Creativity and wellbeing week 10–16 June 2019
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Welcome to the North East’s first Creativity and Wellbeing Week 10 – 16 June 2019
Creativity & Wellbeing Week was The Culture, Health and Wellbeing originally started eight years ago by Alliance is a new organisation that London Arts and Health forum and this brings together arts, heritage, museums year sees its adoption nationally by the and galleries with health and wellbeing Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance. organisations, facilitators, workers and professionals. As a founding member of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Tyne It represents everyone who believes that & Wear Archives & Museums is cultural engagement and participation promoting regional events and activities can transform our health and wellbeing. happening throughout Creativity & Wellbeing Week. creativityandwellbeing.org.uk culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk
We look forward to meeting everyone taking part in Creativity & Wellbeing Week and joining in the fun to transform all of our health and wellbeing.
Zoë Brown Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance North East champion (museums).
Kate Parkin Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance North East champion (arts). 2 creativityandwellbeing.org.uk Creativity and wellbeing week 10–16 June 2019
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Monday 10 June
Silver Chimes Try me programme Monday, 2 –4pm Monday, 3–5pm Sage Gateshead Bensham Grove Community Centre, £12.50 per half term (10 June – 8 July) Gateshead Age recommendation Enrolment essential £5 per session (or free For people over the age of 50 if receiving universal credit) The Silver Programme offers a wide variety Age recommendation of daytime musical activities for people over Over 19s only but please ask as some over the age of 50. Rekindle, develop, learn new 16s might be possible. skills and meet people with similar interests Try activities at Bensham Grove (learning within a relaxed, informal and supportive Centre) at reduced cost. Afternoons 10-14 environment. June 3-5 pm there will be a try me activity: Classes can be booked in person at painting and drawing, calligraphy, fused- Sage Gateshead Ticket Office, glass, pottery and silversmithing for over 19s by phone on 0191 443 4661 or online and a tour of the listed building afterwards. at sagegateshead.com Equipment provided. www.benshamgrove.org Art Diamonds Monday, 10am – 12noon Rock & Rolled Gold Crawcrook Library Rock And Pop Band Free Monday, 1 – 2.30pm Age recommendation Sage Gateshead People of retirement age in Gateshead £25.00 per half term (10 June – 8 July) Pop along and try an Art Diamond For singers of all abilities and intermediate challenge. Bring a friend, neighbour or to advanced instrumentalists relative and encourage others to get creative. Sing rock & roll classics from the 50’s Or go along by yourself and our friendly staff and 60’s. will get creative with you. For more information or to register for Art Diamonds news contact Karolynne on 0191 433 8492 or email [email protected]
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The Silver Programme offers a wide Silver Uke Strummers variety of daytime musical activities Monday 11.00am - 12.30pm for people over the age of 50. Sage Gateshead Age recommendation £25 per half term (10 June – 8 July) For people over the age of 50. Classes can Develop your ukulele playing in a friendly be booked in person at Sage Gateshead group looking at a wide range of styles Ticket Office, by phone on 0191 443 4661 and techniques. or online at sagegateshead.com Silver Rock & Pop Ukulele Silver Singers, Stanley Monday, 3.15 - 4.45pm Sage Gateshead Monday, 10.30 – 12noon £25 per half term (10 June – 8 July) Stanley Masonic Hall Pay per session. A ukulele band with a rock edge, learn to play arrangements of classic rock and pop Age recommendation hits from the 60s through to modern day. 50 + For more information call Durham Accompanied by drums and bass guitar. County Council. Tel: 03000 262 480. Welcoming and sociable groups singing Steel Pan Band a wide-ranging mix of repertoire in parts Steel Stars, Steel Pan Band to suit any level using tutors from Sage Gateshead but in venues around the region. Monday This is a good starting point if you’re not Sage Gateshead sure which singing style is for you. Cost: £25 per half term (10 June – 8 July) No experience necessary. We currently have seven established Steel Pan Bands. Each group plays its own set of popular repertoire. You may need to catch up with old repertoire as well as
learning new tunes. Please contact the Silver Programme to find out more about which group would be best for you [email protected]
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Silver Sax Dance classes Ballet Monday, 3.30 – 4.45pm Dance City Dance class Sage Gateshead All Dance City classes Monday, 5 – 6pm £25 per half term below are held at Dance City £7 (for concessions and offers (10 June – 8 July) Newcastle. see website) Improve and develop your Age recommendation – Adult saxophone skills whilst Tap Level – Beginners covering a broad range of Dance class exciting repertoire. Monday, 11.15am – 12.15pm Contemporary £7 (for concessions and offers Dance class see website) Silver Sax And Monday, 5 – 6pm The City Age recommendation £7 (for concessions and offers Monday, 10 – 11.30am 55+ Level - Advanced see website) Sage Gateshead Age recommendation –Adult £25 per half term Level - Beginners (10 June – 8 July) Study jazz, funk & soul Contemporary repertoire in this group and Floor Work experience playing in parts. Dance class Monday, 6 – 7pm Silver Rock Singers £7 (for concessions and offers Monday, 11am – 12.30pm see website) Sage Gateshead Age recommendation – Adult £25 per half term Level – All (10 June – 8 July) Ballet This singing group looks at Dance class Vinyasa Flow Yoga harmony arrangements of Monday, 12.15 – 1.15pm Dance class classic and contemporary £7 (for concessions and offers rock songs. Monday, 5.30 – 6.30pm see website) £7 (for concessions and offers Age recommendation see website) Silver Breves 55+ Level - Beginners Age recommendation – Adult Monday, 11am – 12.30pm Level – Beginners Sage Gateshead In Motion £25 per half term Dance class (10 June – 8 July) Monday, 1.30 – 2.30pm A classical choir with £7 (for concessions and more complicated and offers see website) challenging sacred and Age recommendation secular work. 16+ Admits parent/carer
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Vinyasa Flow Yoga Ashtanga Yoga Slow Museums Dance class Dance class South Monday, 6.30 – 7.30pm Monday, 7.30 – 8.30pm Tyneside launch £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and Monday, 2 – 4 offers see website) offers see website) South Shields Museum Age recommendation – Adult Age recommendation –Adult Free Level – Beginners Level – Primary Series Slow Museums Afternoons support Street Contemporary visitors who live Dance class Dance class with visible, invisible, Monday, 6.30 – 7.30pm Monday, 7.30 – 9pm intellectual or cognitive £7 (for concessions and £10 (for concessions and disability as well as their offers see website) offers see website) families and carers. Age recommendation – Age recommendation – Adult twmuseums.org.uk/ Adult Level – All Level – Intermediate adult-health-and- wellbeing Salsa Pilates slowshopping.org.uk Dance class Dance class Monday, 7 – 8pm Monday, 6 – 7pm Joanne.Charlton@ £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and twmuseums.org.uk offers see website) offers see website) Age recommendation - Adult Age recommendation – Adult Level – Improvers Level – All
Salsa Pilates Dance class Dance class Monday, 8 – 9pm Monday, 7 – 8pm £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) Age recommendation – Adult Age recommendation – Adult Level – Beginners Level – All
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Silver Singers, North Shields Monday, 11am - 12.30pm Tour of Tyne & Wear Archives St Columba’s United Reformed Church Hall, Monday, 11am and 1pm North Shields Discovery Museum Reception Desk Cost: £25 per half term (10 June – 8 July) 45 - 60 minutes £4 per person, booking essential Age recommendation - 50+ Welcoming and sociable groups singing Explore the Archives on a guided tour of a wide-ranging mix of repertoire in parts the 12 miles of shelving - home to some to suit any level using tutors from Sage important documents including a charter Gateshead but in venues around the region. which dates back to AD 1183. This is a good starting point if you’re You’ll also learn about the history of not sure which singing style is for you. Blandford House where the Archives No experience necessary. are based, see the Co-operative Classes can be booked in person at director’s executive loos and have a brief Sage Gateshead Ticket Office, by phone introduction to using archives. on 0191 443 4661 or online at Please book your place online sagegateshead.com twarchives.org.uk Or email [email protected] or phone (0191) 277 2248. Or book in the public search room Tuesday - Friday, 10am to 4pm.
