Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88  and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

• £10 per class

• £45 for 5 classes

• Discount available for students and High Bridge Works studio holders.

Tickets can be purchased at the gallery or on Eventbrite. 

More information about the class and FAQs can be found here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions  we should be aware of, please let us know.

performance; CLEAN UP, enhanced suction is the second performance by PerHaps Now as part of their residency at NCA.

This special Valentine's Day performance will feature brand-new work developed during their residency. Expect an unforgettable evening of experimental solo and group performance art.

Click here for full details and to purchase tickets.

Tickets can also be purchased on the door.

More information about PerHaps Now and their residency can be found here.

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88  and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

• £10 per class

• £45 for 5 classes

• £80 for 10 classes (special January offer)

Tickets can be purchased at the gallery or on Eventbrite. 

More information about the class and FAQs can be found here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions  we should be aware of, please let us know.

* Please note: there will be no class on Tuesday 11th February.

First performance by PerHaps Now as part of their residency at NCA.

Led by troupe member Lucy Heaton, this playful and frenetic piece features five performers in white tights and blue bibs as they interact with props like sun loungers, switches, and other "hinged collaborators." With slams, folds, and exertions, the performance is a game of click clacking parts. It plays out like a physical puzzle or a desire-dense loop of object-scapades.

Click here for full details and to purchase tickets.

More information about PerHaps Now and their residency can be found here.

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88  and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

• £10 per class

• £45 for 5 classes

• £80 for 10 classes (special January offer)

Tickets can be purchased at the gallery or on Eventbrite. 

More information about the class and FAQs can be found here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions  we should be aware of, please let us know.

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88  and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

• £10 per class

• £45 for 5 classes

• £80 for 10 classes (special January offer)

Tickets can be purchased at the gallery or on Eventbrite. 

More information about the class and FAQs can be found here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions  we should be aware of, please let us know.

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88  and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

• £10 per class

• £45 for 5 classes

• £80 for 10 classes (special January offer)

Tickets can be purchased at the gallery or on Eventbrite. 

More information about the class and FAQs can be found here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions  we should be aware of, please let us know.

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88  and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

• £10 per class

• £45 for 5 classes

• £80 for 10 classes (special January offer)

Tickets can be purchased at the gallery or on Eventbrite. 

More information about the class and FAQs can be found here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions  we should be aware of, please let us know.

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88 and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

They cost £10 per class or £45 for 5 classes. Please book your place via Eventbrite here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions we should be aware of, please let us know.

Steph is a Northeast - based yoga instructor, who has discovered the holistic, wellbeing, and emotional benefits of feeling great with yoga. Steph loves to teach creative flows that connect movement to breath and help students to destress from their busy minds and everyday chaos. Combining lyrical flows and relaxation with a focus on flexibility, Steph’s classes are a perfect contrast to everyday life.

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Instagram

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88 and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

They cost £10 per class or £45 for 5 classes. Please book your place via Eventbrite here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions we should be aware of, please let us know.

Steph is a Northeast - based yoga instructor, who has discovered the holistic, wellbeing, and emotional benefits of feeling great with yoga. Steph loves to teach creative flows that connect movement to breath and help students to destress from their busy minds and everyday chaos. Combining lyrical flows and relaxation with a focus on flexibility, Steph’s classes are a perfect contrast to everyday life.

Website

Instagram

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88 and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

They cost £10 per class or £45 for 5 classes. Please book your place via Eventbrite here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions we should be aware of, please let us know.

Steph is a Northeast - based yoga instructor, who has discovered the holistic, wellbeing, and emotional benefits of feeling great with yoga. Steph loves to teach creative flows that connect movement to breath and help students to destress from their busy minds and everyday chaos. Combining lyrical flows and relaxation with a focus on flexibility, Steph’s classes are a perfect contrast to everyday life.

Website

Instagram

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88 and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

They cost £10 per class or £45 for 5 classes. Please book your place via Eventbrite here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions we should be aware of, please let us know.

Steph is a Northeast - based yoga instructor, who has discovered the holistic, wellbeing, and emotional benefits of feeling great with yoga. Steph loves to teach creative flows that connect movement to breath and help students to destress from their busy minds and everyday chaos. Combining lyrical flows and relaxation with a focus on flexibility, Steph’s classes are a perfect contrast to everyday life.

