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UNITY Festival is returning for 2024!

 
18, 19 and 20 October Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle Upon Tyne 
26 and 27 October Kirkleatham Museum in Redcar

 
Skimstone Arts is a welcoming, safe yet risk taking charity, passionate about promoting equality and visibility in the arts and society.

Our mission is to support diverse artists and communities and those at risk of social isolation to create work with, for, and about the world that matters to them.
 
We produce and embed social action in our;
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PROGRAMME

We produce an annual programme of accessible live, radio and zoom events, with local, national and intonational communities for; regional UNITY Festival exploring the (themes of humanity and our environment), National Holocaust Memorial Day, and national Refugee Week.

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COMMUNITIES

We collaborate with co-creators, artists and audiences who are varied in their needs, lives and isolation to create authentic artworks locally, nationally and internationally.

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YOUNG PEOPLE

We support our Young Artists Collective and their band Reality Boots run by our young people’s Leadership Team, to create work about what they want to say about the world for our programmed events.  

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PARTNERSHIPS

We work with regional 

universities and a range of partners regionally, nationally and internationally to create work that contributes to important research and invites audiences to think about social action.

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Great North Museum: Hancock

 

Barras BridgeNewcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PT

 

18, 19, 20 October Newcastle

 

Friday 6 - 8pm (for age 16+) Festival launch and special showcase

Saturday 10am - 4pm

Sunday 11am - 3pm

Kirkleatham Museum

 

Kirkleatham Redcar

TS10 5NW

 

26, 27 October Redcar 

Saturday: 10am - 4pm

Sunday: 11am - 4pm

UNITY Festival is proud to premier newly commissioned performances celebrating a range of diverse regional and international musicians and performers.

Skimstone Arts’ FREE UNITY Festival 2024, is in partnership with Great North Museum Hancock and Kirkleatham Museum, presenting 2 weekends of FREE live music, performance, arts, exhibitions, creative workshops and exciting talks, something for everyone.

Festival-goers of all ages can celebrate being part of a jam-packed events programme

exploring humanity, nature and social action.

Get Involved

Find out how you can get involved in creating new artworks with the Young Artist Collective or our Freeflow Cafe.

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Enjoy highlights from UNITY Festival 2023

To find out more about Skimstone Arts download a copy of our Annual Report for 2022/23.

Support Us

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