North Tyneside Arts
Cultural Services
Quadrant West - Ground Floor
The Silverlink North
Cobalt Business Park
North Tyneside
NE27 0BY
Tel: 0191 643 7422 / 7442
Fax: 0191 643 2406
YEAR OF THE ARTS 2010-11
North Tyneside Arts is the Council's arts development service - part of the Arts, Tourism & Heritage division of Cultural Services, within the Community Services directorate.
We work with a wide range of professional and voluntary arts organisations and individual arts practitioners, initiating and supporting projects in music, visual arts, drama, street and circus arts, new writing, public art commissioning, and digital and media arts.
The major arts facility in North Tyneside is the 640-seat Playhouse Whitley Bay, which re-opened in September 2009 following an £8.5 million refurbishment, and is managed on behalf of the local authority by SMG Europe. The Saville Exchange Theatre in North Shields stages smaller-scale performing arts events and workshops. The Globe Gallery in North Shields is the main contemporary visual arts space in the borough.
The House of Objects creative recycling centre, based at the Rising Sun Countryside Centre, is a unique facility in the region and since April 2010 has been part of the Arts service.
Working with young people is a priority. We have a long-standing partnership with Customs House in South Shields, who are the arts in education agency for the borough and also manage a major national programme, Creative Partnerships, on behalf of both North Tyneside and South Tyneside Councils.
To find out more about the information contained in these pages, explore the links in the left hand menu, or check the 'site map' page.
The North Tyneside Arts team are based at the Council's Quadrant building on the Cobalt Business Park. We have recently completed a restructure by appointing two new Arts Development Officers (replacing 7 full-time and part-time posts deleted in 2009).
You can contact us direct:
Mike Campbell, Arts Development Manager - mike.campbell@northtyneside.gov.uk
Julie Turnbull, Arts Development Officer -
julie.turnbull@northtyneside.gov.uk
Catherine Scott, Arts Development Officer - catherine.scott@northtyneside.gov.uk
Kevin Wallace, Arts Development Officer (expected to start in September 2010) - kevin.wallace@northtyneside.gov.uk
Saville Exchange Theatre -
saville-arts@northtyneside.gov.uk
North Tyneside Arts is supported by Arts Council England.