Halloween in Newcastle

With cold weather creeping in and Christmas trees already appearing in John Lewis (yes, really!), we're well aware that Halloween is just around the corner. We have searched high and low for the best tickets in town, and with something to cater for everyone, you're in for a treat!

'Tatty Devine' Workshops at Baltic Mill

Being hands-on, creative types, we were delighted to discover the opportunity to create our own Tatty Devine necklaces for under fifty quid. The Tatty Devine bone necklace workshops are held at Baltic Mill on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October. We are sorely temped by these workshops, as not only do you learn how to make and take away your own necklace, you choose everything from the chain length/style, perspex bone colours and Swarovski crystals *swoon*, meaning a totally personal piece of jewellery for just £39.95. Catch you at the crystals!

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

https://www.balticmill.com/shop?viewCategory=tatty-devine-workshops&category=5225d59c7bbb8848495c8273


'Horror Week' at Tyneside Cinema

For those of you into films, you'll be spoilt rotten at Tyneside Cinema this year. Watching the pennies? Keep an eye on their surprise 'Free Film Nights' with special drinks offers, which include 'Zombie Week' (23-25th October) and 'Horror Week' (28th-31st October). Looking for something more unique? Tyneside are also screening Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on 31st October as a part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. It would be rude not to take advantage of these screenings, and we'll look forward to a sneaky free film (or three).

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

https://www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/whats-on/free-film-night

https://www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/whats-on/films/view/frankenstein


'Drive in Horror Films' at Ocean Beach, South Sheilds

Ok so maybe this one's not strictly Newcastle but thought we would give it a mention as it sounds quite appealing. Ocean Beach at South Shields is holding a drive-through cinema event from 31st October till 2nd November, where films are shown on a large screen and the audio is played through your car radio! Films include horrors such as 'The Cabin in the Woods' and 'The Ring', as well as family friendly 'Monsters University' and 'Grease'.

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

http://oceanbeach.co.uk/movie/


Student Lock-In at Rose&Alice Vintage Boutique

If you happen to be a student looking to avoid the costume craziness of Newcastle this 31st October, we may have found the perfect place for you. With an exclusive 20% discount, you could find yourself locked in vintage heaven at newish boutique Rose&Alice Boutique from 6pm till 8.30pm.

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

https://www.facebook.com/events/458310960949231/


Lates at Life (31st October)

As the event title suggests, Newcastle's Centre for Life is open late, 8pm till 11.45pm to be precise. Prepare to expect special cocktails, a talented local DJ, their brand new Frankenstein 4D motion ride and plenty of Halloween-themed excitements...having already experienced this last year, we can vouch for a night full of indulgent fun and curiosity.

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

http://www.life.org.uk/whats-on/lates-at-life-halloween-2013

Warehouse 34 - 1st Annual Monster Ball (Sat 26th Oct)

We're excited about this exclusive event being held at the industrial venue Warehouse 34 in Hoults Yard...Keltie Cochrane's 1st Annual Monster Ball is strictly fancy dress, and the event, which is in association with Cancer Research UK, includes a charity raffle, auction and even a hog roast (which is included in the £22.50 tickets)! With sponsors from Hotel Du Vin, Sherlocks, Gusto Restaurant and Bar and As You Like It to name a few, this event looks set to be a big one.

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

http://kcmonsterball.co.uk

Alone in the Dark - Halloween Night Ghost Walk (31st October)

This one isn't for the faint hearted but sounds perfect for anyone looking for a genuinely terrifying experience. The Halloween Night Ghost Walk tells the history of what is supposedly 'one of Britain's most bloody prisons', and you'll be guided through their candle-lit corridors. The event is hosted by paranormal investigators and will include a seance in the castle dungeon, table tipping and Ouija Board. Only for the mega brave or mega sceptical.

To find out more and book tickets, check out:

http://www.aloneinthedarkentertainment.com/apps/webstore/products/show/4135780

Hopefully this post has given you some food for thought and you can worry about the important stuff, like what costume to wear and what wigs you need to buy! Let us be the first to wish you a Happy Halloween, and we hope you have a wonderful time however you choose to spend it!