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Tuesday 11 June
Art Diamonds Art Diamonds Tuesday, 2 - 4 pm Tuesday, 10 – 11.30am Chopwell and Pelaw Libraries Gateshead Central Library Free Free Age recommendation – People Age recommendation – People of of retirement age in Gateshead retirement age in Gateshead Pop along and try an Art Diamond Pop along and try an Art Diamond challenge. Bring a friend, neighbour or challenge. Bring a friend, neighbour or relative and encourage others to get creative. relative and encourage others to get creative. Or go along by yourself and our friendly staff Or go along by yourself and our friendly staff will get creative with you. will get creative with you. For more information or to register for our For more information or to register for our Art Diamonds news contact Karolynne on Art Diamonds news contact Karolynne on 0191 433 8492 or email karolynnehart@ 0191 433 8492 or email karolynnehart@ gateshead.gov.uk gateshead.gov.uk
Art Diamonds Tuesday, 10 – 12 noon Leam Lane & Birtley Libraries Free Age recommendation – People of retirement age in Gateshead
Pop along and try an Art Diamond challenge. Bring a friend, neighbour or
relative and encourage others to get creative. Or go along by yourself and our friendly staff will get creative with you.
For more information or to register for our Art Diamonds news contact Karolynne
on 0191 433 8492 or email [email protected]
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Try me programme Silver Plainsong Tuesday, 3 – 5pm enrol for a daily Tuesday, 1.30 – 3pm workshop Sage Gateshead Bensham Grove Community Centre £12.50 per half term (10 June – 8 July) Sidney Grove , Gateshead Council NE10 8HD Rock And Pop Bands For singers of all Enrolment essential £5 per session abilities and intermediate to advanced (or free if receiving universal credit) instrumentalists Age recommendation - Over 19s only Peer led. Single, unaccompanied melodic lines but please ask as some over 16s might of chant learnt by ear. This is religious music, be possible. but people of any faith or none are welcome. Try activities at Bensham Grove (learning Centre) at reduced cost. Afternoon’s 10-14th Music Spark activities June 3-5 pm there will be a try me activity: Tuesday 11 June, 11am painting and drawing, calligraphy, fused- Sage Gateshead glass, pottery and silversmithing for over 19’s 45 minute and tour of this listed building afterwards. Free Equipment provided. Age recommendation – 15 and over Music Spark is a training and work experience Loud & Clear Adoptive programme at Sage Gateshead. Family Music Making There are three sessions to choose from Tuesday afternoons 1pm – 2.30pm during creativity and wellbeing week and Sage Gateshead content will vary from session to session, £3 per family. but expect a fun and interactive musical Age recommendation (if needed) – Children experience. aged 0-5 years and their parents. www.sagegateshead.com/get-involved/ children-young-people/comusica/music- Sage Gateshead has a programme of work spark/ for Foster and Adoptive families. These early Years sessions are designed to support www.musicspark.bandcamp.com/ parents and foster carers with pre-school and KS1 children using music as inspiration. NOTE**This is a closed group so we will not be able to accept families arriving who have not been referred by their LEA social workers. For more information contact carol.bowden@ sagegateshead.com
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The Silver Programme offers a wide Silver Wind Band variety of daytime musical activities Tuesday, 10.30am – 12.30pm Sage for people over the age of 50. Gateshead Age recommendation £25.00 per half term For people over the age of 50. Classes can (4 June – 2 July) be booked in person at Sage Gateshead Age recommendation - over 50 Ticket Office, by phone on 0191 443 4661 For brass and woodwind instruments or online at sagegateshead.com covering a broad range of repertoire.
Silver Improver Mandolin Silver Madrigals Tuesday, 1 – 2.30pm Tuesday, 11am – 12.30pm £25 per half term Sage Gateshead (4 June – 2 July) £25.00 per half term Age recommendation – over 50 (4 June – 2 July) Age recommendation - over 50 Hone your skills and experience in this improver group. Madrigals were written around the time of Queen Elizabeth 1st to be sung for fun in Silver Bluegrass Band mixed voice parts. Experience in part-singing and ability to follow written music required. Tuesday, 11.00am – 12.30pm Sage Gateshead £25 per half term Active Voices (4 June – 2 July) Tuesday, 11 June 2.30pm Age recommendation - over 50 Great North Museum: Hancock 2 hours For singers and instrumentalists who are Free keen to learn Appalachian and American Age recommendation - 50 + roots music. Guitar, ukulele, banjo and mandolin players all welcome. Creating a noise about the environment and ageing. A banner-making and song writing Silver Rock & Pop Ukulele 2 workshop to help older people respond to the big environmental themes we are all Tuesday, 3.15 – 4.45pm facing. Sage Gateshead £25.00 per half term www.wea.org.uk (4 June – 2 July) www.elderscouncil.org.uk Age recommendation - over 50 A ukulele band with a rock edge, learn to play arrangements of classic rock and pop hits from the 60s through to modern day. Accompanied by drums and bass guitar.
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Dance classes Flamenco Dance City Dance class Pilates All Dance City classes Tuesday, 5.30 – 6.30pm Dance class below are held at Dance £7 (for concessions and Tuesday, 6.30 – 7.30pm City Newcastle. offers see website) £7 (for concessions and Age recommendation – offers see website) Barre Adult Age recommendation – Adult Dance class Level – Beginners Level – Beginners Tuesday, 9.30 – 10.30am £7 (for concessions and Flamenco offers see website) Ballroom Dance class Dance class Age recommendation - Adult Tuesday, 6.30 – 7.30pm Level – All Tuesday, 7.30 – 8.30pm £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) Tap Age recommendation – Adult Age recommendation – Adult Dance class Level – Intermediate Level – Beginners Tuesday, 12 – 1pm
£7 (for concessions and Pilates offers see website) Musical Theatre Musical Theatre class Dance class Age recommendation – 55+ Tuesday, 7.30 – 8.30pm Level – Beginners Tuesday, 6.30 – 7.30pm £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) Afro Mix Age recommendation – Adult Age recommendation – Adult Dance class Level – All Level - Intermediate Tuesday, 5.30 – 6.30pm £7 (for concessions and Jazz offers see website) Ballroom Dance class Dance class Age recommendation - Adult Tuesday, 7.30 – 8.30pm Level - All Tuesday, 6.30 – 7.30pm £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) Fitsteps Age recommendation – Adult Age recommendation – Adult Dance class Level – All Level – All Tuesday, 5.30 – 6.30pm £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Age recommendation - Adult Level - All
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Whistler and nature, Meet me at the Museum – exhibitions tours Friends of Discovery Tuesday, 12.30 - 1.10 Tuesday, 10.30 – 11.30am Laing Art Gallery Meet at Discovery Museum Café 40 minute Free £4 (plus booking fee) Age recommendation - Adults Join exhibition curator Sarah Richardson For more information: Telephone: for an introduction to the exhibition (0191) 277 2330 themes and highlights. or Email: [email protected] Please note admission to the exhibition is The Friends of Discovery Museum are a not included in the ticket price and must group of kindred spirits who take a keen be purchased separately on the day. For interest in the technical and social history admission prices check website below. of the North East of England. To book visit: laingartgallery.org.uk The Friends are keen to encourage new members and inspire young people to take up careers in science, technology or engineering. Come and meet them at one of their regular meetings and find out how you can become actively involved, all will be welcomed
Teetotal in Victorian times Using museum objects and images, Tuesday, 12.30 – 2.30pm compare Lockhart’s then with George Location of event: Street Social now on 11 June. Get creative George Street Social, 45–51 George Street, with ceramics on 13 June, inspired by Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7JN Lockhart’s crockery. Cost: Free, but booking required For more information and to book your Age recommendation - Adults place, please contact: suzanne.prak- [email protected] Join Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and The Road to Recovery Trust to explore the history of Lockhart’s Cocoa Rooms, a chain of alcohol-free social spaces established in Victorian times.
