Welcome to Tyneside Cinema - where your passions go to enjoy themselves
Welcome to Newcastle’s newest cinema – and a brand new kind of cinema for the north east. Inside the building you will find a range of beautiful spaces, great cafés and exciting activities that are all designed to allow you to indulge your passions, enrich your spirits and spice up your life. This web site contains our selection of the very best films currently available from across the globe for you to enjoy and a huge range of exciting ways for you to get involved in film and media.
What’s on now at Tyneside Cinema
Thanks to the Culture10 programme and funding from Newcastle City Council and Tyne and Wear Partnership we are delighted to be hosting a series of special public events to celebrate the return of the Tyneside to Pilgrim Street. Don’t miss out on your chance to get a first look around the new venue!
Photo: Allan Mushen
Friday 9 – Thursday 22 May, every day at Tyneside Cinema, along High Friar Lane
Each day, High Friar Lane will be brought to life by Jacob Polley, Imogen Cloet and John Alder evoking the magic of the cinema experience through words, sound - and smell!
Photo: David Williams
Friday 9 – Thursday 22 May, every evening at Tyneside Cinema, along High Friar Lane and Pilgrim Street façade.
Each evening Newcastle based creative collective Filament will bring a sound and lighting installation to High Friar lane and the façade of the Tyneside building to conjure up memories of classic films, driving the countdown to reopening day. Audio produced by Mr Bird.
Photo: Keith Pattison
Sunday 18 May, 12.00-5.00pm
Your first chance to explore the new Tyneside! Exclusive UK premieres of exciting new work by The Sancho Plan and D-Fuse rub shoulders with newsreels, animation, live music and even cartooning workshops from animator Mark Walsh of Pixar Studios (Toy Story, Finding Nemo). You can also see screenings of short films from the Tyneside archive and from our two festivals Northern Lights and AV Festival.
Food and drink is available in the re-opened Tyneside Coffee Rooms, Intermezzo Coffee Bar and the brand-new Tyneside Bar on the third floor.
Photo: Ian West
Sunday 18 May, 8.00pm
We are thrilled to be able to present a live concert by The Week That Was in the special surroundings of the Classic screen. The Week That Was is the long-awaited new project of Sunderland’s Peter Brewis (Field Music, The Futureheads) and this is their debut headline performance!
In the wonderful, newly-restored Classic Cinema the band will unveil their luscious instrumentation and melodic sound ahead of the release of their debut album in August. The show will see them play their new record in its entirety alongside a specially commissioned VJ presentation using vintage newsreel footage from the Tyneside’s early days as Newcastle’s News Theatre.
Tickets are in very short supply and will be available first come, first served on the night or in advance from alt.vinyl, Thornton Street, Newcastle. www.myspace.com/theweekthatwas
Tyneside Cinema’s reopening programme is part of NewcastleGateshead’s world-class festivals and events programme.
