The Late Shows
The Late Shows is an inspiring, after dark programme of events and exhibitions centering on the cultural venues in NewcastleGateshead that are usually closed in …
Published: 1 September 2010
From The Tiger Who Came to Tea to Mog and Pink Rabbit
This exhibition, which celebrates the life and work of children's writer Judith Kerr, took place at Seven Stories in Newcastle from September 2009 to May …
Published: 24 August 2010
Jean Nouvel's pavilion
Designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and engineered by Arup, this year's pavilion is the 10th in the Serpentine Gallery's architecture series and also coincides …
Published: 13 August 2010
AV Festival 10
The AV Festival took place across Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough from 5-14 March 2010. It is the UK's leading biennial festival of electronic arts …
Published: 12 August 2010
Bupa Great North Run Culture
Bupa Great North Run Culture is a series of contemporary arts commissions that respond to the unique relationship between sports and art and celebrate the …
Published: 12 August 2010
Young scriptwriters take to the stage in New Writing South's Our Space project
Students at Falmer High School in Brighton have taken their creative ideas from the page to the stage as part of a young scriptwriter programme led …
Published: 6 August 2010
Odin's Glow
Odin's Glow was a large-scale, multi-artform project which took place 22-25 October 2009 in Redcar and Cleveland in the North East. An audience of 10,000 people, …
Published: 3 August 2010
Ventosa Siamesis
Theo Jansen's Ventosa Siamesis is a 10 metre-long, mechanical sculpture powered by the wind. The self-propelling beach animal, which has made recent appearances on Exmouth …
Published: 20 July 2010
Illuminating Northampton
Northampton’s historic Market Square has been transformed with state-of-the-art colour change LED lighting, creating a more vibrant, welcoming and safer space in the town centre.
Published: 22 June 2010
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, by Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, is a 1:30 scale replica of the HMS Victory - encased in a 4.7m x …
Published: 7 June 2010
UK Young Artists
UK Young Artists (UKYA) is a collaboration between Arts Council England, Nottingham Trent University, Derby University, De Montfort University and Loughborough University working in association …
Published: 1 June 2010
Poetry-on-Trent
In 2009, Tom Warner was poet-in-residence to Newark, Nottinghamshire and Project Manager of the Poetry-on-Trent project, where he organised and delivered community engagement events and workshops, …
Published: 1 June 2010
FORMAT International Photography Festival
FORMAT International Photography Festival is one of the UK's leading contemporary photography and related media biennales. Located in Derby, the festival includes exhibitions, portfolio reviews, …
Published: 27 May 2010
Royal & Derngate productions go down a storm at National Theatre
Royal & Derngate is the main venue for arts and entertainment in Northampton. Recently the subject of a £15 million redevelopment project, the theatre offers …
Published: 25 May 2010
Poet Patience Agbabi gives Chaucer a hip-hop makeover
This year's Canterbury poet laureate is planning to give Chaucer's most famous work The Canterbury Tales a modern reworking, setting her pastiche collection on a …
Published: 17 May 2010
Own Art
Set up in 2004 by Arts Council England, Own Art makes it easy and affordable for everyone to take home high quality contemporary art and …
Published: 13 May 2010
Wysing Arts Centre
Following a successful capital bid and fundraising campaign, Wysing Arts Centre celebrated the launch of its new £1.7 million building in 2008.
Published: 13 May 2010
The Sancho Plan
This interactive performance, Augmented Harmony, was created by The Sancho Plan, a group of writers, musicians, animators, designers and computer programmers, in collaboration with Bristol's …
Published: 12 April 2010
Geoff Smith - The Fluid Piano
Composer and pianist Geoff Smith made world history by inventing the first acoustic piano that can be re-tuned as it's played. In November 2009, the …
Published: 31 March 2010
RedCape Theatre - The Idiot Colony
RedCape Theatre's uncompromising tale of three women trapped for decades in a mental asylum has gone from strength to strength. Starting with an Edinburgh Festival …
Published: 30 March 2010
Willingdon Community School - Our Space Pavilion
Newly constructed in April 2008, Our Space Pavilion is a red canopied structure in the courtyard at Willingdon Community School in East Sussex.
Published: 25 March 2010
FringeMK Translation 2009
There are few places like Milton Keynes in England. Only 40 years old, the city is predicted to be the 10th biggest city in the …
Published: 15 March 2010
Arts and Refugees – catalysing change
Refugee Week and Oval House Theatre have recently received support to run an 'Arts and Refugees' project, which aims to develop two national conferences and …
Published: 9 March 2010
decibel Performing Arts Showcase
The Arts Council's decibel programme provides a platform from which established artists and companies with diverse practice can further their career by showcasing their creative …
Published: 5 March 2010
Made in Margate: Theatre Royal Margate
Theatre Royal Margate, the second oldest theatre in the country, has been awarded £150,000 through Grants for the arts for a two-year development project that …
Published: 11 February 2010