The festival take place on the 30th May – 31st May, and will be spread across several stages. The Baltic Stage will feature no-nonsense dancing with acts such as Benga, Rusko, Scratch Perverts, Beardyman, Doorly, Jaymo & Andy George, Eskimo Twins and People Get Real.

The Spiller Stage will have a hip-hop focus, with some big names including the NME Album of the Year winners The Horrors, and the BBC Sound of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding making an appearance.

New for this year is the Ballast Hills Stage, which will focus on folk and roots.

Tickets cost £25, and are available from the Evolution Weekender website.

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The event will include ten plays, each one a dramatisation of stories from the bible. The plays, which were originally performed in the County during medieval times, are being modernised for a 21st century take on their stories.

Durham Mysteries 2010 will run from May 27th to May 29th. Each evening, visitors will be able to see all ten plays performed. The plays will cover Creation through to the Last Judgement, with stories including Noah and the Flood, Cain & Abel, The Nativity and the Fall of Lucifer.

You can find out more about the event at the Durham Mysteries 2010 website.

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The Big EAT! will take place on Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th June 2010.  The following weekend sees Secret Paladares return to the city as five more amateur chefs from a range of ethnic backgrounds will welcome visitors to their homes for authentic international dining experiences.

You can learn  more about the EAT! festival, and see a full calendar of events, at NewcastleGateshead.com.

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The line up will feature everything from Highland Dancers (including a few from Down Under!), military bands, Switzerland’s Top Secret Drum Corps,  Massed Military Bands, a Tongan cultural troupe, and the inimitable Massed Pipes and Drums.

Taste of the Tattoo will also be visiting Glasgow on August 11th.

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This year’s events include a pipe band competition, a dog obedience training show, and the traditional highland sporting events of the Belhaven Best Heavy Events Championship; such as  throwing the 16lb Scot’s Hammer and Tossing the Caber.  There are six sporting events in total, with the Championship being awarded to the competitor gaining the maximum points combined from all six events. To see the huge, heavy timber caber being tossed is perhaps the most dramatic highlight of any Highland Games.

There’s something for everyone at the North Berwick Highland Games.

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The Sing For Water event will see choirs performing water and river-related shows to raise money for the WaterAid charity, which aims to provide clean drinking water facilities to communities around the world.

As part of the Summer Tyne Festival, the Americana Weekend will be held on the 24th – 26th July.  This weekend will see several popular American artists performing in Tyneside, including Lucinda Williams, Diana Jones, Taj Mahal Trio, Baby Gramps, The Flatlanders and Rodney Crowell.

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From the 4th – 7th June 2009, Northumberland Street will be home to a giant bookcase populated with some famous characters from popular literature, including Captain Hook, Sherlock Holmes, and Alice in Wonderland.

Over the weekend of June 20th, visitors to the new library will be treated like VIPs, with the chance to take a red-carpet walk, get the paparazzi treatment, and enjoy a behind the scenes tour of the library.

The new City Library building has been named the ‘Charles Avison Building’, after the 18th century composer, Charles Avison, who was born in Newcastle.  Some of Avison’s music will be played at the library’s dedication ceremony.

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The North East’s premier music festival, Evolution, will be returning for its eight year this month, and this year toe festival promises to be bigger than ever.  Tickets for the Evolution Festival are on sale now, and visitors will be able to enjoy a Bank Holiday weekend full of live music and performances spanning several indoor and outdoor venues on the Newcastle and Gateshead Quayside.

All kinds of music will be represented, with a diverse line-up of artists including local talent, big-name DJs, and unsigned bands performing on both sides of the Tyne.

The full line up is:

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Monday, 25 May 2009

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There will be public games screenings, and a Dare ProtoPlay showcase, which will allow visitors to see some of the best games created by entrants in the Dare to Be Digital game development competition.

Entry to the screenings, showcases, and gaming area is free.  There will also be  a recruitment area where members of the public can learn about the games industry, and find out about current job opportunities.  Those interested in attending the conferences will need to purchase a delegate’s pass.

Chris Deering, Chairman of the EIF, said “Every year the interactive world of entertainment evolves in scope and amazing creativity.  The Edinburgh Interactive Festival embraces the ‘new shoots’ and helps us enjoy the progress rather than be intimidated by it.  Edinburgh is a unique celebration of the creative culture of games.”

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The EAT! Festival will be spread across several venues in Newcastle and Gateshead, and will run from the 2nd to the 17th May 2009.

The festival will feature more than 30 different ‘food adventures’, including IncrEdible - which celebrates the productivity of the land and sea, and EAT!NG: 10 Secret Paladares - where local restaurants will team up with home chefs so you can sample the work of the chefs before going to dine at their homes.

If you are interested in trying new foods, or learning where the foods you enjoy come from, then a visit to the EAT! Festival will broaden your horizons and gve you a taste of local and international flavours.

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