NOVUM: Newcastle Civic Centre

After an epic first edition last year, NOVUM festival is returning for 2024 and it's going to be even bigger and better!

The multi-artform festival is set to once again turn the city into a cultural playground with everything from poetry to performance and music to large-scale installations happening in and around Newcastle Civic Centre. 

Top-class music acts from the region and beyond including India Arkin, Ruth Lyon and DJ Yoda will be taking over the Civic Centre’s Banqueting Hall with tickets priced from £15, but a whole host of other fun events are completely free to attend. 

Circus artists from Bristol-based Cirque Bijou will put on a breath-taking aerial show featuring live music, acrobatics and a flying piano in the Civic Centre Gardens while the Great North Museum: Hancock will host ‘Shrink 01995’ - a work by Belgian artist Lawrence Malstaf where people from local communities become living portraits in an awe-inspiring exhibition that sees them vertically suspended in vacuum-packed plastic sheets. 

That’s just the tip of the NOVUM iceberg too with tonnes more going on over the weekend – from free music gigs and dance performances to family-friendly workshops and much, much more. Check out the full programme at www.novumnewcastle.com.