Artists

Artform: Circus Skills Website: letscircus.com Established in 2008, Let’s Circus are the largest Provider of Outdoor Arts within Newcastle City and North of Tyne Combined Authority area, employing over 100 artists and entertaining tens of thousands of people as well as circus workshops to thousands across the UK, Europe and Internationally. They have a range […]

Artform: Animation & Filmmaking Website: kettustudios.com Virpi is an award-winning director, animator and digital artist with over two decades working extensively in Europe and Canada. She has animated for Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep) and for The National Film Board of Canada, DreamWorks and Universal Pictures. She has created music videos across

Artform: Lighting Design for Theatre Yanni is a Manchester-based director and theatre-maker who specialises in new writing with a focus on exploring the fluid concepts of time, identity, and memory. Hailing from Hong Kong, she strives to create work surrounding East Asian communities and to champion other underrepresented narratives in a positive light. A drama

Artform: MusicWebsite: manasamitra.com Supriya is the founder of Manasamitra. She is a singer-composer trained, since the age of 5, in Carnatic (classical South Indian) vocal music in Bombay (Mumbai). Since setting up Manasamitra in 2005 she has collaborated with musicians from different genres and disciplines. She strives to create inclusive music which explores the relationship

Artform: Spoken Word & Poetry Website: facebook.com/sarahcrutwellspokenword Sarah Crutwell is a Poet and Spoken Word Performer based in the North East. Her work aims to address the things we lower our voices to talk about and explores areas such as mental health, sexuality, gender roles, ingrained sexism and freedom of choice. With a background in theatre

Artform: MusicWebsite: ruthlyonmusic.com Ruth Lyon grew up in North Yorkshire, before moving to Newcastle to study Fashion Design at Northumbria University. Meanwhile, she began fronting the folk rock outfit Holy Moly & The Crackers, with which she has toured the UK and Europe extensively, plus soundtracked the end credits of Ocean’s 8 with the track

Artform: Poetry Website: rowanthepoet.com Rowan McCabe is a poet and a professional waffler from Newcastle upon Tyne. Aware that poetry isn’t a proper job, he decided to create his own and became the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asks what is important to them. He then goes away and writes a

Artform: Animation & Production Website: robinwebbanimation.wordpress.com Robin is a freelance animation & film artist based in the heart of the North East of England where, alongside his own practice, he designs and runs participatory and educational animation and filmmaking projects throughout the North. Robin offers a range of workshops, from one hour to a full

Artform: Game Design Website: nearlythereyet.com Petra Szemán is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. They are a BA Fine Art graduate from Newcastle University (2013-2017), and has exhibited since at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Foto museum Winterthur in Switzerland, NTT Inter Communication Centrein Tokyo, as well as various

Artform: Circus Skills Website: nearlythereyet.com Nearly There Yet uses creative, physical work to excite, engage, and entertain. They connect people through an ordinary approach to the extraordinary worlds of circus and performance. In addition to creating engaging and entertaining shows, they also run circus skills classes across the country. Their classes focus on developing individuals’