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To celebrate the 13th year of Northumberland’s Brinkburn Music Festival, organisers are offering a pair of tickets for a Culture Club member to see the Scottish Ensemble as they perform at Brinkburn’s ancient Priory. A host of exciting new performances by some of the world’s finest classical musicians are set to bring a blend of European flavour, horticulture and inspiring energy to this year’s event.
The dynamic string ensemble will continue to bring an ever more exciting programme to the festival with performances including Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Performing on Sunday 9th July, 7.30pm, the prize also includes an authentic Northumbrian Picnic, prepared by newly appointed caterers, Fresh Element, which can be enjoyed before the concert in magical surroundings – all part of the Brinkburn experience!
Taking place over two weekends - 30th June – 9th July 2006 - and based near Rothbury on the banks of the River Coquet - Brinkburn will once again host a string of internationally renowned concerts including the Gabrieli Consort & Players, the Orlando Consort and the contemporary pianist, Joanna MacGregor. New arrivals, the Rosamunde Quartet, make their debut, while a special afternoon Family Concert, ‘Peter and the Wolf’, by the Scottish Ensemble promises lots of fun for children and adults of all ages.
Further information about the festival can be found on www.brinkburnfestival.co.uk or by phoning 0191 265 7777 and for tickets (ranging from £3 - £32) call the Box Office at The Maltings Theatre on 01289 330 999.
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Opus is excited to offer an exclusive opportunity to readers to win a selection of artist books in conjunction with Journal Culture Club.
The books include: A signed copy of Die Nibelungen by David Levingthal, Snowblind by Robert Sabbag, a paperback edition of JFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco, Welcome To A Slightly Grubby Heaven and The Best Kind Of Comedy both by Tony Tripp.
Opus contemporary art Gallery is situated at the heart of Newcastle. Offering a wide selection of limited edition prints and origional artwork from artists such as Damian Hirst, Peter Blake and David Hockney along with the hottest emerging talent. Currently exhibiting the work of internationally acclaimed celebrity photographer John Stoddart and a tribute to the late Bob Carlos Clarke.
The Gallery is open to the public Tuesday to Sunday, everyone is welcome to call in view the work, enjoy a drink or just for a chat to our friendly team.
Fancy something completely different?
The confluence of Beats, the rapid cycles of Rhythms and the mystifying voice reciting the Chants – Hariharan and Earth n Beat - an effervescent contemporary Indian music band that is making waves in the music scene in UK.
With an exhilarating fusion of exciting rhythms and exotic sounds from around the globe, the musicians in this show use their expertise to create something new and uniquely their own while celebrating the harmony of mind and spirit.
We have three pairs of tickets to offer to Culture Club members to see this impressive event on 28th June 2006.
From winklepickers to wellies, kitten heels to killer heels, our obsession with shoes is explored in a new exhibition at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.
From 24 June – 3 September 2006 the Shipley Art Gallery is exhibiting Shoes: The Agony and the Ecstasy. The preview event on June 23 has allocated 50 tickets exclusively for Culture Club members so you can enjoy this spectacular show.
Shoes: The Agony and the Ecstasy celebrates footwear from Roman times to the present day and includes shoes by designers such as Manolo Blahnik, Beatrix Ong and Jimmy Choo, as well as showcasing work by up and coming young designers Gil Carvalho and Ellen Sampson.
Loans from the collections of the V&A and Northampton Museum and Art Gallery can be seen alongside Tyne and Wear Museums’ own excellent collection of historical footwear and shoes from around the world.
The Shipley Art Gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 2pm to 5pm and bank holiday Mondays. Admission is free.
The exhibition was funded by Tyne & Wear Museums Business Partnership, Connecting Through Culture, Arts Council England and Friends of the Shipley.
We've teamed up with the Shipley Art Gallery to give 50 Culture Club members the chance to come along and be among the first people see the exhibition at the preview event taking place on Friday June 23rd at 6pm. The exhibition will be opened by broadcaster and writer, Wendy Gibson.
