Experience The Core as it is transformed into a neon dreamscape, filled with interactive light installations inspired by the subculture movement, Vaporwave. Students and graduates of Newcastle and Northumbria University will team with professionals from electronic and design firms to produce innovative and interactive works of art, incorporating futuristic digital technologies and traditional artistic mediums....
Join us as we showcase the work of internationally acclaimed artists Mark Hursty and Victoria Bradbury during the region’s Late Shows this year. This is our first year taking part in the shows, and builds on Creative Space Management’s success at our sister building Toffee Factory – which has seen nearly 7,000 people pass through...
Volunteer-led organisation CoderDojo is holding fun clubs – or Dojos – every month for six to 16-year-olds. Launching at The Core in March, CoderDojos have so far been a great success. The children select the theme for each session, and as well as learning to code they develop websites, apps, programs, games and more. Lisa...
With so many growing businesses under our roof at The Core, we are delighted that Invest NewcastleGateshead and Common Purpose are holding their FREE intensive leadership course for North East SMEs here. The course offers North East SMEs the opportunity to explore innovation and grow their businesses with some of the regions high profile organisations...
We are delighted to have ISIS Arts host the launch of their new 3 year arts exchange project, CORNERS, here at The Core. Clymene Christoforou, ISIS Arts Founder and Co-Director said, “ISIS Arts is very happy to be launching Corners, our major new European project at The Core in Newcastle. Corners connects our corner of...
As part of 6 Music Festival on Tyneside, BBC Radio 6 Music is holding the Festival Hack Day at The Core. The Festival Hack Day brings together some of the brightest tech talent in the North East with industry experts from 7Digital, Soundwave, Twilio, Universal Music and the BBC for 24 hours of innovation and discovery on the theme...
A vision of the future of transport is here and it’s on display in Newcastle upon Tyne at The Core, the newly opened building for future city firms at Science Central. Shipped to Newcastle from BMW’s World Headquarters in Munich last week, the Mini Cathedral was designed by London-based artist Dominic Wilcox. Wilcox, who hails...
The team at The Core, which opens to businesses on Monday 3 November, took time out from plumping cushions and preparing data connections to welcome the press for a sneak peak of the new building which houses companies working on a range of “future city challenges” including energy, transport, big data and cloud computing…. The building...
Newcastle University has appointed London-based architecture practice Hawkins\Brown, in conjunction with BuroHappold and BD Landscapes, to design a £50 million ‘living lab’ on Science Central, following an Invited Design competition led by Newcastle University with advice from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Science Central is one of the UK’s largest city centre development...