Back to the UK this summer, and the EU for the very first time! Tickets - whenchaimettoast.com/tour.html

Don’t miss New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds, a special performance commissioned for #MasalaFestival, bassist John Pope and violinist John Garner will play alongside poet Nisha Ramayya in an experimental homage to Alice Coltrane. 🦚 📆 Wed 17th July 2024, 7.30pm at Cluny2

Get ready for an unforgettable musical experience at #MasalaFestival! 🦚Join us 20th July at St Mary’s Heritage Centre for Balladeste, a unique collaboration between cellist Tara Franks and violinist Preetha Narayanan, blending contemporary minimalism, Indian classical, and folk.

Check out the July issue of NE Volume 🤩 fabulous preview of Masala Festival 2024 and top tip news When Chai Met Toast The Glasshouse International Centre for Music on 19th July. Full programme 15-21 July 👉🏽 gemarts.org/whatson 🦚 #masalafestival

‘An absolutely amazing thing… if I hadn’t had this mentorship, I wouldn’t have gotten there’ 🤓📚Thank you so much to #JamesBerryPoetryPrize joint winner & Bloodaxe Books author Kaycee Hill for these inspiring words! Entries close 31 July. Info here ✏️ ncl.ac.uk/ncla/james-ber…

If you've ever wanted to dance like a Bollywood star or make a map like a cartographer (!) then check out our amazing line up of workshops as part of #MasalaFestival and get stuck in. 🦚 🪷 🐯 Details on our website

.GemArts award-winning Masala Festival is back, from 15th – 21st July, celebrating South Asian creativity and cultural goodness. Info: nevolume.co.uk/culture/events…

We can't wait! The line-up for #MasalaFestival includes our collaboration w/ GemArts featuring bassist John Pope + violinist John Garner with award-winning poet Nisha Ramayya, in an homage to jazz legend #AliceColtrane + more! 17 Jul 7.30pm The Cluny, Newcastle gemarts.org/whatson/events…

Cities of Dreams - a programme of South Asian film shorts contemplating the built environment, from sprawling urban metropolises to cities of tomorrow #MasalaFestiva 16th July, 6.30pm Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 🎫 ℹ️ 👉🏽 gemarts.org/whatson/events… day for night ACE North The Crack 🦚🐅

🤓A few more weeks to go until the #JamesBerryPoetryPrize closes! Open to emerging writers of colour based in the UK. Prize includes £1k, expert mentoring & debut publication with Bloodaxe Books More info here ncl.ac.uk/ncla/james-ber…

This Wednesday! One of my favourite contemporary poets - Nisha Ramayya, reading from her new book ‘Fantasia’ Granta Books written partly in response to hybrid jazz legend #AliceColtrane, in a new music collaboration at the brilliant #MasalaFestiva, NCLA + GemArts.

We're taking a trip down memory lane and looking back at all our past #GordonBurnPrize winners 🏆 We're open for submissions for the 2025 prize until 1 August – so if you're publishing a book that fits the fearless ambition of this list, we want to know! newwritingnorth.com/gordon-burn-pr…

🤓The #JamesBerryPoetryPrize is open until 31 July! The prize offers £1k, expert mentoring & debut publication with Bloodaxe Books 📚If selected, you’ll work with one of our esteemed mentors: Patience Agbabi, Jacob Sam-La Rose & Karen McCarthy Woolf ncl.ac.uk/ncla/james-ber…

Calling poets!✒️ The #JamesBerryPoetryPrize is open to emerging writers of colour based in the UK. Prize includes £1000, expert mentoring, and debut publication with @bloodaxebooks Deadline: 31 July Learn more: ▶️ bit.ly/4d40Apw #publishingopportunity

🤓There’s only two days left to enter the #JamesBerryPoetryPrize, the UK’s only competition to offer mentoring & debut publication to emerging poets of colour! Details of the judges, mentors & how to apply can be found at ncl.ac.uk/ncla/james-ber… 📚Bloodaxe Books

📢 Last chance to enter the #GordonBurnPrize 2025 – closing Thursday 1 August! Open to books that are: 📚 Fiction or non-fiction 📚 Published Dec 2023–Nov 2024 📚 In English, by writers of any nationality 📚 Pushing boundaries & challenging expectations newwritingnorth.com/gordon-burn-pr…

The magnificent 'poetry of witness' of Carolyn Forché Last seen at NCLA Poetry Festival When even Listening is dangerous When speaking has no shame yet fears its own voice The poets name the un-nameable Carolyn Forche, The Colonel youtu.be/o1t86k2BCSA?fe… via YouTube

Our solidarity with all affected by the racist and Islamophobic attacks happening across the UK. NCLA stands against far-right violence. We will continue to reflect this in our programming, offering you a safe and welcoming space for our students, guest authors and audiences.

August news: shorturl.at/uNNYj Dr Nathalie Teitler & Karen McCarthy Woolf shortlisted for Sky Arts Awards awards for #MappingTheFuture; Reviews in The Guardian & poetryreview for Brenda Shaughnessy; Reviews in Magma Poetry, Oxford Poetry & more for Abigail Parry; Videos from Newcastle Poetry Fest