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 …
Sir Ridley Scott honoured at Windsor Castle Oscar-winning North East film director Sir Ridley Scott was awarded the Knight Grand Cross by the Prince of Wales for services to the UK film industry. The 86-year-old whose incredible career includes classic films such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise and Gladiator was knighted in 2003 …
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 …
Four years after losing his mum suddenly when he was just 15, Ollie Maddigan started writing a play. “I always knew that I eventually wanted to process my feelings, experiences and grief by turning them into a theatre show. However, I think it was only when I was 19 that I thought enough time had …
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 …
I defy you not to be thrilled by Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. It is a defining icon of western music, an energetic, graceful and tactile masterpiece threaded through our cultural DNA. And this month you have not just one but three chances to hear it live in North East England: Royal Northern Sinfonia perform it …
Poetry and healthcare — not an obvious alliance but one that has propelled a North East poet towards a new communications role with independent charity Healthwatch. Lewis Brown has been writing and performing poetry since his university days, appearing at festivals across the UK and overseas, including the Edinburgh Fringe and slams in the United …
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 …
Five days. Ninety shows. Two hundred and fifty performances. A pretty impressive set of numbers coming out of the recent launch of the Durham Fringe Festival 2024. Taking place from July 24-28, the return of the burgeoning event has added another two venues to the mix, meaning proceedings will be taking place across eight stages …
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