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Dunston Silver Band - Community band with senior and junior sections, playing traditional, classical, pop and modern music. Information about the band, rehearsal times and events.
Gateshead Libraries and Arts Service - Includes information, opening times and contact details.
Steve Donald - Author and illustrator of graphic novels for young people including the Orson Cart series. Includes examples of work, workshops for young people and contact information.
Shipley Art Gallery - Collection of Old Masters and contemporary craft plus the famous painting of the Blaydon Races. Details of opening hours, museum history, Craft Council's Photostore and contact information.
The Sage - Purpose-built music and arts centre on the Tyne in Gateshead. Details of events, weblog, webcams and background information.
The Progressive Players - An amateur drama group promoting live theatre. Details of future, current and past productions and membership.
The Felling Band - Brass band. Photographs, diary, history and contacts
Gateshead Brass - Brass band. Details activities, engagements, contests, history and brass band humour.
Baltic - Covering the conversion of a redundant grain warehouse on the quayside to an international centre for the contemporary visual arts.
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Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Arts and Entertainment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Arts and Entertainment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Arts and Entertainment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Arts and Entertainment Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Arts and Entertainment Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Arts and Entertainment However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment
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