Come along to @GatesheadLibs today for some MAPS Festival fun! I’ll be running some ‘on the River’ themed stop motion animation workshops, they are free to join so get there and sign up for one of the 4 sessions! 10.30-2.30

Due to the predicted weather forecast for tomorrow, we have taken the decision to postpone Womble Club. Fear not, we will rearrange so we can all womble around the Ouseburn in the future.

2 tickets left for the Cats v Dogs clay workshop with @alexsickling at 12 noon Cobalt Studios Ltd. Come and sculpt yourself a little pal! mapsfestival.co.uk/cats-v-dogs

Our cats v dogs clay session with @alexsickling Cobalt Studios Ltd is in full swing!

TOMORROW! Come and blast off on an intergalactic journey with Manchester's magician of analogue electronics, @paddysteer. Our last gig of the festival is set to be a corker! 3pm The Cumberland Arms. Tickets via >> mapsfestival.co.uk/paddy-steer

We’re Seven Stories all day for our day of play! Come and join us for protests, games, and wiggling on your belly!

Annnnnd stretch! Body percussion and rhythm jam is off The Cumberland Arms. With Hannabiell and YilisdelCarmenSuriel 🥁

This little one was warming up the crowd at our @paddysteer gig The Cumberland Arms today!

Welcome to The Dead Sketch Society with Amy Dover Cobalt Studios Ltd

Fantastic drawing! Thanks for coming! ❤️☠️

Today is the LAST DAY of the festival! If you're not back to school there's still some spaces available on Space Octave Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Come and play! Tickets are £4.50 and can be booked via the festival website. 📷 Nigel John

I had so much fun teaching the Dead Sketch society as part of MAPS Festival at Cobalt Studios Ltd

THAT'S A WRAP! Thanks to all the musicians, artists, venues, supporters, volunteers and of course all the audience members who came danced, drummed, sang, crafted cats, made films, joined the fart orchestra, played on the polyphonic playground. More pictures coming soon!

Here’s the animation Josie Brookes made during our Stealing Sheep gig during the festival. Josie live animated the band during their set Gosforth Civic Theatre.

The Lizzo Appreciation Society! During the festival we worshipped at the church of Lizzo. Lerato MnCube taught dance moves, we crafted crowns, adorned ourselves in glitter, then danced the morning away The Cumberland Arms.

BANG, CRASH, BOOM, TING! The fantastic Hannabiell and YilisdelCarmenSuriel from the LadiesofMidnightBlue lead 2 Body Percussion and Rhythm Jam sessions as part of MAPS Festival The Cumberland Arms. Attendees explored rhythm through improvisation and movement. It was a blast!

We hopped aboard extra-terrestrial @paddysteer's spaceship and journeyed to worlds unknown! It was a voyage of exploration and discovery in adventurous music fronted by the magician of analogue electronics. We even got to try on his helmet! 📷Nigel John

Commission from City of Dreams Newcastle Gateshead Cultural Venues curious monkey Dance City. They are looking for new work with, by and about young people in Newcastle/Gateshead. Deadline Monday 9th March.

What happens when we play all day? Families were invited to join us for a day of Playful Protest; where we took lines for walks, built forts, balanced on walls, and wiggled on our bellies. Photographs colin davison courtesy of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

.Wear and Tyne Festivals A new collective of 8 festivals in the North East: Curious Arts GIFT Festival Harambee Pasadia MAPS Festival Moving Parts Arts Summer Streets @tusk_music ¡VAMOS! FESTIVAL. Aiming to promote festival culture, foster collaboration & embrace models of creating live work.