are taking the time to celebrate our achievements. Since December 2024, The Marra Project has: Our first year included us beginning to support TransCraft, the release of Pride of Place: Queer Spaces of County Durham, and partnerships with BookWyrm and Palace…

  • Update for TransCraft

    Looking for a safer space to exist and make crafts as a trans, gender non-conforming, or queer person? Come along to Trans Craft, a free-to-attend monthly meet-up for folks to get together and work on whatever craft project you’re currently work on and make friends. There are always materials provided if you don’t have anything…

  • Update for Life Drawing at Palace Green

    Life Drawing at Palace Green Library is a monthly life drawing session hosted at Palce Green Library These sessions are part of a a collaboration between The Marra Project and Durham University Arts Collection to bring life drawing classes back to Durham City in an accessible venue The sessions will now be 13:30-15:00 on the second…

  • The Marra Project launches

    Emory Southwick launches The Marra Project to bring more equitable sober spaces to the North East The Marra Project is a socially-oriented community hub founded by Emory Southwick in 2024 to support queer, neurodiverse, and disabled people by providing sober spaces to connect across County Durham. “Marra” originates in pitmatic dialect from Northeastern English coal-mining…