Across NewcastleGateshead
Email: Picnopolis
Website: Picnopolis
Picnopolis
From: 16/08/2008 - To: 25/08/2008 
Japanese art unit Tokyo Picnic Club (TPC) invites you to share 10 days of picnicking throughout the city. TPC will create two different kinds of picnic site, MOTHERPLANE and smaller BABYPLANES, providing a unique opportunity to enjoy summer in the city.
Click here to win a luxury picnic hamper filled with fantastic local produce.

With one humongous grass-covered plane and dozens of BABYPLANE installations around the city, TPC will bring together public spaces, the local food industry, and the people of NewcastleGateshead.

During the event the BABYPLANES will travel around some of the best sites in NewcastleGateshead while MOTHERPLANE stays at Baltic Square, Gateshead Quays awaiting the return of her babies.

BABYPLANES sites:

Sat 16 Aug Angel of the North
Sun 17 Aug Leazes Park
Mon 18 Aug Jesmond Dene
Tue 19 Aug Blackfriars
Wed 20 Aug Bill Quay Community Farm
Thu 21 Aug MetroCentre
Fri 22 Aug Old Eldon Square
Sat 23 Aug Ouseburn Valley
Sun 24 Aug Saltwell Park
Mon 25 Aug Baltic Square

All sites are open and free to everyone for picnics.

During the 10-day event TPC will be on the look-out for the best picnic recipes brought to the sites. Your recipes will be recorded and on the final day of the event - Bank Holiday Monday 25 August - TPC will announce "10 Picnic Recipes for NewcastleGateshead" and the winner of the "Picnic of the Year" title.

To find out more visit www.NewcastleGateshead.com/picnopolis.

Part of EAST'08 - a world-class celebration of contemporary Asian culture in NewcastleGateshead.

Visit www.picnicclub.org to find out more about Tokyo Picnic Club and to join NewcastleGateshead Picnic Club.

Part of NewcastleGateshead's world-class festivals and events programme.

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