On Saturday we popped into town to The Farrell Centre to check out their Concrete Dream exhibition, which looks at the big urban planning projects of the 1960s and 70s in Tyneside. Side by side with Brasilia of the North (which I sort of thought was part of the same exhibition if I’m honest) it uses photographs, artifacts, but especially some really lovely models, to show the range of projects from an era of transformation for the area. Some smaller ones that are part of the landscape today, and some hugely ambitious ones. The proposed Tyne Deck, which would have …
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Start as you mean to continue?
Gosh I hope not, as we are just emerging from bug we caught over the holidays and which laid us out for the better part of two weeks. A brief outing on NYE under the delusion that, actually maybe we were fine? (we were not fine, but we managed to see some fireworks and eat a parmo, go team) and then a lot of being generally lethargic, which was miserable for us but the cats thoroughly enjoyed. Still, the holidays themselves were pretty good before that, we got some pretty snow which we didn’t have to go out in, and …
Late Shows Ouseburn
One of the cool things about this city is the extensive creative scene, too much to keep track of really. Once a year the Late Shows serves as a sort of art crawl/city exploration where venues open their doors late to the public and you can visit a range of places. The first year we heard about it late and just did a behind the scenes tour of the Tyneside Cinema, which was fascinating. Last year we were out of town, so this year we’re trying to take in as much as possible! The whole thing takes place over two …