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Walk and Talk Nature event Author talk - Peter Mortimer Tuesday, 2pm Tuesday, 6.30pm Duration of event 2 hours Cullercoats Library Cost: Free 1 – 2 hours Age recommendation - Any age Free Enquire at any North Tyneside Library or Author, Peter Mortimer, will be giving a talk go to: www.my.northtyneside.gov.uk/ as part of the Iron Press Festival of Words category/146/libraries and Music. He will be accompanied by a variety of writers and musicians. A nature walk and author talk with Karen Lloyd, author of “The Blackbird Diaries”, Booking essential (Lakeland Book of the Year 2018) Enquire at any North Tyneside Library or Booking is essential. go to: www.my.northtyneside.gov.uk/ category/146/libraries Meet at the Tynemouth Road entrance to Northumberland Park at 2 pm for the walk and this will be followed by a talk at North Shields Library at 3 pm. Slow Museums North Tyneside launch Tuesday, 2 – 4pm Empathy Day Segedunum Roman Fort Tuesday, anytime during opening Free hours. Slow Museum Afternoons support Location: Any North Tyneside Customer visitors who live with visible, invisible, First Centre Library intellectual or cognitive disability as well Cost: Free as their families and carers. Age recommendation Children and young people www.slowshopping.org.uk www.twmuseums.org.uk/adult-health- North Tyneside Libraries are supporting and-wellbeing Empathy Day which is a national event bringing people and communities together [email protected] through the power of reading. Pop into any [email protected] North Tyneside Customer First Centre and pick up an empathy-boosting read from the special book collections for children and young people. Enquire at any North Tyneside Customer Service Centre Library or go to: www.my.northtyneside.gov.uk/ category/146/libraries
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Little Sparks Ukulele for beginners’ workshop Tuesday 10am – 11.30am Tuesday, 2 – 3pm Byker Community Health Project: Age Concern Tyneside South, 29 Beach Byker Community Centre Road, South Shields, NE33 2QU Free Donations welcome North East Autism Society, partnering Age recommendation – 50+ with Sage Gateshead and Great North Ring Beth on 0191 456 6903 Children’s Hospital (GNCH), deliver a Email [email protected] programme of Early Years sessions designed to engage and increase support of parents Come and have a go at what is arguably with pre-school children newly diagnosed the happiest instrument in the world. This with autism. workshop will take you through the very basics. Ukuleles will be provided (limited The programme helps create positive availability) so you can get a taste and join in experience and support for families an easy song. associated to their child’s diagnosis, through the vehicle of music. Illumination Art Workshop Restrictions: Tuesday, 10 – 1pm NOTE**This is a closed group so we will not Whist, South Shields. Salus House, 33 Mile be able to accept families arriving who have End Road, South Shields NE33 1TA not been referred by their LEA social workers. Free For more information contact Age recommendation - Women only [email protected] (Adults) Fozia Haider or Sharon Finnigan 0191 4564147 [email protected] Apna Ghar and Whist are running a 1 day workshop with inspirational artist Esma Ugurluoglu. Esma was born in Istanbul, studied Traditional Turkish Arts and
llumination at the Sakarya University.
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Wednesday 12 June
Art Diamonds Try me programme Wednesday, 10am – 12noon Wednesday, 3 – 5pm enrol Blaydon Library for a daily workshop Free Bensham Grove Community Centre Age - People of retirement age in Gateshead Sidney Grove Gateshead Council NE10 8HD Pop along and try an Art Diamond Enrolment essential £5 per session challenge. Bring a friend, neighbour or (or free if receiving universal credit) relative and encourage others to get creative. Or go along by yourself and our friendly staff Age recommendation – Over 19’s only will get creative with you. but please ask as some over 16’s might be possible. For more information or to register for Art Diamonds news contact A week to try activities at Bensham Karolynne on 0191 433 8492 Grove (learning centre) at reduced cost. or email [email protected] Afternoons 10-14 June 3-5 pm there will be a try me activity: painting and drawing, Or Rachel Horton on 0191 433 3864 or calligraphy, fused-glass, pottery and email: [email protected] silversmithing for over 19s and tour of this listed building afterwards. Music Spark activities Equipment provided Wednesday, 4:30pm Sage Gateshead www.benshamgrove.org 45 minute Facebook: Bensham Grove Free Community Centre Age recommendation - 15 and over www.sagegateshead.com/get-involved/ children-young-people/comusica/music- spark/ www.musicspark.bandcamp.com/ Music Spark is a training and work experience programme at Sage Gateshead. Come and experience a 45 minute music activity planned and delivered by the Music Spark POD (Progression Opportunity Development). There are three sessions to choose from during creativity and wellbeing week and content will vary from session to session, but expect a fun and interactive musical experience, and a chance to find out more about the ground breaking Music Spark Programme!
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The Silver Programme offers a wide Tambours d’Afrique variety of daytime musical activities Wednesday, 1 – 2.30pm for people over the age of 50. Sage Gateshead £25 per half term (5 June – 3 July) Age recommendation For people over the age of 50. Classes Explore African rhythms using traditional can be booked in person at Sage instruments including djembes and bells. Gateshead Ticket Office, by phone on 0191 443 4661 Silversmiths or online at sagegateshead.com Wednesday, 11am – 12.30pm Sage Gateshead Silver Shantymen £25 per half term (5 June – 3 July) Wednesday, 1 - 2.30pm Blues, jazz and gospel choir. Sage Gateshead £12.50 per half term (5 June – 3 July) Shades Of Silver Rock And Pop Bands For singers of all Wednesday, 11am – 12.30pm abilities and intermediate to advanced Sage Gateshead instrumentalists £25 per half term (5 June – 3 July) Sing a mixed repertoire, including popular Peer led. For men interested in singing classical, pop, music from the shows sea shanties. Membership is on an invite and more. only basis.
Silver Divas Silver Rock & Roll Band Wednesday, 1 – 2.30pm Wednesdays, 1.15 – 245pm Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead £25 per half term (5 June – 3 July) £25 per half term (5 June – 3 July) Everything from popular songs Join this Rock ‘n’ Roll band and learn to to Broadway classics. play all the classics - for those who love to Twist and Shout! Opera d’Argento Wednesday, 3 – 4.30pm Sage Gateshead Silver Sambanistas £25 per half term Wednesday, 11am - 12.30pm Sage Gateshead (5 June – 3 July) £25 per half term (5 June – 3 July) Songs from operas, operettas, opera This energetic samba band plays traditional choruses and arias with occasional classical and original pieces using traditional Brazilian and sacred pieces and traditional folk songs. drums and hand percussion. Suitable for anyone who can follow a part.
