Get into Newcastle NE1 FOR SOME SEASIDE SUN? NEWCASTLE CULTURE CRAWL THIS IS TOMORROW FESTIVAL As we step into the summer season, we're Our city's annual after-hours culture crawl We're seeing May out with more magnificent bringing buckets of sand back to the Costa returns. Add some dates to your diary with music plans in NE1. Don't miss out on This del Tyne! The Quayside Seaside is back... our guide to The Late Shows 2019. Is Tomorrow Festival at Exhibition Park! ISS.171 15 - 29 MAY 2019 FREE Throughout June it’s time to Step up for 30. It’s really simple, just get sponsored to do 30 minutes of physical activity every day for 30 days during the month. Your support will help stop people dying of bowel cancer by funding vital services and lifesaving research. Join us! 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FRESH FROM THE PRESS @NewcastleNE1 May is traditionally the month which celebrates the arrival of summer, and here in /GetIntoNewcastle Newcastle we are already looking forward to 9 some major cultural events! NE1 have kindly newcastlene1 allowed Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums to 14 introduce this issue to tell you all about our vibrant cultural city in May! Ready? Meet Dippy the Diplodocus as his national tour arrives at the Great North Museum: Hancock from the 18th May; he has already met over If you wish to submit a listing for inclusion 1 million people since leaving the Natural please email: [email protected] History Museum in February 2018. The Laing For advertising call 0191 500 7865 or email: [email protected] Art Gallery is host to around 90 of James Get into Newcastle is published by Abbott McNeill Whistler’s paintings in the Remember Media Ltd acclaimed Whistler and Nature exhibition; and it’s the last chance to see Discovery Museum’s Circus! Show of Shows exhibition before it closes on 2nd June. One of the biggest culture events in the UK happens over the weekend of the 17th and 18th May - The Late Shows, sponsored this Remember Media Ltd, e.volve Business Centre, year for the first time by The Biscuit Factory. Cygnet Way, Rainton Bridge South, DH4 5QY The award-winning late-night culture crawl remembermedia.co.uk features open art studios, music, performance, Publisher Christopher March [email protected] food, galleries, museums and a host of Editorial Elysia Agnew, Jessica Laing intriguing interactive events across 60 cultural [email protected] Design Remember Media Studio venues. Attracting over 35,000 visits each [email protected] 24 year, The Late Shows allow you to curate your own experience from the vast choice on offer. Image credit: vecteezy.com Not to mention the Pint of Science Festival All contents copyright ©2019 RememberMedia Ltd. from 20th May and Newcastle Start Up Week! All rights reserved. While every effort is made to Whatever you choose to do, we’re glad to be ensure accuracy, no responsibility can be accepted for inaccuracies, howsoever caused. No liability can be celebrating our shared world-class culture with accepted for illustrations, photographs, artwork or you; share it with us @TWAMmuseums! advertising materials while in transmission or with the publisher or their agents. All content marked 'profile feature' is paid for advertising. All information SHERYL MCGREGOR is correct at time of going to print, May 2019. TYNE & WEAR ARCHIVES & MUSEUMS Registered charity number 1071038 (England & Wales) and SC040914 (Scotland) GET INTO NEWCASTLE // 3 Bowel_Cancer_UK_NE1_Ad2_245x295mm(Final).indd 1 11/04/2019 14:27 15.05.19 - 29.05.19 AROUND THE CITY fortnight WYLAM BREWERY Wylam Brewery The Battle of the BBQ 24 & 25 MAY With another bank holiday weekend comes another beauty of a foodie event at Wylam! Grill-A-Warfare returns with a special food battle bringing 10 of the best ‘big grilly style’ Exhibition Park suppliers to the table. Don’t miss it! wylambrewery.co.uk ion Park xhibit in E sic mu e Et Liv EXHIBITION PARK This Is Tomorrow Festival rth 24 - 26 MAY An electrifying weekend of live music comes to Exhibition Park no this bank holiday. An amazing opportunity to see some of the hottest artists