ARTS DIARY

Museum in frame: Craven Museum at Skipton Town Hall has been announced as one of five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, one of the world’s most prestigious museum prizes. This year’s edition recognises inspiring projects with audiences and communities at their heart – with a particular focus on community engagement, sustainable ways of working, and demonstration of ambition by reinventing what it means to be “the best” museum for the audiences of today and tomorrow. The other four shortlisted museums are Dundee Contemporary Art, Manchester Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Young V&A – Victoria and Albert Museum. The £120,000 winner will be announced at a ceremony at the National Gallery in London on July 10, with each of the four other finalists being awarded £15,000.

Dance showcase: Professional dance artists and community groups will leap onto stage at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this month for York Dance Space’s Making Waves, showcasing new dance work accompanied by original music by North Yorkshire composer Wilfred Kimber. Ten companies are coming together to perform and celebrate months of dance development across North Yorkshire. Among the line-up are BBC Young Dance finalist Maiya Leek, multi-disciplinary performance company Northern Rascals, the Brave Project and local group Hatton Performing Arts College. Youth dance groups from Scarborough, Tadcaster and Selby, York’s Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy and Scarborough’s Braeburn Primary and Nursery Academy will also be performing. At the SJT on May 18.

Survivors’ tales: Holocaust Centre North has completed the first phase of its Homeward Bound Initiative – a three-year endeavour to catalogue its extensive collection. For the first time, over 70 of its original collections of personal papers and testimonies of Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees who rebuilt their lives in the north of England can be accessed remotely via the National Archives website. Anyone with an interest in Holocaust history can remotely access the collection.