Looking for North East based creatives to perform or deliver an artist talk or poetry reading. This is an opportunity to brush off those lockdown projects and share with an audience in the court yard of the Newcastle Arts Centre. Particularly interested in experimental work from emerging creatives. Past Creative Space events have had attendance […]
Current vacancies Job Title: Site Maintenance Assistant We are looking for someone with experience of buildings maintenance, to work at Newcastle Arts Centre on Westgate Road. The position would include: -Caretaking: setting up rooms, moving furniture and cleaning and similar duties. -Building maintenance: painting and decorating, general site maintenance, joinery and repairs, meter reading, fire […]
During May at Newcastle Arts Centre Aidan Doyle will be showing a selection of colourful and expressive paintings and prints that marked his journey through lockdown. ACQUA ALTA. In November 2019 the artist visiting Venice surprisingly found the city inundated with some of the most severe flooding ever recorded. At night the palaces appeared to […]
These are a few from a new set of prints I am working on of marks made by the action of the sea. In painting terms – the ground is the sand, the pigment is coal dust and the brush is kelp while the medium is seawater. It’s a vision which often appears on the […]
Back in 1981 what is now Newcastle Arts Centre was a long abandoned and derelict group of buildings. Sold for redevelopment in the early 1970’s it became Listed because of its heritage. In 1980 it was for sale at a knocked down price because of the decline of trade as City Centre had moved north with […]
Damien Wootten is a documentary and art photographer living in Gateshead. For over 30 years he has worked on a wide range of photographic projects and commissions and has exhibited work both regionally and nationally. In 2014 he won the Bronze Award in the Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition. Most recently he exhibited ‘The […]
Each year sees new work being created at Newcastle Arts Centre as our studios gain a reputation as a home of creativity. Last Summer and Autumn we were very pleased to accommodate one of the UK’s most respected film companies. Ken Loach’s film company Sixteen Films was based at Newcastle Arts Centre for three months. […]
Through the year of 2018 artist Dr Aidan Doyle has been reflecting upon various aspects of North Eastern culture: times past and recent events. It has been twenty five years since the closure of the big coastal collieries. At that time Aidan photographed in and around the pits, and this anniversary has caused him to […]
Review by lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com Mark Williams (guitar); Paul Grainger (bass); Russ Morgan (drums) + Pete Tanton (trumpet/vocal); Nick Gould (tenor); Jeremy McMurray (keys); Michael Lamb (trumpet); Steve Summers (tenor); Kate O’Neill (vocal); Jamie Toms (tenor); David ‘Showtime’ Gray (trombone); Ian White (tenor). (Review by Lance). A brand new dawn – if 8 pm can be […]
Following 5 success filled years running live music at the Jazz Cafe, Newcastle Arts Centre has decided to change the layout and make better use of the 3 venues housed there. The Jazz Cafe with its comprehensive bar and food service will move from the current location to larger more accessible space within the Arts Centre itself. The Cafe will continue to […]