New Creative Hub For North East

For The Cultural Thing

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A New creative hub is set to open in central Newcastle.

The building will primarily be used by Sustained Theatre North East, a black and ethnic theatre group.

But it will be open to everyone - with the man behind it, Oscar Watson of North East Intercultural Arts keen to include as manny people as possible, not just a creative élite.

He said: “There is a discussion at the moment about a building which will be about development of performance art.

“But I am very keen if that does happen is what we create is a creative community hub.

“The last government talked about creative hubs as spaces like schools for example, so I wanted to build on that – using the resources that came from Sustained Theatre to buy and open a building.

“But to make the resources of that building available to schools, and colleges and wide groups of people.

“There is a particular building that we have in mind and we're very close in the way to possibly getting it.

“But there are problems. It's a significant amount of money that's being brought into the region.

“It's £750,000 but we may not be able to get hold of it for the want of £10,000.”