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Tamzin Lewis

Tamzin Lewis

Alex Kelly in What I Heard About The World

Preview: What I Heard About The World at Northern Stage

WHILE working for a Sunday tabloid I recall being asked to rip weird and wonderful stories out of magazines such as The National Enquirer and rewrite them as amusing short stories. It was probably journalism in one of its lowest forms but quite harmless, despite the lack of ‘facts’.Read

Review: Laura Veirs, The Sage Gateshead

WHEN to introduce your children to Nirvana? I hadn’t really contemplated this, but now Laura Veirs has done it for me. I’ll be digging out some 20-year-old CDs to see what my kids reckon. Read

Illustrator Vanessa Cabban

Interview: Children's illustrator Vanessa Cabban

VANESSA Cabban likens working as a children’s illustrator to being the front man in a band – implying that it’s not possible to be a star performer without lots of people slaving away quietly in the background.Read

A single running horse by Dr Yongshu Wu

Artists help to usher in Year of the Dragon

WELCOMING in the year of the mythical dragon are three artists, exhibiting together in Newcastle’s Chinatown.Read

A scene from Little Red Riding Hood by Norma Box

Exhibition: Once Upon a Time at The Customs House, South Shields

THE Materialistics. Despite what you might think, this is not an association for people lucky enough to be able to replace their sofa every year. It is a community-minded group of predominantly women who work collaboratively to produce incredible works of textile art.Read

Scottish Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty

Preview: The Sleeping Beauty at Theatre Royal Newcastle

AN opulent version of The Sleeping Beauty coming to the Theatre Royal completes a Fairytale Trilogy for Scottish Ballet.Read

Rebecca Ferguson

Why Rebecca Ferguson is now ready to become a star

REBECCA Ferguson looks like a singer, but one that would have graced the stage of a smoky jazz club in the 1950s, rather than a TV talent show.Read

Progging the Mat by Oliver Kilbourn, credit Northumberland Archives/Ashington Group Trustees

North East mat making memories are fascinating

A BOOK recording memories of mat making in the North East also proves its worth as a fascinating social history, as Tamzin Lewis discovers.Read

A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with their mentor, a German police officer

Afghanistan war photos taken 120 years apart form exhibition at Side Gallery

POLITICIANS stand accused of failing to peruse their history books before waging war in Afghanistan, but photographer Simon Norfolk certainly paid due diligence before beginning his latest project.Read

Ruth Johnson in Shhh...A Christmas Story. Photo by Topher McGrillis

Review: Shhh... A Christmas Story, Northern Stage

ABOUT half way through the show, following an avalanche and a snowball fight, my daughter and her cousin can no longer contain their excitement.Read

Kathakbox by Sonia Sabri Company

Indian tradition meets with urban sounds

MOST of us would struggle to perfect one art form, so hats off to Sonia Sabri for presenting a variety in her latest show.Read

Northern Ballet are set to perform The Nutcracker at the Theatre Royal

Review: The Nutcracker at Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday

THE inscription on my brand new seat reads "such stuff as dreams are made on", and Prospero's quote from The Tempest can be neatly applied to this production.Read

Justin Fletcher at the Discovery Museum

Review: Justin's Jokes with Justin Fletcher, Discovery Museum, Newcastle

HE doesn't know it, but if there were "three people in my relationship", the third would have to be Mr Tumble.Read

Elaine Binney

Elaine Binney and The Jazz Rascals announce exciting line-up

INNOVATIVE jazz violinist Elaine Binney has an exciting line-up for her band’s gig at Newcastle’s Hoochie Coochie.Read

Katrina Porteous

Uffington White Horse puts poetry in motion

ANCIENT myth and magic collide in Horse, an experimental new work by poet Katrina Porteous and composer Peter Zinovieff, as Tamzin Lewislearns.Read

The Turner Prize 2011 at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Nominated artist Hilary Lloyd

Turner Prize 2011: Turner Prize nominee Hilary Lloyd

THE Turner Prize brings to mind controversy and outrage; elephant poo, porn and condoms. But this year it is oh, so elegant. And for proof of all this refined sophistication, take a look at film and video artist Hilary Lloyd.Read

The Bare Toed Dance Company

Review: Fly by Night by The Bare Toed Dance Company, Dance City, Newcastle

BARE Toed dancers know all about little people and what rocks their boats. So it was with great delight that my two rapscallions came across a big mattress on the floor at Dance City that they could bounce on.Read

Matthew Roby

Interview with Matthew Roby

THERE'S nothing like asking the obvious, so I feel perfectly comfortable with inquiring as to whether Matt Roby is superstitious. Born on Friday 13th, the designer and sculptor might have gone through his life avoiding ladders, black cats and lonely magpies.Read

Australian singer Emily Barker

Interview: Emily Barker, singer with Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo

FANS of Kenneth Branagh’s brooding TV series Wallander would instantly recognise Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo. Or at least they would be familiar with the atmospheric track Nostalgia from the band’s aptly titled second album, Despite the Snow.Read

Tracie Bennett stars as Judy Garland in The End of the Rainbow.

Artist Neil Conley on the environment and design

NEIL Conley’s website states that his designs place “a bleak and ominous emphasis on narrative”.Read

Author Profile

Tamzin Lewis is an Arts and Entertainment writer for The Journal and Culture magazine. She has worked at various regional and national newspapers.

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