Joanne Coates is a photographer whose star is on the rise following residencies, commissions and reams of positive coverage. She calls herself “a working class visual artist using the medium of photography”. Her favoured themes of class, inequality, rural life and community cohesion arise from her own experience of growing up in rural North Yorkshire …
Six North East cultural organisations are to receive just over £2.1m in capital investment from Arts Council England (ACE) to improve accessibility, reduce environmental impact and support new business models. It’s the region’s share of the second round of ACE’s Capital Investment Programme which will see a total of £24.2m distributed to 67 organisations across …
It’s the exhibition a lot of people have been waiting for and a first viewing suggests it won’t disappoint. Last time the National Gallery sent one of its great treasures to Tyneside, it was displayed in splendid isolation in the Viking Shopping Centre, in Jarrow. That was last summer, the painting was The Cornfield by …
In a rented studio in the Ouseburn, three musicians are pulling on monks’ — or, more correctly, friars’ — black costumes for a photo ahead of a morning’s intense rehearsal. Elsewhere in Newcastle, another trio of creatives are putting the finishing touches to an audio-visual installation intended to bring a favourite city haunt to life …
Three young actors are feeling their way into the characters they’ll embody in The Bounds, a play set in Northumberland in 1553. This, according to Live Theatre, was ‘the true golden age of English football’, although its further assertion that ‘men will die today’ raises doubts about that. Ryan Nolan and Lauren Waine play Percy …
The eighth Newcastle Poetry Festival is upon us (May 9 to 11) with the action taking place at Northern Stage and the focus this year falling on the connection between poetry and history. As suggested by the title, In/Out of Place, attention will also be paid to feelings of displacement and belonging — and to …
Fans of Northern Chords might be wondering what has happened to the chamber music festival which has been part of the region’s musical calendar since 2009. Well, there is to be no festival this year but Jonathan Bloxham, its founder and driving force, promises: “We will be back with a vengeance in 2025!” That Northern …
Robert McManners found himself getting annoyed, having made the trip to witness the death throes of the Dean and Chapter Colliery in Ferryhill, where he’d grown up amid the landmarks of coal mining. It was 1968 and he’d taken a day off university where he was studying medicine. A hobby painter, he’d gone with oil …
If flashy West End musicals are at one end of a theatrical spectrum, then GIFT (Gateshead International Festival of Theatre) must reside at the other. Somewhat typical of its offer is MANUAL, a 40-minute “clandestine” (according to the programme) performance for one library visitor at a time. It was devised by Canadian theatre artists Adam …
Goodness only knows how many lives have been improved, however minutely, by Helix Arts during its 40-year history of working with artists and communities. The value of its work was acknowledged in December when the National Lottery Heritage Fund granted nearly £100,000 for an archive project called Re:Visits. There’s a wealth of material to be …
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