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NOVUM Summer Festival confirms Newcastle return for 2027
The city centre event attracted thousands of people with a wide-ranging programme of live performances, collaborative artworks, installations, workshops…
Hadrian’s Wall Art Trail looks up, down and all around for 2026
Three September weekends will bring contemporary art, workshops and live performance to rural venues and landscapes along the Wall
Tracks complete tribute to wartime hero
Used Metro rails have found a new purpose in a memorial to a North East prisoner of war.
 • Tony Henderson
A brush with photography
Northumberland’s harbours, sunsets and gritty back lanes inspire an artist whose work begins with a photograph
 • Tony Henderson
Capturing life on the line
Everyday journeys become a portrait of Metro life in a photographer’s two-year project
 • Tony Henderson
North East heritage trio in contention for hero status
Vote for North East’s heritage heroes in national contest
 • Tony Henderson
Newcastle’s latest artworks are hiding in plain sight
Utility boxes are the latest unlikely canvases in an expanding trail of free public art across Newcastle city centre. Sam Wonfor reports
 • Sam Wonfor
Curated Culture 25.08.26
One last summer fling… and plenty to fall for. Our weekly recommendations from the North East’s arts and culture calendar
 • Sam Wonfor
Primal Scream’s Bobby dazzler doesn’t hold back
As indie rockers Primal Scream prepare to revive socio-political game changer XTRMNTR, frontman Bobby Gillespie tells Simon Rushworth that the more…
 • Simon Rushworth
Cultured. On Sunday 23.08.26
From ambitious theatre plans and County Durham’s newest cultural venue to homegrown horror and an international read... welcome to our weekend edition
 • Sam Wonfor and David Whetstone
Building a new stage for North East theatre
The man who took a show from Whitley Bay to London’s West End is thinking big. He has a new base, a new team and several potential hits. David Whetstone…
 • David Whetstone
North East film to get premiere screening at FrightFest
Folk-horror from Co. Durham
 • David Whetstone
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