Check out the documentation from our sell out event In Praise of Shadows - a gig with a big difference!
Fantastic photographs by Steven Aitchinson @ 4130 Photography.
Cowgate Illuminations - a new commission from Wunderbar, Newcastle City Council, Sarah Blood and Cowgate’s local residents and community groups!
One of our biggest hits in 2011 was Human Library – and we are very pleased to have been invited to reopen it this year. We are on the look out for new Books to fill our shelves.
In Praise of Shadows
Thursday 18th April
Charlton Bonds, 18 Waterloo Street, Newcastle, NE1 4DE
Doors: 7.00pm. Performances: 7.30pm. Drinks: 9.30pm.
Tickets: £8.50 inlcudes limited edition print
We're very excited to be launching this call for artists and creative teams to work with us and the Newcastle Arts Development team on Cowgate Illuminations. Click read more for details and to download the brief.
Here's the film The People Speak and all of their participants made during the festival. Let us know if you spot yourself/someone you know/what you think of it!
After I return German and Proud to the issue desk all of the other books are on loan so I decide to take a break.
Browsing the catalogue of the Human Library I am greeted with an array of troubling and lovely possibilities from a remarkable 19 year old with a brain tumour Something Wrong With My Head to a free thinking Muslim born in SunderlandMackem Motor-Mouth Muslim.
Lesson Two: 9/11 and The Economic Crisis
One of the interesting, and potentially problematic, aspects of A School is that no one in attendance is an expert.