Have a look at our current and recent work. Our archives will gradually be shared and we would love to receive anything you may have for that.
Check out our Here to There Programme in Sunderland.
Here to There workshops in North Tyneside.
Check out our Here to There Programme in South Tyneside.
Do you want to get moving, dance and have the opportunity to meet new people?
Come and try Falling on Your Feet Segedunum.
On 1st December 2024, the community came together for a vibrant day of artistic exploration and archive sharing, alongside meaningful conversations.
Two‑year Heritage Lottery project celebrating 40 years of our story, reconnecting past and present through voices across the North East.
Check out some of the projects we are supporting in 2025 - 2026.
The Queer Pleasure Archive is a socially engaged art project and DIY archive by Newcastle based artist Sarah Li.
A Disabled Artist Led Commission for Helix Arts. Part of our Re:Visits programme. Inspired by our past with the aim of informing our future.
'Home Thoughts' is an artist-led commission for our Creative Health programme Better Connect.
Free Creative Care Day for Artists.
A River to Freedom brought together community voices, art, and poetry to reflect on the meaning of freedom 80 years after WWII—culminating in a creative celebration across North Tyneside Libraries.
Transition Chronicles is a creative health project using cross artform approaches. This project is designed to support Year 5 and 6 pupils as they prepare for the transition to secondary school.
Take a look at what we got up to during our Winter Wellbeing workshops.
Better Connect: Young Carers is a pilot project working with young people from across the borough.
Check out some of our highlights from Better Connect in 2024_25.
Check out some of our highlights from Better Connect in 2025_26.
Check out our holiday offer for young people and see what they have previously got up to.
Plug into Family Time - create together, connect together - digital fun for all ages.
The most Wuthering Heights day in Tynemouth!
Take a look at our exhibition that showcased the legacy of Helix Arts’ work in Gateshead.
Helix Arts and George King Architects are proud winners of the Sycamore Gap wood commission.
Safe is a youth action research project taking place on the Meadow Well Estate in North Shields.
Make It Happen ran in Summer 2024.
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.
Here To There is an exciting programme of cultural experiences and events for people aged 55+, including wellbeing walks, visits to museums, exhibitions, theatres, dance performances, and buildings and places with interesting histories.
A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.
Working with National Trust Gibside and celebrating 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'.
A FREE mentoring course for artists who live or work in Darlington.
A performing arts project for young people exploring exploitation and abuse within relationships, particularly during Covid-19.
Don Macdonald- Slam Fresh was successful in achieving our 2021 Make It Happen Commission for Gateshead.
A programme featuring a range of artists and artforms for people aged over 55 in North Tyneside with the aim of reducing loneliness.
Young People from across Northumberland are creating their own music reflecting on who they are and their place.
Real Voice is an inclusive Youth Music project for young people across Northumberland.
Artists’ Agency Newcastle is an artist development programme in Creative Central: NCL
Get involved in one of our many artist development opportunities across the region.
A creative health project led by Northumbria University to help create futures beyond homelessness, and tackle homelessness stigma.
Young people from John Spence High School embarked on their Bronze Arts Award in 2025.
North Shields schools had the opportunity to commemorate the NS800 through a series of artist in residences.
The voice of teens in the North East.
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.
Writers who care was a Make It Happen Commission project by artist Liv Hunt.
An innovative and interactive digital dance project, where the audience provide data and decide what happens to ‘David’ at the end of the piece.
Our Woven Voices is a public art installation near the magistrates court in North Shields.
The artwork was inspired by the creativity of more than 1,000 residents who worked with artist Laura Brenchley. International artist Aaron Li-Hill used this to create the finished sculpture.
It is 1836, Northumberland Square. Dolly has lost her friend, have you seen her? Meet the characters around Northumberland Square as the mystery unfolds...
Culture Ambassadors is a school programme to allow young people the ability to access high-quality arts activities within schools.
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.
#Never 2 is a drugs insight project in North Tyneside.
Make It Happen is a community development programme for residents in North Tyneside funded by UK SPF.
Young people from Arts Centre Washington organised a day to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
Celebrate Different was a Make it Happen project for young people in Sunderland in partnership with Sunderland Culture.
Young people enjoyed a summer of creative workshops.