NORTHERN PRIDE is pulling out all the stops to ensure that the year it is the host of UK Pride is one to remember.
Following the recent announcement of an exciting line-up for the free festival, which includes a DJ set by Spice Girl Melanie C, Louise and local hero...
The Life Of Mark Akenside examines the controversy and speculation about Akenside’s origins and changing political affiliations in a period of economic crisis and great social change.
Born the son of a butcher in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1721 Mark Akenside went on to quality as a doctor at Edinburgh...
The world has drastically transformed in the last two centuries, and yet the manner in which academic institutions prepare us for our professional careers has remained stagnant. It is still fixated on the needs of an industrial age, a learning structure that is very much outdated and questionable for...
Talks, films and poetry readings are among the events that will be held in Newcastle on and around Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.
Newcastle will also see visits from Holocaust survivors and their descendants, among them Judge Rinder from ITV’s Judge Rinder and the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The programme of events...
All aboard for the Ocean Film Festival World Tour coming to the North East in 2019
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The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is hitting UK and Irish shores this autumn...
A new exhibition Where Did All the Animals Go? is on display at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne featuring Biro drawings by over 600 children from across the globe.
Where did all the Animals Go? by Jane Lee McCracken exhibits printed vinyls of original Biro drawings by over 600 children...
Review: The Standing Water (Steel String Books) by David Castleton
“Quality fiction with a gothic edge”
Maybe nowhere in England is all that remote, but some places can still feel isolated. Perhaps you’re only 15 miles from the nearest dual carriageway, but when glowering clouds mass overhead, when the mist...
A statue of the director of a Newcastle theatre company – made using innovative 3D-printing technology – is to be placed in the Great Hall of Newcastle Castle.
Catrina McHugh MBE, the artistic director of Open Clasp, will be one of only 25 women nationally to be celebrated with such...
Shout-Up! the Newcastle City Council initiative to end sexual harassment in bars, pubs and clubs of Newcastle announces certified venues.
Shout-Up! – a scheme to declare some of Newcastle’s most popular pubs, clubs and bars ‘sexual harassment-free zones’ – returns this month with 11 new bars confirmed.
First launched in 2017,...
Sage Gateshead is delighted to open its doors for this autumn’s incredible celebration of music.
A busy and vibrant time for the music charity, it is set to host over 100 events showcasing the best classical and contemporary music and offer more than 50 different classes for people of all...