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Dance classes Ashtanga Yoga House Dance City Fitness and wellbeing class Dance class All Dance City classes Wednesday, 5.30 – 6.30pm Wednesday, 7 – 8pm below are held at Dance £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and City Newcastle.. offers see website) offers see website) Age recommendation - Adult Age recommendation - Adult Pilates Level - Intermediate Series Level - All Fitness and wellbeing class Wednesday, 11am – 12pm £7 (for concessions and Popping Egyptian Belly Dance Dance class Dance class offers see website) Age recommendation - 55+ Wednesday, 6 – 7pm Wednesday, 7 – 8pm Level - Beginners £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) Pilates Age recommendation – Adult Age recommendation - Adult Level – All Level - Intermediate Fitness and wellbeing class Wednesday, 12 – 1pm £7 (for concessions and Egyptian Belly Dance Street offers see website) Dance class Dance class Age recommendation - Adult Wednesday, 6 – 7pm Wednesday, 7 – 8 pm Level - All £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) Age recommendation - Adult Age recommendation - Adult Baby Friendly Pilates Level - Beginners Parent and baby fitness and Level - All wellbeing class Tap Dance class Wednesday, 1 – 2pm Tap £7 (for concessions and Wednesday, 6 – 7pm Dance class offers see website) £7 (for concessions and Wednesday, 7 – 8pm offers see website) Age recommendation £7 (for concessions and and level - See website for Age recommendation - offers see website) details Adult Level - Beginners Age recommendation - Adult Level - Intermediate Ballroom & Latin Dance class Wednesday, 1.30 – 2.30pm £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Age recommendation - 55+ Level - All
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Weaving group Wednesday, 10am – 1pm Shipley Art Gallery Free Age recommendation - Adults Contact Shipley Art Gallery Staff for more information. Craft group: Join the weaving group at the Shipley for social and crafty entertainment. Beginners are welcome, as well as experienced practitioners and offer help with equipment and support for new members. Drop in any time, with no obligation to join.
Live Well Symposium: Museums, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population
Wednesday, 9.00 – 4.30pm Location of event: Discovery Museum, Great Hall Free Age recommendation - 16+ What would a long term strategy look like for museums collaborating with people working in healthcare and wellbeing in relation to social connectivity, sense of belonging and identities in an ageing population? Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) is hosting a regional symposium bringing together museum and gallery staff, creative people, health and wellbeing workers, older people organisations, academics and researchers and national funders. The symposium will celebrate the Live Well project delivered by National Museums of Northern Ireland (NMNI) and TWAM, and use our learning as a springboard to share best practice across the sector when engaging older people. To book: www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/620596
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Tiny Sparks: Science and Bullet Journal Class Engineering Wednesday, 2 – 3:30pm Wednesday, 10.30-11.30am Newcastle Building Society at Cobalt Discovery Museum 21A, Cobalt Business Park, Cobalt Park £3.50 per child. Booking essential. Way, Wallsend NE28 9EJ Age recommendation – children aged £2 per a person on arrival towards art 2–4 with an accompanying adult. supplies. Age recommendation Tiny Sparks is an award-winning play From ages 12 upwards session for young children to find out about great scientists and their amazing Designed for beginners wanting to know achievements. Come and sing, play, make more about Bullet Journal Class with a stuff and have fun. creative outlet that helps productivity. Spark your children’s imaginations with Bullet Journal Class is a useful tool for stories about scientific discoveries and organisations, monitoring your mental or inventions. Be inspired by intriguing and physical health and setting personal goals curious objects. This is an opportunity for whilst letting your creative side run wild. tiny engineering, inventing, discovering, To sign up email hayley_r2005@hotmail. designing and operating. co.uk with the subject of – Bullet Journal Build their aspirations, expand horizons and Class. Emails should include the name and dream big dreams for who they could be in age of any participants. All participants will the future. need to bring a note book (lined, dotted or This season we will be thinking about plain paper). science, inventors and engineering. This event is part of Play + Invent, Storytelling for adults Discovery Museum’s new family Wednesday, 11.00am – 12.00 noon programme for budding inventors, North Shields Library designers and makers. For more Free information visit www.discoverymuseum. Age recommendation - Adults org.uk/play-invent Enquire at any North Tyneside Library or go to: https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/ category/146/libraries
Professional storyteller, Tony Wilson, will be telling stories for adults in a thoroughly entertaining session.
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Woodhorn Museum Poet in Reiki Residence Wednesday, 2 – 3pm Tuesday, 10 – 4pm Age Concern Tyneside South, 29 Beach Woodhorn MuseumQueen Elizabeth Road, South Shields, NE33 2QU II Country Park, Ashington, Donations welcome Northumberland. NE63 9YF Age recommendation - 50+ Cost - Membership is required for entry onto the museum site. Join our fully qualified reiki practitioner and councillor for a relaxing session focusing on Join Judith Line at Woodhorn Museum, finding a personal calm. as poet in residence for the day she draws Ring Beth on 0191 456 6903 inspiration from the mining collections. Feel Email [email protected] inspired by Northumberland’s heritage and the objects to get involved and create your own piece. Silver Singers, South Shields Wednesday, 10.45am - 12.15pm www.museumsnorthumberland.org.uk St Hilda’s Church, Market Place, www.facebook.com/WoodhornMuseum/ South Shields, NE33 1BH Contact us: hello@ £25.00 per half term (4 June – 2 July) museumsnorthumberland.org.uk Age recommendation 01670 624455 - 50 + Welcoming and sociable groups singing a wide-ranging mix of repertoire in parts Illumination Art Workshop to suit any level using tutors from Sage Wednesday, 10 – 1pm Gateshead but in venues around the region. WHIST South Shields. Salus House, 33 This is a good starting point if you’re not Mile End Road, South Shields NE33 1TA sure which singing style is for you. No Free experience necessary. Age recommendation – Adults (women only) Classes can be booked in person at Sage Gateshead Ticket Office, by phone on 0191 Fozia Haider or Sharon Finnigan 0191 443 4661 or online at sagegateshead.com 4564147 [email protected] Apna Ghar and WHIST are running a 1 day workshop with inspirational artist Esma Ugurluoglu. Esma was born in Istanbul,
studied Traditional Turkish Arts and Illumination at the Sakarya University.
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Resting in Awareness Threads Wednesday Wednesday, drop in between Choose from Option A, B, or C 1pm and 3pm (You can attend either or both sessions) Pottery Gallery, Sunderland Museum Option A: 17.15-17.35, Option B: 17.45-18.15, & Winter Gardens, Burdon Road, Option C: Both A & B sessions Sunderland. SR1 1PP Free Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland. SR1 1PP Threads is a social group working with yarn and fabric and a variety of textile techniques: FREE Introductory Mindfulness and knitting, crochet, rag-rug and hand sewing. Guided Meditation Event The aim of the group is to work on their Age recommendation - Open to any age individual projects and use show and tell (children under 16 must be accompanied by to share their skills. an adult) For more information, please email Practicing Mindfulness has helped humans [email protected] with stress for hundreds of years, is now or phone the Public Engagement & Learning becoming more mainstream and clinically Team on 0191 5618605. recognised as helping with mental and physical health conditions. Why not access free sessions being piloted in quiet, relaxing conditions in the Winter Gardens. Further sessions will take place during the summer months. To book: Please visit our website www. sunderlandmuseum.org.uk For more information, please email [email protected] or phone Joe Glancy on 0191 5616102 or 0191 5612071
