CIRCA Projects

Office: c/o The Northern Charter
Floor 5
Commercial Union House
Pilgrim Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6QE
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 6QE
England

Website

www.circaprojects.org

E-mail

info@circaprojects.org

Telephone

07722 470229

All information is drawn or provided by the venues themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

CIRCA Projects is a not-for-profit curatorial arts organisation. Its main goal is to present the viewer with coherently researched exhibitions that are embedded in the present. Our work is mainly based in the presentation and production of new art works and projects within lens-based and time-based practices.

Venue Type:

Gallery

 Opening hours

Opening times and locations vary - please see website

 Admission charges

Free

Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

The Late Shows 2013 at CIRCA Projects, Stephenson Works

18 May 2013 *on now

Since Autumn 2012 this historic building has played host to arts organisation CIRCA Projects' 'Space Release', a 15 month programme of site-responsive exhibitions, performances and screenings by international artists. For the late shows there will be opportunity for visitors to see the last night of Spanish sculptor and conceptual artist Ruben Grilo’s newly commissioned exhibition, 'The Need for Speed'. The exhibition responds to the building's history, as the site of the world’s first purpose built locomotive works, to consider man’s need for acceleration – from the creation of physical communications networks and railways to the internet and virtual networks of information.

Suitable for

  • Any age
  • Family friendly

When

7-11pm

Admission

Free

Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.
Image of Reuban's work

CIRCA Projects Space Release #13 Rubén Grilo — The Need For Speed

22 March — 18 May 2013 *on now

Grilo uses the space of Stephenson Works to create an exhibition through mediums as diverse as software of digital presentation, laser projection, found art, performance and installation to look at the origins of society's need for the acceleration of experience: beginning with the mechanisation and the creation of a physical communications network, railways – and culminating with the internet and the virtual networks of information, optical fiber. Exhibition open Thursday til Saturday 11am-6pm Preview 6pm-9pm Friday 22nd March

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Stephenson Works South Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PE

Website

http://circaprojects.org/programme/space-release-13/

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