'The Wheel' Pop Culture

You may remember a post not too far back about 'Mutha Tucka', one of the biggest drag queens in Newcastle (6ft and fabulous). With his good friend 'Beauty Killer', together they will be hosting a new club night which launches tonight at Powerhouse! It promises to offer something entirely different with a 'pop wheel' which is spun every 30 minutes to reveal a new limited drink offer. We can promise you their outfits for the launch are utterly fantastic, and if you're lucky enough you might even spot them on Northumberland Street handing out exclusive entry and drinks passes!

Head down later for a great night and to see the amazing costumes we helped them create!

https://www.facebook.com/events/215778195256400/

Katie Chappell off to Florence

Oh no, an empty desk!

We recently bid farewell to our very lucky and very talented illustrator Katie Chappell, who yesterday jetted off to the beautiful city of Florence! We're all wishing her the best of luck and hoping she enjoys every minute of her four-month Italian adventure.

To keep up-to-date with Katie, check out her blog at:

http://katiesillustration.blogspot.co.uk

Also find more of her work at:

https://www.facebook.com/katiechappellillustration

https://twitter.com/katiedraws

Narbi Price - Shan't Quit

Fancy seeing some hyper-realistic paintings and lithographic prints of Whitechapel, London this Wednesday evening? Then get yourself down to Vane Art Gallery tonight where we'll be at the preview of local artist Narbi Price's first solo exhibition, Shan't Quit.

http://vane.org.uk/

We caught up with Narbi earlier for a quick 5 minute exclusive interview:

F6.Studio: Hi Narbi, are you excited for your very first solo debut?

Narbi Price: Yeah I think so. I haven’t got any idea what to expect really, I’ve been very careful not to have a solo show until I felt ready for it. I don’t ever get really excited but yeah, I think I am a bit!

F6: The context and history behind your artwork is interesting, finding out what's now a car-park or a loading bay was in-fact the site of 'Jack the Ripper's' murders in 1888, it gives it an almost eerie quality. Is that juxtaposition between the the past and the present something that inspires you?

NP: Yeah I think as well as them being of historical importance for one particular reason, i.e. the Jack the Ripper thing, I’m equally interested in the innumerable other things that have happened in the sites…so that’s why there’s no indication unless you have that prior knowledge like you’ve read the press release or whatever, that that’s what they are. So as a body of work, each one of the paintings has the initials of the victims. If you had them all together you could figure it out, or as the show’s called ‘Shan’t Quit', which is a line from the really infamous 'dear boss' letter Jack the Ripper wrote to the news corporation. The full line is “I’m down on whores and I shan’t quit ripping them until I do get buckled”, so it’s taking those two words out of that context to provide a kind of framework for the work, but it doesn’t kind of rub it in your face. I think as soon as you know that they are of particular sites it kind of changes them a lot.

F6: Asides from the juxtaposition between past and present, what else do you feel inspires your work?

NP: There’s always a historical context of recent works so looking around the studio, that black door one (points to painting nearest his desk), that’s ‘Number 304, Holloway Road’ where the record producer Joe Meek lived worked and died. He was really influential in avant-garde techniques so he done Telstar and produced the Tornados, but he used to produce Tom Jones and stuff like that, so he was like a repressed, depressed guy and he was massively paranoid, and he went crazy and killed his land lady and killed himself there in that house. But now it’s just a posh flat and there’s a greengrocers next to it, and there’s no way you’d know it. The painting next to it is a place in Norwich called Lollards Pit, to look at it it’s just a beautiful little boating river that goes underneath that bridge, and you know people practice their rowing up and down there, but it’s also the site where in around the 14-1500’s there was a huge pit where they used to throw witches and Jews and burn them.

F6: There's obviously a lot of dark undertones to your work.

NP: Yeah, yeah it doesn’t all have to be dark, I mean that painting there (points to painting of alleyway) you could ruminate on the dark histories of this dark alleyway in London, everything from someone being murdered maybe, someone having a piss or whatever, but it’s actually the exact location Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues was performed, so the yellow square is where he was stood.

F6: It seems as though you're inspired strongly by locations, but say you could invite five inspirational people dead or alive to a dinner party, who would you choose and why?

NP: Ooh that’s tough. Erm…R. D. Laing, he’s an existential psychiatrist because he looks like he was great fun, he was a bit of a character. Ken Dodd, you know you’ve got to hang out with Ken Dodd don’t you? Tony Hancock, Ray Galton who wrote 'Steptoe and Son' and Alan Simpson, is that five? That would be great should we get them round?