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Thursday 13 June
Tai Chi class at Great North Museum: Hancock Thursday, 2 sessions available 2– 3pm and 3 – 4pm Free Age recommendation – any age Limited places available - booking required via Eventbrite – https://bit.ly/30jIF9R
Words from the Breath: Art Diamonds poetry readings Thursday, 2 – 4pm Thursday, 2 – 3pm Gateshead Central Library Lanchester Community Centre Free Newbiggin Lane, Lanchester DH7 0NT Age recommendation - People of Free retirement age in Gateshead The experience of breathlessness is one Every week during 2019, there will be some must manage on a daily basis. These Creative Challenges in 7 Gateshead are people who are at risk of becoming Libraries. Drop in any time to have a go invisible to society. Durham & Derwentside or join a group session led by library staff. Breathe Easy group perform poetry, created with Catch Your Breath Writer-in-Residence For more information or to register for our Christy Ducker, to express their lived Art Diamonds news contact Karolynne on experience of breathlessness. 0191 433 8492 or email karolynnehart@ Age recommendation - Any age gateshead.gov.uk Booking is recommended, but not essential. Or Rachel Horton on 0191 433 3864 or www.catchyourbreath.org; email: [email protected] www.lifeofbreath.org; www.eventbrite. co.uk/e/words-from-the-breath-poetry- readings-tickets-61429617640 Twitter - @LifeofBreath
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Try me programme A week to try activities at Bensham Thursday, 3 – 5pm Grove (learning Centre) at reduced cost. Bensham Grove Community Centre Afternoon’s 10-14th June 3-5 pm there Sidney Grove will be a try me activity: painting and Gateshead Council NE10 8HD drawing, calligraphy, fused-glass, pottery and silversmithing for over 19’s and tour of Enrolment essential £5 per session (or this listed building afterwards. Equipment free if receiving universal credit) provided, enrol for a daily workshop. Age recommendation - Over 19’s only but please ask as some over 16’s might be www.benshamgrove.org possible. Facebook: Bensham Grove Community Centre
Loud & Clear Foster Family Loud & Clear Move On Up - Foster Music Making Family Music Making Thursday, 9.30 – 11am Thursday, 4.30 – 6pm Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead Free Free Age recommendation - children aged 0-5 Age recommendation - Children aged 5 - 7 years and their carers. years and their carers. At Sage Gateshead we have a programme of At Sage Gateshead we have a programme of work for Foster and Adoptive families with work for Foster and Adoptive families with Newcastle and Gateshead Local Authorities Newcastle and Gateshead Local Authorities as partners, we deliver a programme of as partners, we deliver a programme of Early Years sessions designed to engage and Early Years sessions designed to engage and increase support of parents and foster carers increase support of parents and foster carers with pre-school and KS1 children with care with pre-school and KS1 children with care experience. The programme helps create a experience. The programme helps create a positive experience and support for families positive experience and support for families through the vehicle of music. through the vehicle of music. NOTE**This is a closed group so we will NOTE**This is a closed group so we will not be able to accept families arriving who not be able to accept families arriving who have not been referred by their LEA social have not been referred by their LEA social workers. workers. For more information contact carol. For more information contact carol. [email protected] [email protected]
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Music Spark activities The Silver Programme offers a Thursday, 11am wide variety of daytime musical Sage Gateshead activities for people over the age Duration of event - 45 minute of 50. Free Age recommendation Age recommendation - 15 and over For people over the age of 50. Classes Music Spark is a training and work can be booked in person at Sage experience programme at Sage Gateshead Ticket Office, by phone on Gateshead. 0191 443 4661 or online at sagegateshead.com Come and experience a 45 minute music activity planned and delivered by the Music Spark POD (Progression Silver Recorder Ensemble Opportunity Development). Thursday, 3 - 4.30pm There are three sessions to choose from Sage Gateshead during creativity and wellbeing week and £12.50 per half term (6 June – 4 July) content will vary from session to session, Peer led. Learn a wide variety of but expect a fun and interactive musical repertoire from medieval dance music to experience, and a chance to find out The Beatles. more about the ground breaking Music Spark Programme! Silver Recorder Consort www.sagegateshead.com/get-involved/ Thursday, 3 – 5pm children-young-people/comusica/ Sage Gateshead music-spark/ £12.50 per half term (6 June – 4 July) https://musicspark.bandcamp.com/ Peer led. An informal group of competent players who play mainly 5-8 part music written for early instruments. Music is provided and occasionally ordered from publishers, with members paying for their own copies. Rock And Pop Bands For singers of all abilities and intermediate to advanced instrumentalists
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Silver Guitar Club Sing & Strum Silver Beginner Guitar Thursday, 10.30am - Thursday, 12.15 – 1.45pm Thursday, 2.15 – 3.45pm 12noon Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead £25 per half term £25 per half term £25 per half term (6 June – 4 July) (6 June – 4 July) (6 June – 4 July) This group focuses on playing This absolute beginner class Develop your playing in a guitar and singing, drawing on will help you get to grips with wide range of styles and an eclectic range of songs. the basics to then progress to techniques. our more advanced classes. Pick & Mix Silver Mandolin Thursday, 12.15 – 1.45pm Silver Ukulele Band Orchestra Sage Gateshead Thursday, 2.30 – 4.00pm Thursday, 10.30am – £25 per half term Sage Gateshead 12noon (6 June – 4 July) £25 per half term Sage Gateshead For those who want to (6 June – 4 July) £25 per half term learn advanced techniques A fun and relaxed group (6 June – 4 July) including finger picking, with a varied repertoire. Improve and develop your soloing & slide playing. mandolin skills in a Silver Sensations friendly group. Silver Improver Thursday, 2.25 – 3.55pm Sage Ukulele Gateshead Silver Singers, Thursday 12.45 – 2.15pm £25 per half term Gateshead Sage Gateshead (6 June – 4 July) Thursday, 11am – 12.30pm £25 per half term This long running group Sage Gateshead (6 June – 4 July) plays all the rock and pop The next step once you have classics from across the eras. £25 per half term learnt the basics. Develop Membership is on an invite (6 June – 4 July) skills and gain confidence only basis - please contact Welcoming and sociable within a smaller group. [email protected] groups singing a wide-ranging for more details. mix of repertoire in parts to suit any level using tutors Silver Ukulele from Sage Gateshead but in Ensemble Roots Rock venues around the region. Thursday, 12.45 – 2.15pm Thursday, 4 – 5.30pm This is a good starting point if Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead you’re not sure which singing £25 per half term £25 per half term style is for you. (6 June – 4 July) (6 June – 4 July) A rock band line-up along No experience necessary Develop skills within a friendly group learning repertoire with acoustic guitars, ukuleles ranging from the roaring 20s and mandolins covering the through to the swinging 60s. folk and country side of rock, both American and English.
