Theatres, galleries, cinemas, bookshops, makers and museums across Newcastle, and what's on in the city's arts scene.
Newcastle's beloved independent library, home on Westgate Road since 1825, is planning its biggest transformation in generations with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Barbour Foundation.
Opened in 1937 as a newsreel theatre, Tyneside Cinema is now the North East's leading independent charity cinema, with four screens, a busy events calendar and a fondly loved Classic auditorium.
The National Centre for Children's Books in Ouseburn welcomes more than 75,000 families a year and now runs Two Tales, a bookshop, coffee shop and gallery pop-up in Durham city centre.
Newcastle's Quayside new-writing theatre has conceived a stage adaptation of the BAFTA-winning drama by original writer Peter Flannery, and returns this Christmas with its much-loved kittiwake show.
One of Britain's largest second-hand bookshops fills Alnwick's Victorian railway station with books, open fires, a model railway and the original Keep Calm and Carry On poster.
Ouseburn's independent art gallery is partnering with Ad Gefrin in Wooler, opening its first exhibition outside Newcastle, Modern Classics, on 23 October 2026.
Impressions of Light brings Impressionist masterpieces from MuMa in Le Havre to Barnard Castle until March 2027, reuniting the museum with the French port that inspired its founders.
Rescued from dereliction and reborn as an arts centre in 1994, South Shields' Grade II listed Customs House offers theatre, cinema and galleries beside the Tyne ferry landing.
Over 100 paintings, drawings and objects fill the Laing's first large-scale exhibition exploring how Pre-Raphaelite artists turned poems by Keats, Tennyson and Christina Rossetti into images.
More than 1,100 people from across the North East submitted artworks, and 79 were chosen for Baltic's third Open Submission exhibition, on show in Gateshead until April 2027.