Website

Instagram

Come to NCA for a weekly lunchtime yoga class with Steph Thompson (88 and Yoga). The class runs for 45 minutes so you can fit it into your daily routine.

They cost £10 per class or £45 for 5 classes. Please book your place via Eventbrite here.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions we should be aware of, please let us know.

Steph is a Northeast - based yoga instructor, who has discovered the holistic, wellbeing, and emotional benefits of feeling great with yoga. Steph loves to teach creative flows that connect movement to breath and help students to destress from their busy minds and everyday chaos. Combining lyrical flows and relaxation with a focus on flexibility, Steph’s classes are a perfect contrast to everyday life.

Website

Instagram

Lunchtime Yoga class in NCA gallery with Steph Thompson (88 and Yoga).

This 45 minute taster class is free of charge, but booking is required. You can book your place here.

We plan to run the class on a weekly basis in the future.

Please let us know in advance if you need a yoga mat, though we encourage you to bring your own if possible. Additionally, if you have any access requirements or health conditions we should be aware of, please let us know.

About 88 and Yoga

Steph is a Northeast - based yoga instructor, who has discovered the holistic, wellbeing, and emotional benefits of feeling great with yoga. Steph loves to teach creative flows that connect movement to breath and help students to destress from their busy minds and everyday chaos. Combining lyrical flows and relaxation with a focus on flexibility, Steph’s classes are a perfect contrast to everyday life.

Website 

Instagram

Join us for the launch of Succession of Repetitive Beats, three exhibitions that seek to celebrate the culture of the region's vibrant nightlife scenes, both past and present.

Full details about the exhibitions can be found here.

Your final chance to see the No Last Dance exhibition at this late night event, which will include DJ sets by Narbi Price and Jenni Mac, along with a performance by artist Debbie Bowers.

Join us for a drink and a dance!

This event is part of the Late Shows.

Click here and scroll to the bottom of the page to listen to recordings of the panel discussions.

The Communities of Practice symposium aims to unpick the various themes explored in the exhibition. This will be done through two panel discussions.

The first, The Material of Making, will examine the challenges artists face when making work and the various forms of support they can draw on to enable them to sustain their practice. Speakers will consider the concept of “Hope Labour” (free and under-compensated work in the ‘hope’ that it will provide value in the future) and examine how studio practice is inherently tied to the acts of making and viewing artwork. 

The second panel, Alternative Futures, will reflect on the professional and educational landscape that artists need to navigate and how that landscape is being reimagined by artists, curators and educators. The speakers will discuss what an alternative creative environment could and should look like and what individuals or institutions are doing already to question and rethink the way they work. Questions of self-organisation, resistance and collaboration will be considered. This panel discussion is intended to build on perceptions of artistic visibility, which informed some of the curatorial thinking for No Last Dance, and will seek to examine how those working in the arts can actively affect change.

In between the two discussions, there will be an opportunity to walk around the exhibition and talk to artists exhibiting in it about their work.

Schedule 

2 – 3pm : Panel 1 -  The Material of Making 

Chaired by Helen Baker (Artist and Co-curator of No Last Dance)

Speakers: 

Dr Ewan Mackenzie (Lecturer in Work and Employment, Newcastle University) 

Louise Scott (artist)

Ian Gonczarow (artist)

Sarah Cooney (artist)

3 – 4pm: Break and walk round the exhibition with some of the artists

4 – 5pm: Panel 2 -  Alternative Futures

Chaired by Sue Spark (Artist and Co-curator of No Last Dance)   

Speakers:

Paul Haywood (Dean of Academic Programmes, UAL: Central Saint Martins)

Suzy O’Hara (Curator and Lecturer in Digital Arts, Sunderland University)

Abdullah Qureshi (Artist, Curator and Lecturer in Fine Art, Northumbria University) 

Jackie Goodman (Founder, director and project manager, The Feral Art School, Hull)

Please join us for the opening of No Last Dance. All welcome

To mark the opening of Beyond the Loudspeaker there will be a durational performance by Dirty Electronics and Tim Shaw. Visitors are able to drop in and out over the course of the event. 

This performance will contain flashing lights so may not be safe for people with epilepsy and other light sensitivity conditions.

Please contain us if you have any concerns.

An afternoon of informal discussions and workshops exploring the legacy of music collectives in the North East of England and how they were supported by youth and community workers.

Talks and workshops will include:

• Youth work practice in the late 70's and early 80's - what can we learn?

