THE CULTURE QUIZ 2024
***DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES HAS PASSED*** Enter our end-of-year Culture Quiz and be in with a chance of winning one of three goodie bags filled with tickets to see and do great things in 2025.
Hello and welcome to the Cultured. North East Culture Quiz - an annual chance to test your knowledge of happenings in and around North East culture over the past 12 months… and win one of a trio of goodie bags designed to make sure you start 2025 with lots to look forward to.
We invited venues and attractions all over the region to donate a prize or prizes - and they’ve done themselves proud. Christmas spirit was flowing and we’d like to thank them all for making sure the 2024 Culture Quiz prize bundles are as brimming as ever.
All the prizes are listed below and will be shared out randomly (but equally) among the three goodie bags.
If you’d like to enter, you can find the Culture Quiz here.
But before that, why not take a look at what you could win…
We’ve got 2 x pairs of tickets to Day Fever at Boiler Shop on February 15. This is one of two dates booked by Line of Duty star, Vicky McClure filmmaker Jonny Owen and Reverend and the Makers frontman, Jon McClure.
Each is promising a ‘joyous celebration’ offering people the chance to relive the magic of big nights out… but all between the hours of 3pm and 8pm. (The other date is taking place on January 18)
Ray Laidlaw and Billy Mitchell have given us 1 x pair of tickets for The Lindisfarne Story 2025 tour date at Whitley Bay Playhouse on April 12 where they will be opening chapter six of their popular show themes - No Time To Lose - mining the Lindisfarne back catalogues for more cracking stories and classic songs.
A pair of tickets to Steam to Grin at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle - an evening of comedy in the venue’s Great Hall on February 28 including sets from Bethany Black, Cal Herbert and Chris Kehoe.
Each goodie bag will contain 1 x pair of tickets for each of three performances of DIG at Laurels Theatre, Whitley Bay on January 30, 31 and February 1, respectively. This is the latest play from writer Ian Smith and is set in 4040 where a couple are excavating a site filled with 21st relics.
The Auckland Project have given us 3 x unlimited annual passes for their venues in Bishop Auckland including Auckland Palace and Gardens, the Spanish Gallery, the Mining Art Gallery, and the Faith Museum. Each prize bundle will contain one annual adult pass.
There’s 1 x pair of tickets for each of the following shows at Newcastle Theatre Royal:
The ‘epic story of love and loss’, Birdsong on January 21; a ‘joyful riot of dance, music and non-stop movement’, Dragons on March 14; and a dramatic dive behind the scenes of Jaws in The Shark is Broken on March 18.
Four tickets for The Koala Who Could at Northern Stage on March 1. This new stage adaptation is based on the multi-million selling rhyming book by Rachel Bright and Jim Field about dealing with change and overcoming worries.
We have three lots of four day passes for Ushaw, the historic house, chapels, and gardens in Ushaw Moor, County Durham which showcases centuries of arts and heritage and offers a year-round programme of events.
A pair of tickets to the People’s Theatre production of Agatha Christie’s world famous mystery thriller And Then There Were None on January 15.
There’s a pair of tickets for each of the following shows at the Tyne Theatre and Opera House in Newcastle:
Tyne Theatre Productions’ take on the musical classic Jesus Christ Superstar on February 26; an evening with founder member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale who is bringing his POPtical Illusion Tour to the venue on March 25; and Edinburgh Fringe hit …Earnest? on May 7.
A pair of tickets for the return of the acclaimed play Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light at Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle on February 21.
A pair of tickets for each of the following shows at The Glasshouse, Gateshead:
The Glenn Miller Orchestra In Concert on January 19; Víkingur Ólafsson plays Brahms on February 6; and Jazz Sabbath on February 14.
Live Theatre in Newcastle has donated a pair of tickets to see Ishy Din’s much-anticipated play Champion on February 26 which is set during Muhammad Ali’s legendary visit to the North East in 1977.
They’ve also very generously thrown in a £50 voucher to spend on tickets for a production of your choice in 2025.
Three pairs of tickets to see The Longest Johns join Catalan compadres El Pony Pisador to play their double headline special: The Longest Pony at The Fire Station in Sunderland on February 5.
