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 …
Nine cultural attractions on Tyneside have been recognised as Museums of Sanctuary. All managed by Tyne and Wear Museums and Archives, the venues which have been given the prestigious status by charity, City of Sanctuary UK, include museums, art galleries, Roman forts and a heritage railway. Presented to organisations that go above and beyond the …
Nobody could have been more delighted than Jim Donnelly to win this year’s Northumberland Open exhibition — the first photographer to do so and at the first time of entering. He received his prize in front of a large preview audience in Woodhorn Museum’s Workshop Galleries. Rowan Brown, chief executive of Museums Northumberland, called it …
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 …
There are five of us round the table — two writers, two singers and me — but there’s an unseen presence, the songwriter whose achievements are to be remembered in a new touring show. Eric Boswell was the quiet maestro who gave us Little Donkey, a Christmas staple that many assume has been around since …
With Earth in the path of a celestial cue-ball approaching with Ronnie O’Sullivan style velocity, and the apocalypse therefore seemingly assured, what would you do? “Rush out and buy all the toilet paper I can find,” quipped one wag on Twitter (formerly X) recently. Having asked herself the question, Newcastle playwright Alison Carr came up …
Time once again to lift a banner to the Pitmen Painters whose inspiring and heartwarming story now spans nine decades. Ashington Group 90 is a year-long programme marking the 90th anniversary of the coming together of this group of working men who met in a former army hut near some allotments and became an art …
Eight artists have been shortlisted for the third North East Emerging Artist Award and invited to put their proposals before the public at Seaton Delaval Hall. Three of them will get to realise their proposals, either inside or outside the National Trust property, for display in the spring of 2025. Which of the eight are …
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