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Best Event Northumberland Award: Blyth in a New Light

IN November 2008, Blyth was once again lit up in spectacular fashion. It was the third consecutive Blyth in a New Light event and built upon the shining reputation of its two preceding incarnations. Read

Best Event Sunderland Award: Beautifully Crafted

THE idea of this exhibition at the National Glass Centre was to show how we live with beautifully crafted objects and encourage us to look more closely at how objects are made. Read

Best Event Tees Valley Award: Bauhaus exhibition@mima

THE first major Bauhaus exhibition in the UK for 40 years – since the Royal Academy's 50-year anniversary exhibition in 1968 – drew a huge amount of interest in the Middlesbrough gallery, including from Chinese and Russian publications. Read

Best Event Tyneside Award: Enchanted Parks

THE second coming of Enchanted Parks offered a free evening of artistic delights and discoveries along an illuminated winter trail spread throughout Gateshead’s Saltwell Park. Read

Best Event Durham Award: Durham Enlightenment

THIS international light festival saw four extraordinary artworks bring to life the city’s religious and industrial history, as seen through the eyes of two very different cultures. Read

Museum of the Year Award: North Face

This award recognises innovative and excellent interpretation in a project developed by an accredited North East museum or gallery in the last year. In particular, judges were looking for projects that reveal collections in a new light, and inspire and delight visitors. Read

Special Award for an Outstanding Contribution: Jon Bewley

UNFORGETTABLE cultural experiences often happen in concert halls, theatres or art galleries. Often, but not always – and certainly not in the North East. Read

Performing Artist of the Year Award: The Futureheads

This award recognises an individual performer who has stood out during 2008. We welcomed nominations for actors, dancers, musicians, singers and comedians. Read

Newcomer of the Year Award: Alex Charrington

ALEX Charrington is a 2005 fine art graduate from Newcastle University. He works from a studio in Byker, Newcastle, and has exhibited his work in a variety of spaces including Baltic (You Shall Know Our Velocity, 2006), The Bridge Gallery, and London’s Drawing Room. Read

Writer of the Year Award: Paul Batchelor

PAUL Batchelor started out writing ghost stories in the hope of scaring his younger brother. Read

Arts Council Award: AV Festival 08

A V Festival is an international festival of electronic arts featuring visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes place in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Read

Proud to reward cultural achievements

THE JOURNAL Culture Awards have once again had the honour of celebrating and rewarding the achievements of those involved in the arts and heritage in the North East in 2008. Read

Introduction from Arts Council England

A PERSON could become gloomy if they just listened to the doom-merchants who seem to fill our airwaves and newspaper columns at the moment. Read

Performance of the Year Award: We Got Mittens Too!

AT the heart of We Got Mittens Too! was a desire to fittingly commemorate the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War in November 2008 within the walls of the Lit & Phil and the Mining Institute, Newcastle. Read

Culture Awards reward North East creatives in style

CELEBRATING the best in North East culture is not a bad way to spend an evening. And there aren’t too many events which will fit this bill better than The Journal Culture Awards. Read

Best Arts/Business Partnership Award: Eaga and Live Theatre

ABERCROMBIES’ sponsorship of the Shipley Lates event was a great example of partnership working between business and the cultural sector. Read

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