HAYMARKMETROumber on the circuit, including Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Foals, You Me At m Six, Stereophonics, Lewis Capaldi, The Vaccines and more! thisistomorrow.co.uk LAND ST. O2 ACADEMY greystreetDEAN S Sting & Shaggy 44/876 TREET 22 MAY Who knew Sting and Shaggy were a musical match made in heaven? Join the pair as they perform tunes from their collaborative album, ’44/876’, live at Newcastle’s O2 Academy! academymusicgroup.com 02 Academy Time for so E me mega music. D 7 THE ySI AT A UTILITA ARENA ua GLANCE Mark Knopfler Q The next 19 MAY Music-lovers are in for a treat this May ow’s May been for you so far? as Mark Knopfler returns to the stage! He’s We’ve had a hoot in NE1 - and swinging by the Utilita Arena for one night only long may it continue! - see him perform new tunes from his album We’re guiding you through this ‘Down The Road Wherever’. utilitaarena.co.uk next fortnight with heaps of fun Utilita Arena Hfor the whole family. Whether you’re getting your after-hours culture fix at The Late Shows, living it up on the Quayside Seaside, tucking in to tasty tapas at one of the city’s finest Spanish restaurants, or filling your diaries with kid-friendly events, we’ve NE1 GEORDIE JACKPOT got you covered! We’re picking out some MAKE SURE IT'S A MEMORABLE MAY WITH CASH PRIZES, top spots to celebrate ‘Thirsty Thursday’, EXCITING EXPERIENCES, CHARITY SUPPORT AND MORE! we’re guiding you through another brilliant Make sure your May is as marvellous as our city is looking with the chance to win big bank holiday weekend and we’re raising in NE1! Buy your tickets online for just £1 and be in with the chance of winning weekly awareness with some foodie hotspots for cash prizes. What's more? Playing the Geordie Jackpot means you're supporting local Coeliac UK Awareness Week. charities and helping drive our city forward. Buy your tickets online! geordiejackpot.co.uk Pick up a copy, fill your diaries and enjoy our magnificent city this May! GET INTO NEWCASTLE //4 PARK FOR FREE HERE: ILY F ! FAM UN e orld! v w i of this Out f r Shop late, e NORTHERN STAGE t f a PARK FREE! The Tin Foil E Northern Stage V IN NE1 I PARK FOR FREE AFTER 5PM Astronaut L Eat, drink, shop - LOVE your city! A 28 MAY - 1 JUNE Get ready to blast off on an out- of-this-world adventure as The Tin Foil Astronaut arrives 1 Eldon Garden 2 Eldon Square 3 Oxford Street at Northern Stage. This family-friendly show is a story 4 Manors 5 Quayside 6 Dean Street of discovery as Alba takes off on a journey into space! Et northernstage.co.uk 7 Grainger Town h TYNESIDE CINEMA nort 3 Rocketman + Karaoke Party HAYMARKMETROumber 26 MAY Get your musical movie fix at Tyneside Cinema with a very m special screening of Rocketman. The Elton John tale will be followed 1 2 LAND by a sing-a-long afterparty at Tyneside Bar Cafe. tynesidecinema.co.uk Eldon Sq. Theatre Royal ST. SEVEN STORIES Tyneside Cinema Old Eldon greystreetDEAN Elmer’s Musical Adventure Square S 4 Seven Stories 24 MAY Shimmy on over to Seven Stories for a musical TREET adventure with Elmer the elephant! The story will be The Stand brought to life with music performed live by members 6 5 Live Theatre of Royal Northern Sinfonia. sevenstories.org.uk FAMILY FUN Ne wc as Newcastle Castle tl E e D th e at THE ySI re f ' ix ? ua I 1 . N NE ll a Q c a n n o g u o LIVE THEATRE y o h W ' Land: Beating the Bounds See a new play at Live Theatre, performed by students from SAGE Northumbria University. Land: Beating the Bounds explores our Mark Beaumont relationship with land in the 21st century and beyond. live.org.uk NEWCASTLE CASTLE - Around the Ghostbusters World in 80 Days Film Screening 20 MAY Mark Beaumont has smashed 17 MAY ‘If there’s something the circumnavigation cycling World strange in your neighbourhood, who Record twice in his career. See his NEVER you gonna call.?’ Ghostbusters! epic adventures play out in a screening IN See the 80s comedy classic as it at Sage Gateshead. From the Arctic A is screened at Newcastle Castle this to the high mountains and beyond, DULL May. What a way to catch a family you’ll be wowed from start to finish.