Tues 4 – Mon 17 Dec
Every evening 5pm – 9pm
The NewcastleGateshead Winter Festival gets underway with Glow 07, a series of seven contemporary artworks and illuminations projected through light. Each will exhibit an intimate and often absurd relationship to their specific environment. Glow 07 is guaranteed to brighten the darkest winter night and light up our cityscape in a totally unique way.
Join in the Winter Festival glow with a Blinky Badge! Inspired by Tod Hanson’s animated projection on the Quayside, these limited edition badges are the perfect way to get glowing this winter. The badges cost £3 and are now on sale at BALTIC, Laing Gallery, Discovery Museum, Theatre Royal, Side Gallery and Hatton Gallery. Badges will also be on sale at the Enchanted Parks events. All proceeds go to Shoot Your Mouth Off, a company in Hartlepool who produce films with disabled people.
Download the Glow 07 Map showing the locations of the Glow installations in NewcastleGateshead (PDF format) 
Himmelblau/Crimson - Various locations - see map
Götz will be making a citywide composition of colourfully lit landmark buildings across Newcastle and Gateshead. See many you can spot! The following buildings and organisations are taking part:
Gateshead: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Civic Centre, Gateshead Town Centre Multi-storey Car Park, Gateshead Millennium Bridge, QEII Metro Bridge and Old Town Hall.Susan Collins
Chaser - Tyne Bridge Tower, Gateshead see map
Tanya Meditzky
Electric Pets - Former Nitro Shop, 2 Grainger St, Newcastle see map
We're All in it Together (Whatever it is) - The Sage Gateshead see map
Meditsky will project a series of stills in Newcastle from Electric Pets, a comic animation which explores some absurd energy sources. In The Sage Gateshead there will be a single projection of a kaleidoscopic whirlpool of colours and people.
Tod Hanson
Gable Engine - Trinity Chambers, The Customs House, Quayside, Newcastle (next to Flynn's Bar) see map
Hanson will create a light projection on Newcastle’s Quayside using a disco-mechanism to show the repetitive rhythms of architecture, energy and waste.
Walker and Bromwich
Limbo-Land - Worswick Chambers, projected from the Old Fire Station, Pilgrim St, Newcastle see map
For Glow 07, Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich will present Limbo-Land, a ghostly and poetic film crossing dreams and reality of lunar exploration filmed at night at Goswick Sand, north of Holy Island, Northumberland. Contextual films on the making of Limbo-Land will be on show with the original inflatable ‘moon’ at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead from 4 December – 6 January 2008.
Nayan Kulkarniwich
Nocturne - Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge see map
Kulkarni, commissioned by Nexus in 2006, designed an ever-changing colour light work for the QEII Metro Bridge linked to the tidal movements of the Tyne. 140 LED lights illuminate the bridge with bands of colour determined by digital photographs sent in by the public. Lothar Götz will be altering the lights during Glow 07 to fit with his citywide light colour painting.
Lulu Quinn
Rise and Fall - Gateshead Riverside Park, Pipewellgate see map
Commissioned by Gateshead Council this year, Quinn has made a 6m glass and stainless steel arch creating a meeting point and dynamic viewing platform onto the riverside. 10,000 LED lights randomly rise and fall within the structure making the arch appear to wobble, fall down and rebuild itself.
Miles Thurlow and Cath Campbell
NO NO NO NO NO - The railway viaduct in Hymers Court, next to the Tyne Bridge, Gateshead see map
A thought provoking temporary text work commissioned by Gateshead Council in 2007, which glows subtly at night and raises questions about how one experiences the everyday environment.
Edwin Li
Shadowplay - Li will present Shadowplay! at Northern Stage and in a mobile unit travelling across Newcastle and Gateshead encouraging city-goers to make shadows at different sites. There will be a series of performances in the different locations.
Northern Stage, Newcastle, 4-8 December / 11-15 December see map
BALTIC, Gateshead, 4 December (with Bad Taste Cru) see map
Northumberland Street, Newcastle, 6* - 7 December (* with Surface Area Dance Theatre) see map
Gateshead Interchange, 8 December see map
Northumberland St, Newcastle with The Swing Dancers:Nikolas Lloyd and Catherine Foley, 13 December see map
MetroCentre, Gateshead, 14 - 15* December (* with Surface Area Dance Theatre) see map
Jordan McKenzie in collaboration with amino
Universe
Former Boots shop, Blackett St, Newcastle, 4 - 17 December see map
Tyne Bridge North Tower, 4 - 9 December / 13 - 15 December see map
McKenzie took two copies of Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time and completely blacked out each page except for the zeros and the letter ‘o'. amino has commissioned and produced a film of this work which will be projected for Glow 07 at the two locations named above.
If you enjoy the displays at Glow 07 you may also want to explore other Public Art Walks in Tyne and Wear (PDF format)
