Just a couple more days to get your submissions in for @BerwickVA Berwick Artists’ Moving Image Residency 2018. A fantastic opportunity to produce new work & develop your practice. And there’s not many more inspiring places than Visit Berwick-Upon-Tweed Visit Northumberland!

What’s better than a cheesy family photo? A cheesy Christmas family photo of course! Head on over to NationalGlassCentre today 10am-4pm for NGCA’s Christmas Photo Studio & give your loved ones a Christmas card they’ll never forget 😉 bit.ly/2ArMw7j

“Could that vase be a sort of Pandora’s box, gushing forth madness and mayhem?” The Chronicle’s David Whetstone chats to Sofia Stevi about her new exhibition & discovers why pink is the new white @balticmill bit.ly/2zfBEva

Great to see Gordon Parks: A Choice of Weapons Side Gallery in Aesthetica Magazine’s top 5 shows to see this weekend. Not that I’m being biased or anything, but I’d say it was definitely the top one! bit.ly/2BdOuJv

The first group show by studio members of TESTT Space has just opened. Featuring new & never before seen work created in Empty Shop’s new hybrid arts space in #Durham. Why not go check out the emerging talent at the #NorthEast’s latest artist-initiative? bit.ly/2yFD3aE

Who says print is dead? @balticmill Self-Publishing Artists Market brings together artists, bookmakers, small press publishers, artist’s groups, zine artists & bookbinders to celebrate & explore the value of print culture. Now open for submissions bit.ly/2ogITzj

“What is it to draw? How do we do it? It is the act of clearing a path for oneself through an invisible iron wall?” Sally Taylor draws on this thought provoking question from Van Gogh for her exhibition @platfmagallery - catch it before it ends 21/12 bit.ly/2ARCTmF

It’s not officially Christmas until you’ve watched The Snowman. So let the festivities begin in style with @Sage_Gateshead’s showpiece screening of Howard Blake’s classic. Accompanied by a live performance by Royal Northern Sinfonia. 🎶 We're walking in the air 🎶 bit.ly/2jZ4tnj

Why not treat the wee art lovers in your family to gift that will truly inspire them. Artsy has put together a wonderful list of the best new children’s books for budding art lovers (I wouldn’t mind some of these myself!) bit.ly/2jYwWKe

The The Guardian gives the lowdown on a new wave of tasty eateries in galleries.There's certainly a few in the North East we could add to the list (I’m looking at you @artisan_NE @biscuit_factory, Six Restaurant @balticmill, The Smeltery mimamodernart) bit.ly/2z3fVGv

The Old Low Light 💙 Tyne Art Fair’s showcase of North East artists is nearly at an end 😢 but don't fret yet – you’ve still got until the 24/12 to catch this splendid extravaganza of regional talent 😃 bit.ly/2kyriO9

Looks like 2018 at @balticmill is going to be rather special. BALTIC Director @SmunroMccall reveals to Artnet the gallery’s programme for next year includes Turner Prize nominee Michael Dean & Turner Prize winner Lubaina artnt.cm/2AyqkZ9

Stumped for what to get your loved ones for Christmas? Then look no further. Navigator North has a range of gifts from artists who’ve worked on their Latest Edition project. They’ve got ceramics from @alexsickling, prints from nick kennedy & so much more bit.ly/2AAQxGy

“Nicole Vivien Watson emerges from an industrial bucket, her body covered in dripping, viscous liquid.” Join WORKPLACE for ‘The Mud Formed A Finger’ on 20/12, a visceral live performance exploring the contemporary myths of creation bit.ly/2ATIM2I

Wicked to see Ouseburn featured here alongside the Northern Quarter in Manchester, Baltic Triangle in Liverpool and Shoreditch in that there London! Lots of very exciting things going on in our little corner of Newcastle at the moment 🙏 theculturetrip.com/europe/united-…

Lovely first exploration of #TESTT Space by Corridor 8 from ollie doe 's I Can't Remember The Last Time I Used Cardamom. x.com/Corridor8/stat…

Word up toon dwellers: I am curating a show that explores artistic making and learning through tables. Opens next week at @GNNorthumbria feat -The Bunker, Erica Eyres, David Lisser, NEUSCHLOSS and Olivia Turner. x.com/GNNorthumbria/…

'Rob & Harriet Fraser are a photographer-writer duo who immerse themselves in multi-faceted encounters with the natural world; slowed down & marinated until the textures of bigger things are revealed.’ Dave Pritchard reviews ‘The Long View' Great North Museum: Hancock corridor8.co.uk/article/rob-fr…

'Barham’s work shows us that our entire perceptual experience exists in one accidental, wafer-thin slice of potentiality & possibility.’ Adam Heardman reviews Anna Barham’s Sick Ardour, part of George Vasey’s programme at Newcastle University Ex-Libris Gallery corridor8.co.uk/article/anna-b…

There’s a week left to get your entries in for the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. The festival is looking for resolutely contemporary cinema & moving image works that transgress restraints of genre, capital & expectation. Deadline 01/05. bit.ly/2uL2afu