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More information on The Glasshouse Interviews: Peter Groom (star of Marlene Dietrich: Live in Gateshead)
After touring internationally with award-winning one (wo)man show, Dietrich: Natural Duty, actor and drag artist Peter Groom is returning to the North East with a brand new cabaret.
More information on Abigail's blog: Creative Nation
What’s it like having such a creative job? Is a question which I get asked quite frequently. Totally brilliant is usually my answer. I love my job and I feel very lucky. However, I also sometimes explain that I run a charitable business with a £15 million turnover, a team of 500 people, a major…
More information on Abigail's Blog: Humbug!
The nature of language in public and private life has bubbled to the surface of topicality in the past weeks. You might think at this stage that it just needs doing, no matter how or that it needs doing in the right way and not until the right way can be found, or indeed that…
More information on Abigail's Blog: Green is my favourite colour
So said one of my colleagues last week. We were discussing the forthcoming performance season. We use a simple traffic light system for how tickets are selling for each event – green for exceeded target, amber for on track but still to make sales, red for behind target. Saturday’s open concert of Royal Northern Sinfonia’s…
More information on Blog: The Glasshouse's Turn Up the Quiet: Young Women’s Music-Making
When thirteen-year-old Elena McHugh joined one of The Glasshouse International Centre for Music’s Turn Up the Quiet workshops she saw it as a hobby, and having completed the first few, Elena now wants to explore the career options within the music industry. Turn Up the Quiet – is a series of free workshops, which have…
More information on Five minutes with choir leader Kerry Green
We caught up with our new singing tutor, Kerry Green, to find out more about The Glasshouse International Centre for Music’s new Contemporary Choir, a group for beginner and intermediate singers. Kerry tells us about her career as a singer, the benefits of group singing and what to expect in the group. Tell us a…
More information on Removing Barriers for Young Musicians
Peter Qiang is 16 and has a hearing impairment. He moved to England from China a few years ago and was already a proficient piano player.