With a land area of 2,936 sq kms and 4,400 kms of waterways, Dr Ceri Gibson’s patch is sizeable to say the least. The Tyne Rivers Trust environmental charity, of which she is chief executive, oversees the North and South Tyne, and their tributaries the rivers Rede, Allen, Nent, and the Tarset Burn. Then there …
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 …
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 …
The fifth Newcastle Puppetry Festival will get off to a flying start on Saturday (March 30) — weather permitting — with a City of Kittiwakes Parade along Northumberland Street. What should be a terrific spectacle starts at 2pm — but the work began long before that with around 250 local residents taking part in a …
It’s not every day you peer at a painting and find yourself in it (and I don’t mean your reflection in the glass). That’s exactly what happened to me during a recce of Emma Holliday’s studio at 36 Lime Street, although I can’t guarantee it’ll be the same for others attending Ouseburn Open Studios this …
It’s World Book Week and where better to celebrate than Seven Stories where the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, is visiting today (March 6). Tomorrow, which is World Book Day, there will be 20-minute Storytimes sessions for young children and on Friday Richard O’Neill will decide which school has won a competition to secure his presence …
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