Northern Stage, the home for international theatre in Newcastle will re-open this summer, following a £9million expansion and rebuilding programme.
Northern Stage will burst back onto the UK theatre scene with a blistering new season, featuring Northern Stage productions and visits from some of the country’s leading companies. Full details will be announced to the press for the first time at a special event at lunchtime on Friday 16 June. Journal Culture Club members have the opportunity to join this VIP audience by entering today’s competition to win one of three pairs of tickets.
The new Northern Stage will put the audience at the heart of everything it does and with three new performance spaces, it is set to become the most interactive theatre on this scale in the UK.
It will also boast a spacious new foyer with a glass wall running the full length, providing a fantastically light and welcoming reception for audiences and visitors. There will be opportunities for people to feedback their experiences of Northern Stage, through video, text screens or via a postcard wall. The new theatre will have a unique soundproof acoustic wall, which will enable two performances to take place simultaneously or be removed to create an epic performing space.
Northern Stage will re-open with a fantastic programme of public events over the August Bank Holiday weekend and you can find out how to join in by logging onto the Northern Stage website www.northernstage.co.uk
Theatre goers in NewcastleGateshead have the unique opportunity to attend an ambitious new work, which is being staged and screened across three different continents and time zones simultaneously.
Station House Opera, one of the world's leading experimental theatre companies, is staging the world premiere of Play on Earth in NewcastleGateshead, Singapore and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Audiences in the three cities watch the three interconnected performances at the same time - viewing both actors on the stage before them and the actors across the world, streamed via the web and projected on screens.
This is thought to be the first time in theatre history that a single production has been staged and viewed concurrently at multiple venues across the globe. The UK performance will take p! lace in The Guildhall on NewcastleGateshead Quayside with actors from Northern Stage.
Play on Earth will be performed as part of NewcastleGateshead Welcomes the World, a programme of events celebrating the World Summit on Arts and Culture at The Sage Gateshead this month. The international programme is part of NewcastleGateshead's world-class festivals and events programme.
To celebrate this amazing event we are giving four lucky Culture Club members the chance to win tickets. We've got two pairs of tickets to the performance at 9am and two pairs of tickets to the performance at 7pm - both on Saturday 17 June 2006.
Performances take place at different times of the day and night, to accommodate different time zones and audiences in each of the venues will be also aware of the others' presence.
Tickets are priced at £10 and are on sale from The Guildhal! l Visitor Information Centre, Newcastle Quayside and Grainger Street V isitor Information Office, Tel 0191 277 8000. For further information about performance dates and times see www.NewcastleGateshead.com
Devised by Station House Opera's Artistic Director Julian Maynard Smith, Play on Earth is the result of a major international collaboration between Station House Opera, Artsadmin, NewcastleGateshead Initiative, Northern Stage, Singapore Arts Festival, TheatreWorks, Philarmonia Brasileira and Bonito & Compri.
Play on Earth is one of the first performances to be hosted by the Guildhall Visitor Information Centre, following the creation of this dedicated events and exhibition space by Newcastle City Council on the Quayside.
Enter our great competition and be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to see talentSTAR 2006: The Final at The Journal Tyne Theatre on Sunday June 25th at 6.00pm.
talentSTAR is the North East's largest talent search. So far, 7500 kids have performed in the audition concerts and the subsequent quarters, semis and finals.
Seize this opportunity to visit the world’s oldest working Victorian theatre. This Grade I listed building, predominantly of wooden construction, is both beautiful and functional, with a capacity of 100 up to 1100. It has played host to an assortment of events from opera to theatre shows, from comedy to pantomimes, concerts to conferences.
Since it opened in 1867 on Westgate Road, Newcastle it has had many owners and several names. It is now operated by international management company SMG, which also runs Metro Radio Arena. The Journal is backing the enterprise, recognising the theatre’s importance to the North-East – hence the new name.
