A blog on Newcastle Arts and Culture, Cinema and Life.
Newcastle does vintage. It certainly does, doesn’t it. Rolling into town like a travelling circus of horse-drawn carts and gypsy caravans with more eighties polyester blouses, Royal family memorabilia and penguin paperbacks than all the old people’s homes in the North East, Newcastle Does Vintage pulled up to the Theatre Royal last Saturday and set [...]
The Made In Newcastle Market; the Make and Mend Market; Daisy’s Handmade Market; the Grainger Arts and Crafts Market – we really are spoiled for choice when it comes to buying handmade in Newcastle. Add to this list the abundance of Vintage Markets that pay us a visit as well as the seemingly endless stream [...]
Thanks to those horrific new adverts from Asda and Morrisons – demonstrating the supreme self-flagellation that is apparently every mother’s experience of the run up to the festive season – I am now wracked with guilt about my own childhood Christmases. Single-handedly purchasing, painstakingly wrapping and secretly ‘delivering’ hundreds of pounds worth of gifts, all [...]
Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair came to Newcastle yesterday, filling Northumbria University’s Student Union with stall upon stall of pre-owned, retro and vintage loveliness. Although I’m bang into second-hand shopping, I’ve always been a bit of a vintage sceptic. Too many times I’ve ventured into a vintage shop and taken my musty garment behind a precariously [...]
This was the first open studio event I had ever been to and I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Would I stumble into an over-eighty’s life drawing session? Would there be any dreaded performance art? Would I unwittingly commit to purchases in a silent auction? As it turned out, the lovely artists who occupy [...]
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