Joshua Sofaer's Opera Helps is returning online for the Horizon Showcase
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Opera Helps features in the Horizon Showcase pilot year
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Let’s talk about sex… with cancer, baby!
Innovative solutions to the often-ignored problem of illness, intimacy, sexual function and pleasure.
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Opera Helps returns online
We were genuinely blown away by the power of feeling we saw in the feedback from Opera Helps.
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Paw-Paw-Phwoar! The hot new Edicure Edition No.2 is here
Wunderbar is continuing its edible novelty nail experiment with the release of a brand new big cat inspired Edicure design.
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Stick. Love. Lick. Edicure has landed.
Our biodegradable, unisex, non-toxic, vegan, cruelty-free, non-permanent, hand-crafted, super sweet edible nails are finally here.
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It’s Time launch event – You’re invited
IT’S TIME BOOK LAUNCH Talk 5pm-6pm followed by drinks til 7pm-ish WEDNESDAY 3 JULY, ALPHABETTI THEATRE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE FREE ENTRY. How do you make experimental art projects that are
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Great & Tiny War is best event Tyneside
Amazing news. Great & Tiny War won Best Event Tyneside in this year’s Journal and Gazette Culture Awards. We’re over the moon that Bobby Baker’s brilliant work has been
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It’s Time – New book unpicks Live Art
Wunderbar and the Live Art Development Agency have co-published a new book of Live Art case studies highlighting projects and initiatives that are re-politicising and re-energising our arts spaces.
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It’s Hannah Directory week! 2018 publication hitting the north now.
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
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Good Feels and Cool Friends – Wunderbar Foundation ready to launch
Wunderbar is marking the launch of the new Wunderbar Foundation with an extra special event in London this March. The Foundation is our new fundraising arm – a collaboration between
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World premiere announcement: Bobby Baker’s Great & Tiny War
Wunderbar is proud and excited to announce a major new artistic collaboration with long-time friend and tremendous artist, Bobby Baker. Commissioned by 14-18 NOW as part of its finale programme,
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MLK1967
On 13 Nov 1967 Martin Luther King made what was to be his final public speech outside of the US before his assassination, in Newcastle. In the address, he called for us to join him in the ongoing
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Reverend Billy in the toon!
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
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Sheaf + Barley talk, 7th Sept
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
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Is there more to giving than Good Feels and Cool Friends?
At a time of profound change for arts funding, we’re continuing our partnership up with philosopher Rachael Wiseman to create The Wunderbar Foundation. The Foundation explores the ethics of
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Q: What happens when a Thought Bubble Bursts?
A: Good question. We’re on a mission to find out, as we’re pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded a Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England (ACE) for Thought Bubbles, our
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OPEN CALL!! How to Build Boats and Influence People (to build boats)
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
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We drew a pitch & it looked like this
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
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How to Draw Your Own Pitch in Loftus
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
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Ball games allowed in Burmontofts
Play Ball is a playful, public, football-pitch-creating one-day event. Part pop-up, part flash mob, part crop circle, it’s a simple way for a group of people to create a proper football pitch
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Do you have a problem? Opera Helps.
Can the power of song help us look at a problem in a new way? Applications are now open for the UK premiere of Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer. Produced by Wunderbar, Opera Helps is now on tour,
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[Link] Info-graphicarama! Introducing the Wunderbar review
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A million miles away
Gemma Paintin, Co-artistic Director of Action Hero, gives us a flavour for the upcoming Natural Selection performance with an account of a not-very-ordinary invitation to visit Jim (he’s the
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Sauna bathing in Tasmania
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
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Natural Selection – full deets & tickets available now
Jim and Rob are brothers who grew up in a remote house on the outskirts of Kielder Forest. In September, they will be returning to their roots, travelling on foot from Newcastle to Kielder on a
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Who pays? You decide…
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? As with all Wunderbar
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Some foundations for the Wunderbar Foundation
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
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Some sweaty challenges
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
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Greenwich Edicures
A bunch of pics of some of the 50 Edicures we did at the Urban Village Fete with Home Live Art on 10 May.
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Unveiling the all-new Edicure logo
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
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Edicures on offer at The Urban Village Fete
Wunderbar’s deliciously different edicures will be available at Greenwich’s Urban Village Féte this Sunday. Our artistic director, Ilana Mitchell, will be personally pampering
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How to review a human book
The legendary Human Library is about to open its doors in Bedfordshire and Newcastle. In Bedfordshire, the shelves are bulging with gripping stories waiting to be read including Lazy Single Mother,
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An abundance of Human Libraries
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
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Edicures at the Festival of Thrift
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
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How Nightwalks looked and felt
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
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Nightwalks Workshops
Some photies from our planning workshops and walks. Including Human Scavenger hunts, going into the Ouseburn Culvert, being confused by maps, finding dissolving concrete…
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Nightwalks Posters
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.
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Nightwalks with Teenagers
Part social event, part recreational activity, part party; what better way to spend an evening than strolling in the company of teenagers?
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An invitation to teenagers – Create a Nightwalk (with the help of some Canadians)
Wunderbar is looking for young people to help us create a public event called ‘Nightwalks with Teenagers’. These Nightwalks have been happening all over the world conceived by a bunch of
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June 14th is Platypus Day!
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
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Will you do business with a Wunderbiz?
Wunderbar is poised to launch Wunderbiz, its playfully disruptive and alternative approach to business models and structures. Wunderbiz’s first outing will be at the Thinking Digital Conference
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The Wunderbairns Ethos
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
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Sauna Nation
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
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DSNCL
Dance School Newcastle is Harriet Plewis' - of A SCHOOL and Come On, Vogue, notoriety - new project.
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A Book’s View
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
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November newsletter
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The Great Forced LOLathon
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To Make The Stone Stoney
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
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Book Reviews!
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
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Join our gang!
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
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NARC-ed!
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
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We Stand Out The Most When We Stand Together: Photos!
Conceived by artist Nicola Singh, We Stand Out The Most When We Stand Together was a choreographed parade exploring architectural space through human collaboration and movement.