There are 20 spaces available on the tour, which has been specially organised for Culture Club members on Wednesday June 21st at 5.30pm. The party will be split into 2 groups for part of the hour-long tour, taking in backstage secrets as well as a view of the stage, and the auditorium’s 1,100 plush blue seats, ornate plasterwork and splendid chandelier. The theatre even has its own ghost, thought to be an actor who was killed when a stage prop travelling at high velocity landed on him. He also reportedly has a favourite seat, in which he is occasionally seen.
We have teamed up with Sponsors Club for Arts & Business to support ¡VAMOS! This 10-day festival of sport, music, theatre, film, food and fashion from Spanish and Portuguese speaking global cultures runs from Friday July 7th to Sunday July 16th 2006. The festival gathers artists from all over the world and the region to celebrate those cultures in NewcastleGateshead together. See www.vamosfestival.com for further details.
Throughout the festival Culture Club members will have access to special events, ticket offers and competitions. Watch this page over the next few weeks for details.
Today we are offering Culture Club members the chance to attend a Chamber Music concert taking place at All Saints Church in Newcastle on Sunday July 9th at 4pm. Described as ‘blisteringly virtuosic’ and ‘anarcho-maverick’, Mr McFall’s Chamber are an audacious spin-off from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, devoted to top-class music-making. This programme explores the rich vernacular lifeblood running through the contemporary concert music of Latin America and Spain. Tickets normally cost £12.50 for adults / £8 for concessions. Lucky members will also be invited to an exclusive pre-concert talk given by Dr. Ian Biddle, Senior Lecturer in Music and Cultural Theory at the University of Newcastle and festival co-organiser. The talk will begin at 3.30pm in the same venue. The event is limited to 20 places.
Design Event 2006 will showcase the best in local design talent and bring exciting exhibitions from outside the UK to the North East. The festival will take place from Saturday June 10 to Sunday June 25 at a range of venues across NewcastleGateshead.
The launch event will take place on June 9 at 6pm and Culture Club members have been allocated 25 tickets to enjoy this fantastic opening. As part of the evening you are also invited to preview I Spy, a graphic design exhibition specially commissioned for DE 06 which features designers from Tokyo, Sweden, London and Newcastle and Dan Civico’s 31. The launch will take place in the impressive Stephenson Building and will feature a drinks reception, music and speeches.
This year the number of events has doubled and DE 06 features exhibitions covering graphic, product, furniture and fashion design as well as a design films event, and a Sunday design fair.
The first design event – ‘DE05’ took place in June 2005 and incorporated 9 events. The festival was so popular that it has grown and looks set to become an annual celebration of design in the North East. DE 06 provides a platform for designers to work collectively to showcase cutting edge work and to celebrate the wealth of creativity in the region.
There are 25 spaces available at the event, which have been specially allocated for Culture Club members.
The event takes place at the Stephenson Building, South Street (behind Central Station).
For more information log onto www.design-event.co.uk
The internationally acclaimed Northern Broadsides company is coming to Theatre Royal Newcastle from Tuesday June 13 – Saturday June 17 in a bid to chart fifty years of turbulent and bloody history.
Based on Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy of plays and Richard III, Broadside’s Artistic Director Barrie Rutter has created a new edit for the stage charting this bloody episode in Britain’s history. The result is three distinct plays, Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III that can be seen as stand alone productions.
Northern Broadsides appears at Theatre Royal Newcastle from Tues June 13 – Sat June 17. Tickets are priced at £5.00 - £20.00. All tickets can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 0870 905 5060 or online.
Award-winning Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, recently launched its most intriguing and fascinating attraction to date when it opened the “brand new” Masonic Temple in its 1913 Town Street. The Masonic Temple provides a unique and exciting insight into the world of the Freemasons in 1913, revealing some of their secrets. If you’ve ever wondered why the Masons roll up their trouser legs, have a secret handshake and what they do in those mysterious Masonic meetings, then find out more at Beamish during our exclusive Culture Club evening visit on Wednesday June 14.