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Lace Making Dance classes Thursday, 10 - 12 noon Dance City Shipley Art Gallery All Dance City classes Free below are held at Dance City Age recommendation - Newcastle. Adults Ballet Contact Shipley Art gallery Dance class Staff for more information. Thursday, 12 – 1pm Join the lace making group at £7 (for concessions and the Shipley every Thursday offers see website) and learn some new skills. Age recommendation - 55+ Beginners and experienced Level - Improvers practitioners welcome. Drop in any time, with no Slow Flow Yoga Fitness and wellbeing class obligation to join. Thursday, 1 – 2pm £7 (for concessions and Patchwork and offers see website) Quilting Age recommendation - 55+ Thursday, 1.30 – 3.30pm Level - Beginners Shipley Art Gallery Free Flamenco Ballet Age recommendation - Dance class Dance class Adults Thursday, 6 – 7pm Thursday, 5 – 6pm Contact Shipley Art gallery £7 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers for more information.Craft offers see website) see website) Group: Join the patchwork Age recommendation - Age recommendation - Adult and quilting group at the Adult Level - Beginners Shipley every Thursday to Level - Beginners find out more about this Ballet craft. Dance class We welcome beginners Barre Thursday, 6 – 7 pm as well as experienced Dance class £7 (for concessions and offers practitioners and offer help Thursday, 5.30 – 6.30pm see website) with equipment and support £7 (for concessions and Age recommendation - Adult for new members. offers see website) Level - Intermediate Drop in any time, with no Age recommendation - obligation to join. Adult Level - Beginners
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Dance Workout Little Sparks Dance class Wednesday 10am–11:30am Thursday, 6.30 – 7.30pm Riverside Community Health Project £7 (for concessions and Carnegie Building offers see website) Atkinson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 8XS Age recommendation - Adult Free Level - All North East Autism Society, partnering with Sage Gateshead and Great North Children’s Hospital (GNCH), Tango deliver a programme of Early Years sessions designed to engage and increase support of parents with pre-school Dance class children newly diagnosed with autism. The programme Thursday, 7 – 8pm helps create positive experience and support for families £7 (for concessions and associated to their child’s diagnosis, through the vehicle offers see website) of music. Age recommendation - Adult Level - All NOTE**This is a closed group so we will not be able to accept families arriving who have not been referred by Creative their LEA social workers. Contemporary Dance class For more information Thursday, 7 – 8.30pm contact [email protected] £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Age recommendation - Adult Level - All
Ballet Dance class Thursday, 7 – 8.30pm £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Age recommendation - Adult Level - Advanced
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Teetotal in Victorian times Story Tyne: Thursday, 12.30 - 2.30pm Writing for Different George Street Social, 45-51 George Street, Newcastle Audiences upon Tyne, NE4 7JN Thursday, 6.30pm Free, but booking required Killingworth Library Age recommendation - Adults White Swan Centre Citadel East, Join Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and The Road to Killingworth NE12 6SS Recovery Trust to explore the history of Lockhart’s Cocoa Duration of event 1-2 hours Rooms, a chain of alcohol-free social spaces established in Free Victorian times. Age recommendation - Adults Using museum objects and images, compare Lockhart’s Story Tyne is our annual short then with George Street Social now on 11 June. Get story competition for aspiring creative with ceramics on 13 June, inspired by Lockhart’s writers. Sue Miller, Judith O’Reilly crockery!For more information and to book your place, and Trevor Wood will be in please contact: suzanne.prak-sandilands@twmuseums. conversation with Vic Watson. org.uk Booking is essential Enquire at any North Tyneside Visit to Tilesheds Local Nature Reserve Library or go to: and Your Voice Counts drop-in Thursday, 11am https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk Boldon Community Association meet in the café. Duration 1 hour 30 mins Free Meet at the Your Voice Counts drop-in at Boldon Community Association to visit Tilesheds Local Nature Reserve and the edible landscape there, planted by Countryside Volunteers South Tyneside, returning to the drop-in for a drink and some healthy snacks. All people with learning disabilities and/or autism welcome. Please note tea, coffee and breakfast available to purchase at Boldon Community Association. People don’t need to book but they can contact: Danielle Falcus: 0191 4786472 [email protected] www.yvc.org.uk
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Friday 14 June
Culture Hub Special Women of Tyneside: Legacy! @The Comfrey Project Friday, 9am – 4pm Friday, 10am – 12noon Great Hall, Discovery Museum The Comfrey Project, Windmill Hills £7 Centre, Chester Place, Gateshead, NE8 1QB A day of inspiring presentations from (Entrance from Bensham Road, at the some of the region’s most talented council car park site) and influential women to celebrate and Free commemorate Tyneside’s first Festival of Women. Join Baroness Joyce Quin, chair Age recommendation - Everyone welcome! of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, as Exploring Heritage and Traditions with she presents this not-to-be-missed event. Ben Jones from Dingy Butterflies CIC. For more information and to book go to What traditions can we start as a Womenoftyneside.org community to understand the various places we come from and where we want to be in the future? The session will involve Try me programme discussion, exploring through writing Friday, 3 – 5pm enrol for a daily and drawing, enacting and performance workshop and photography. Bensham Grove Community Centre Sidney Grove Gateshead Council Call 0191 4477801 NE10 8HD or email [email protected] Enrolment essential £5 per session (or free For more info go to if receiving universal credit) [email protected] Age recommendation - Over 19’s only but please ask as some over 16’s might be possible. A week to try activities at Bensham Grove (learning Centre) at reduced cost. Afternoon’s 10-14th June 3-5 pm there will be a try me activity: painting and drawing, calligraphy, fused-glass, pottery and silversmithing for over 19’s and tour of this listed building afterwards. Equipment provided. www.benshamgrove.org Facebook Bensham Grove Community Centre
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Comfrey Community Creatives@ Silver Beginner Recorder The Culture Hub! Friday, 2.30 - 4pm Friday, 1 – 3pm Sage Gateshead The Comfrey Project, Windmill Hills £12.50 per half term (7 June – 5 July) Centre, Chester Place, Gateshead, NE8 1QB Peer led. Get to grips with the recorder, (Entrance from Bensham Road, at the open to all abilities whether you can read council car park site) music or not. Rock And Pop Bands For Free singers of all abilities and intermediate to Age recommendation - Everyone welcome! advanced instrumentalists From sewing to singing, come along and share in music, ceramics and other different Solid Rock Friday, 11am - 12.30pm craft activities from around the world. Sage Gateshead Contact us on 0191 4477801 or katherine@ £25.00 per half term (7 June – 5 July) thecomfreyproject.org.uk A band focusing on more modern rock For more info go to classics from the ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s. [email protected] We currently have seven established Steel Pan Bands. Each group plays its own set The Silver Programme offers a wide of popular repertoire. You may need to variety of daytime musical activities catch up with old repertoire as well as for people over the age of 50. learning new tunes. Please contact the Silver Programme to find out more about Age recommendation which group would be best for you silver@ For people over the age of 50. Classes can sagegateshead.com be booked in person at Sage Gateshead Ticket Office, by phone on 0191 443 4661 or online at sagegateshead.com Steel Sapphires, Steel Pan Band Steel Pan Band Silver Recorder Players Friday, 9.30 – 11am Friday, 10.30am - 12.30pm Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead £25.00 per half term £12.50 per half term (7 June – 5 July) (7 June – 5 July) Peer led. For players who are ready to Steel Gems, Steel Pan Band move on from the beginner group. Steel Pan Band Friday, 11am - 12.30pm Sage Gateshead £25.00 per half term (7 June – 5 July)
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Blue Steel, Steel Silver Skiffle Tap Pan Band Friday, 3.00 - 4.30pm Dance class Steel Pan Band Sage Gateshead Friday, 12.30 – 1.30pm Friday, 1 – 2.30pm £25.00 per half term £7 (for concessions and Sage Gateshead (7 June – 5 July) offers see website) £25.00 per half term Traditional skiffle band Age recommendation - 55+ (7 June – 5 July) featuring guitar, mandolin, Level - Intermediate ukulele, washboard, singing, Pandemonium, Steel and tea-chest bass, playing Fitsteps Pan Band ‘20s and ‘30s blues, Dance class Steel Pan Band American and English folk songs. Friday, 1.45 – 2.45pm Friday, 2.30 – 4pm £7 (for concessions and Sage Gateshead offers see website) £25.00 per half term Silver Soul Age recommendation - 55+ (7 June – 5 July) Friday, 3.25 – 4.55pm Level - All Sage Gateshead £25.00 per half term Silver Improver Guitar (7 June – 5 July) Ballet Primary Friday, 1 - 2.30pm A choir singing popular soul Dance class Sage Gateshead repertoire from both sides of Friday, 4.30 – 5.30pm £25.00 per half term the Atlantic. (7 June – 5 July) £6 (for concessions and offers see website) The next step from beginner All Dance City classes guitar, hone your skills and below are held at Dance Age recommendation – experience. City Newcastle. 4 - 6 years Level - All
