Newcastle & Gateshead
The Late Shows are back for UK's largest Museums at Night bash in Newcastle
Glowsticks, footballers, poetry, celebrity funerals, comedy and pottery return to Newcastle for The Late Shows, the city's award-winning Museums at Night "culture crawl" across dozens of superb venues.
Jordan Baseman:The Most Powerful Weapon in this World, at BALTIC
US-born Jordan Baseman offers three meditations on identity in a new show of video art at Baltic. Themes include organised crime, gay rights and herbarium stocking.
Hoops, bubbles, chimps, robots and gin: Newcastle Science Fest returns for 2010
Cocktail evenings, chinwags with chimpanzees, hoola hooplas and robots who can solve Rubik's Cubes are among the highlights at this year's Newcastle Science Fest, launching in March.
Marketing campaign for NewcastleGateshead's The Late Shows bags top award
NewcastleGateshead's offering for last year's Museums at Night, The Late Shows, has been awarded the Best Integrated Campaign in the Northern Marketing Awards.
Malcolm McLaren's seedy Shallow sex film invites saucy saunter to Gateshead Baltic
Shallow, the set of "musical paintings" fusing pop culture and faded smut from the mind of enigmatic self-publicist Malcolm McLaren, shows that the former Sex Pistols manager understands the selling...
School stylists become salon stars in inaugural Newcastle Wunderbar Festival
Primary School pupils are being given the chance to cut hair at a top salon in Newcastle city centre as part of a performance piece for new visual arts festival Wunderbar.
Kirkleatham Museum to display jewels from Cleveland grave of Anglo-Saxon princess
The Kirkleatham Museum in Teesside will showcase rare jewellery discovered in the grave of an Anglo-Saxon princess after winning almost £275,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Life in a picture 20 years on - Byker Revisited at Side Gallery, Newcastle
Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Kontinnen took her first photographs of the Byker estate in Newcastle in 1983. Her Amber collective return to the scene 26 years on for a catch-up show at...
1911 census now available for free in Tyne and Wear Archives
Genealogists now have the chance to explore the 1911 census for free as the National Archives provide free access at seven locations around the UK.
Burnt sausages earn industry award for Newcastle Life Science Centre
Mavericks from Newcastle's Life Science Centre have won a prestigious industry award after using a hollowed-out cucumber stuffed with snack sausages to burn through a steel pan in 10 seconds.
Public make their own minds up as Northern Art Prize final opens at Leeds Art Gallery
Two months before the winner is announced, the competing entries by the four finalists in this year's Northern Art Prize have gone on display in an exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. Patrick Dandy...
Geordies flock to new £24 million City Library
Loans flew off the shelves as the brand new £24 million City Library in Newcastle welcomed thousands of culture vultures in its opening week.
Newcastle's Discovery Museum celebrates 75th anniversary
Newcastle's Discovery Museum will be celebrating 75 years in the business on July 18 2009 with a range of free events including drop-in activities for children and behind the scenes tours.
£40 million Tyneside iron bridge restoration wins prestigious European award
A seven-year project to repair a 160-year-old iron bridge between Gateshead and Newcastle has seen off a shortlist of iconic international developments to win a European Union Cultural Heritage gong.
North East ready for grand opening of "astounding" Great North Museum
Culture24 gets the inside track on the Great North Museum, which opens with a spectacular set of displays this Saturday (May 23 2009) after a £26 million, three-year development project.