The popular open air museum - an authentic living and working experience of life in the early 1800s and 1900s - has recreated the Temple to show the important role the Masons played in the period and to unravel many of the mysteries and myths surrounding them! Beamish has been working closely with the Freemasons in the development of the £1million Temple (co-funded by them) to ensure there is complete authenticity in the recreation of the building and its contents, focusing on Craft Freemasonry.)
The fine frontage of the new Masonic Hall attraction came from a ‘real life’ old Masonic Hall in Sunderland which housed 17 Masonic lodges. The frontage was painstakingly taken down to preserve it and rebuilt brick by brick in the Town Street at Beamish. You’ll find out too about the techniques and traumas of dismantling and re-erecting historic buildings such as the Masonic Temple from one of the Museum’s own expert historians. And there’ll be a guided tour of the authentic interior of the stunning Masonic Temple, which is complete with a marble black and white chequer floor, fantastic gothic fireplace and Masonic paintings. The building also houses other traditional Masonic rooms, including a Robing Room, Tyler’s Room and Museum room upstairs.
The evening begins at 6pm when you will need to be at Beamish main visitor car park and then catch the tram to the 1913 Town Street. Enjoy a talk called “Moving House” –explaining the techniques and traumas of dismantling and re-erecting historic buildings and a Guided Tour of the Masonic Temple by the expert mainly responsible for the fitting out of the building. Then at 7.30pm visit the 1913 Sun Inn pub for a finger buffet and refreshments (pay bar) and an opportunity to catch up with fellow Culture Club members. At 8.00pm you will then catch the tram back to the main visitor car park.
There are 40 spaces available on the tour, which has been specially organised for Culture Club members.
The Eden Theatre in Bishop Auckland is offering Culture Club members an amazing two for one offer on tickets to see Romeo and Juliet on Thursday June 8 2006 at 7.30pm.
This is the world’s most famous love story -it is related by fourteen compositions in two acts, performed by a live jazz octet, two dancers and a singer who draw the audience through the play to its tragic and emotional conclusion.
Enjoy this collaboration between North East composer and jazz saxophonist James Harvey Russell and London based choreographer and contemporary dancer Marie Lawrence. Critically acclaimed, this piece of live theatre was originally commissioned by the Peoples Theatre, with support from the Arts Council NE and performed most recently at the Bath Shakespeare Festival. The only piece of live music in an otherwise literary festival.
James and Marie hope to tour International Festivals next year with Romeo and Juliet and are collaborating on a new and exciting project at the moment to be premiered in the North East later this year.
Marie recently finished touring with Sakoba who are based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and is currently choreographing a number of projects in London. James is also spending some of his time in London, songwriting and producing for soon to be released albums, and has recently been published by Darah Music.
They always return to the North East to work on projects, where they find the facilities and positive attitude towards their work second to none.
What did our Anglo-Saxon ancestors wear? What did they eat? And just what did they do for fun? Join us at Bede’s World to find out what life was like 1300 years ago, as we are joined by living history group Theod, who will bring the past to life as they take on the role of Villagers in our Anglo-Saxon farm on Saturday June 3 and Sunday June 4 2006.
The event forms just part of our varied events and exhibitions programme, which includes our fantastic Medieval Fair taking place on Saturday 20th May. Admission to Medieval fair is FREE and includes spectacular falconry displays, costumed historical demonstrations, coracle racing, crafts and much much more and what’s even better is that it includes free entry to the museum and farm!
Bede’s World would like to invite Journal Culture Club members to join them on Saturday June 3rd at 11am for a special guided tour of the site. Visitors will not only have the opportunity to “Meet the Anglo-Saxon’s” but will also be given a fascinating insight into many of the attractions on-site including our interactive “Age of Bede” exhibition in our stunning museum, an Anglo-Saxon demonstration farm with rare breeds of animals & reconstructed timber buildings, St Paul's Church and medieval monastic ruins, plus historic Jarrow Hall with attractive tea garden and café.
There are 30 spaces available on the tour (15 on each tour), which has been specially organised for Culture Club members.
 
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