Juice Festival Blog

Be a Juice Festival Partner School Brief for Juice Festival Partner Schools 2013/14 Juice – NewcastleGateshead’s festival for children and young people  1.       What is Juice Festival? Juice is NewcastleGateshead’s award-winning festival for children and young people.   It is a multi-art form festival providing inspiring opportunities for children, young people and their families to take part in performances, exhibitions, film screenings, workshops and open air events. Now in its sixth year, Juice Festival takes place in over 15 venues and open air locations across NewcastleGateshead during October half term, and the programme includes events for a wide age range, from early years to early adult.   Juice Festival 2013 will take place from Friday 25th October – Sunday 3rd November.  Our 2014 dates are not yet set. There is a year round development process leading to each festival and young people take part as artists, event managers, co-delivering workshops, promoting and reviewing festival Read more [...]

Juice Festival’s Very First Roving Poet – Jess Green In partnership with Apples and Snakes North East we commissioned our very first roving poet to be part of Juice Festival 2012.  We’ve partnered with Apples and Snakes previously on The Remembers by Kenny Baraka (which was performed at Northern Stage as part of Juice 2011) and we were really excited to be working with them in an innovative way again.  We sent out the ad for our roving poet in April 2012 knowing that with the right person we'd all go on a brand new creative journey together.   We met with young spoken word artist Jess Green and knew the fit with Juice Festival would be perfect.   Her application really won us over in which she told us; “I have been told that I have an ability to make the small, insignificant, even mundane aspects of everyday life interesting and I believe that that is the art of good story telling.”  And now we've worked with Jess, we'd whole-heartedly agree.  Jess had a phenomenal talent with words and for noticing the smallest Read more [...]

REVIEW – Following the Sun at Northern Print Press Gang's Paris based Reviewer Joseph P McCormick reviews  Following the Sun, an exhibition at Northern Print This exhibition by Charles Thorpe Comprehensive School in Gateshead represented the ongoing opportunities which Northern Print offers, as well as an excellent, wide range of work. The professional grade equipment, studio and gallery space, paired with the friendly, cup-of-tea-and-biscuit offering staff presented a striking exhibition using the stimulus ‘Following the Sun’ . The space-themed stimulus gave the work a common, and clearly defined theme, but what was surprising was the different direction which each final piece took. There character and individuality were startling, as well as the excellent quality of the prints made by the students. The standard achieved, and the professional nature of the work was, for me, what is so very important about being housed as part of Juice Festival, not least because of the platform its partnership with Northern Print, Read more [...]

REVIEW – Fish for a Wish at BALTIC Press Gang's Paris based Young Reviewer Joseph P McCormick reviews; Fish for a Wish at Baltic   A particularly noteworthy exhibition presented as part of Juice Festival, was Fish for a Wish at Baltic. The moving, and defiantly honest exhibition was centered around the wishes and dreams of children from Thomas Bewick School for children with special needs. As well as this starting point, the inclusive nature of the work, which included multimedia, as well as more traditional mediums, invited audience members to participate in a number of ways, as well as appreciating the beautiful, and bespoke works created through stimuli coming from the students by a team of installation artists.  The picturesque ceramic, wood, and metal, placed so well together really encapsulated a dream-like, and incredibly zen atmosphere, paired with its setting in the Baltic which was light, airy and evoked a boat on the open sea. The nautical nature of the wooden fish, turquoise tiles, wishes Read more [...]