F6: I think we should, we should invite them tonight! Well it's been a pleasure speaking to you and good luck with the exhibition later, we look forward to seeing it!

'Shan't Quit' previews Wednesday 18th September at 6.00pm, Vane (Floor 1), Commercial Union House, and the exhibition is on until Saturday 26th October.

To see more of Narbi's work check out his website at http://www.narbiprice.co.uk, and if you're interested in keeping up-to-date with his most recent work give his Facebook page a like (https://www.facebook.com/NarbiPriceArt) and follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NarbiPrice). 

review of URBAN ART & STREET REVOLUTION

Street Revolution 

Before checking out the main event at the Art Gallery (and before it started to rain) we deeked around the outside events.

The street performances consisted of a free-runner space and a couple of lads breakdancing (and one 2year old trying to copy; too cute!!) It wasn't quite the awe striking range it was billed as but still good to watch none the less. 

Yarn Bombing at Church Square; we now know that this is the work of Hartlepool based community artist King Crumpet.
www.facebook.com/KingCrumpet
KingCrumpet.blogspot.com  

Live Spray Art by Graphic Designer & Illustrator Robert Page of Tubbyphunk Studio
http://www.tubbyphunk.com/     

The street food again not the 'food theatre' promised; a Mexican stall; the obligatory 'hog roast'; a Rosti stall (which smelled divine) and an american waffle/dessert van. It was a small selection but the food we had (burrito from Mexican stall and a ham&cheese rosti) was delicious. 

There were local designer makers in little wooden huts, great for the sellers as it kept them warm and dry but not so good for buyers as the huts were a bit dark and a tad unwelcoming. Maybe would of been better and quite possibly cheaper to get a marquee which could of housed the sellers and created additional 'gallery' space on the outside. Our pick of the makers were:

                  KAYLEIGH FALCUS: Jewellery Designer

See our previous post with Kayleigh & the CCAD Gradution Shows and check out more designs from this talented lady at; 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/KayleighFalcus/438189632876144 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KayleighFalcus

                     Jessica Langford & Lucy Addison Contemporary Appplied Artists

JESS LANGFORD                                         LUCY ADDISON

jesslangford.blogspot.com                          Lucypurple.blogspot.com             
twitter: @jessicajewelery                            Lucyaddo@hotmail.om
instagram: langfordd

The main event:- 

IN FROM THE OUTSIDE – URBAN ART EXHIBITION

(Now Urban Art isn't my area, I have no idea what I'm talking about; so this isn't a review!)

The exhibition includes work by Banksy, Urban photography, interpretation of Freud’s ” Head of a woman” by New York artists Logan Hicks, and works by global artists supplied by Unit44 – including work by Faile, Kid Acne, Herakut, Hush and Invader.

NEUA provided a lot of work for this exhibition with new pieces by some of NEUA’s artists (Karl Striker, Sam Wood, Oltad, Miss Dev and TEOS).

 'Collabor 8' by Mark Archer; Bobzilla; Joshua Doherty

 

'God Damn Scary Kids'  by Bobzilla

 

'Censored Beauty: despair'  by IrvingArt                                       

                     'In This Area' by Karl Stricker   

            

'Everything Has Beauty' by MissDev 

    

'Paint Spun Acrylic' by Bobzilla and The Kid Frankie

Firstly apologies for the photo quality of this one.

Secondly, I over heard several people saying this is a 'Hirst rip off', 'Hirst did this first' etc.  Well I remember doing this in primary school 20plus years ago so I'm not sure Hirst can claim copyright!

Ok this blogpost is taking ages and is longer than expected so i'll post the rest later

Elevon - Newcastle's Newest Fashion Event

Fancy seeing some of the best up-and-coming fashion talent from around the world??

Then get down to The Vermont Hotel Saturday 18th October 8pm for ELEVON.

Tickets are selling really fast so get some while you can......With drinks on arrival, goodie bags and an after-party at Livello's, how could one refuse?  

http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Newcastle-on-Tyne/Vermont-Hotel/ELEVON/11960992/?skcampaign=fbe

If you would like to apply to showcase your latest collection or are interested in backstage and PR opportunities then drop them an email elevon.1@live.co.uk 

Find them on Facebook ELEVON and Twitter @1elevon 

........and coming soon read our exclusive interviews with Elevon featured designers