Our Work

Here to There is a programme for over 55's to get involved with a mixture of creative walks and falls prevention dance across North Tyneside.

Do you want to get moving, dance and have the opportunity to meet new people?

Come and try Falling on Your Feet Segedunum.

A programme featuring a range of artists and artforms for people aged over 55 in North Tyneside with the aim of reducing loneliness.

A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.

Celebrating 40 years of Helix Arts working with artists and communities!

Share your story | Shape our future.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

Celebrating 40 years of Helix Arts working with artists and communities!

Share your story | Shape our future.

Here to There is a programme for over 55's to get involved with a mixture of creative walks and falls prevention dance across North Tyneside.

We've been commissioned to work with 3 community groups based in Gateshead and artist Megan Randall to create an artwork for display at Gibside National Trust in June 2023 as part of the Festival of Blossom.

Helix Arts are collecting young people's insights into drug use and abuse across North Tyneside.

Here to There is a programme for over 55's to get involved with a mixture of creative walks and falls prevention dance across North Tyneside.

Heart of Care will take the conversations about care away from the hidden rooms of domestic settings and place them at the heart of our public spaces.

By Your Side at North Tyneside Art Studio was a creative programme for North Tyneside carers.

The HeArt of Care is a global project with the aim of uniting carers from across the world and encourage them to share their experiences as carers through a creative medium. It forms part of our social prescribing programme, Better Connect.

Helix Arts are collecting young people's insights into drug use and abuse across North Tyneside.

Young investigators explored the arts and cultural offer available in North Tyneside for children and young people.

Tell your stories and turn them into mini movies with professional filmmaker and Photographer Carl Joyce.

A development programme for artists.

Celebrating 40 years of Helix Arts working with artists and communities!

Share your story | Shape our future.

We've been commissioned to work with 3 community groups based in Gateshead and artist Megan Randall to create an artwork for display at Gibside National Trust in June 2023 as part of the Festival of Blossom.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Make It Happen inspired by North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Take a look at some of the amazing stories from North Tyneside community members generated from their experiences during the pandemic.

This event was held to listen to personal stories of those living through a pandemic from a diverse cross-section of residents from North Tyneside.

A multi-arts project with young adults working to create a new wellbeing trail in Chopwell Wood.

Explore how stories and poems can offer comfort, escape, inspiration and laughter in difficult times.

Part of Better Connect

A ground-breaking artistic programme in prisons and the community led by the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance.

A toolkit of arts activities created to help dads in prison reflect on the impacts their offending has on their children.

Using creative approaches designed by women to help women.

A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.

Here to There is a programme for over 55's to get involved with a mixture of creative walks and falls prevention dance across North Tyneside.

We've been commissioned to work with 3 community groups based in Gateshead and artist Megan Randall to create an artwork for display at Gibside National Trust in June 2023 as part of the Festival of Blossom.

Together Again gave residents in North Shields and Wallsend the chance to explore, reconnect and shape the future of their town. The project builds on our 'Town Common Festival'.

Partnering with Perigrini Landscape Partnership, Make Art Happen participants developed a project to help raise awareness, take part in conservation and celebrate Lindisfarne island.

Together Again gave residents in North Shields and Wallsend the chance to explore, reconnect and shape the future of their town. The project builds on our 'Town Common Festival'.

A FREE mentoring course for artists who live or work in Darlington.

Celebrate Different was a Make it Happen project for young people in Sunderland in partnership with Sunderland Culture.

Working with groups of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Refugee women facing spatial violence.

A performing arts project for young people exploring exploitation and abuse within relationships, particularly during Covid-19.

We've been commissioned to work with 3 community groups based in Gateshead and artist Megan Randall to create an artwork for display at Gibside National Trust in June 2023 as part of the Festival of Blossom.

A multi-arts project with young adults working to create a new wellbeing trail in Chopwell Wood.

A River is a community garden project at Pattinson House in Gateshead in which local people are co-creating a large-scale mural.

Bensham and Teams Make Art Happen project created a visual and sound artwork made up of multiple components created by a local people that enhanced a community space for local residents to enjoy and feel a sense of pride in.

Explore how stories and poems can offer comfort, escape, inspiration and laughter in difficult times.

Part of Better Connect

A programme featuring a range of artists and artforms for people aged over 55 in North Tyneside with the aim of reducing loneliness.

Real Voice is an inclusive Youth Music project for young people across Northumberland.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Make It Happen inspired by North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Here to There is a programme for over 55's to get involved with a mixture of creative walks and falls prevention dance across North Tyneside.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Helix Arts are collecting young people's insights into drug use and abuse across North Tyneside.

Heart of Care will take the conversations about care away from the hidden rooms of domestic settings and place them at the heart of our public spaces.

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

Tell your stories and turn them into mini movies with professional filmmaker and Photographer Carl Joyce.

A development programme for artists.

Real Voice is an inclusive Youth Music project for young people across Northumberland.

The HeArt of Care is a global project with the aim of uniting carers from across the world and encourage them to share their experiences as carers through a creative medium. It forms part of our social prescribing programme, Better Connect.

A FREE mentoring course for artists who live or work in Darlington.

A network for creative professionals who are aligned to the work of Helix Arts, across different fields and settings.

An innovative and interactive digital dance project, where the audience provide data and decide what happens to ‘David’ at the end of the piece.

A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Take a look at some of the amazing stories from North Tyneside community members generated from their experiences during the pandemic.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Make It Happen inspired by North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Summer of Fun was a great way for children and young people from Wallsend and Howden to spend their holidays.

We worked with artists to offer a wide variety of artforms at different sites around the area.

Story of Place supports Wallsend Children's Community mission to ensure the town's children enjoy the same opportunities as young people from more affluent areas.

A performing arts project for young people exploring exploitation and abuse within relationships, particularly during Covid-19.

Education and arts organisations working together, enriching access to cultural opportunities for young people.

Exploring the history of civil rights in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.

Celebrate Different was a Make it Happen project for young people in Sunderland in partnership with Sunderland Culture.

"Re-Wild Yourself" - a collaborative project between members of WHIST and SANGINI who took part in the Make Art Happen training programme.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

A FREE six-week programme supporting artists living or working in North Tyneside to develop the skills required to co-produce & deliver community led arts projects inspired by the North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in North Shields Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Artists’ Agency is an artist development programme in Newcastle’s Culture and Creative Zone (CCZ).

Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.

Explore how stories and poems can offer comfort, escape, inspiration and laughter in difficult times.

Part of Better Connect

Do you want to get moving, dance and have the opportunity to meet new people?

Come and try Falling on Your Feet Segedunum.

Explore how stories and poems can offer comfort, escape, inspiration and laughter in difficult times.

Part of Better Connect

Sharing stories and experiences through creative sessions. Working with families who share a caring role in looking after loved ones who depend on them.
Part of Better Connect

Together Again gave residents in North Shields and Wallsend the chance to explore, reconnect and shape the future of their town. The project builds on our 'Town Common Festival'.

Young investigators explored the arts and cultural offer available in North Tyneside for children and young people.

Tell your stories and turn them into mini movies with professional filmmaker and Photographer Carl Joyce.

Young people from John Spence Community High School took part in an eight week Make It Happen programme from April 2022.

A development programme for artists.