Cultural partnership announced Northumbria University has unveiled new partnerships with Live Theatre and Tyne and Wear Museums, to ‘cement the region’s reputation for excellence in the cultural and creative industries’. The partnerships will support new research addressing some of the key challenges of our times; ‘linking culture and creativity to health and wellbeing, and exploring …
The 25 winners of the 25th Northern Writers’ Awards were rewarded and applauded this week at Northumbria University which is the headline sponsor of the event produced by New Writing North. It was another joyous reflection of the writing talent that exists across the North and which is still to be properly recognised by publishers, …
“I think there’s a problematic disconnect between ourselves and the natural world around us,” says Hayden Thorpe. “Consumerism leads us away from recognising and appreciating the simple joys that nature provides.” This week marks the opening of The Hide, an immersive and evocative new artwork by the 38-year-old Cumbrian musician at The Glasshouse. A product …
Big screen opening for Beamish Museum County Durham attraction, Beamich Museum, is preparing to unveil its 1950s cinema – offering an entertaining addition to its 1950s Town. The recreation of the Grand cinema, from Ryhope in Sunderland, will give visitors a chance to experience a trip to the cinema in the 1950s, including Pathé news …
If you see a palaeontologist dancing a jig in the poetry section of your local bookshop (which admittedly requires a lot of unlikely ducks to align), there’s a chance he or she has just spotted Rhizodont. Anything with a title like that is going to appeal to a fossil fan while requiring a little explanation …
Big noise, star quality and exotic delights. That’s what I’m looking for when I open the programme for a new concert season. By those measures the 2024-2025 programme dropped by The Glasshouse this week promises to be spectacularly good — in fact it might be the best we’ve seen for many years. I can’t be …
North East band Bear Park say they are “beyond excited” to announce the release of their debut album… fittingly they’ve chosen Newcastle record shop Beyond Vinyl to exclusively sell the vinyl release. The eponymously-titled long-player has been in the offing since the band: Shay Bagnall, Guy Robson and Adam Marshall — who featured in The …
For ladies and girls in polite society in centuries past, it paid to be nimble with a needle. Watch a film or TV dramatisation of, say, Jane Austen and in the background will be ladies quietly stitching and embroidering as part of their daily routine. For younger middle and upper class girls, demonstrating their needle …
Raby Castle, dark and brooding amid County Durham’s lushest green, is the real deal as far as castles go — not a rebuilt ruin or an upstart pastiche but a proper 14th Century pile with plenty to thrill a fan of the Horrible Histories or the dramas of Julian Fellowes. It was built by the …
Opera North have put a Tyneside spin on the promotion of their autumn season at the Theatre Royal with characters in the forthcoming productions pictured somehow dodging kittiwake poo on the Quayside. It’s a neat touch although other cities on the tour itinerary are doubtless getting the same attention. North East fans of opera know …
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