• Working with punks in the 80’s. A community arts perspective

•  What is the legacy in relation to being involved in collectivism?

• The art of the fanzine - the TicTok of the 80's

• The role of women in the collective and how the values of community development and youth work are lived in their personal and professional lives

Click here to download the event programme.

Join us for the opening of the exhibition.

All welcome. 

The third conversation in this series will focus on how artists communicate their subjectivity and articulate an understanding of what they do. 

Invited artists, Laura and Rachel Lancaster, will join this conversation and they will be responding to the above themes in relation to their own experiences.

As a reference point for the event, we will use a discussion between art historian, Isabelle Graw, and painter, Charline von Heyl, where she demonstrates an acute understanding of her practice. Although the whole interview is very interesting, the conversation on pages 42 - 44 will provide the focus for this discussion.

The aim of all three conversations is to elicit discussion that may inform the content of No Last Dance, a painting exhibition, curated by Helen Baker and Sue Spark, that will be hosted by NCA in Spring 2024. 

Click here to book your free ticket.

Image: Rachel Lancaster - Sleep Grip (2022)

Join us for a drink and meet some of the artists exhibiting their work in the exhibition.

All welcome.

The curator of the exhibition, Narbi Price, will give an informal walking tour of the show.

All welcome.

Photograph by David Hall (Nostalgia Kid).

The exhibition opening of X, tenth anniversary of Contemporary British Painting, will coincide with The Late Shows with DJ sets by Bishop (founder of Opal Tapes), and Paul Smith, best known as the frontman of Maxïmo Park.

Join us for a drink and a dance!

An evening of short films of women artists talking about making work to include: Lubaina Himid, Sonia Boyce, Emma Talbot, Jessica Stockholder and Mary Heilman.

Selected films will act as a starting point for conversations that will explore:

• attitudes to thinking and making work. 

• connecting with other artists and why we do it

• the impact of removing work from the studio to the gallery 

• what or who inspires us

This is the second public conversation leading up to No Last Dance, a painting exhibition, curated by Helen Baker and Sue Spark, that will be hosted by NCA in Spring 2024. 

The third event will take place on Saturday 17th June 2 - 4pm.

The aim of the conversations is to elicit discussion that may inform the content of the final exhibition.

Click here to book your free ticket.

Helen and Sue have compiled a short reading list of texts that have informed their research for the exhibition:

• KELSEY J, Rich Texts: Selected Writing fort Art, Sternberg Press, 2010

• GRAW I, The Love of Painting, Genealogy of a Success Medium, Sternberg Press, 2018

• MYERS T R, Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me, Afterall Books, 2007

In this workshop, we will discuss the pay and conditions of artists working in the UK and reflect on how these can be improved. Invited speakers will give several short presentations that will act as starting points for the discussion. 

Jessica Roper from A-n, will give an overview on the findings of their inquiry into the pay and conditions of artists working in the public sector, Structurally F_cked.

Theresa Easton from Artist Union England, who will outline their rates of pay guidelines.

Peter McArdle will describe his personal experience of working with galleries to sell his paintings.

Click here to book your free ticket.

Image by Melaine Gillman

In Spring 2024 NCA will host No Last Dance, a painting exhibition, curated by Helen Baker and Sue Spark. No Last Dance will, in part, explore how time is intrinsic to the act of making and viewing painting.

As a precursor to the exhibition, NCA will be holding three public conversations in the Gallery space in April, May and June. The aim of the conversations is to elicit discussion that may inform the content of the final exhibition. 

The First Dance invites both visible and invisible artists in the North East to come together and discuss how, why and when they make and show work. As a catalyst for the evening’s discussion, we will screen a short film about the artist Phyllida Barlow and ask participants to respond to several questions (see below). If you have time before the event, please send your answers to the questions via email to: info@visitnca.com

Click here to book your free ticket for the event

Invisible Artist Questionnaire

1. How visible do you consider yourself as an artist and your work to be?

2. Where do you make your work?

3. Work doesn’t need to be seen in a gallery or exhibition. 

4. How is your work seen, by whom, where, how, when? 

5. Do you think you operate outside the conventional gallery system? If so what do you do and where do you do it?

6. Many artists don’t show their work. Does this matter?

7. How often do you view other artists work that inspires you? (Apart from in print or digitally).

8. What problems do you have as an artist?