Quicksilver Get Moving Friday, 1.45 – 3.15pm Dance class Afro Mix Dance class Sage Gateshead Friday, 11.15am – 12.15pm £25.00 per half term £7 (for concessions and Friday, 5 – 6pm (7 June – 5 July) offers see website) £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Sing arrangements of classic Age recommendation - All pop songs, accompanied by Admits carer Age recommendation - a small band. Adult Level - All
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Teen Ballet More Ballet Contemporary Dance class Dance class Dance class Friday, 5 – 6pm Friday, 5.30 – 6.30pm Friday, 6 – 7pm £6 (for concessions and £6 (for concessions and £6 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) offers see website) Age recommendation – Age recommendation - Age recommendation - 11 – 15 years 4+ years 11 – 15 years Level - All Level - All Level - All
Boys Moves Bollywood Urban Vibes Dance class Dance class Dance class Friday, 5 – 6pm Friday, 6 – 7pm Friday, 6 – 7pm £7 (for concessions and £6 (for concessions and £7 (for concessions and offers see website) offers see website) offers see website) Age recommendation - Age recommendation – Age recommendation - Adult 7 – 15 years Adult Level - Intermediate Level - All Level - All
Urban Sketchy Walks Friday, 3 time slots available 11am – 12 noon, 1 – 2pm and 3 – 4pm. Meet at Hatton Gallery, main entrance. Free Age recommendation - 16 + years Take some time from your daily routine and see Newcastle from an artist’s perspective. Explore the landscape and capture your surroundings on paper. . Please come dressed appropriately for all weather with comfortable footwear. Materials will be provided. Book here: www.hattongallery.org.uk/whats-on
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Saturday 15 June
New Writing North Young Writers’ Groups Come and explore creative writing with a professional writer at one of our writing groups. Our groups are a friendly and relaxed environment to try out new styles, make friends and develop your talents. You don’t need to have done any creative writing before to join in. Our groups are free to attend and open to any Spirits of the Sea young person aged 12–19. Saturday, performances at 10:30, 13:00 & 14:30 Saturday The Hullabaloo, Borough Road, Amble – 10 – 12 noon, Darlington, DL1 1SG Amble Library Duration 40 minutes Cramlington – 10 – 12 noon, £7.00 Concordia Leisure Centre Family Ticket: Save £4 on the purchase of Gateshead – 10 – 12 noon, 4 tickets. Must include a minimum of one Gateshead Central Library adult. Newcastle – 11 – 1pm, Age recommendation – 7 – 11 years Newcastle Central Library and their families. South Shields – 11 – 1pm, Spirits of the Sea has been specifically The Word, South Shields developed as a creative entry point into issues Free of mental health for KS2 children, particularly around ways to tackle anxiety and depression. Age recommendation – 12 – 19 years Step inside a mystical mariner’s hut with Email: youngwriters@newwritingnorth. a storyteller and musician to hear the com enchanting tale set in ancient times when http://newwritingnorth.com/nwn-young- people bundled their worries and nightmares writers/young-writers-groups-2/ into sacks and cast them into the sea. Facebook: NWN Young Writers Follow the one little girl able to calm the sea Twitter: @nwnyoungwriters and teach the children that it is better to Insta: @nwnyoungwriters let their worries play in the wind than sink beneath the waves. To book and for more info: 01325 405405 www.theatrehullabaloo.org.uk
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Loud & Clear Move On Paint and Sip Party Try me programme Up - Adopter Family Saturday, 12-2pm & 2.30- Saturday, 3 – 5pm enrol Music Making 4.30pm for a daily workshop Saturday, 1 – 2.30pm Shipley Art Gallery Bensham Grove Community Sage Gateshead Bensham Grove Community Centre Centre Sidney Grove Gateshead £3 per family. Sidney Grove Council Age recommendation - Gateshead NE10 8HD Children aged 0-5 years and NE10 8HD their parents. Enrolment essential £5 per £12.95 per person session (or free if receiving At Sage Gateshead we have a universal credit) Age recommendation - 14+ programme of work for Foster Age recommendation - Over and Adoptive families with The latest craze from the 19’s only but please ask as Newcastle and Gateshead USA arrives in the North East! some over 16’s might be Local Authorities as partners, Come and join our step by possible. we deliver a programme of step art class where art and A week to try activities at Early Years sessions designed fun meet. to engage and increase Bensham Grove (learning You can now choose from support of parents and Centre) at reduced cost. over 20 exciting new foster carers with pre-school Afternoon’s 10-14th June paintings, receive group tips and KS1 children with care 3-5 pm there will be a and one to one advice from experience. The programme try me activity: painting expert artists. helps create a positive and drawing, calligraphy, experience and support for Create your own masterpiece fused-glass, pottery and families through the vehicle while socialising and painting, silversmithing for over 19’s of music. all the while guided by our and tour of this listed building expert artists in a fun and afterwards. NOTE**This is a closed group casual environment. Equipment provided. so we will not be able to It’s the perfect way to spend accept families arriving who www.benshamgrove.org a couple of hours with friends, have not been referred by Facebook Bensham Grove family or workmates. their LEA social workers. Community Centre Drinks, snacks, music, plus For more information all materials and equipment contact carol.bowden@ are provided. In under 2hrs sagegateshead.com you will have your own masterpiece to take home and keep forever.
This event is run by the Paint and Sip Party Co. For more information please visit www. paintandsippartyuk.co.uk
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All Dance City classes Hip Hop DC Youth Company below are held at Dance Dance class Dance Company City Newcastle. 10.30 – 11.30am Saturday, 11.30am – 1pm £6 (for concessions and £8.50 (for concessions and Ballet Primary offers see website) offers see website) Dance class Age recommendation – Age recommendation – Saturday, 9.30 – 10.30am 11 – 15 years 11 – 15 years £6 (for concessions and Level - All Level - By audition only offers see website) Age recommendation – Ballet Junior Saturday Dance Club 1 4 – 6pm Dance class Dance class Level - All Saturday, 10.30 – 11.30am Saturday, 11.30am – 1pm £6 (for concessions and £8.50 (for concessions and Hip Hop offers see website) offers see website) Dance class Age recommendation – 7 – Age recommendation – Saturday, 9.30 – 10.30am 11 years 7 – 11 years £6 (for concessions and Level - All Level - All offers see website) Age recommendation – 7 – 11 years Contemporary Club Creative Break 2 Dance class Dance class Level - All Saturday, 11am – 12 noon Saturday, 12 – 1pm £6 (for concessions and £6 (for concessions and Tiny Tappers offers see website) offers see website) Dance class Age recommendation – Age recommendation – Saturday, 10 – 11am 7 – 11 years 11 – 15 years £6 (for concessions and Level - Improvers Level - All offers see website) Age recommendation – 4 – 8 years Creative Break 1 Pop Steps Dance class Dance class Level - All Saturday, 11am – 12 noon Saturday, 12 – 1pm £6 (for concessions and £6 (for concessions and Contemporary Club offers see website) offers see website) Dance class Age recommendation – Age recommendation – Saturday, 10 – 11am 7 - 11 years 4 – 6 years £6 (for concessions and Level - All Level - All offers see website) Age recommendation – 7 - 11 years
Level - Beginners
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Active Birth Yoga for Pregnancy Picture of the Month with Fitness and wellbeing class Friends of the Laing Saturday, 2 – 3.30pm Saturday, 11am £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Duration 45 minutes Age recommendation and level - See website Laing Art gallery for details Free, donations welcome. Take a break from the hustle and bustle of the Girlz Only city centre every Saturday morning with a free Girls only dance class talk from the Friends of the Laing Art Gallery. Saturday, 1 – 2pm Find out more about some of the paintings £6 (for concessions and offers see website) in our collection and share your experience Age recommendation – 11 – 15 years with fellow art lovers. This month the painting we will be exploring is the Miracle of the Level - All Gallows (c.1415-75) by Dieric Bouts the Elder (attributed to). Art Cart drop in family fun [email protected] Saturday, 10am – 12 noon Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University General enquiries: [email protected] Donations welcome , free entry Age recommendation - All welcome Saturday art classes Come and get creative with Hatton’s Art Saturday, 10.15 - 11.45am Cart! Full of help-yourself art activities for Laing Art Gallery families to do together. £5 per person Telephone: (0191) 277 8877 Age recommendation - 10-15 years Textphone: 18001 0191 277 8877 [email protected] Activities include making an Abstract Weaving, a Plaster Cast and Mosaic, and drawing a Futurist City in perspective.
This group aims to be fully inclusive and anyone with additional needs is welcome. If you would like to have an informal conversation with the tutor before attending, please contact the Laing learning team on [email protected].
Run in partnership with Arts Connect.
