Wow! More than 50 different venues, 2 days, many thousands of visitors, that’s “The Late Shows 2012” in Newcastle. In the city centre as well as on the Quayside, in Ouseburn and Gateshead wherever you go you see the black posters and flags with the yellow letters “The Late Shows”. The variety of the programme is as big as the variety of the places. Art exhibitions, workshops, concerts and jam sessions, circus, interactive installations, theatre, guided tours at places that normally are not open to the public and so on … You don’t have any chance to see everything, even if you try to see the half you will fail. CCC on the road saw 18 different venues within about 9 hours on 2 evenings. The results will be part of the film about the creative life in Newcastle we are going to produce during this project.
The idea for
the cultural festival was born in 2007 by Bill
Griffiths, who is still The Late Shows Project Manager. Since than every second weekend in May people from all over the region
come to Newcastle and Gateshead to explore a different way of nightlife and see
their city from a different perspective. In the first year the event started
with 14 different venues and grew up in the past five years to 56. In the year 2011
the organisers counted more than 24.000 visitors within two evenings and it
seemed to be even more in 2012…
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