What you missed on Monday- Masala Festival review of Bulleh Shah: Seeker of Light by Gaurav Bhatti gemartsuk.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/b...

Bulleh Shah Review

Bulleh Shah: Seeker of Light by Gaurav Bhatti This was probably one of the best dance performances I’ve ever seen. It was enchanting to see the raw talent and passion of Gaurav Bhatti transform int…

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Previews Wednesday 8 July 2026 5-8pm! ‘Care / Work’, an exploration of femininity and labour by British-Bangladeshi artist Nayeema Ahmed. Part of GemArts Masala Festival 2026. www.vane.org.uk/exhibitions/... @gemarts.bsky.social‬ @orbiscommunity.bsky.social @gatesheadcouncil.bsky.social

This year we're celebrating ten years of Masala Festival, ten years of sunshine, creativity and wild joy on the Wear www.instagram.com/reel/DXuaomQ...

GemArts on Instagram: "🎉 BIG NEWS! 🎉 🦚🐅🐘 We’re celebrating 10 years of Masala Festival, and GemArts is thrilled to announce the full 2026 programme! Expect bold new commissions, unforgettable perform...

41 likes, 2 comments - gemartsuk on April 29, 2026: "🎉 BIG NEWS! 🎉 🦚🐅🐘 We’re celebrating 10 years of Masala Festival, and GemArts is thrilled to announce the full 2026 programme! Expect bold new comm...

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We loved working with Festival of Languages this year- we don't always get to play with language in our workshops and it was eye openingly great to do it with such a brilliant team. vimeo.com/1187683563?f...

Asian Creative Journeys Film Festival 2026 case study

This film follows one in-school Asian Creative Journey workshop at St Cuthbert’s Primary School Kenton in Newcastle. Children learned about traditional Indian culture by making traditional Kathputli p...

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It's almost time for the Late Shows too?? Where has this month gone? thelateshows.org.uk/2026#event-643

What's On | 2026 | The Late Shows

The Late Shows, an award-winning late-night free culture crawl, which takes place each May across Newcastle and Gateshead.

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Some great work coming from Gateshead International Festival of Thearte (GIFT!) next week too, think we might pop along to more than a few events... www.giftfestival.co.uk/2026-programme

GIFT 2026 Programme | GIFT

Gateshead International Festival of Theatre Fri 2 - Sun 4 May 2025.

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More great work from Gateshead- Creative Conversations from Shipley all about practicing English and the universal language- ART! www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/shipley/what...

Creative Conversations

Practice your English and learn new skills

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Sharing the UNION 2026 opportunities for our participatory artists in the North- looks like a great reflective opportunity for artists driven by social change unionarts.org.uk/programme/un...

UNION 26 » Union

Starting in June 2026, UNION are running a free 10-month programme aimed at early- to mid-career artists and activists from across the North. Apply now!

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We're declaring it Spring- winter is just to bleak. Spring School newsletter out now mailchi.mp/e5e805900d9d...

Festival of Languages has started! We're supporting with free, online classroom resources to do some creative language learning expressyourselfne.com/culture-box-...

Kicking off Thursday by listening to the @collaboratecic.bsky.social podcast with our own Zahra Bazarganianpour discussing Human Learning Systems open.spotify.com/episode/5fe6...

Ep2. Changing the narrative: equity in HLS

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Yesterday's ceilidh dancing, language translating, art making Imagine If conference was such a breath of fresh air, rewatching this today to stay inspired www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcXW... @northeastmuseums.bsky.social

Making a Difference - a poem by Lemn Sissay, former Chancellor of The University of Manchester

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Apply to be our new Administration Assistant! gemarts.org/about/newsbl...

From the archive we’re listening to an old track from Kema Kay and DJ Ads for #AntiBullyingWeek with students at Chopwell Primary School, St Wilfrid's RC Primary School in 2018!

Don't Do it - We Rise Up! Anti-Discrimination Project

Anti discrimimation Music Project with musicians Kema Sikazwe and Adam Cogden. Delivered by GemArts www.gemarts.org Created by young people from Chopwell Primary and St Wilfrid's Primary Gateshead. Fu

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BIG NEWS! We’re super excited to announce that GemArts Masala Festival has been nominated for the North East Culture Awards 2025 in the Arts Council England Award category. the awards on 27th Nov at The Stockton Globe Theatre. #NECultureAwards #MasalaFestival #ACESupported #LetsCreate

A gorgeous weekend of Diwali celebrations! Hope we can take the celebrations with us into half term and have keep the fun going 🤞🏽🤞🏽

Project Play Tuesday 28th! Open to all families, whether you’ve been dancing to 'Mera Joota Hai Japani' since you were a baby or don’t know your baen from your daen. www.eventbrite.com/cc/mini-gems...

Mini Gems

Play and learn for young makers with GemArts

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With #Diwali around the school our school workshops are booking up fast- get in touch to bring an artist into your school to bring the festival of light to your students.

We’re shining a light on some of our Diwali celebrations from the archive this week- we hope you’re inspired to make your own lantern with this workshop from Sofia Barton

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These Young Creatives are so many things- check out the beats they made with DJ Ads to see a teeny tiny piece of their creativity youtube.com/shorts/XcYu5...

Beats from the Young Creatives

YouTube video by GemArts

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It’s National Inclusion Week! We support schools, community groups and workplaces to get creative and inclusive every week 😊 Don’t be shy- get in touch to get inclusive!

A new school year means a new year of East by North East! Our young musicians have been making music all over Newcastle and Gateshead since 2016! Here they are making incredible music at last year’s celebration

East by North East celebration 2024

GemArts celebrate the hard work of young people from North Benwell Youth Project, Benfield School, Side by Side and Life Transformation Church. With our incredible music leaders; DJ Ads, April Bensley, MC Drop Dead Fred, Georgia May, Rex Regis, Ken Masters and Legion! Shout out to DJ Ads for putting this video together too

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Riverside Ragas:  Tar Rang – 100 Colours, 100 String! Expressive. Soul-stirring. A rare jugalbandi. 19th September, 8PM, £11.30 - £22.50,The Glasshouse International Centre for Music theglasshouseicm.org/whats-on/riv...

@alphabettitheatre.bsky.social hitting it out of the park again www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/dial1foruk

Bringing some of our own #SouthAsianHeritage from the archive today, we’re looking at all the different kinds of Indian classical and contemporary dance we’ve brought to the region in the last 25 years. From Bollywood to Kuchipudi, Kathakali to Kathak

It doesn't matter how old you are when it comes to Masala Festival, check out these incredible tiny Bollywood dancers at today's workshop 💜🌺💃🏽

Yesterday we had a gorgeous afternoon @vanegallery.bsky.social inspired by Sofia Barton's exhibition: Death Magic. Sullivan Alenzi lead a great discussion and workshop around the themes of the show 🪷🌸🌺

Meet the participants from yesterday's shadow puppetry workshop with Saya Naruse- from CPD to full play time they all had different reasons for taking part and they all smashed it!

Yesterday we kicked things off with Akash Odedra at Theatre Royal Newcastle and yoga with Palak- tag us in your photos of Masala Festival and let us know what you're excited for!

First day of Masala Festival 2025! Let it raaaaaain! @gemarts.bsky.social brings the sunshine! www.gemarts.org/whatson