We’re super excited to be celebrating the sixth annual edition of Hannah Directory this week. If you’ve never yet discovered this gem, we highly recommend seeking it out. If you’re lucky, you might even catch sight of Andrew, the directory …
We are super excited to be hosting Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir during their tour of the UK in October. Book your tickets now! Gig is on Sunday 22nd October at 7.30pm at the Blackfriars @St Vincent de Paul …
Come along to NewBridge Project on 7th Sept at 6.30 pm to meet artists Sheaf+Barley and hear them talk about their work. Along with NewBridge Project and as part of the Live Art Development Agency’s DIY14 national scheme, we have been …
Sheaf+Barley are coming to Newcastle to run their DIY project “How to Build Boats and Influence People (to make boats).” Five days making your own skin-on-frame coracle somewhere in or near Newcastle and thinking about things quite a bit. You can …
In Loftus, near Redcar, on 19 October, around 60 members of the local town – kids, adults, members of the Brit football club, councillors, the vicar – came down to Ben Scott’s field and painted in the lines on the …
Come along on Wednesday 19 October to help make Ben Scott’s Field back into a proper football pitch for everyone in Loftus to enjoy. Please bring along your friends and family to help – the more people we have, the …
Ilana is in Tasmania at the moment, with an installation of Sauna Nation for Junction Arts Festival in Launceston. These saunas have been built by University of Tasmania School of Architecture and Design, and set up by the staff and …
Investigating new ways to raise funds for our projects is bringing rise to all sorts of ethical conundrums. Like: how much to charge audience members for ticketed events?hr As with all Wunderbar processes, setting a ticket price isn’t simple. The …
Over the next couple of months, Wunderbar is developing a new fundraising initiative, the Wunderbar Foundation. Along with its core aim of raising money for our projects, the Foundation will explore some of the ethics and challenges of traditional fundraising. This …
In preparation for a trip to Junction Arts Festival later this year, I’ve been doing some more thinking about saunas. Turkish Salad Bath, anyone? After closing the City Pool in 2013, Newcastle City Council has opened up to offers “to …
A bunch of pics of some of the 50 Edicures we did at the Urban Village Fete with Home Live Art on 10 May.
ARTICLE UPDATE: Edicure now has its own website Just in time for our stall last week at the Urban Village Fete, we launched a new look for the Edicure. And here it is, in all its gold spangled glory. We …
This month we are supporting two Human Library projects – one across the libraries of Central Bedfordshire, as part of Bedford Creative Art‘s programme, and the other one as part of Juice Festival in Newcastle and Gateshead. Human Library is …
We’ve been invited to take part in the Festival of Thrift this weekend, 27th and 28th September – and we’re piloting our newest Wunderbiz: Edicures: EDIble maniCURES for the ethically minded – and sweet lovers. A biodegradable, delicious, unisex, non-toxic, non-permanent fashion accessory, …
If you see anyone with a messy or cartoon henna tattoo in Newcastle it’s very possible they were with us on our Nightwalks With Teenagers on Fri or Sat night. Giving each other multiple tattoos in a field of cows (Friday) and …
Some photies from our planning workshops and walks. Including Human Scavenger hunts, going into the Ouseburn Culvert, being confused by maps, finding dissolving concrete…
These lush new posters for Nightwalks with Teenagers are going up round town. Join the Facebook event or check here for meeting point updates & book your place.
Part social event, part recreational activity, part party; what better way to spend an evening than strolling in the company of teenagers?
And we’re having a MASSIVE CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION GARDEN PARTY! Hang out with the newest group on the block as we build ourselves a giant den and then party in it. We are looking for more Platypuses so join us on June …
With the launch of Platypus, our new project working with teens, this is a reminder – for us as much as anyone reading – of our ethos for Wunderbairns. Following Haircuts by Children and the A SCHOOL projects plus two …
It’s not just jumping on the Scandi-wagon, the Wunderbiz idea-in-development Sauna Nation was inspired by an incredible sauna experience I had in Latvia… The Idea Could the natural mood enhancing nature of a sauna offer an alternative to more traditional medical or talking …
Dance School Newcastle is Harriet Plewis’ – of A SCHOOL and Come On, Vogue, notoriety – new project.
Donna William‘s, one of our Bristol Human Library books wrote a blog about her experience for The Limping Chicken – the UK’s independent deaf news and deaf blogs website. With their permission we’ve reproduced it here. Full blog, which has many interesting reader …
Now open for entries! LOLathon: a marathon of laughing out loud for 26.2 minutes Had a difficult year? Haven’t LOL-ed in a long time? Maybe you’re already a LOL-athoner? Either way, YOU can finish the Great Forced LOLathon 2013. The Great Forced …
We’re wrapping up Nicola Singh and xsite architecture‘s two-year Life Without Buildings project with a series of discussions in evenings in Nov and Dec. Whether or not you took part in 2011’s bike tour, or this year’s In Praise of Shadows or We Stand Out The Most When We Stand …
With the Human Library poised to visit Bristol, we thought we’d share some of the never-before-published reviews left of the ‘Books’ when the library visited Gateshead. Click on the images to see what the ‘readers’ thought of books like Raised by …
The Wunderbar team is about to get bigger. We’re on the look out for two sparky, savvy people to help us realise our big plans for the future. A Wunderbains Facilitator will guide an innovative new project for young people, empowering them …
In this month’s NARC magazine I’ve expounded my thoughts on some things I reckon sound good, in their regular Mix Tape column. For those of you not able to pick up a hard copy, plus links to some of the tunes, read on. (There …