Events
Play:space. Mapping Newcastle & Gateshead’s skateboard scene
Skateboarders redefine and reinvent the architecture of Newcastle and Gateshead; exploring and shaping the city to create their own place. Forgotten corners turned into playgrounds, brutalist blocks become aerial flyways, while familiar landmarks vanish, irrelevant. An architecture of movement, exploration, action and desire. Experience the pscyhogeography of Tyneside’s skaters as we unveil a map of their cityscape alongside videos, photography and live action
Parts of the exhibition will be shown in the exhibition space at Dance City for the following eight weeks.
Location/ Getting There
Dance City | Dance Lab to view a map of the location and for best transport options click here...
Times
1- 5pm
Booking
There is no need to book for this event. Just show up between the above times.
Access - please see key at bottom
Cakebook Flash Mob Picnic
Join the EAT! NewcastleGateshead Festival for a flash mob picnic around a giant model of the twin cities NewcastleGateshead built of cakes. 100 iconic buildings and structures have been chosen and the rights to build each out of cake sold (for a small donation to charity) to teams of professional and amateur cake builders from across the UK and beyond. An online 'Cakebook' community has been created so the teams can trade tips and document their progress. Some of the buildings are still available, so if you'd like to become part of Cakebook please visit the Facebook website or email baker@cakebook.org
The secret 'Flash Mob Picnic' location will
eventually be revealed online so Cakebook
members can bring their cakes,
place them on the map and picnic and party
around the perimeter.
Location/ Times
To be revealed!
Booking
There is no need to book for this event.
Access - TBC
Places in Transition
Transition Towns is a social experiment on a massive scale. Communities are self-organising and responding to the pressures of climate change, taking their future into their own hands and rediscovering their potential. What skills do they need? How can they collaborate with local authorities? In what areas can carbon emissions be reduced and how can communities play a vital role in this?
A team of expert academics and practitioners will give short
presentations answering these questions and more and will be available for questions and an informal chat over a glass of wine on various aspects of sustainable living, as well as how best to handle your own and your community’s transition into a more environmentally connected, vibrant, healthy place.
With Newcastle University,
Devereux Architects, and
Urban Design Group
Location/ Getting There
Great North Museum, Newcastle – Large Clore Suite. To view a map of the location and for best transport options click here...
Times
5:30 - 7:30
Booking
Access - please see key at bottom
‘If We Build It Will You Buy It?’ EVENT POSTPONED. It will be rescheduled as part of Design Event in the North East, 22 - 31 October.
The way most new houses look in this region has stayed the same for many years now. Normally red brick, detached or semi’s on a large estate: they look like what a child draws when they draw a house.
Elsewhere, housing design is changing. People are living in more stylish, aspirational and generally greener homes. House builders appear reluctant to build such homes in this region, maybe they think we have no sense of style? So we’ve invited 10 housing designers who are designing these new homes, to show us what they’ve got. And we want you to tell them if you’d buy it!
This social evening of short, sharp and quirky presentations will tickle your design taste buds. We want you to vote for the housing design that you’d like to live in and see more of!
Location/ Getting There
Cluny 2, Ouseburn
If you have any questions please call 0191 260 2191 and speak to a member of the Festival Team.
Access - please see key at bottom
Architectural Bonanza
Time: 10am - 3pm
Venue: Stephenson Works, 20 South St
(behind Central Station), To view a map of the location
and for best transport options please click here...
The Bonanza in brief:
Building Palaces
Fancy spending a day designing your own palace?
Come and take part in a unique workshop. Working with the creative team from Unfolding Theatre, design your palace using objects, words, music, film or drawings.
It’s up to you. It’s your palace.
This workshop is part of a project culminating in a site-specific theatre production, opening in The Stephenson Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, September 2010. Your palace design could even find its way into the show!
With Unfolding Theatre
Location/ Getting There
The Stephenson Building, 20 South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. To view a map of the location and for best transport options click here...
Times
10am – 3pm
Booking
Access - please see key at bottom
Credit: Johnny Haynes
Credit: greenbomb.co.uk
Credit: Reid Ingram Weir
“Catalytic Converters: Nudge Urbanism and the regeneration of cities”
See and experience how this unique and distinctive mix of creative industries at Nile Street successfully operate in the area. There will be a talk, by Rob Slinger of KAPOK, exploring the relationship between Art in the Public Realm and the creation of creative clusters.
The talk will be hosted in Nile Street where over 30 different creative practitioners are located on the street, doors will be opened to members of public too.
Work will be exhibited by the following organisations;
Studio 47, CCGEN, StudioQ, Infinite Arts (and more…)
Location/ Getting There
Studio 47 (47 Nile Street), Sunderland. To see a map of the location and for best transport options click here...
Times
5.30pm – 8pm
Booking
Access - please see key at bottom
The Energy Saving Trust
To find out more about how you can put into practice the solutions you have heard about in these talks. Click here...
Eco Teams Training Day
Eco Teams makes looking after our environment fun.
Get together with friends, neighbours, colleagues, or even make new friends with like-minded people in your community. Simply follow us through a series of action-focused topics and meetings. Together we'll look at key issues such as rubbish, shopping, energy, water and travel.
By taking part in EcoTeams you'll have all the tools and knowledge you need to make a difference. Get started today and take positive steps toward a greener way of life.
This event is open to all.
An event by Global Action Plan, a not-for-profit environmental charity.
Location/ Getting There
The Civic Centre - Collingwood Suite, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QH. To view a map of the location and for best transport options click here...
Times
9.30am - 2.30pm
Booking
Access - please see key at bottom
RIBA Awards 2010
An exhibition highlighting this years RIBA Award winning schemes from across our region.
Hand Drawn
An exhibition coordinated by an architectural practice Napper Architects.
Escape Velocity: Time Machines & Observations
This is an exhibition of drawings and observatories.
Reinvigorating the Region, a snap shot of this exhibition held in January by RIBA North East
Visioning the Future: A look at design visualisation
A second chance to see this exhibition after it has left the City Library
Building Palaces (see above)
Bang a gong…!
With Sue Finn from Gamelan at Work.
Book Talk
Rutter Carroll will give in an insight and overview into his acclaimed Ryder and Yates Book.
Architect in the House
This well sort after architectural advice scheme returns. In aid of the charity Shelter.
Energy Saving Trust
The advice centre will be on hand to offer practical and impartial advice on saving energy and money in the home.
