“Immersive technology is the future and the future is in Gateshead,” they said. Well, one of them said it and they always say things, don’t they? It was a chilly, wet and windy morning in November 2017 when I first entered Proto, the emerging technology centre based in Gateshead’s Baltic Business Quarter. The rain had …
This has been the stand out concert for me since last August when Dinis Sousa, Royal Northern Sinfonia principal conductor, was picking out some highlights of the orchestra’s forthcoming 2023-24 season for me. They were all highlights, of course. But when looking ahead to the performance of Robert Schumann’s oratorio, Paradise (Paradise and the Peri, …
Long ago, getting on for a century, a young man visited Newcastle for the first time. The place made quite an impression, as he recorded later: “Thirty or was it 300 years ago, I stood on the Gateshead side of the Tyne Bridge and looked down into the mighty trough. On one side was the …
The date was May 4 1964. The Leamside Line, stretching 21 miles from Pelaw in Gateshead to Ferryhill in County Durham, officially closed to passenger trains. Another victim of the Beeching Cuts. Almost three decades later, in the early 1990s, the line was also closed to freight trains. The man who oversaw the concluding years …
A feast of after-hours culture looks set to – perhaps ironically – arrive right on schedule next month. The programme for the 16th incarnation of The Late Shows has been unveiled, offering two packed evenings of free activity across Newcastle and Gateshead. More than 60 music and performance venues, art studios, galleries and museums have …
Martin Green, Sheffield-born composer and celebrated folk musician, well remembers his brass band “epiphany”… the start of a journey that will bring him back to Tyneside in May. It came after he’d moved to Pathhead, a village south of Edinburgh not far from the National Mining Museum Scotland. “They had a brass festival and I …
When Ella Henderson became the latest artist to receive an Official Top 10 Award last week, ahead of Friday’s appearance at Newcastle’s Wylam Brewery, it represented another significant milestone in the career of a singer songwriter who continues to confound the critics and garner fresh acclaim. The 28-year-old’s latest honour, handed out by the Official …
Vacant shop units and closure of banks have hit High Streets throughout the North East. But one village is fighting back against the blight. The Chopwell Regeneration Group had its origins in a public meeting called to discuss ways of improving life in the Gateshead village. Its first major project was to take over the …
Behind every artwork lies a story and Baltic’s latest Open Submission exhibition represents a veritable anthology with 104 submissions having made the cut. “We were aiming for 100 but snuck in an extra four,” smiles Baltic assistant curator Rose McMurray who was on the judging panel. That’s understandable, given the numbers involved here — a …
Artist and comic, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) was in Gateshead this afternoon (March 15) to join forces with Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and unveil the Baltic Open Submission exhibition. The group exhibition features the work of 104 North-East-based self-taught and hobbyist artists and includes painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, film, and installation pieces. It opens …
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