Best wishes to Tutti Frutti, whose new production for kids - Silly Billy - opens in York tonight. The usual theatre noise of programme rustling and subdued coughing will be replaced with the squeak of pumps, and teachers trying to keep a lid on the excitement. You do sometimes wonder about the USP of certain shows - Almodovar’s All About My Mother is a case in point - but children’s theatre is completely unique. Kids can’t get an experience like this in any other way.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford launched its new exhibition ‘Crossing the Waters’ on Friday. It’s part of the Freedom and Culture programme run by Alchemy and Cultural Brokers, which Wafer Hadley is working on until November. It’s an interesting show, very diverse in content, haunted by the spectre of Shonibare’s model of a slave ship in the centre of the room.

The new Impressions Gallery in Bradford, and the new city centre spot for Bradford Museums and Galleries, had their opening party last night. Many, many people there: it’s not every day new galleries open, after all. Gavin Parry has documented the long road to opening in one of those great little books Impressions does so well.

Bradford One’s work was chosen by local celebrities and local Councillors and MPs - I’d no idea politicians were so interested in art. I’m looking forward now to the next stage, when artists choose their favourite policies.

I saw this empty desk passing through the Bluebell Railway Museum in Sussex: there seemed to be more equipment dedicated to making coffee than there was for mending engines. Also a lot of cat food. They had a great scheme going where families were togged up in overalls, given a scrubbing brush and a bucket, and pointed in the direction of a train. Canny.