Pre booking essential online at www.laingartgallery.org.uk
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Sunday 16 June
All Dance City classes Heritage Train Rides Archaeology Walk - below are held at Dance City Father’s Day Special Before The Romans Newcastle. Sunday, 11.30am, Came 12.30pm, 2pm & 3pm Sunday, 10:30am Ballet Stephenson Railway Housesteads Car Dance Class Museum, North Shields Park, Housesteads, Sunday, 11.30am – 12.30pm Adult £7, concessions £5, Northumberland £5 £7 (for concessions and Family (2 adults and 2 An exhilarating guided walk offers see website) children) £17 Age recommendation - with stunning views taking Adult Treat dad to a in a prehistoric burial cist Level - Beginners heritage train ride on Father’s and settlement, carved Day. All dads/grandads stones, the largest Roman Ballet visiting on Sunday 16 June Fort on Hadrian’s Wall, the Dance Class with at least one offspring site of a medieval castle and Sunday, 12.30 – 1.30pm can ride all day with a half associated fish ponds with £7 (for concessions and price Day Rover ticket. some 19th-century industrial offers see website) archaeology thrown in for No booking required, Age recommendation - 55+ good measure. just turn up. More info: Level - Beginners 0191 200 7146 or www. To book your Vinyasa Flow Yoga stephensonrailwaymuseum. ticket, visit: www. Fitness and wellbeing class org.uk northumberlandnationalpark Sunday, 1.30 – 2.30pm org.uk £7 (for concessions and offers see website) Twitter / Facebook: @ Age recommendation – NlandNP Adult Level - All
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Looking down on Elsdon Guided Walk Sunday, 10.30am Starting at Elsdon Tea Room, Elsdon, Northumberland Cost - £8 (Under 16s go free) A circular walk around Elsdon taking in views northwards to the Cheviots from Gallow Hill named from its role in the time of the Border Reivers. To book, visit: www.northumberland nationalpark.org.uk Twitter / Facebook: @NlandN Sunderland BIG Bike Ride Rock the Romans Sunday, 9:30 am start Sunday, 1pm – 4pm St Peter’s Campus, Sunderland University Arbeia South Shields Roman Fort £11 per person. Entry includes technical Free, but a donation is welcome t-shirt, goody bag and finishers medal Rivelino are back by popular demand, with Age recommendation - All ages welcome support act The Tracies. Join Active Sunderland for a weekend of Kick back among the remains of this ancient cycling kicking off with the family ride on site to enjoy a rock music show against the Saturday 15 June. For those wanting more of a backdrop of our magnificent West Gate. challenge Sunday 16 June will see hundreds of You’re welcome to bring a packed lunch to this cyclists setting off on 20 or 35 mile routes. live music event, and your picnic blanket too. www.sunderland.gov.uk/bigbikeride2019 And why not bring your dad since it’s Father’s Facebook – Active Sunderland Day? We’ll also have Codrophenia Fish ‘n’ Chip Twitter - @ActiveSland van onsite. Email – [email protected] Please note that this event is weather Telephone – 0191 561 4697 permitting; if you are travelling to this event we recommend that you call the museum ahead on (0191) 277 1410.
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Events happening throughout the week
Paradise Garden Magic Carpet Monday – Saturday, just drop in during Tuesday, available any time throughout normal Library opening hours. the day subject to availability. Upstairs Gallery, Gateshead Central Library, Shipley Art Gallery Prince Consort Road, Gateshead NE8 4LN Free Free For more information contact Contact Shipley Art Gallery for more [email protected] information. or telephone (0191) 433 8410 Borrow a Magic Carpet to enjoy with your A collection of printed, decorative textiles baby or toddler anywhere in the gallery. artwork, created by the Feel Good Women’s Made by artists, these special bags fold Group with Artist Michelle Wood, working out into creative play mats, complete with alongside GemArts. This support group a selection of toys, treasures and creative for women from diverse backgrounds activity ideas to help little ones enjoy the has created the paradise garden designs exhibitions. Choose a black & white or incorporating images of peacocks, birds, colourful Magic Carpet and embark on a elephants, trees, flowers, brought to life with playful adventure around the exhibitions. vibrant colours and gold lustre. This project forms part of GemArts Arts, Health and Wellbeing programme, working with diverse communities across Gateshead and Newcastle, using creative engagement to address isolation and loneliness. Funded by Gateshead Council’s Making Every Contact Count.
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Studio 6: Creativity and Borderline Funny - Hadrian’s Wall Wellbeing week imagined in funny cartoons Dance City are inviting health and wellbeing Throughout creativity and wellbeing practitioners to come and use their brand week 10 – 16 June new Studio 6 free of charge as part of Segedunum Roman Fort Creativity and Wellbeing week. The doors will Entry Children under 16 - FREE be thrown open to qualified instructors to try Adults *£5.95, Season Ticket *£14 out the space, develop their ideas and test Concessions (over 60s & students) *£3.95, out classes or wellness sessions on potential Concession Season Ticket *£10 participants. The exhibition coincides with the 14th Pilgrimage to Hadrian’s Wall in July 2019. This Dance City will be expanding their wellness decennial event will see almost 250 ‘Pilgrims’ programme from September and so are tour the Wall for a week, reviewing the latest looking to develop new relationships with discoveries from the past ten years. practitioners. Borderline Funny is a new exhibition exploring the depiction of ancient Rome’s If you would be interested in using the space great northern frontier of Hadrian’s Wall in and equipment then please contact Chloe cartoons. Stott at [email protected] to book It is the first time an exhibition dedicated your free slot. to cartoons about Hadrian’s Wall has been shown. To find out about any free wellness sessions Featuring cartoons from the 19th - 21st happening during this week, visit the Dance centuries, some funny, some satirical, City website at www.dancecity.co.uk. including new original work produced for the exhibition referencing contemporary topics such as Brexit and US politics. General enquiries: info@ segedunumromanfort.org.uk
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Discovery Museum Great North Museum: Hancock Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 4JA NE2 4PT Tel: (0191) 232 6789 Telephone: (0191) 208 6765 General enquiries: Textphone: 18001 0191 208 6765 [email protected] General enquiries: info@ greatnorthmuseum.org.uk
Laing Art Gallery Shipley Art Gallery New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. Prince Consort Road, Gateshead. NE8 4JB NE1 8AG Telephone: (0191) 477 1495 Telephone: 0191 278 1611 Textphone: 18001 0191 477 1495 Textphone: 18001 0191 278 1611 General enquiries: General enquiries: info@laingartgallery. [email protected] org.uk
Arbeia South Shields Roman Fort Hatton Art Gallery, Kings Road Baring Street, South Shields. Newcastle University NE33 2BB Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU Telephone: (0191) 277 1410 Telephone: (0191) 277 8877 General enquiries: Textphone: 18001 0191 277 8877 [email protected] General enquiries: [email protected]. uk South Shields Museum & Art Gallery Ocean Road, South Shields. NE33 2JA Telephone: (0191) 211 5599 General enquiries: info@ southshieldsmuseum.org.uk
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Segedunum Roman Fort Sage Gateshead Buddle Street, Wallsend, North Shields. St Mary’s Square, Gateshead Quays. NE28 6HR NE8 2JR. Telephone: (0191) 278 4217 Textphone: 18001 0191 278 4217 General enquiries: info@ Dance City Newcastle segedunumromanfort.org.uk Temple Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4B Visit www.dancecity.co.uk or call the Ticket Office on 0191 261 0505. Stephenson Railway Museum Middle Engine Lane, North Shields. NE29 8DX Gateshead Central Library Telephone: (0191) 200 7146 Prince Consort Road, Gateshead NE8 4LN Textphone: 18001 0191 200 7146 [email protected] or telephone General enquiries: (0191) 433 8410 [email protected]
Tyne & Wear Archives Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 4JA General enquiries: [email protected], tel: (0191) 277 2248
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For more information about Creativity and Wellbeing Week go to: www.creativityandwellbeing.org.uk
For more information about Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance go to: www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk
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