Hotel room atop Grey's Monument conceived by Tatzu Nishi & commissioned by @locusplus for EAST '08, a Newcastle/Gateshead cultural programme. The idea was guests could book B&B 40m up with Earl Grey. Graphic never became reality but it was a talking point in 2008 NewcastleGateshead Initiative

⏰Set your alarm for BBC Radio 3's Breakfast show as it hits the road all next week. Breakfast will stop at Lindisfarne, Vindolanda, The Bowes Museum, Durham Cathedral and Tynemouth Priory and Castle ahead of a weekend of BBC Proms at The Glasshouse. 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

Northern writers! Great oppurtunity here to become the screenwriter in residence Tyneside Cinema newwritingnorth.com/opportunity-cr…

Cultured. North East and The QT... a short 🧵 As you may have already seen/heard via social media and associated sources, we (@SamWonfor and David Whetstone) are sad to report that last week's edition of The QT will be the last.

**NEWSFLASH** Big developments in New Writing North's longheld mission to make Newcastle an officially excellent place to be a writer. David Whetstone has written a story which went out to our newsletter subscribers this morning... and we've also threaded it together here 🧵

"Mind-blowing live DJ sets, breathtaking circus acts, immersive visual arts and engaging family-friendly events" - great to see #Novum2024 featured in this month's newsletter from NewcastleGateshead. Novum Festival kicks off on Thursday! i.mtr.cool/jcvkyowjsu Newcastle City Council

If velodrome tactics were transferred to athletics, sprinters would crawl along while eyeing each other up for 90m before tearing 10m to the line. Or else they’d follow a moped… #OlympicGames

This was a real spectacle! I’m in awe of the brave people who are being shrinkwrapped! 🫣 Definitely recommend a visit to this at Great North Museum: Hancock and the rest of the Novum Festival festival!

I’m really enjoying my trawl through the archives of The QT to bring you our Greatest Hits. Here is our main story from Feb 14. It was an article prompted by columnist Bob Hudson, who talked about councils caught in the “classic trap of responsibility without power”.

Nice to see the grave of Eileen Blair (nee O'Shaughnessy, of South Shields, aka Mrs 'George Orwell' or 'Pig' to uni friends) in St Andrew's & #Jesmond Cemetery is well tended. The absorbing biography by sylvia topp shows she was a star to whom Orwell owed perhaps everything.

Some very nice work by North East artists on display NewcastleArtsCentre at the moment - definitely worth a look before the month's out. And you can nominate your favourite... Creative Central Newcastle NE1 Ltd Contemporary Visual Arts Network NewcastleGateshead #art #Newcastle CULTURED. North East

Vacuum-packed (live) humans ⁦hanging around today ⁦Great North Museum: Hancock⁩ as part of ⁦Novum Festival⁩ (on until Sunday) - extraordinary installation by Lawrence Malstaf ⁦CULTURED. North East⁩

“You’re home. You’re here. You don’t have to run any more.” Rehearsals are well underway for THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, Andrew Bovell's funny, intense, and frank study of a family 🌹 📅 Mon 9 - Sat 14 September 🎟 peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/thing… 📷 Jess Williams

We're excited to have Gordon Dalton back at VARC next week, part of the #fullcircle programme. Gordon came to VARC in 2023 and made a stunning collection of paintings. Here is a recent one, Two Ships, Acrylic on canvas, 25.5 x 30.5cm, 2024

A plan has been hatched to put Horden’s name in lights and its people on the stage. David Whetstone meets the man behind Ensemble84 #theatre #countydurham #durhamculture culturednortheast.co.uk/p/curtain-come…