The Late Shows 2025
16 - 17 May

1. Craft Your Own Props & Snap for Glory: The Ultimate Photo Booth Challenge

Flea Circus

Fri Only

Get your creative juices flowing by designing your own fun and quirky props with resident illustrato...

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2. Making Do

Star and Shadow Cinema

Fri Only

Join the volunteers for sessions on printmaking and collaborate together on making zines. In the cin...

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3. Everyone an Artist (at the Print Club)

Biscuit Tin Studios

Fri Only

Create your own unique art print with the Biscuit Tin Print Club. With a choice of different techniq...

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4. The NewBridge Project

The NewBridge Project

Fri Only

Join The NewBridge Project for the “Diasporic Sonic Worlds” exhibition and listen to the station...

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5. Design Feminisms Research Group

School of Design, Northumbria University

Fri Only

Explore different relationships between design and feminisms in the North East through current and p...

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6. Poems on the Buses

School of Design, Northumbria University

Fri Only

We want your memories of travelling within NewcastleGateshead on public transport throughout the dec...

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7. Christ Church

Christ Church

Fri Only

Experience an exciting range of performances from the community of arts organisations based in the c...

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8. Crafts & Ice Cream at Shieldfield Art Works

Shieldfield Art Works

Fri Only

Shieldfield Art Works invite you to join them and experience their new Sowing Creative Fallow exhibi...

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9. Nighthawks

The Biscuit Factory

Fri Only

Join us for the opening of comedian, actor and artist Jim Moir’s (aka Vic Reeves) headline exhibit...

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10. Wellness drop in workshops

Yoga x Life

Fri Only

Reconnect, recharge, and rejuvenate with mindfulness, movement, and community. Drop in, unwind, and ...

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11. Open House

Cobalt Studios

Fri Only

From the backyard to the topfloor take a wander around Cobalt. Peek into artists studios, enjoy a BB...

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12. Open Studio

Incubate Experimental Printmaking

Fri Only

Incubate Experimental Printmaking encourages artists of all abilities to explore the wonderful mediu...

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13. Northern Print

Fri Only

Take a glimpse into the wonderful world of printmaking and go behind the scenes at the regional cent...

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14. Late Night at the Farm Yard: Feed, Play, Feast!

Ouseburn Farm

Fri Only

Head down to Ouseburn Farm for a unique late-night experience. Enjoy feeding the animals after dark,...

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15. 36 Lime Street Studios

36 Lime Street

Fri Only

Discover the charm of Newcastle’s oldest artist studio building, home to a diverse community of cr...

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16. ​A Celebration of Mr Benn, by David McKee

Seven Stories

Fri Only

Make your way to the magical Attic for an adult-only performance from the talented Seven Stories cre...

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17. Time Bandits

The Time Bandits @ Seven Stories

Fri Only

Step back in time and explore a Home Guard display. See a collection of historical artefacts and try...

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18. The Find X c0wboy soup

The Find

Fri Only

The Find, home to nine resident artists and packed full of 20th century nostalgia and design making,...

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19. Nightscapes

Jim Edwards Studio

Fri Only

Jim Edwards’ latest Nightscape paintings capture the warmth of Newcastle in the evening light. Thr...

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20. Victoria Tunnel Taster Tours

Victoria Tunnel

Fri Only

Explore Newcastle’s hidden heritage. Join a short 20-minute taster tour of the Victoria Tunnel, an...

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21. Uses and Abuses: Ouseburn River Health

Ouseburn Trust

Fri Only

See the Uses and Abuses exhibition celebrating the story of the Ouseburn river and the people who li...

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22. Jonny Bainbridge and Eric Mansfield at BottleWorks

BottleWorks

Fri Only

A joint exhibition of abstract paintings, collage and abstract impressionism by North East born arti...

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23. Into the Woods with David Lynch

Toffee Factory

Fri Only

The Cumberland Arms x Toffee Factory invite you to join them as they celebrate the extraordinary wor...

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24. Make & Mend-Along

the space by St Oswald's Hospice

Fri Only

An evening of creativity with the space by St Oswald’s and Make & Mend Market.Make comics and ...

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25. Hoults Yard

Fri Only

Take a peek through the keyhole around the former Maling Pottery, once one of the world’s largest ...

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