🏠 Indoor☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- Relaxed / SEN sessions
- SEN friendly
No on-site parking. Walkergate multi-storey car park (DH1 1SQ) is a 30-second walk from the venue; Prince Bishops multi-storey (DH1 3UJ) is a 5-minute walk.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Gala Durham is a beautiful, purpose-built multi-arts venue situated on the banks of the River Wear in the heart of Durham. It offers a diverse programme of live theatre, comedy, dance, music, and cinema screenings. The venue creates its own productions including critically acclaimed shows and an annual pantomime, alongside visiting shows from leading UK companies. Gala Durham also runs Gala Youth Theatre, artist development programmes, and relaxed cinema screenings for disabled and neurodivergent audiences. Gala Lounge serves food and drink Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-3pm.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Plasters
- Hand sanitiser
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Hair bobbles
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