It’s World Book Week and where better to celebrate than Seven Stories where the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, is visiting today (March 6). Tomorrow, which is World Book Day, there will be 20-minute Storytimes sessions for young children and on Friday Richard O’Neill will decide which school has won a competition to secure his presence …
Five of the six candidates vying to be the first elected mayor of a huge swathe of the North East attended their first hustings at St Chad’s College, Durham, on Monday night. It is reported about 100 people were there to hear them put their case, discussing issues including transport, green energy, schools, housing and …
Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir will mark the 300th anniversary of Bach’s St John Passion with a performance in the King’s Hall, Newcastle University. The celebrated work, telling of the last days of Jesus Christ, was first performed on Good Friday in 1724 at St Nicholas Church in Leipzig, where the composer had just been …
Easily the most enthusiastic speaker at the launch of Creative Central NCL, Newcastle’s new creative zone, was Jodie Robertson, not an artist or even employed in the cultural sector. It wasn’t that there was a lack of enthusiasm in the room (Alphabetti Theatre, as so often, was buzzing). But Jodie, client services manager at the …
Success for a writer rarely arrives like an inter-city express. More often, if it arrives at all, it’s had a clunky journey beset by unscheduled stoppages, the literary equivalent of sheep on the line. The metaphor is appropriate for one who grew up in a former station master’s house beside the memory of a railway …
A big night is coming up at The Glasshouse for RNS Moves, the inclusive ensemble for disabled and non-disabled orchestral musicians. Joining them in the smaller of the two concert halls will be much feted rising star Héloïse Werner (Paris-born, London-based) who is both soprano and composer. Recently appointed an associate artist of London’s Wigmore …
There are many ways of documenting motherhood and while Katie Cuddon’s might not be the most conventional, it’s via a medium she understands and has loved since she was a child. She still treasures the clay animals she made in primary school, early signs of an artistic calling. Now here she is in the Hatton …
It’s the sort of window shopping experience that might have appealed to HG Wells or John Wyndham – a swathe of black sheeting visible behind posters teasing: “Imagine if we could grow buildings.” But this at 55 Westgate Road, the historic Newcastle building known as Assembly House – conventionally constructed from brick and stone in …
Tyneside Cinema, a much-loved North East cultural institution that in recent years has been too much in the news for the wrong reasons, has a new boss. Nicola ‘Nic’ Greenan took up her post as chief executive officer on February 12, ending a long period in which interim management has had to deal with a …
Tickets are on sale for two concerts at The Glasshouse in Gateshead which highlight jazz as a broad church and point the way to a more sustainable form of music touring. They also reflect the venue’s full title, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music. The first concert, on May 22, will feature German saxophonist Daniel …
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