Newcastle Choral Society, formed in 1954, is marking its 70th anniversary this weekend (Saturday, June 15) with a concert in the Civic Centre’s grand banqueting suite. It should be quite an occasion, worthy of all the creative energy that has been expended over the decades to entertain North East audiences and, of course, themselves. Singing …
Newcastle’s venerable Lit & Phil library has been awarded £1m by the Barbour Foundation to help fund work necessary to secure its future. It’s one of the largest awards ever made to a single organisation by the foundation which was established in 1988 by its chairwoman, Dame Margaret Barbour. Dame Margaret, who also chairs the …
The cathedral, understandably, exerts a pull on visitors to Durham, drawing them up the hill in droves. But now the city has another attraction which perhaps tells its story more succinctly. Called The Story, it is the repository for more stories than it’s possible to quantify. Some of them — as I learned on a …
Here’s a bit of glitter to brighten a leaden June evening (not that those summer stereotypes of sun and blue sky won’t have set in before the show rocks up at Middleton & Todbridge Village Hall at the end of the month, but I wouldn’t bet my shirt on it). The idea is that two …
When a famous painting by John Constable turns up in a Jarrow shopping centre, or one by Turner at the Laing, we are excited. We see it from a modern perspective in the light of all we know. Eliot Smith, in his new programme Past & Future, invites us to consider a dance work in …
After a two-year hiatus, the gardens at Cheeseburn in Northumberland are reopening to the public for two summer weekends under the name Cheeseburn Art. The gardens, situated in the grounds of Cheeseburn Grange, between Westerhope and Stamfordham, first opened as a sculpture park in 2014 and were a popular draw for eight years. Even in …
A route into writing has been secured by 16 people chosen for the latest round of A Writing Chance, the programme championed by actor Michael Sheen. The pioneering programme was co-founded in 2021 by Sheen along with Newcastle-based New Writing North, Northumbria University and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Supporting writers from working class and under-represented …
Labour of Love is the title Christy Burdock has chosen for the exhibition that concludes her residency at Highgreen, the Northumberland estate where occasional windswept walkers on the Pennine Way is the nearest you’ll get to a crowd. You really will believe it’s been a labour of love. It has generated so much art! Ahead …
Good news on the funding front has been announced by the Amber Film & Photography Collective which runs Side Gallery on Newcastle Quayside. Director Laura Laffler reports that a grant of £236,000 has been awarded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). Side Gallery was forced to close to the public in April last year …
Summer sees the flowers blooming at Seaton Delaval Hall along with the annual display of contemporary art, courtesy of the North East Emerging Artist Award. As the work of the latest three winners is unveiled at the National Trust property, so the eight contenders for next year’s commissions begin vying for the public vote. Can …
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