Northern Soul Awards 2018 – Shortlist
Gallery of the Year
Castlefield Gallery
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
Hatton Gallery
The Lowry – The Andrew & Zoe Law Galleries
Egoiste Gallery
Contemporary Six
Festival of the Year
Sponsored by Place Experts
Africa Oye
Just So Festival
The Lowry – Week 53 Festival
The Met – Head for the Hills
Manchester Histories
Theatre Production of the Year
The Big I Am (Liverpool Everyman)
Our Town (Royal Exchange, Manchester)
She Bangs the Drums (Contact Young Company and Sh!t Theatre)
The Newspaper Boy (Dibby Theatre, Queer Contact Festival)
The Bear (Pins & Needles at Sale Waterside)
Burnout (3MT, Manchester)
Toast (The Lowry, Salford)
Summer Holiday (Bolton Octagon)
Bread & Roses (Oldham Coliseum)
Small Business of the Year
Sponsored by The Co-operative Bank
The Met
People’s Choice Wine Awards c/o Cracking Wine Ltd
Rochdale Connections Trust
Connect
UpSide Down Presents / Souvenirs upon Tyne
Worker Bee Markets
Take a Breather with Chris
And Other Stories
Saul Hay Fine Art
Grand Pacific
Z-arts
Northern Soul Grilled Cheese
North East Art Collective
Large Business of the Year
N Brown Group
Signature Living
Food & Drink
Riddles Bar
Hawkshead Relish Co Ltd
Sip Club / Bistro 1116
Grand Pacific
Beastro
Exhibition of the Year
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists
Cosgrove Hall Films Archive – Waterside
Contemporary Six Gallery, Northern Lights
Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums: Great North Museum
The Society of the Spectacles
Humans Being Digital, The Lowry
Excavating The Reno, Linda Brogan
Stockport Museum, Strawberry Studios: I am In Love
New Light Prize Exhibition 2017/18 Shining a Light on Northern Art
Tyne and Wear Archives & Museums – A History of the North in 100 Objects
The Civic Barnsley, Beehives, Bobs & Blow Dries
Small Theatre of the Year
Salford Arts Theatre
53two
Hope Mill Theatre
Fringe Production of the Year
Freak (MAP Productions)
Burnout (Selina Helliwell)
Blackpool, What a Shit Place to Die (Absolute Scenes)
Trollope (Writer’s Reign Theatre)
A Fine Life (ABW Productions)
#BeMoreMartyn: The Boy with the Deirdre Tattoo (Hope Theatre Company)
The Newspaper Boy (Dibby Theatre)
Northern Publisher of the Year
Carcanet Press
Dead Ink
Nightjar Press
And Other Stories
Big Issue North
Flapjack Press
Bluemoose Books
Northern Writer of the Year
Anita Sethi
Linda Brogan
Michael Taylor
Anne Wynne
Antonia Charlesworth
Gaynor Jones
Dean Kirby
Steve Ankers
Lyndsey Skinner
Lara Williams
Helen Bennicke
Large Theatre of the Year
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Liverpool Everyman
Palace Theatre and Opera House
Venue of the Year
The Lowry
Waterside
The Met
Palace Theatre and Opera House
The Printworks
The Shankly Hotel